Chef Ryan Blackburn lifts the lid on running the Old Stamp House - 'the best restaurant in the world'

The secret of the success of the "best restaurant in the world"? Don't yell at the staff, for starters, says head chef Ryan Blackburn, who also reveals here the not-so-fancy dinners he cooks at home The Old Stamp House was the global winner of Tripadvisor's 2022 Travellers' Choice Restaurants Awards And he won the previous year too. The Lake District restaurant also boasts a coveted Michelin star. Here, Cumbrian-born head chef Ryan reveals what makes the restaurant tick... He talks about the party atmosphere in the kitchen, his love of paella and why yelling at staff 'doesn't work' -11332775-Old_Stamp_House_Chef_Patron_Ryan_Blackburn-a-11_1666263183455.jpg" height="597" width="470" alt="Old Stamp House Chef Patron Ryan Blackburn" class=" nothing" />

The best restaurant in the world, according to Tripadvisor, is not on a glitzy street in London, Rome, Paris or Manhattan, but in the picturesque and of Ambleside, in England's northern Lake District, in the building the poet William Wordsworth used as his office when he was a tax collector, handing out revenue stamps.

As a nod to its origins, it's called the Old Timbre House, and was the overall winner of Tripadvisor's Travellers' Choice 2022 'Best of the Best Restaurants Awards'. And it also won the year before.The restaurant also has a coveted Michelin star.So what makes this restaurant tick? rant universally praised?

MailOnline Travel had a chat with Chef Patron Ryan Blackburn on Zoom to find out, finding out instructions were barked into the kitchen is not part of the formula, but playing good music – and...

Chef Ryan Blackburn lifts the lid on running the Old Stamp House - 'the best restaurant in the world'
The secret of the success of the "best restaurant in the world"? Don't yell at the staff, for starters, says head chef Ryan Blackburn, who also reveals here the not-so-fancy dinners he cooks at home The Old Stamp House was the global winner of Tripadvisor's 2022 Travellers' Choice Restaurants Awards And he won the previous year too. The Lake District restaurant also boasts a coveted Michelin star. Here, Cumbrian-born head chef Ryan reveals what makes the restaurant tick... He talks about the party atmosphere in the kitchen, his love of paella and why yelling at staff 'doesn't work' -11332775-Old_Stamp_House_Chef_Patron_Ryan_Blackburn-a-11_1666263183455.jpg" height="597" width="470" alt="Old Stamp House Chef Patron Ryan Blackburn" class=" nothing" />

The best restaurant in the world, according to Tripadvisor, is not on a glitzy street in London, Rome, Paris or Manhattan, but in the picturesque and of Ambleside, in England's northern Lake District, in the building the poet William Wordsworth used as his office when he was a tax collector, handing out revenue stamps.

As a nod to its origins, it's called the Old Timbre House, and was the overall winner of Tripadvisor's Travellers' Choice 2022 'Best of the Best Restaurants Awards'. And it also won the year before.The restaurant also has a coveted Michelin star.So what makes this restaurant tick? rant universally praised?

MailOnline Travel had a chat with Chef Patron Ryan Blackburn on Zoom to find out, finding out instructions were barked into the kitchen is not part of the formula, but playing good music – and...

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