'Move over restaurants-with-rooms', this boutique guest house is 'all about wine with rooms', writes our inspector. Occupying an Italianate Victorian villa overlooking the promenade, it's a new venture for restaurateurs Ashley and Tom Fahey. Six 'beautifully designed' sea-view bedrooms mix original features with custom-made panelling, modern furniture and art. Room 2 had 'two large windows with seats just made for curling up with a good book', a palette of grey, blue and sand. 'A headboard partition separated bedroom from bathroom, which had an impressive shower.' From Tuesday to Friday they serve a lunch of bread, cheese, charcuterie and nibbles in a conservatory with retractable roof. At 5 pm, Tom conducts a guided tasting in a wine room, 'like a library of old, with ladders to reach the 520 bottles lining the walls'. In the off season, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Tom also cooks a no-choice tasting menu of dishes such as crab and lobster ravioli, lobster bisque, lobster oil, carrot. Breakfast is 'a four-course extravaganza, which starts with a sausage roll' (meat or veggie) and ends with 'a minimalist take on the full English'.