‘An amazingly gorgeous hotel,’ writes a reader this year, of Tracy and Galston Blackiston’s restaurant-with-rooms, ‘ideally located’ for a seal trip to Blakeney Point.

In the middle of a ‘pretty’ village, this ‘intimate’ restaurant-with-rooms is liked for its ‘high-quality’ accommodation and ‘excellent food’.

‘A restaurant-with-rooms – and a very good restaurant at that.’ After visiting this year, a trusted reader sums up the appeal of Kevin (the chef) and Jacki Mangeolles’s 18th-century former coaching inn.

In a handsome 15th-century building on the high street, Andy and Kinga Rudd’s restaurant-with-rooms casts modern fabrics, and contemporary and vintage furnishings against aged beams, elm floorboards and medieval windows.