In recent years, the Michelin guide has recognized the excellence of the vegan cuisine, assigning stars to several restaurants all over the world. The last in order of time at Plates in London
The United Kingdom also has a veg restaurant with a Michelin star! At the award ceremony of Michelin Awards 2025 A few weeks ago, in fact, it was announced that Plates is The first plant -based restaurant to receive a Michelin star among the subjects of King Carlo.
The restaurant, born from an idea of the brothers Kirk (former pupil of The French Laundry and Restaurant Sat Bains) e Keeley Haworth“It excels in reinventing the possibilities of a refined vegetable -based cuisine through technical innovation and passion for taste”, The critics say.
In particular, the Michelin inspectors have struck the tasting menu of Kirk Haworth:
From the exceptional grilled maitake mushrooms, black beans, kimchi, aioli and puffed rice to get to the ice cream to the extremely balanced rice pudding with beets and mulberry blackberry. An innovative structure in the gastronomic panorama of the United Kingdom, “a restaurant with Michelin star cuisine that could convince the most passionate carnivores, reads the guide.
It has been several years now that the red guide par excellence, dedicated to tourism and food and wine, has begun to hear the voice of the change that is revolutionizing the world of cuisine in all its facets, starting from the expanding of vegetable dishes.
It is a change of perspectives and necessity that cannot fail to reflect the growing attention to the environment and for well -being, opening the doors to a more sustainable cuisine.
Even high cuisine, therefore, is experiencing a green revolution: more and more starry restaurants are introducing entirely vegetable menus, showing that gourmet cuisine can be refined, innovative and sustainable at the same time. This trend is spreading throughout Europe, with the France at the forefront. Paris, for example, boasts 18 restaurants with vegan options, including some with 3 Michelin stars such as Harpège, Ambroisie And Le Cinq. Overall, the country hosts 145 award -winning places that offer author’s vegan menus. An emblematic case is ONAnear Bordeaux, the first entirely vegan restaurant to receive a Michelin star.
Also i Netherlands they are following this trail, with Amsterdam that the podium is competing with Shanghai And New York for the title of capital of the high vegan cuisine. The country today has 62 premised clubs, positioning itself immediately after the United Kingdom in the European ranking.
In Italy, the precursor of this movement was the Joia of Milan, founded by the chef Pietro Leemann. In 1996 he became the first vegetarian restaurant to receive a Michelin star, opening the way to a new vision of high cuisine. Today, the Joia has become an icon of vegetable gastronomy, with dishes symbol as “inner landscape” and “Magrese”, which enhance local and biological ingredients.
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The growing attention to sustainability and quality of the ingredients shows that the future of starry catering could be decidedly more and more green.
