A Liverpool city centre restaurant has been added to the prestigious Michelin Guide.
While the city's restaurants were again overlooked by the guide back in February as it announced the list of new stars, one restaurant has now been added to the guide in a new update. The French-based group who oversee the awarding of the prestigious accolade gave out 19 awards to establishments across the UK earlier this year- but none in Liverpool.
Now, Duke Street’s Barnacle has been added to the guide after Michelin inspectors revealed some of their favourite new additions. These newly recommended restaurants feature both on the Michelin website and the app.
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From Merseyside Chef Paul Askew who owns The Art School restaurant, Barnacle is an “intimate Scouse brasserie”. The restaurant is set in the mezzanine of Duke Street Market and features modern dishes from local producers, farmers and artisans as well as ingredients linked to Liverpool’s port trade.
About the restaurant, Michelin inspectors said: “Barnacle occupies the mezzanine level of Duke Street Market. Not only is it located above the food stalls but it’s also a level above when it comes to its cooking.
“The room is a great fit for the rustic market surroundings, with the decoration a reference to the area’s former rope-making businesses. It describes itself as a ‘Scouse brasserie’ and the short menu name-checks many local suppliers, while the modern dishes having a refined, local flavour. Start with one of the Liverpudlian gins and, at weekends, enjoy the live music drifting up from the food hall below.”
The February 2022 edition of the Michelin Guide named Liverpool’s closest starred restaurants as Fraiche in Birkenhead, Wirral with one star and Moor Hall in Ormskirk with two stars. Moor Hall’s sister restaurant The Barn also gained its first Michelin star this year.
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