Article: Experimental chef toasts Michelin Star success; Coveted award puts the region on culinary map.(News)

Byline: BY LAURA SHARPE Daily Post Staff

AFTER many long years of waiting Merseyside has finally been put on the international culinary map with the region's first Michelin Star.

An intimate, sophisticated restaurant in Oxton, Wirral, has been given the coveted award after it was hotly tipped to gain the star two years ago.

Fraiche, owned and run by Huytonborn Marc Wilkinson, is the only new Michelin star to be awarded in the whole of the North West.

Marc's deconstruction of food and experimental creations won over the highly illusive and anonymous judges making this achievement the pinnacle of a 20-year career.

Marc, who ...

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