Standard Quality A score of up to 63 per cent indicates that the hotel satisfies AA minimum standards and offers acceptable accommodation, facilities and services. Every restaurant has had a meal visit from at least one anonymous inspector. Many, especially at the higher award levels, have been visited more than once by different inspectors at different times. Every item of the meal has been assessed from the quality of the bread and butter and wine list to the strength and freshness of the coffee not forgetting the service, the surroundings and the overall atmosphere. Although our inspectors are a highly-trained and very experienced professional men and women, it must be stressed that the opinions expressed are only opinions, based on the experience of one or more particular occasions.
Assessments are therefore to some extent necessarily subjective.
AA inspectors are experienced enough to make a balanced judgement, but they are not omniscient. We do ask you to bear this in mind. The AA makes annual rosette awards on a rising scale of one to five for the quality of food served in restaurants and hotel restaurants. Only those offering the highest international standards of cuisine and service will merit the AA's top awards of four or five rosettes. Five rosettes is the supreme accolade, made to chefs at the very top of their profession.