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This year’s guide sees three restaurants promoted from one to two Michelin stars. Sketch, in Mayfair, opened in 2002 and received its first Michelin star in 2005; L’Enclume, in Cartmel also opened in 2002 and was awarded its first Michelin star three years later; while Michael Wignall at the Latymer, Bagshot, opened in 2007 and won its first Michelin star in 2009.

Editor, Rebecca Burr said: “These are three equally worthy recipients of our two star award but each restaurant is very different in nature. Michael Wignall’s cooking offers a distinct sense of sophistication, Jean Denis Le Bras at Sketch has a much more ambitious style, while Simon Rogan’s cooking has steadily evolved and is now much more aligned with nature.&rdquo...

If you need an excuse to go to New York this weekend (other than shopping!), this is it. Billed as the most thrilling industry food event of the year: the 7th Annual Starchefs.com International Chefs Congress takes place from September 30 to October 2 at the Park Avenue Armory.

From history-plundering menus and heirloom archaeology to progressive technologies and boundary-breaking culinary concepts, StarChefs.com has tracked an industry-wide embrace of the history and horizons of food and drink. And for its seventh year, ICC will celebrate this phenomenon, with three days programming that showcases the creative searching and innovating that connect the industry’s earliest roots to its wildest imaginations—its origins and its frontiers...

The BBC interviewed our very own Charles this week – National Cupcake Week – on cupcakes, the rise of their popularity and their place in the future. Click the link to read the full article by Deborah Reddihough and Michelle Warwicker. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/19589210...