Chef Patron Alan Murchison opened the restaurant in 2007.[1][2] The French word bécasse means woodcock[3] but in connection with Guy de Maupassant's "Tales of the Woodcock" (1883) has usually been translated "Tales of the Goose."[4]
Will Holland left the restaurant in September 2013[7] just weeks before the business went into voluntary liquidation.[8] It was immediately resurrected by a newly formed company called Ludlow Restaurants Limited and the restaurant ran as before.[9] It was however un-rated by the AA[6] and no longer had its previously-held Michelin rating.
Ludlow had one remaining Michelin-starred establishment — Mr Underhills which shut in December 2015.[10] (The town had at one point boasted three Michelin-starred establishments, but all are now gone.)
^Lonely PlanetGreat Britain David Else, David Atkinson, James Bainbridge - 2009 Page 513 "Artfully presented modern French cuisine bursting with inventive flavour fusions – the spectacular tasting menu is enough to make you weak at the knees. The serious business of eating is conducted within the oak-panelled and exposed brick walls of a 17th-century coach house."
^Dictionnaire de l'Académie française - Volume 1 - Page 177
Académie française - 1835 "BÉCASSE, s. f. Oiseau de passage qui a le bec fort long, et qui est bon à manger. Tuer une bécasse. Faire un salmis de bécasses. Bécasses rôties. Pâté de bécasses. Prov. et fig. , Brider la bécasse, Engager adroitement quelqu'un de telle ..."
^The New Encyclopædia Britannica - Volume 7 - Page 952 1998 "Maupassant, Guy de... Contes de la bécasse (1883; "Tales of the Goose")"
