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Emily Green casts an eye over the latest edition of the gourmets' bible - Michelin's guide to the best restaurants in Britain and Ireland
MARCO Pierre White, 31, today becomes the first British chef to own two Michelin-starred restaurants. "I've got my third star," he said. "The wrong way round, but I've got my third star."
By "wrong way round", he means he has two stars for his new restaurant in the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge, and one star for his two-year-old Canteen in Chelsea Harbour, west London. The highest rank of three stars still eludes him.
No other British chef has had the impact of Mr White on the French-owned guide. His mentor, Albert Roux, refers to him as "the little genius". At 26, he became the youngest chef to win two stars for his restaurant, Harvey's in Wandsworth, south-west London. He accomplished this, he says, without ever having set foot in France. Last autumn, he brought...