‘What a delightful place!’ Surrounded by a widescreen landscape washed with ever-changing light, this thoroughly Orcadian, ‘extremely welcoming’ restaurant-with-rooms is run by the hands-on Doull family.

'Derek and Celia are skilled and charming hosts. We cannot speak too highly of them.’ Warm approval this year from a Guide reader, for the Kitchingmans' restaurant-with-rooms in a converted Victorian tweed mill.

‘The very-much-in-evidence hosts, Scott and Stephanie Meikle, have transformed this remote property into a “restaurant-with-(very-well-equipped-and-designed-)rooms”.’

'Stunning hotel, stunning views.’ A reader this year endorses John and Sylvia Matthews’s restaurant-with-rooms in an Edwardian manor house overlooking the Tweed valley

Chef/patron Fabrice Bouteloup loves working with game at this coaching-inn turned restaurant-with-rooms in the rural village of 'Mew-thil'. Bag a bird and he’ll cook it for you.

‘The moment you walk in it is obvious that care, interest and real flair have been shown in the decoration. We loved the unusual clocks and knick-knacks.’

Fine dining and friendly informality are as perfectly balanced here as Garry Watson’s modern cooking and use of Scottish produce, in such dishes as North Sea turbot, chargrilled sweetcorn, crispy chicken wings, mushroom purée, burnt cabbage.

Guide stalwarts received ‘a most genial welcome from Chris the barman’ on arrival at Graham and Rachel Bucknall’s pub-with-rooms beside a bridge over the Union Canal.

‘An experience not to be missed.’ A four-mile track skirting Loch Voil in the Trossachs national park leads to this pink-painted 18th-century stone farmstead, where Tom and Lisa May Lewis run their restaurant-with-rooms.

In the middle of nowhere, this 18th-century coaching inn-turned-gastronomic destination defines the village to which it gives its name.

‘Our 11th yearly visit; David greeted us as old friends.’ This restaurant-with-rooms in a tin-roofed former croft on a single-track road on the Knapdale peninsula, draws devotees back like a magnet.

Take a well-regarded kitchen, throw in equally impressive bedrooms and a soupçon of laid-back glamour, and you have Paul Kitching and Katie O’Brien’s splendid restaurant-with-rooms.

‘Helpful hosts’ Katrina and William Reynolds offer a ‘warm welcome’ at their ‘good-value’ 18th-century restaurant-with-rooms in a Borders village.