{"id":216,"date":"2008-01-23T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/altrinchams-juniper-restaurant-retains-michelin-star\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:17:51","slug":"altrinchams-juniper-restaurant-retains-michelin-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/altrinchams-juniper-restaurant-retains-michelin-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Altrinchams Juniper Restaurant Retains Michelin Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNIPER RETAINS MICHELIN STATUS AS NORTHERN STARS FADE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Altrincham\u2019s acclaimed Juniper restaurant has retained its status as Greater Manchester\u2019s only Michelin-starred fine dining venue after the illustrious guide awarded it a bauble for the 11th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s achievement is all the more impressive given the tight reign Michelin has kept on stars in its 2008 UK guide. That has seen three northern venues lose their stars and no new stars being awarded to any restaurant in the North of England.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s always a great achievement to retain a star but this year more so as the inspectors appear to have been even more demanding than usual,\u201d<\/strong> commented Juniper\u2019s head chef, Paul Kitching. <strong>\u201cI\u2019m not sure people realise quite how hard it is for a restaurant to secure and keep its star status so I\u2019m particularly proud that our small provincial restaurant has done so for 11 years now. It\u2019s a great feat and just reward for the hard work I, my brigade and Juniper\u2019s front of house team put in day in, day out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since opening in December 1995 Juniper has secured countless accolades over the years with its Michelin star complemented by the rare awarding of four AA rosettes, placing it \u201cAmongst the very best restaurants in the British Isles, where the cooking demands national recognition.\u201d  Renowned chefs have also lined up to praise Kitching with Gordon Ramsay describing him as \u201cpure talent\u201d and Marco Pierre White noting his commitment to personally cooking for his customers saying \u201cI take my hat off to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNIPER RETAINS MICHELIN STATUS AS NORTHERN STARS FADE Altrincham\u2019s acclaimed Juniper restaurant has retained its status as Greater Manchester\u2019s only Michelin-starred fine dining venue after the illustrious guide awarded it a bauble for the 11th consecutive year. The restaurant\u2019s achievement is all the more impressive given the tight reign Michelin has kept on stars in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/altrinchams-juniper-restaurant-retains-michelin-star\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}