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Best restaurants with rooms in West Country
Featured Hotels with Special Offers
Burleigh Court
Stroud, Gloucestershire
New Year Special Offer
There are stunning views across the Golden Valley from this Georgian mansion, a smart but friendly hotel with fine-dining restaurant.
The Horn of Plenty
Gulworthy, Devon
Up to 25% off Dinner, Bed and Breakfast Special Offer
With glorious views over the Tamar valley and a good choice of rooms and suites, this former mine captain's house has long been a gastronomic destination.
The Old Coastguard
Penzance, Cornwall
Winter Escape Special Offer
'The Inkin brothers know how to run hotels,' concludes a reader of this welcoming pub with rooms in an enchanting Cornish fishing village. 'There is nothing that needs improving.
The Gurnard's Head
St Ives, Cornwall
Winter Escape Special Offer
Friendly, unfussy, effortlessly stylish, Charles and Edmund Inkin's dining pub is an 'effortlessly stylish' base from which to explore some of Cornwall's best scenery on the coastal path.
Plumber Manor
Sturminster Newton, Dorset
Summer/Autumn Three Night Special Offer
For over 50 years the Prideaux-Brune family have welcomed guests to their ancestral Jacobean manor house in an English country garden with the Divelish stream skipping through.
The Bull Inn
Totnes, Devon
July Mid-Week Stay Special Offer
Ethical sourcing and sustainability are at the heart of this organic pub with beautifully styled rooms and imaginative food featuring local and seasonal produce.
Lewinnick Lodge
Newquay, Cornwall
Three Nights for the Price of Two Special Offer
They market this seaside hotel on Cornwall's craggy Pentire headland as having rooms on the edge of the Atlantic, and they're not kidding: the views towards Towan Head and Fistral beach from most of the bedrooms are breathtaking.
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Plantation House
Plymouth, Devon
From bread to truffles, they cook as much as possible on site in this 'very cosy and friendly hotel' in the rolling South Hams countryside between wild Dartmoor and the sandy beaches of Bigbury Bay.
The Three Daggers
Westbury, Wiltshire
With its own farm shop, brewery and spa barn with outdoor hot tub and sauna as well as a kiddies' playground, this 'buzzy boozer' is 'so much more than a pub with rooms', writes our inspector.
The Pear Tree Inn
Melksham, Wiltshire
This gastropub-with-rooms is set in a beguilingly pretty 17th-century Bath stone inn with mullioned windows and cascading wisteria, and lovely gardens outside.
Padstow Townhouse
Padstow, Cornwall
Hidden in a back street of Padstow's old town, these sybaritic B&B suites, created by chef Paul Ainsworth and his wife, are an ideal retreat for foodies.
Yalbury Cottage
Dorchester, Dorset
Deep in Thomas Hardy country, this picture-perfect thatched cottage is a popular restaurant with rooms run with great charm by Ariane Jones and her husband, Jamie.
Locanda on the Weir
Exmoor National Park, Somerset
Where Exmoor meets the Bristol Channel, this foodie retreat that oozes personality and style has 'very comfortable rooms with lovely sea views; the food is up there with many Michelin-starred restaurants'.
The Peppermill
Devizes, Wiltshire
In two adjacent buildings, dating from 1452 and 1538, Philip O'Shea's restaurant-with-rooms is in the heart of the historic market town.
The Queen's Arms
Sherborne, Somerset
Serving cider since 1851, this honey-stone village pub has been attracting attention since a lockdown makeover by enthusiastic new owners. Contemporary-chic bedrooms have good fabrics, a Roberts radio, 100 Acres toiletries, views over gently rolling countryside.

The Holcombe
Somerset
The old Ring o' Bells village pub is now a restaurant-with-rooms, transformed by new owners and trained chefs Caroline Gardiner and Alan Lucas in a 2020 lockdown makeover.

The Pig at Harlyn Bay
Padstow, Devon
Frilly waves lap the sands of Harlyn Bay, a short stroll from Robin Hutson's seventh Pig (see index), but it is the seaside of JMW Turner that is conjured here.

La Fleur de Lys
Shaftesbury, Dorset
Little has changed at this restaurant-with-rooms in its three decades, but spotless bedrooms with thoughtful touches, and a slightly retro gourmet dining experience have their own appeal.

The Rectory Hotel
Malmesbury, Wiltshire
There is a simple sophistication about both the interiors and the menus at this Georgian rectory, where bedrooms have contemporary and period furniture and subtle paint shades, and modern dishes tick the boxes for foodies.

The Seafood Restaurant
Padstow, Cornwall

The Seagrave Arms
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Our inspectors enjoyed their stay at Alex Morbey's honeyed-stone gastropub with thoughtfully designed rooms and excellent cooking in the busy restaurant.

The Pig on the Beach
Studland, Dorset
There is a hint of Castle Gormenghast about this fairytale 1820s marine villa, with its jumble of roofs, gables, gargoyles, towers and dormers, in gardens running down to a sandy beach.

The Pig at Combe
Honiton, Devon
The Gloriana of Robin Hutson's Pig hotel collection (see other entries), this Grade I-listed Elizabethan beauty stands in 'wonderful grounds in a special location' in the peaceful Otter valley.

The Pig near Bath
Pensford, Somerset
The setting is pure hog heaven at Robin Hutson's third Pig hotel, surrounded by a deer park in a fold in the Mendips. The part-Georgian building comes in the group's signature shabby-chic style.

The Ollerod
Beaminster, Dorset
Eclectic menus and stellar cooking are a big attraction at this 14th-century clergy house, now a restaurant-led hotel with recently renovated bedrooms that combine pale paint finishes with designer wallpaper.

The Devonshire Arms
Langport, Somerset
Behind a handsome 18th-century façade, this former village inn overlooking the green is a contemporary drop-in bar and restaurant with stylish rooms, offering a mix of pub classics and more imaginative dishes.

Coombeshead Farm
Lewannick, Cornwall
Chef-owner farmers Tom Adams and April Bloomfield draw inspiration from European agriturismo at their rustic-chic guest house and restaurant in an ancient farmhouse and outbuildings.

Bistro Lotte
Frome, Somerset
With a menu of bistro classics, this little restaurant has a real French vibe, with pristine bedrooms upstairs and above the sister bar.

The Godolphin
Marazion, Cornwall
There are splendid views across the causeway to St Michael's Mount from some of the simple, chic bedrooms, styled in coastal colours, and the glass-walled restaurant at this beachfront hotel.

The Old Stocks Inn
Stow-On-The-Wold, Gloucestershire
Beams and stone mix with boutique chic in the bedrooms, three with garden access, at this refurbished 17th-century Cotswold inn, serving modern foodie dishes at dinner, weekend lunches, and alfresco bites in the walled garden.

The Bell & Crown
Warminster, Wiltshire
Pull off the A303 to find this dining-pub-with-rooms, which set the style for the small Chickpea group (see also The Pembroke Arms, Salisbury).

The Dartmoor Inn
Nr Okehampton, Devon
Run by a local family, this cosy whitewashed pub and restaurant with rooms has a well-deserved reputation for creative cooking.

Timbrell's Yard
Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire
Overlooking the River Avon, this 18th-century merchant's house has been imaginatively converted into a relaxed, modern-day inn with Nordic-influenced bedrooms, an industrial-chic bar and restaurant.

The Salutation Inn
Exeter, Devon
A handsome 18th-century coaching inn is now home to bright, contemporary bedrooms, a fish deli, a modern glazed atrium, and an intimate restaurant where Tom Williams-Hawkes's adventurous menus showcase locally farmed and fished produce.

The Greenbank
Falmouth, Cornwall
Life on the water's edge doesn't come much closer than at this large hotel, the oldest in the maritime town.

The Royal George
Bideford, Devon
With views over the Torr and Torridge estuary, this 18th-century former inn is now a restaurant with simply but chic and affordable bedrooms, upstairs an in a quayside annexe.

The Compasses Inn
Tisbury, Wiltshire
Welcoming and peaceful, Ben Maschler's thatched 14th-century inn has all the traditional comforts, sophisticated gastropub dishes and classics, simple-chic bedrooms, and the Nadder valley on the doorstep.