02/10/2018

Michelin Star Success For Northern Irish Chef

Two Belfast restaurants have maintained their Michelin Star status for 2019 and a Bushmills chef has won two stars in her first attempt with her own restaurant.

Eipic in Howard Street and Ox in Oxford Street has kept their Michelin Star status for 2019.

Chef Clare Smyth also received two of the coveted stars for her debut solo restaurant named Core in Notting Hill, London.

She said she is "delighted" by the announcement and "so proud of my amazing team."

The Bushmills-born chef has seen her career flourish in recent months, with an invite to cook at Harry and Meghan's private wedding reception in Frogmore House, Windsor, in May of this year.

She previously became the first British woman to run a restaurant with three Michelin stars when she was the head of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London.

(JG/MH)

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