The 10 in 8 Fine Dining Group is celebrating three of our restaurants being voted in to The Sunday Times Food List published on the 30th October 2011. The list, compiled by The Sunday Times in partnership with Hardens restaurant guide is based on food quality alone and created from reports by over 8000 paying customers.

La Bécasse in Ludlow received the highest ranking of the 10 in 8 restaurants placed 24th. Sister restaurants L’ortolan in Reading and Paris House in Woburn were placed 57th and 54th respectively.

Alan Murchison, Executive Chef of the Group said “I am so pleased for the teams that their hard work is being rewarded. This is a great achievement and extremely important list to be included in because it is voted for by the general public.”

The 10 in 8 Fine Dining Group is delighted with the announcement that Phil Fanning, Head Chef at Paris House Restaurant in Woburn, Bedfordshire has been awarded a coveted Acorn Award. This comes just five months after being awarded his first Michelin star in January of this year.

The Acorns identify the brightest talents in the hospitality industry, and acknowledge flair and reward good work. Each year, thirty people under 30 are nominated by their peers and colleagues for having made an impression in their field, and have done for the past 25 years.  Previous winners include Marco-Pierre White, Marcus Wareing and Michael Caines, all of whom have gone on to become major figures within the industry.

To read the full press release, please click here.

The team at Paris House in Woburn is today celebrating their inclusion in the 100th edition of The Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland having been awarded a prestigious Michelin-star. Paris House is one of only five new additions to the list of one star restaurants outside London.

To read the full press release, please click here.

“With a brilliant executive chef at the helm will this Bedfordshire restaurant live up to expectations?”

“Executive chef Alan Murchison, you see, runs Ludlow’s La Bécasse, which is on first-name terms with brilliance… So hearing Murchison had just opened in Bedfordshire I legged it there faster than Banksy would to a freshly painted white wall. And when the waitress announced that Murchison was cooking, I came over slightly peculiar.”

To read the full review in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 27th March 2010, please click here.

“Aiming for the Stars.”

Talk about making yourself a hostage to fortune. Meet Alan Murchison. If you don’t know the name, you soon will.  Speaking at the launch of his third venture, Paris House, he announced that he and his business partner Richard Pursey have formed a company, Ten In Eight, specifically for this purpose, and that they are already looking at a fourth site in Edinburgh.  To read the full article, please click here.