January 2012

Seven restaurants have been awarded three Rosettes by the AA today – marking them as “outstanding restaurants that achieve standards that demand national recognition well beyond their local area”.

In London, two restaurants received the award – contemporary Chinese restaurant, Hakkasan Mayfair has added to their recently awarded Michelin star and Simon Rogan’s two year pop-up Roganic has won it’s head chef, and rising star, Ben Spalding his first major award.

Outside the capital, another up and coming chef to receive the accolade is Paul Foster, winner of the 2011 Observer Food Monthly Awards “Young chef of the year”, at Suffolk hotel and restaurant Tuddenham Mill. The other hotel restaurants receiving the award this year are Gravetye Manor in East Grinstead, The Eighty Eight Room at Cotsworld 88 hotel and Derbyshire country hotel East Lodge who have moved up from two Rosettes to three.

One restaurant in Scotland was awarded three Rosettes – Mark Greenaway at No 12 Picardy Place - which only opened in early 2011.

AA Hotel Services manager Simon Numphud said “We are delighted to recognise seven new establishments with the achievement of three AA Rosettes. All have demonstrated a high level of consistency and accuracy in the overall cooking standards that our inspection team have experienced… I am delighted that these very deserving restaurants have been acknowledged for their efforts.”