At the event, 22 new restaurants were awarded their first Michelin star, with nine in London, three in Ireland and two in Scotland.
A London restaurant has become the first to be awarded a Michelin star by serving a plant-based menu.
Kirk Haworth, chef and co-founder of Plates, first began exploring a vegan diet after being diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2016.
“Trying to work out the formula of our food and how to create without any kind of meat and fish, which is what what I was trained in all my life, was super, super challenging,” said Haworth.
Chef Kirk Haworth told ‘The Independent’ that vegan food isn’t ‘a trend’.
