Maartin Carabott at Gravetye Manor
Executive Chef Martin Carabott retains one Michelin Star at Gravetye Manor, West Sussex
Gravetye Manor Hotel and Restaurant in West Sussex has retained its Michelin Star as announced at the Michelin Guide ceremony in Dublin last night, 9th February.
In attendance at the ceremony, Roux scholar Martin Carabott is Executive Chef at the two Michelin Keys hotel since joining in April 2025. Martin has led the kitchen brigade while putting his own stamp on the menu and restaurant direction, and taking it seamlessly into another strong year, following Gravetye Manor being recognised with numerous awards including retaining a Michelin Star for eleven years and achieving 4 AA Rosettes.
Martin Carabott comments, “It is a huge honour to have been invited to attend the Michelin Guide ceremony and to receive the news in person that we have retained Gravetye’s Michelin star. For many years Gravetye Manor Hotel and Restaurant has enjoyed a wonderful reputation for providing exceptional Michelin star quality and I am proud to be continuing this legacy. It is a privilege to have immediate access to fresh produce grown just steps away from the restaurant in our walled kitchen garden, led by our esteemed head gardener, Tom Coward, and the producers, farmers and suppliers on our doorstep in West Sussex.”
Originally from Malta, Martin won the Roux Scholarship in 2018 at the age of 29, when he was senior sous-chef at Hide, London. After winning the Roux Scholarship, Martin completed a stage at three Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park in New York.
In his role as Executive Chef, Martin works closely with Head Gardener Tom Coward who manages the 35-acre estate of world-renowned gardens including the elliptical walled kitchen garden (thought to be the only one of its kind in the country) fruit tree orchard, glasshouses and Peach House, all set within a further 1000 acres of woodland. Everything grown on site is used by the kitchen teams in the restaurant.
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About Gravetye Manor
Gravetye Manor is a hotel and restaurant with four Red Stars, four Rosettes and one Michelin star and two Michelin Keys, in West Sussex on the Kent/Surrey/Sussex borders.
The hotel is a member of Relais & Châteaux and Pride of Britain. The Elizabethan manor house looks over 35 acres of stunning world-renowned gardens, walled kitchen garden, orchard, glasshouses and Peach House set within a further 1000 acres of woodland. The gardens are considered amongst the most influential in English horticultural history, made famous by previous owner and influential gardener William Robinson, whose preference for the ‘wild garden’, mixed herbaceous borders and hardy perennial planting broke with the formal Victorian style of the day, and his radical approach remains as popular as ever with gardeners today.