The Michelin Guide ceremony took place last night (Monday 9 February) in Dublin’s Convention Centre and saw a plethora of hospitality venues honoured.
The Kerfield Arms, which was number 25 on the 2026 Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list, reopened in April 2025 and is the ‘younger but bigger brother’ to the Baring in Islington.
The Camberwell site is run by Adam Symonds and Rob Tecwyn with the kitchen led by Jay Styler and aims to ‘continue the team’s ethos of simple yet considered cooking promoting humble ingredients and seasonal produce across a line-up of brand-new dishes’.
Great pub cuisines
Michelin described it as an “excellent reminder of what great pub cuisines can achieve - via dishes like a quince and bay leaf custard doughnut”.
It also outlined how the neighbourhood pub’s menu is “packed with the kind of accessible, pared-back cooking you could happily eat every day” with “high-quality ingredients that shine in generous dishes with a complete lack of pretension or over-adornment”.
Elsewhere, the guide highlighted how pub dining was still alive and well citing other on-trade venues added to the selection this year such as the Chalk Freehouse in Chelsea, London - part of Tom Kerridge’s stable with Tom De Keyser at the helm.
This was alongside the Waterman’s Arms in Barnes and the Prince Arthur in Belgravia - both in the capital.
Affordable, high-quality meal
According to the guide, this as well as the continued success of the Marksman in Hackney, the Hero in Maida Vale and many more alongside the popularity of the Devonshire, these venues are showing the strength of the modern London gastropub.
Alongside Michelin stars, 37 new Bib Gourmands were awarded at the ceremony with a number of them presented to pubs that offer an affordable, high-quality meal.
This included the Clarence in Glasgow and the Oarsman in Marlow - both in the top 100 gastropubs in the UK.
