Kildare restaurant awarded Michelin Star in 2025 Guide

The Morrison Room  at at Carton House is the latest Kildare restaurant to have a Michelin Star after it was added in the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2025. The restaurant just outside Maynooth impressed the inspectors not just with its first-rate produce but with the inventiveness of Adam Nevin’s cooking.

The Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2025 was unveiled during the annual Michelin Guide Ceremony held at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow on Monday, February 10.

A total of 1,147 restaurants – including 220 Starred ones – are included in the selection, with Moor Hall leading the way as The Guide’s latest Three-Star restaurant. A further three restaurants have been newly awarded Two Michelin Stars and there are 22 new One-Star establishments. 36 new Bib Gourmands have also been awarded for restaurants offering good food at a great price. Finally, five new Green Stars have been given for outstanding commitment to a more sustainable approach to gastronomy.

The awards span across the UK and Ireland, with Edinburgh having had a particularly good year with two new Starred restaurants. There is cause for celebration in Cardiff, as the city earns its first Michelin Star, and Bristol, which has a new Star and three new Bib Gourmands. A range of cuisines are represented too, with the UK’s first-ever One-Star Greek restaurant, a Korean Star and the first plant-based restaurant to receive a Michelin Star.

Gwendal Poullennec, International Director of The Michelin Guides, commented: “I am so thrilled to see that our Great Britain & Ireland Guide has had such a strong year yet again. Despite the challenges they face, chefs and restaurateurs have shown us that their talent, commitment and ingenuity know no bounds. Moor Hall newly receiving Three Michelin Stars will rightly be headline news, but I am equally pleased to see a huge total of 22 new Stars join our family. Having 36 Bib Gourmands awarded this year is also a great sign for British and Irish hospitality – showing how hard restaurants are working to offer great value to diners. Finally, we must not forget our new Green Stars and their inspiring commitments, for they are role models of our industry.”

Further west, Richard Picard-Edwards and his team at Ballyfin provide fittingly brilliant food inside the stunning Ballyfin Demesne Hotel – which holds Three Michelin Keys. Over in County Galway, LIGИUM has made the leap to Star level thanks to Danny Africano using wood-fired flavours to let his produce really shine.

The MICHELIN Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2025 at a glance:

1,147 recommended restaurants, including:

• 10 restaurants with Three MICHELIN Stars (1 new)
• 29 restaurants with Two MICHELIN Stars (3 new)
• 181 restaurants with One MICHELIN Star (22 new)
• 36 restaurants with a MICHELIN Green Star (5 new)
• 150 restaurants with a Bib Gourmand (36 new)