As mentioned in Blog 64, for the second year running The Good Food Guide inexplicably failed to include Alex Claridge’s The Wilderness in its proud-to-be-a-Londoner pages. There must be a certain sense of anticipation therefore, with the upcoming publication of The Michelin Guide Great Britain And Ireland 2019, lurking in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter that revenge will be a banquet served er, well fresh hot and scalding and Claridge’s sheer genius will finally be recognised by the award of a Michelin star. Certainly, as depicted above, the website Great British Chefs seems to be of the opinion that The Wilderness will join the constellation of Birmingham’s starred restaurants.
Indulging in some enjoyable speculation Great British Chefs tips Nottingham’s Restaurant Sat Bains With Rooms to reach this year the vertigo-inducing heights of the award of 3 Michelin stars but no other Midlands restaurants are considered to be teetering on the edge of such greatness or even of achieving the lesser greatness of two little twinkly items.
Great British Chefs does stick its head out and predict that the seeming gastronomic wasteland of that always-the-bridesmaid city of Manchester will finally be awarded not one but two stars - one for Adam Reid At The French and another for Mana (I do hope not - it’s such an amusing little running joke that the Michelin inspectors play every year and to end it now would take all the fun out of things - it’s rather like the way all the television viewers in Europe always give nul points to the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest - life just wouldn’t be the same if Manchester had a
Michelin star and it would be one less thing for that city’s population to whine about. Still it would make all the BBC luvvies who’ve moved there feel that living in the gritty north might have one little compensation after all).
Back to the West Midlands and Great British Chefs also suggests that Pensons in the Netherwood Estate in Worcestershire may also be awarded its first Michelin star under its chef Lee Westscott reflecting its new entry into The Good Food Guide this year.
The chefs and restauranteurs just have a few days left to wait to find out.
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