Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant gets perfect 10 in Good Food Guide

Aug 18 2009 By Andrew Jackson

Ramsay’s score of nine out of 10 for his Chelsea restaurant represents "cooking that has reached the pinnacle of achievement", according to the guide’s scores.

Ms Carter said the head chef Clare Smyth was "very good" and the front-of-house staff were second to none.

"It is a restaurant working on the international stage."

She added: "It’s been a tough year for all chefs, but these super chefs are at the top of their game and producing superlative food.

"It’s difficult to fault the Fat Duck’s impeccable standards and Gordon Ramsay’s modern French cooking is perfectly executed too."

She said away from the elite venues, restaurants were also improving.

"It’s such an exciting time for British food," she said. "Not just at the high end, standards are going up, people are demanding more and chefs are stepping up to the plate, literally."

The Good Food Guide 2010 goes on sale on September 8.