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Editor’s Choice: 2016 Gastropubs
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Gastropubs 2016
The Feathered Nest
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
25% Discount Two-Night Special Offer
Inventive cooking of beautifully presented dishes impress at this gastropub overlooking the Evenlode valley, with four rooms that are smart but not ostentatiously 'designer'.
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.
The Sun Inn
Colchester, Essex
Two Night Spring Special Offer
The Cat Inn
West Hoathly, West Sussex
15% Discount Two Night Stay Special Offer
The quintessential local gastropub in a Wealden village never ceases to please readers, with imaginative food, four good bedrooms and a warm, friendly ambience.
The Brownlow Arms
Grantham, Lincolnshire
With its wing armchairs, antique settles, warm lighting, and Farrow and Ball palette, the bar of this 19th-century ironstone and limestone village pub-with-rooms is reassuringly cosy and welcoming.
Red Lion at East Chisenbury
East Chisenbury, Wiltshire
A 'laid-back, fire-in-the hearth, village pub atmosphere' prevails at this charming thatched gastropub with riverside guesthouse on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
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.