The AA has released its Restaurant Guide for 2023 and just one Warrington restaurant featured.

The Church Green in Lymm is one of 19 Cheshire establishments to feature this year.

Now in its 29th edition, AA’s Restaurant Guide for 2023 provides food lovers with breakdowns of restaurants by county, including a detailed description of each destination, information on latest chef changes, opening times, sample menu prices and images of many of the featured locations.

Assessments of AA-inspected establishments are based on the experience of the Hotel and Restaurant inspectors on the occasion.

Restaurants are then awarded 1-5 ‘rosettes’ depending on the inspector's assessment.

The gastropub in Lymm, owned by chef Aiden Byrne, retained its two rosettes after it won the same accolade last year.

The Church Green has been in the guide since opening 14 years ago, and 11 years ago it won AA Restaurant of the Year.

What the AA rosette awards mean

One rosette means a restaurant is achieving standards that stand out in its local area, including food prepared with care, understanding and skill, good quality ingredients and the same expectations apply to hotel restaurants where guests should be able to eat in confidence and a sense of anticipation.

Two rosettes are given to the best local restaurants which aim for and achieve higher standards, better consistency, greater precision apparent in the cooking and obvious attention to the selection of quality ingredients.

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Restaurants with three rosettes are outstanding and achieve standards that demand national recognition well beyond their local area. The cooking will be underpinned by the selection and sympathetic treatment of the highest quality ingredients and the timing, seasoning and the judgement of flavour combinations will be consistently excellent plus these virtues will tend to be supported by other elements such as intuitive service and a well-chosen wine list.

Restaurants with four rosettes are among the top in the UK where the cooking demands national recognition. The restaurants will exhibit intense ambition, a passion for excellence, superb technical skills, remarkable consistency and an appreciation of culinary traditions combined with a passionate desire for further exploration and improvement.

Finally, five rosettes is described as the pinnacle, where the cooking compares with the best in the world. Restaurants with five rosettes will have highly individual voices and they’ll exhibit breathtaking culinary skills and set the standards to which others aspire, yet few achieve.