The Michelin Guide has added its newest recruits, and it’s great news for a newbie over in North Yorkshire.
Fifty Two at the luxurious Rudding Park hotel opened its doors in May 2024, offering punters an immersive dining experience that is guided by the restaurant’s homegrown produce.
Named after the number of raised beds in its kitchen garden, this is a meal about as seasonal as its gets.
Designed to create a sense of food theatre in a large shipping container that boasts a light and airy atmosphere, diners can watch the chefs at work as they concoct their magical creations on an open kitchen island.
And it’s clearly gone down a treat, as Fifty Two has been added to the coveted Michelin Guide just seven months after opening.
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The Michelin Guide said: “Set in the grounds of the Rudding Park hotel and named after the number of raised beds in its kitchen garden, this is a restaurant guided by its produce.
“It occupies a set of converted shipping containers, furnished with bespoke oak tables, where the chefs lead the service of their creative dishes. There’s a playfulness running throughout, exemplified by ‘Dessert Islands Discs’, where guests can choose a track to play while the puddings are served. Those desserts are a highlight, with exquisite execution of dishes like brown butter custard tart with baked apple.”
Sounds pretty fancy if you ask us, and yes we’d be lying if we said our mouths weren’t watering at the thought of a brown butter custard tart.
Fifty Two joins the likes of Bavette, Ox Club, The Box Tree, Forde and Prashad on the Michelin Guide with myse over in Hovingham still holding the only Michelin star in Yorkshire.
So it’s fair to say we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to getting some good grub in and around Leeds, but we already knew that already.
Find out more and book your table Fifty Two at Rudding Park here.
Featured image – Fifty Two at Rudding Park
