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09
Jan
Two local restaurants included in new Michelin Guide for first time
Two local venues have been included in the new Michelin Guide – the culinary industry’s prestigious listing of the best restaurants.
The Old Deanery in Ripon and Fifty Two in Harrogate are among 32 establishments around the UK to have impressed the inspectors enought to be included in January's iteration of the guide.
Rebecca and Chris Layton rebranded The Old Deanery, which employs 14 people and stands in the shadow of Ripon Cathedral, as a restaurant with rooms just over a year ago, and took on head chef Adam Jackson.
Ms Layton told the Stray Ferret:
We’re so pleased to be included in the Michelin Guide. We’ve put a lot into this restaurant over the last 18 months, and this really cements what we’re trying to do.
None of us have really been clamouring for awards – we just want to do something special that people will like.
We don’t want to run a place where people aren’t comfortable, as some Michelin restaurants are, but we don’t want to be a ‘hidden gem’ either – we want something in the middle. This puts us in that ‘perfect bubble’.
The Old Deanery is currently closed for a post-Christmas break, but will reopen on January 22.
Fifty Two is the fine dining restaurant at Rudding Park and only opened last May. It is led by head chef and host Adam Degg, who last year appeared on the BBC’s Great British Menu.
Head chef Adam Degg in the kitchen garden at Rudding Park
Described by the owners as an "immersive dining experience," much of Fifty Two's produce is grown on site in the hotel's kitchen garden. The restaurant's name comes from the number of raised beds in the garden.
A post on Rudding Park's Instagram site said:
52 weeks in the year, one down and it’s already a great start.
Our district has already made an impression on the Michelin food inspectors.
One restaurant – Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall, near Ripon – has a Michelin star, and six others are also included in the Michelin Guide: Chef’s Table by Josh Barnes at Swinton Park near Masham, Fletchers in Ripon, the Lime Tree Inn at Great Ouseburn, Paradise Café in Harrogate, Goldsborough Hall, and Where There’s Smoke in Masham.
The Lime Tree Inn is also included in the guide’s listing of the best pubs in Yorkshire, as is the Alice Hawthorn Inn at Nun Monkton.
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