Bohemia Jersey

Jersey’s Michelin starred Bohemia Bar & Restaurant is once again delighted to learn that it is the 17th Top UK Restaurant in The Good Food Guide 2010.

The award winning Bohemia Restaurant has retained its impressive ranking, awarded for a ‘high level of ambition and individuality, attention to the smallest detail, accurate and vibrant dishes’.

The only Channel Islands’ restaurant to have been ranked in the newly extended Top 50 list, Bohemia’s entry sums up the dining experience perfectly; ‘sophisticated boutique elegance is the name of the game at the trend spotting, ultra hip Club Hotel & Spa’… ‘where cool affluence prevails and chef Shaun Rankin is cooking up a storm.’

The guide applauds the kitchen which is ‘prepared to inject some up-to-the-minute pizzazz into classic partnerships: a ‘three-hour’ local duck egg is served cunningly with Jerusalem artichoke veloute and confit of chicken wings, while roast loin of Yorkshire venison appears in a new guise, with smoked chocolate tortellini and a smattering of world-larder exotica’.  The ‘three-hour local duck egg’ was made famous on the 2008 BBC’s Great British Menu where Rankin’s outstanding Treacle Tart, accompanied by Jersey Clotted Cream and Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream, and voted onto the winning menu in the final.

Bohemia Bar & Restaurant Owner, Lawrence Huggler, is delighted with the news, ‘As Bohemia continues to go from strength to strength we are overjoyed with the news that we have retained our high position in the trusted guide.  It is once again testament to the hard work of Shaun Rankin and the entire team who work tirelessly to maintain the incredibly high standards’.

This year The Good Food Guide has expanded its list of the Top 40 UK restaurants to a Top 50 as so many up-and-coming UK chefs are making the grade.

Elizabeth Carter, Editor of The Good Food Guide, comments, ‘There are so many great British restaurants hitting their stride at the moment that we just had to expand to a Top 50. Despite the credit crunch, the British restaurant scene has never been so vibrant.’

Since its launch in 2004, with Rankin at the helm, Bohemia has received an impressive array of accolades, including a Michelin Star which it has held onto since 2005, 4 AA Rosettes and a coveted A** in Harden’s UK Restaurant Guide.  Rankin was been heralded as ‘one of the most gifted, highly polished chefs in the British Isles’ by The Independent’s Food Critic Terry Durack.

07 October 2009