279. Michelin Listing For Black And Green and Mo; Peel’s To Close.

 

  24 November 2022 - The Michelin inspectors have been on one of their rare visits to the West Midlands and apparently washed up in Barnt Green with the result that Northeast Worcestershire has its own Michelin-listed restaurant in the form of Andrew Sheridan’s Black and Green which I last visited in June, very shortly after it had opened. I rated it 🌞🌞🌞 which places it, in my estimation, on par with one Michelin star-rated restaurants and so it is good that the Londonophile Michelinos have recognised the excellence of Andrew Sheridan’s small-but-delightful dining establishment, situated sweetly in this pretty upmarket North Worcestershire village and listed it. Is a star about to shoot across the firmament of north Worcestershire come the annual publication of the definitive Michelin awards for 2023?

  Another Worcestershire restaurant, Mo, in the south east of the county, in gorgeous Broadway also joins the Michelin listing this month. The restaurant is situated at Dormy House Hotel and Spa and, according to the hotel’s website, offers “an intimate dining experience…where dining is “an interactive chef’s table-style experience, offering a unique 8 course tasting menu to just 12 guests at a time”. Shades of Grace and Savour perhaps.

  On the subject of Hampton Manor, where Grace and Savour is the third restaurant, the local newspapers have been reporting that the Michelin-starred Peel’s Restaurant is to close after 14 years of serving fine food and seven years since it won its star. The restaurant, where the Head Chef has been Monty Stonehewer in recent months will close on new year’s eve. A fresh development is expected to replace Peel’s.

  Twenty five year old Monty Stonehewer trained at University College Birmingham and was a contestant in the 2019 Masterchef The Professionals at which time he was a sous-chef at Peel’s. He reached the knock out stage of the competition. He took over as Head Chef at Peel’s after Rob Palmer departed to set up his own restaurant in Solihull (see Blog 231). It will be interesting to see what will be the next step in Stonehewer’s career.