A world-famous chef has announced he will be closing his two-Michelin-star London restaurant. Heston Blumenthal has revealed that Dinner by Heston will shut its doors next January.

The English celebrity chef, television personality and food writer currently has four UK restaurants - The Fat Duck in Bray (three Michelin stars), Dinner By Heston in London (two Michelin stars, and The Hind's Headin Bray (one Michelin star). Blumenthal told The Times that Dinner will close after celebrating its 16th anniversary in January 2027. It will also be the end of Dinner's tenancy at Mandarin Oriental Knightsbridge, which has postponed the end of the contract for the anniversary. He said: "I've got a year to wrap my head around it. There are some huge feelings there: sadness." Blumenthalsaid the closure is "bittersweet", but that the restaurant has run its natural course. He added: "Six months felt like it was a good chunk of time to come back or highlight it for people who have never been before. We're stopping at an important birthday."

Menu items at Dinner are based on historical British dishes researched by food historians and the British Library. Particular dishes have received praise, including the Meat Fruit, a chicken-liver mousse shaped like a mandarin orange.

Opened in January 2011, Dinner received one Michelin star within a year and earned its second in 2014, which it has held ever since. The British company William Reed Ltd ranked the eatery on its list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants between 2011 and 2018.

Dinner by Heston has expanded internationally with franchises in Melbourne, Australia, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

In The Independent, the chef Mark Hix said Dinner produced the best meal he had eaten in "at least two years". He described the meat fruit starter as "astonishing" and said it could have been seen as gimmicky, but "when it tastes that good, it's difficult to complain".

Zoe Williams for The Daily Telegraph gave the restaurant a rating of nine out of 10, saying that the meat fruit made her want to "stand up and cheer"

For the same newspaper, Matthew Norman described it as a "theatrical tour de force". He described the restaurant's opening as flawless and called it the "hottest ticket in town for a very long time to come," rating it 10 out of 10.