Le Champignon Sauvage in UK’s top ten restaurants

News – The Cheltenham restaurant Le Champignon Sauvage has been named one of the top ten restaurants in the UK, in the new Good Food Guide 2010 published today.

Le Champignon Sauvage, the renowned two Michelin-starred restaurant in Cheltenham, took the sixth position in a list of the UK’s best restaurants, in the Good Food Guide 2010 published today.

The French restaurant in the Suffolks area of Cheltenham run by chef patron David Everitt-Matthias and his wife Helen since 1987 beat a host of renowned restaurants, including Le Gavroche, Gordon Ramsay’s Maze and Tom Aikens’ signature restaurant, in the illustrious list.

Scoring an impressive eight out of ten – which illustrates ‘a kitchen cooking close to or at the top of its game showing faultless technique and impressive artistry,’ according to the publishers Which?, and representing the only Gloucestershire restaurant to be selected in the top 50, Le Champignon Sauvage was topped by only five restaurants across the UK.

The Fat Duck in Bray came first, scoring a perfect ten out of ten for the second year in a row; Gordon Ramsay in London came second scoring nine; with Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley in London, Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons in Oxford and The Square in London all following behind with a score of eight.

The Good Food Guide 2010 review of Le Champignon Sauvage said: ‘After two decades David and Helen Everitt-Matthias know a thing or two about staying power: she heads a composed front-of-house team while his cooking continues to roam between familiar and new ground without ever getting lost.’

The Good Food Guide 2010 is published on Tuesday 8 September 2009, and costs from £11.04 from amazon.co.uk.

To find out more about the restaurant, read SoGlos.com’s Le Champignon Sauvage Restaurant review.

8 September 2009
SoGlos.com