Michelin’s new star ratings for U.K. restaurants, scheduled to be published on Oct. 4, appeared on the company’s website today, a week early. 
 
 Sketch (The Lecture Room) won a second star, as did Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume, in Cartmel; and Michael Wignall at the Latymer, in Bagshot, Michelin confirmed in an e-mail release. 
 
 New one-star winners included Heston Blumenthal’s Hinds Head pub, in Bray. In London, there were single stars for Alyn Williams at the Westbury, Dabbous, Medlar, Hedone, Launceston Place, St. John Soho, Tom Aikens and Trishna. 
 
 The U.K’s four three-star restaurants -- Fat Duck, Waterside Inn, Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay -- held onto their top rating. 
 
 This isn’t the first time the results have appeared prematurely. In 2009, Pied a Terre owner David Moore spotted them on the web. In 2010, a copy of the guide was sent out before publication. 
 
 Other winners of a single star include Bath Priory (Bath), Alimentum (Cambridge) Raby Hunt (Darlington), Red Lion Freehouse (East Chisenbury), Tristan (Horsham), Paul Ainsworth at No. 6 (Padstow), Thackeray’s (Tunbridge Wells), Locks Brasserie (Dublin) and Aniar (Galway). 
 
 In London, Zafferano and Gauthier-Soho lost stars. Establishments that won new Bib Gourmand awards for value-for- money included Zedel and Soif. 
 
 (Richard Vines is the chief food critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. He is U.K. and Ireland chairman of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. Opinions expressed are his own.) 
 
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 To contact the editor responsible for this story: Manuela Hoelterhoff at mhoelterhoff@bloomberg.net. ||||| A total of 16 British restaurants were yesterday awarded their first Michelin star, while three were given their second. Almost half of them were in London. 
 
 Rebecca Burr, editor of the guide, said: "It is realistic, in future London could overtake New York and Paris. London is the place to be, a lot of the top chefs want to set up here. We have got a much more diverse cuisine which we should celebrate." 
 
 The capital has a total of 60 starred restaurants, including four with three stars and eight with two stars. Paris has 77 starred restaurants, including 10 with three stars and 17 with two stars. 
 
 Mikael Jonsson, a Swedish chef, earned his first Michelin star at the age of 44 for Hedone, a French restaurant based in Chiswick, West London. 
 
 Jonsson opted to set up his restaurant in London after being put off by restrictive Labour laws in Paris. He said: "In Paris there are so many constraints that it [opening a restaurant] would never really have happened. 
 
 "You can't get rid of staff, you have to assume responsibility for them. You have seen a gastronomic revolution in England. I love Paris but London is also a fantastic restaurant venue because it's extremely dynamic with a highly multi-cultural population." 
 
 His achievement was all the more remarkable because for 25 years a severe food allergy forced him to pursue a career as a lawyer rather than a chef. 
 
 Any contact with shellfish and raw meat brought on eczema and asthma, to the extent that he could only cook with cortisone injections. 
 
 He was forced instead to confine his love of food to a blog. However, last year a change of diet saw his allergies disappear and he opened Hedone, a French restaurant in Chiswick, West London. 
 
 Three restaurants have been elevated to two-star status, including Simon Rogan's L'enclume in Cartmel, Cumbria, Michael Wignall at the Latymer at Pennyhill Park in Surrey and Pierre Gagnaire and Mourad Mazouz's Sketch in London. 
 
 Rogan's award comes after he received a perfect 10 in the Good Food guide earlier this month, a score that has only previously been attained by Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck. 
 
 He opened his restaurant in an 800-year-old Smithy in the village of Cartmel in 2003, and is renowned for using modern cooking techniques. 
 
 Among the 16 British restaurants given their first star is Dabbous, a restaurant in central London which has attracted such a following it has a year-long waiting list. 
 
 Oliver Dabbous, 31, opened the restaurant in February this year and has since attracted a succession of five star reviews. 
 
 Instead of focusing on fine dining, Dabbous has rough plaster walls, exposed pipes and tables of scorched wood planks. Dabbous trained under Raymond Blanc and focuses on simple food, while guests pour their own wine. 
 
 He said: “If you’ve stepped foot inside the restaurant, you’ll realise we aren’t concerned with ticking boxed for guide books. Nonetheless, it’s a lovely pat on the back for my incredible staff.” 
 
 Heston Blumenthal's Hinds Head, a restaurant in a 15th century pub in Bray, was also awarded its first star. The award means Blumenthal has pulled level with Gordon Ramsay as Britain's most successful chef, with five stars each. 
 
 Tom Aikens, who left a trail of debt and suppliers out of pocket after his restaurant company went into administration in 2008, has regained a star he lost when his eponymous restaurant in Chelsea was being refurbished. 
 
 Outside London, Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 in Padstow, Cornwall, was awarded its first Michelin star after seven years. 
 
 Ainsworth said: "Well a few tears and the most random morning of my life but we have won a Michelin star!!" 
 
 The Michelin star winners were accidentally published yesterday a week ahead of the official announcement because of a "technical error". 
 
 Two Michelin stars: 
 
 Micheal Wignall at the Latymer, Pennyhill Park, Surrey 
 
 L’enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria 
 
 Sketch, London 
 
 One Michelin star: 
 
 Paul Ainsworth at Number 6, Padstow 
 
 Bath Priory, Bath 
 
 Raby Hunt, Summerhouse, near Darlington 
 
 Tristan, Horsham 
 
 Alimentum, Cambridge 
 
 Thackeray’s Restaurant, Kent 
 
 Hinds Head, Bray 
 
 The Red Lion Free House, Wiltshire 
 
 Alyn Williams at the Westbury, London 
 
 Medlar, London 
 
 Trishna, London 
 
 Launceston Place, London 
 
 St Johns Hotel, London 
 
 Hedone, London 
 
 Dabbous, London 
 
 Tom Aikens, London
– Looks like London's not just meat and potatoes anymore. After 16 British restaurants got their first Michelin star yesterday and three their second, the city is rivaling Paris as a destination for fine dining. In total, London boasts 60 starred restaurants; four of those have three stars and eight have two. Paris is still ahead, with 77 starred restaurants; 10 have three stars while 17 have two stars. But "it is realistic: In future London could overtake New York and Paris," says the editor of the Michelin guide for Great Britain and Ireland. (The UK ratings are out in advance of the Oct. 4 official release of the new guide, notes Bloomberg.) "London is the place to be. A lot of the top chefs want to set up here," adds editor Rebecca Burr. Indeed, the Telegraph cites the story of a Michelin star-winning Swedish chef who established a French restaurant in London. "In Paris, there are so many constraints that (opening a restaurant) would never really have happened," says Mikael Jonsson. Meanwhile, "you have seen a gastronomic revolution in England. I love Paris, but London is also a fantastic restaurant venue because it's extremely dynamic with a highly multi-cultural population."