Top Female Chef Awarded to a Brit for the First Time

London-based Clare Smyth won this year’s award for the world’s best female chef, becoming the first British woman to claim a title that usually goes to chefs in mainland Europe.

Smyth, who opened Core by Clare Smyth last year in Notting Hill, was the only female chef in the U.K. to hold three Michelin stars when she ran London’s Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. She was with Ramsay for more than 13 years.