ViaMichelin is launching a redesigned website and mobile app to unite all of the Michelin Group’s expertise. This overhaul comes with the promise that these new interfaces will deliver an “unparalleled experience in terms of planning and travel” with a single click. Michelin even dares to call this update of ViaMichelin “a route revolution.”
The Midland Hotel in Manchester was the setting Michelin chose to mark the 50th anniversary of The Michelin Guide in Great Britain & Ireland. It also presented the 2024 restaurant selection, which includes 1,162 restaurants.
The presence or absence of Michelin Stars have made all the difference to many restaurants, not to mention the careers of those chefs who rule their kitchens. Now Michelin is bringing its guidance into the world of hostelry, and from 2024, establishments that offer the “most exceptional hotel experiences” will be rewarded with the Michelin Key.
On 27 March, Michelin presented the 2023 restaurant selection of the Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire. It named 20 restaurants that are newly awarded One Michelin Star; two restaurants that receive Two Michelin Stars and four restaurants that receive a Michelin Green Star.
Michelin hasn’t only halted its tyre production in and exports to Russia in response to the current situation in Ukraine. It has announced that the Michelin Guide team has suspended all restaurant recommendation activities in the country.
Some three years after Michelin acquired online travel agency Tablet, the French tyre maker and mobility company is drawing upon the expertise of the Tablet Hotels team to set “a new standard” for hotel selection. It says the Michelin Guide’s hotel selection, created by “Tablet Hotels’ experts and its community of travellers” – puts the “quest for excellence, the enhancement of uniqueness, the promotion of local know-how and the art of living at the same pace as its selection of restaurants.”
The Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2021 is now in circulation and available for the very first time as a digital-only product. Michelin unleashed the latest Guide and announced the latest recipients of its Michelin Stars, Bib Gourmand, Michelin Green Stars and special awards during an online presentation on Monday.
The Michelin Great Britain & Ireland Stars for 2020 was unveiled yesterday at a special launch event at The Hurlingham Club in Fulham, London. One hundred and eighty-seven Michelin-Starred Restaurants are featured for 2020, including one new Three Star, four new Two Stars and 23 new One Stars.
Michelin has announced this year’s Bib Gourmand awards, ahead of the launch of the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2019 today.
Gwendal Poullennec has succeeded Michael Ellis as international director of the Michelin Guides. He began in this role yesterday and will manage the 32 editions of the Michelin guide and lead the global team of Michelin inspectors, reporting directly to Pascal Couasnon, director of gastronomic and tourist activities in the Michelin Group.
Restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland receiving new Michelin Stars will be revealed at a live event on Monday 1 October. The unveiling of the new Stars will coincide with the publication of the Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2019 and it is expected to attract top chefs, key food industry figures, celebrities and influencers.
Following on from its release of a publication for Shanghai last year, Michelin has announced it will extend Michelin Guide coverage to a further city in China. A Michelin guide for Guangzhou will be available in 2018, and Michelin says it will allow everyone – locals, tourists, and business travellers alike – to benefit from the inspectors’ recommendations whatever their desires, tastes and budgets may be. The guide for Guangzhou will be the world’s 31st Michelin guide selection and the seventh in Asia, excluding Japan.
Michelin has unveiled the 2018 Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland, which highlights a total of 2,067 restaurants and 1,155 hotels and guesthouses.
This year, The Araki has been awarded Three Michelin Stars. “With its nine-seater counter, The Araki has gone from strength to strength. When Mitsuhiro Araki moved to London from Tokyo in 2014 he set himself the challenge of using largely European fish and his sushi is now simply sublime,” comments Michael Ellis, international director of the Michelin guides. It joins a select group of restaurants with three Michelin Stars: The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn in Bray, Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay which has retained the award under its new chef, Matt Abé.
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