The AA Annual Award Winners And New Rosettes

The AA’s annual awards ceremony was held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel at a glittering event that coincided with the release of their 2018 Hotel and Restaurant guidebooks. Here’s a list of the country winners in the main categories: 

AA Restaurant of the Year
England – The Freemasons at Wiswell, Clitheroe, Lancashire
London – Elystan Street, London
Scotland – The Dining Room, Edinburgh
Wales – Beach House Restaurant at Oxwich Beach, Swansea

AA Restaurant of the Year, England: The Freemasons at Wiswell

AA Pub of the Year
England – The Bell at Ramsbury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire
Scotland – The Bow Bar, Edinburgh
Wales – Bryn Tyrch, Conwy

AA Hotel of the Year
England – The Gainsborough Bath Spa, Bath
London – The Goring
Scotland – Douneside House, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
Wales – Twr Y Felin Hotel, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
Northern Ireland – The Old Inn, Bangor, Co Down

AA Chef of the Year
John Williams, executive chef, the Ritz London

AA Pub of the Year, Wales: Bryn Tyrch, Conwy

The AA also unveiled the new four rosette and five rosette restaurants in the 2018 restaurant guide:

Five Rosettes
Gidleigh Park, Chagford, Devon
Bohemia Restaurant, St Helier, Jersey
Ynyshir, Eglwys Fach, Powys

Four Rosettes
Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond, Cameron House, West Dunbartonshire
Forest Side, Grasmere, Cumbria
Sosban & the Old Butcher’s Restaurant, Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey
The Typing Room, London
The Orangery, Rockliffe Hall, Darlington
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London
Matt Worswick at The Latymer, Pennyhill Park, Bagshot, Surrey
Restaurant James Sommerin, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
House of Tides, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Morston Hall, Blakeney, Norfolk

Five AA rosettes for Gidleigh Park in Devon (above) and Ynyshir (header image)