gastropubs are welcoming pubs which serve high-quality food – and we’ve picked the best of the bunch plus chosen top places where you can stay over and be assured of luxury hotel standards. food, wine and ambience have been independently reviewed to bring you the uk’s top ten gastropubs.
Editor’s choice: 2016 Gastropubs
The Victoria
London
Find ‘good-value’ rooms, gastropubby meals and jugs of seasonal, home-made pear lemonade at this family-friendly spot, a ‘cheerful’ pub-with-rooms in a leafy residential neighbourhood.
The Sun Inn
Dedham
In the Dedham Vale, immortalised by artist John Constable, this ‘friendly’ restaurant-with-rooms occupies a 15th-century building restored by owner Piers Baker.
From £95 per night
The Stagg Inn
Titley
The Stagg made history in 2001 as the first pub in Britain to earn a Michelin star – a coup for Nicola and Steve Reynolds, who’d taken on the abandoned inn just three years before, and have run it with grace and flair ever since.
From £70 per night
The Gurnard’s Head
Zennor
‘A great place to experience rugged west Cornwall with the wind straight off the Atlantic,’ this mellow, family-friendly inn beside the coastal path is well liked for its ‘character’ and ‘generosity’.
From £115 per night
The Feathered Nest
Nether Westcote
In a ‘delightful’ converted 300-year-old malthouse in a tiny Cotswolds village, Tony and Amanda Timmer continue to receive feathers in their cap.
From £195 per night
The Cat Inn
West Hoathly
Andrew Russell has elevated innkeeping to a real ‘craft’: his popular 16th-century free house is well stocked with fare from local microbreweries and English vineyards.
From £95.00 per night
The Brownlow Arms
Hough-on-the-Hill
‘A fantastic surprise. More in the style of a micro country house than a rustic hang-out, this inn has been made over with impeccable taste. It oozes character.’
From £110.00 per night
The Red Lion Freehouse
East Chisenbury
There is ‘much to recommend’ at Guy and Brittany Manning’s thatched village pub, say trusted readers this year.
From £130 per night
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