Restaurant is voted ninth best in world
ABIRMINGHAM restaurant has been named the third best in the UK – and ninth best in the world.
It is a major achievement for Adam’s despite slipping slightly – last year the Michelin-starred Waterloo Street venue was top in the UK and fourth in the world.
The rating comes from customer review website TripAdvisor and is based on millions of opinions.
Winners were determined using an algorithm which took into account the quantity and quality of reviews around the world over a 12-month period.
Adam’s, run by Adam Stokes, has been toppled from the top UK spot by Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire, run by Raymond Blanc, with two Michelin stars. Second was Alain Roux’s Waterside Inn at Bray on Thames.
They are first and second in the UK and fourth and seventh in the world in the 2016 Travellers’ Choice Restaurants Awards.
But Adam’s has beaten Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck, ranked fourth in the UK.
With three restaurants in the top 10, the UK has more than any other country. Spain and France have two each, along with Italy, the US and Brazil. The number one restaurant in the world for the second year running, according to TripAdvisor, is Martin Berasategui in Lasarte, Spain.
Adam’s opened in spring 2013 on Bennetts Hill and was awarded a Michelin star within six months, now one of five Birmingham restaurants to have one.
In January this year it moved to a more permanent £1.5 million restaurant in Oxford House in Waterloo Street. On TripAdvisor it has a 1,299 five-star ‘excellent’ ratings out of 1,432. There are 95 ‘very goods’.
Comments include “the tasting menu was absolutely amazing” and “very classy with stylish decor, the staff was fantastic”.
It is the top fine dining restaurant in Birmingham on TripAdvisor though actually rated third of all eateries behind Otoro Sushi at the Bullring Indoor Market and Golden Balti Indian Takeaway in Rednal.