5-month-old eatery named one of UKs best restaurants

August 12, 2011
The 2012 edition of The Good Food Guide, which lists the top 50 restaurants across the UK, will be available in September. AFP/Relaxnews picLONDON, Aug 12 The latest edition of the UKs best restaurant list may include some of the usual suspects, but one surprising entry comes from a chef who opened a casual tapas bar less than five months ago.While celebrity chef Heston Blumenthals restaurant The Fat Duck took the top spot for the fourth consecutive year in a row in the 2012 edition of The Good Food Guide, its newcomer Pollen Street Social that made an audacious debut in the eighth-place spot.Chef Jason Atherton, formerly head chef of Gordon Ramsays restaurant Maze, opened the London restaurant in April to much fanfare.Time Out magazine gave the eatery five out of five stars and waxed poetic about a dish of cauliflower and squid with clear roasted squid juice for GBP10.50 (RM51.33).This first dish set the tone for dishes which are daring, pretty, at times overworked and not invariably successful, but which are always a delightful surprise, wrote Guy Dimond.The same dish was also praised in restaurant critic Giles Corens review for The Times Magazine, a dish he lauded for having El Bulli-inventiveness not surprising given Atherton was the first British chef to complete an internship at the now-shuttered eatery in Spain, long considered the best in the world.While praising the food, Dimond also issued a warning to readers saying the dishes may sound rich, but all the portion sizes are tiny.The 40-seat bar serves a tapas menu with items like hand-carved Ibrico ham, clams a la plancha with olive oil and bacon, and salt and pepper chipirones.The la carte menu includes mains like roasted halibut, Catalan paella, sprouting broccoli and pork-ham fat, and one-kilogram cote de boeuf for sharing at GBP65.The paragon of fine dining in the UK, however, continues to b! e The Fa t Duck, which received a 10 out of 10 rating the only eatery to achieve this mark in the guide.As of next month, the 14-course tasting menu at the Michelin-starred restaurant will increase from GBP160 to GBP180. Courses boast whimsical names like Sound of the Sea and Like a Kid in a Sweet Shop.Here are the top 10 restaurants in the UK according to the guide, as announced August 10:1. The Fat Duck, Berkshire
2. LEnclume, Cumbria
3. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottinghamshire
4. Gordon Ramsay, Royal Hospital Road, London
5. Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall
6. Le Manoir aux QuatSaisons, Oxfordshire
7. Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, London
8. Pollen Street Social, London
9. Hibiscus, London
10. The Square, London AFP/Relaxnews

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