Two more pubs win Michelin stars in the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2013

Heston Blumenthal’s Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire and Guy and Brit Manning’s Red Lion Freehouse in East Chisenbury in Wiltshire have both scooped the accolade.

Tom Kerridge’s Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has retained two stars from last year and remains the only pub with two. Eleven pubs have retained one star, while the Olive Branch in Clipsham, Lincolnshire, is the only pub to have lost its star.

Out of 39 new Bib Gourmands 15 have gone to pubs with 28 retaining the accolade. The Good Food Guide’s Pub of the Year 2013 the Plough Inn, Longparish, Hampshire was awarded a Bib Gourmand while the famous Hoste Arms in Burnham Market, Norfolk was among 12 pubs to lose their Bib Gourmands.

“We weren’t expecting a star at all,” said Guy, chef proprietor of the Red Lion. “We’ve just stuck at what we’ve been doing, trying to improve all the time. It has grown from just being Brit and myself in 2008 and now we have a team of around 15 people.

“We’re trying to come up with a game plan to handle any extra trade because people will have much higher expectations.
“We make everything here and keep it very much as a pub.”

Both the Red Lion and the Hinds Head had previously held a Bib Gourmand.

Speaking about the newly-starred pubs, Michelin editor Rebecca Burr said: “This suggests that the trend for British pubs acknowledging diners as well as drinkers, and striving to raise their standards of cooking, is continuing to move in a positive direction.”

The Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2013 will be available in bookshops from tomorrow (5 October) at £15.99.

Two stars — retained:

• Hand & Flowers

One star — new

• Hinds Head, Bray, Berkshire
• Red Lion Freehouse, East Chisenbury, Wiltshire

One star — retained

• Pipe and Glass
• Royal Oak, Paley Street
• Pony & Trap, Chew Magna
• Sir Charles Napier, Chinnor, Buckinghamshire
• The Butchers Arms, Eldersfield, Worcestershire
• The Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon
• The Nut Tree, Murcott, Oxfordshire
• The Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
• The Stagg Inn, Titley, Herefordshire
• The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent
• The Harwood Arms, Fulham, London

One star — deleted

• Olive Branch in Clipsham

Bib gourmands — new

• The Royal Oak, Bishopstone, Swindon
• The White Oak, Cookham, Maidenhead
• The Forester, Donhead-St-Andrew, Wiltshire
• The Chequers, Hastings, East Sussex
• The Quince Tree, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
• Heritage Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• The Pheasant, Keystone, Cambridge
• The Plough Inn, Longparish, Hampshire
• The Horse & Groom, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
• The Victoria Inn, Marazion, Cornwall
• The Broad Chare, Newcastle
• The Gunton Arms, Thorpe Market, Norfolk
• The Apple Tree Inn, West Pennard, Somerset
• Princess of Shoreditch, Shoreditch, Hackney
• The George and Dragon, Kelvedon, Essex

Bib Gourmands — retained

• The Joiners, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
• The Freemasons, Wiswell, Lancashire
• The Bay Horse, Hurworth, Durham
• The Bakers Arms, Droxford, Hampshire
• The Red Lion, East Haddon, Northamptonshire
• The Jack in the Green, Rockbeare, Devon
• The Three Mariners, Faversham, Kent
• The Ingham Swan, Ingham, Norfolk
• The Red Lion Inn, Stathern, Leicestershire
• The Anchor, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• The Magdalen Arms, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• The Mole Inn, Toot Balden, Oxfordshire
• The Purefoy Arms, Preston Candover, Kent
• The Three Tuns, Romsey, Hampshire
• The Gumstool Inn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
• The Cat Inn, West Hoathly, West Sussex
• The Bull Inn, Wimborne, Dorset
• The Butchers Arms, Woolhope, Herefordshire
• The Berkeley Arms, Wymondham, Leicestershire
• The Felin Fach Griffin, Brecon, Powys
• The Draper Arms, Islington, London
• The Canton Arms, Stockwell, London
• The Fox & Grapes, Wimbleon, London
• The Anchor & Hope, Waterloo, London
• The Opera Tavern, Westminster, London
• The Sorn Inn, Sorn, East Ayreshire
• Wild Honey Inn, Lisdoonvarna, Clare
• The Peat Spade Inn, Longstock, Hampshire

Bib gourmands — deleted

• Hoste Arms, Burnham Market, Norfolk
• The Wizard, Alderley Edge, Cheshire
• The New Inn, Backwell, Bristol
• Jolly Cricketers, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
• The Hole in the Wall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
• The Walpole Arms, Itteringham, Norfolk
• The General Tarleton Inn, Knareborough, North Yorkshire
• The Wildebeest Arms, Norwich, Norfolk
• The White Hart Inn, Oldham, Manchester
• The Brown Dog, Barnes, Surrey
• The Rose & Crown, Sutton-on-the-Forest, north Yorkshire
• The Ginger Fox, Henfield, West Sussex