Pursuits
Ramsay’s Protege Beats Blumenthal to New Restaurant Award
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Jason Atherton, the chef who created Maze for Gordon Ramsay before quitting to open his own London restaurant, has won two awards in the 2012 Good Food Guide for Pollen Street Social: Best New Entry and the Highest New Entry.
Atherton beats Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, the highest-profile new restaurant of the year. Pollen Street Social places eighth and Dinner is 19th. Blumenthal’s the Fat Duck, which is outside London, comes top. Maze has been dropped from the guide.