Pubs awarded new AA Rosettes

The long-established rosette scheme recognises successful cooking at different levels across UK restaurants and hotels and around 10% of restaurants nationwide are considered by the AA to be of a standard that are given one rosette and above. 

Success or failure in achieving rosettes is based on one or more visits by an AA inspector to a hotel or restaurant. One or two rosettes are announced at the time of inspection. The maximum number of rosettes a restaurant can receive is five.

Two rosettes​

Several pubs have been awarded two rosettes. The criteria for achieving the accolade is that they are the best local establishments with higher standards, better consistency and show greater precision in the cooking and obvious attention to the quality and selection of the ingredients.

These are the  Porch House, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire ; the Abbots Elm, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; the Running Horse, Winchester, Hampshire ; the Smokehouse, Islington, London;  the Anchor, Ripley, Woking; Surrey, the Merchants Tavern, Shoreditch, London.

Also Upstairs at the Ten Bells, Spitalfields, London; the Star Inn, Wantage, Oxfordshire;  the Old Bell Inn , Hurley, Berkshire ; the Packhorse Inn, Moulton, Suffolk, the Ingham Swan, Ingham, Norfolk; the Slaughters Country Inn, Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire and the White Pheasant, Fordham, Cambridgeshire.

Five pubs have increased from one rosette to two.  These are the Chequers,  Bath, Somerset; the Pilgrims, Castle Cary, Somerset;  the Hole in the Wall , Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire; the Peak Edge Hotel at the Red Lion, Chesterfield, Derbyshire and the Victoria Inn ,Perranuthnoe, Cornwall.

One rosette​

Eleven pubs have been awarded new one rosettes. The rosette is awarded to establishments that stand out in their local area and feature food prepared with care, understanding and skill and good quality ingredients.

The pubs are the Queens, St Ives, Cornwall; the Narrow Boat at Weedon, Weedon, Northamptonshire; the Scran and Scallie, Edinburgh; the Carpenters Arms , Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire;  the Nobody Inn , Doddiscombsleigh, Devon; the Wheatsheaf Combe Hay, Combe Hay, Bath;  the Notley Arms Inn,  Monksilver, Somerset; the Muddy Duck Monkton Farleigh, Bradford on Avon;  the Black Lion Bar & Bistro, Thirsk, North Yorkshire; the Pheasant Inn, Higher Burwardsley, Cheshire  and the Old Bell Inn, Saddleworth, Oldham.