2. Core by Clare Smyth
Location: London
Cooking score: 10
Chef proprietor: Clare Symth
Previous ranking: 2
Last year’s highest ever new entry, Core by Clare Smyth in London’s Notting Hill, has gone one better this year, coming in 2nd place.
Of Core by Clare Smyth, the editors of The Good Food Guide commented: “You only have to see how hard it is to get a table 18 months on from opening to see that there is already a devoted following for an undoubtedly world-class restaurant. Clare Smyth takes unruffled perfection, choreographed precision and faultless pedigree to hitherto unexplored levels, delivering meals that are technically outstanding, sophisticated without losing sight of ingredients’ essential flavours.”