Good Food Guide recognises 40 top eateries

4th September 2008, 8:59am

Two London restaurants, Pétrus and Maze, are shooting up the chart of The Good Food Guide 2009, published today.

In The Guide's Top 40, which names the crème de la crème of the UK restaurant scene, Pétrus has climbed from seventh to third, while Maze is up a staggering 19 places to number 15.

Chef Marcus Wareing has driven Pétrus up four places, just behind his old boss Gordon Ramsay, whose Chelsea restaurant remains in second place.

Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck is still number one, with a stunning ten out of ten this year.

While chef Jason Atherton at Maze will surely be contending for a top-ten place in the near future if he continues to develop at such a pace.

There are eleven London restaurants in total in the Top 40. The others are: The Square, Mayfair (5th); Le Gavroche, Mayfair (7th); Pied à Terre, Fitzrovia (10th); Tom Aikens, Chelsea (12th); The Capital, Knightsbridge (16th); Hibiscus, Mayfair (18th); The Greenhouse, Green Park (36th); and Club Gascon, City (37th).

Just missing out on a Top 40 place is Marcus Eaves at L'Autre Pied, Marylebone, who won the Editors' Award for Up-and-Coming Chef and could also be destined for greatness.

Elizabeth Carter, editor of The Good Food Guide, says: "We're seeing some extraordinarily talented chefs emerging in the London scene at the moment, who could go all the way to the top."

The top 40 in full with their scores out of ten:
1. Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire (10/10)
2. Gordon Ramsay, London (9)
3. Pétrus, London (8)
4. Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Oxon (8)
5. Square, London (8)
6. Le Champignon Sauvage, Gloucs (8)
7. Le Gavroche, London (8)
8. Waterside Inn, Bray, Berkshire (8)
9. Vineyard at Stockcross, Berkshire (8)
10. Pied à Terre, London (8)
11. Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Cornwall (8)
12. Tom Aikens, London (8)
13. L'Enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria (8)
14. Restaurant Martin Wishart, Edinburgh (8)
15. Maze, London (7)
16. The Capital, London (7)
17. Bohemia, St Helier, Jersey (7)
18. Hibiscus, London (new) (7)
19. Danesfield House, Bucks (new) (7)
20. Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon (7)
21. Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham (7)
22. Anthony's, Leeds, Yorkshire (7)
23. Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles, Scotland (7)
24. Holbeck Ghyll, Windermere, Cumbria (7)
25. Fischer's Baslow Hall, Derbyshire (7)
26. Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire (7)
27. Michael Wignall at the Latymer, Surrey (new) (7)
28. Whatley Manor, Wiltshire (new) (7)
29. Hambleton Hall, Leics (7)
30. Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, Wales (7)
31. Harry's Place, Lincolnshire (7)
32. The Creel, Orkney, Scotland (7)
33. Mr Underhill, Ludlow, Shropshire (7)
34. Old Vicarage, Ridgeway, Derbyshire (7)
35. Castle Hotel, Taunton, Somerset (6)
36. The Greenhouse, London (6)
37. Club Gascon, London (6)
38. Kitchin, Edinburgh (6)
39. Simpsons, Edgbaston, Birmingham (6)
40. Crown at Whitebrook, Gwent (new) (6)

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