Three superb London boozers have been added to the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland ahead of the 2023 Guide launch. 

The Baring in Islington, The Pelican in Notting Hill and The Holland in Kensington were among the 37 restaurants, pubs and bistros (these are making a comeback) across the UK before the Michelin Stars, Bib Gourmands and Green Stars are handed out for 2023 on March 27. 

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This accolade is no small feat for each of these pubs, given all three of them opened last year. 

Not the only thing to bind the three pubs together, each one is driven by provenance and seasonality, where dishes extol the virtues of enhancing good ingredients with deft skill and simple elegance. 

The Baring, perched near Regent's Canal in the backwaters of Islington, opened up in the back end of last summer. Combined, the team have worked at Highgate's Bull and Last, Dabbous, Morito, Kerridge’s Bar and Grill, as well as Orasay and Six Portland Road, so they have a fair idea of what they are doing. 

The pub proffers up elegantly rustic British dishes - farmhouse terrine with apricot ketchup; grilled leeks with romesco sauce and hazelnuts; Cornish pollock, St Austell Bay mussels and monksbear or venison with smoked beetroot and parsnip latke for example. It whips up a mean roast too. 

Heading westside, The Pelican in Notting Hill refreshed a 150-year-old pub when it quietly opened its doors in the first half of 2022. 

The pub plays hosts to various community events, from drag queen hosted speed dating nights to Pilates classes, while the kitchen prepares dishes that pay tribute to refined British traditions.

You've got pork scratchings and spider crab toast for bar snacks, family-style sharing feasts for Sunday lunches and an a la carte menu and an array of dishes that champion produce plucked from the sea and land - smoked eel with horseradish, whole roasted sole and beef and Guinness Pie.

Another west London pub, The Holland reopened up in autumn 2022 on the site of the old Princess Victoria on Earl's Court Road. 

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It's the west-side foray for chef Max de Nahlik, who previously had pop-up Oxalis and also did time Islington's certified organic pub The Duke of Cambridge. 

Again, it's ingredient led, British nosh that is prepared simply so that the produce can speak for itself, with roasts on Sunday, and things like curried parsnip soup, black truffle risotto and roast pork with rhubarb and broccoli rabe on the menu.