2023 Editor's Choice Pubs-with-Rooms
The UK’s best gastro pubs-with-rooms
The Old Coastguard - Winter Escape Special Offer
Penzance
‘My favourite hotel anywhere in the world,’ writes a reader, of this welcoming pub-with-rooms in an enchanting fishing village.
The Feathered Nest - Two or Three Night Discount Special Offer
Chipping Norton
Guests have a bird’s-eye view over the Evenlode valley from Adam Taylor’s gastropub-with-rooms in a hilltop Cotswold village.
The Cat Inn - 15% Discount Two Night Stay Special Offer
West Hoathly
‘Fabulous as ever’, this 16th-century, timber-frame and tile-clad pub-with-rooms has everything you could look for in a village local and makes a good base for exploring the South Downs national park.
The Red Lion Freehouse - Two Nights for the Price of One Special Offer
East Chisenbury
A ‘laid-back, fire-in-the hearth, village pub atmosphere’ prevails at this thatched gastropub with riverside guesthouse on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
The Bell at Skenfrith
Skenfrith
Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.
The Rose & Crown
Snettisham
As ringed plovers and pink-footed geese flock to Snettisham’s shingle beaches, lagoons, tidal mudflats and cattle-grazed salt marsh, so happy families and their dogs flock to Jeannette and Anthony Goodrich’s friendly pub.
The Talbot Inn
Frome
This 15th-century coaching inn with its old arched carriageway has been beautifully made over in casual-chic style as a pub-with-rooms.
The Alice Hawthorn
York
Off the beaten track, yet only five miles from the A1(M), this smart 18th-century village inn has a reputation for inspired pub food and Scandi-cool rooms.
The Angel Inn
Skipton
In a quiet corner of the Yorkshire Dales, this long and low 15th-century inn spoils with Michelin-starred food, luxurious yet understated bedrooms and a relaxed vibe.
From £70 per night
The Bonnie Badger
Gullane
The cool Scandi-Scotia design inside this Victorian inn is unexpected in this quiet village close to Scotland’s East Lothian coast.
2022 Editor's Choice Pubs-with-Rooms
The UK’s best gastro pubs-with-rooms
The Rose & Crown - 'Winter Snuggler' Special Offer
Barnard Castle
This inn, next to a Grade I listed village church and overlooking the green, is in the heart of Teesdale’s walking country and strikes a happy balance between old-world charm and modern comforts.
The Dog at Wingham - Dinner, Bed and Breakfast from £99 per Person per night Special Offer
Canterbury
More a stylish gastropub than a community hub, this historic inn has a following of foodies, who rave about its 'delicious meals'.
The Felin Fach Griffin
Brecon
Tucked between the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains, this red brick inn glows with a warm welcome and down-to-earth charm that attracts walkers, dogs, families and couples.
The Acorn Inn
Evershot
Thomas Hardy fans will be in their element at this local watering hole in Dorset, which was the model for 'The Sow and Acorn’ in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
The Dabbling Duck
Great Massingham
They have all their ducks in a row at this wisteria-decked gastropub-with-rooms overlooking the green in a village where mallards glide on old abbey fishponds.
Pentonbridge Inn
Penton
The humble setting of this former coaching inn, half a mile from the Scottish border, belies its chic bedrooms and creative cooking.
The Ship Inn
Elie
The catch of the day could be Shetland hake in the restaurant or nifty fielding on the sands at this pub-with-rooms overlooking the Firth of Forth, with its own beach cricket team.
The Peacock at Barlow
Chesterfield
The ‘young, enthusiastic staff’ extend a genuinely warm welcome at this ‘large, modernised pub-with-rooms’, in a rolling, pastoral North Derbyshire landscape.
The Harcourt Arms
Witney
Although it has been taken over by the Barkby Group, this 17th-century gastropub-with-rooms in a rural village between the rivers Thames and Windrush 'still feels individual', say readers.
Sign of the Angel
Lacock
Think of a quintessential English coaching inn – half-timbered facade, big stone fireplaces, low-beamed rooms, leaded windows, panelled walls, wonky floors – and you could be describing this 15th Century village inn.
2021 Editor's Choice Pubs-with-Rooms
The UK’s best gastro pubs-with-rooms
The Sun Inn - Over 15% Discount Dinner, Bed & Breakfast Special Offer
Colchester
The Sun continues to shine with its winning blend of modern pub food, beamed interiors and a jolly atmosphere. Bedrooms are graceful, with solid oak beds, and an indulgent fry-up at breakfast will set you up for a day in Constable country.
The Cat Inn - 15% Discount Two Night Stay Special Offer
West Hoathly
From its tile-hung facade to Harvey the resident spaniel snoozing in front of the fire, this is a quintessential Sussex village pub. The kitchen is passionate about local sourcing, and the bedrooms have Vispring beds and posh toiletries.
The Lamb Inn
Burford
Set in former weavers’ cottages, with a beamed and flagstoned interior and a jumble of antiques and armchairs, this is a classic old English pub, but with a smart dining room, and 17 rather swish rooms attached, some of them with four-posters.
The Star Inn at Harome
nr Helmsley
This exceptional pub in a thatched village cottage is worth a long detour. Andrew Pern serves Michelin-starred food, the bar was built by a master craftsman,
and the bedrooms across the road are charmingly eccentric and very comfortable.
The Felin Fach Griffin
Brecon
Not far from the book-lovers’ paradise of Hay-on-Wye is this laid-back dining pub with famously comfortable beds in its retro rooms. Menus are brief, to maintain the chef’s fierce commitment to the fresh, seasonal and locally sourced.
The Talbot Inn
Frome
This relaxed 15th-century coaching inn offers food of a consistently high standard, whether it’s a simple Ploughman’s or a dry-aged Stoke Marsh Farm sirloin steak. Bedrooms have Egyptian cotton sheets, Welsh blankets and cosy armchairs.
The Royal Oak
Tetbury
Plant eaters will be happy at this funky inn, with a jukebox inside, an Airstream trailer outside, and rustic chic bedrooms. Chef Stergios Pikos specialises in excellent vegan and vegetarian dishes, alongside traditional pub favourites.
Pentonbridge Inn
Penton
This stylish former coaching inn with views across Cumbria is run with a five- star touch. Chris Archer serves local food, much of it grown in the kitchen garden. Contemporary bedrooms have fresh flowers and wet-room showers.
The Pear Tree Inn
Melksham
A gorgeous 17th-century pub, lovingly restored by Jackie Cosens and Adrian Jenkins, has got everything right, from chic-farmhouse interiors to delicious seasonal food – so local that meat can be traced right back to the individual animal.
The Bonnie Badger
Gullane
Tom and Michaela Kitchin’s classy gastropub has a nature-to-plate philosophy (and serves everything from ham, egg and chips to Orkney scallops), while the coolly luxurious bedrooms reflect the soft colours of the East Lothian countryside.
2020 Editor's Choice Pubs-with-Rooms
The UK’s best gastro pubs-with-rooms
The Rose & Crown - 'Winter Snuggler' Special Offer
Barnard Castle
A chorus of acclaim this year for Cheryl and Thomas Robinson’s 18th-century coaching inn turned village pub par excellence. The quality of local ingredients shines in David Hunter’s seriously great grub. Rooms are splendidly non-chintzy.
The Black Swan - Dinner, Bed & Breakfast Special Offer
Kirkby Stephen
Cosy and quirky, Louise Dinnes’s Victorian pub ticks so many boxes. Friendly staff, public rooms filled with clocks and curios, individually styled bedrooms, first-rate modern cooking, a garden with rushing brook, and the Eden valley on the doorstep.
The Sun Inn - Over 15% Discount Dinner, Bed & Breakfast Special Offer
Colchester
The Sun has been on the rise since Piers Baker took on what was then a grotty local boozer in 2003. A 15th-century coaching inn, it perfectly fulfils the roles of friendly local, smart hotel and modern restaurant with Italian-inspired cooking.
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East Chisenbury
From a burger in the beer garden or bar, to Michelin-starred cooking, Guy and Brittany Manning will provide at their thatched village pub. Boutique guest-house rooms have decking almost on the banks of the Avon. Better than ever, say our readers.
The Inn at Whitewell
Clitheroe
A distinctly Merrie England ethos pleases readers at Charles Bowman’s eccentric inn on the River Hodder. Blazing log fires, locally shot game, cask-conditioned ales, four-poster rooms, antiques, oil paintings, and a subversive sense of humour add to a potent mix.
The Felin Fach Griffin
Brecon
Twenty years after Edmund Inkin bought the first of the three dining pubs he owns with brother Charles, the formula is still a winner. Shabby chic decor, delicious food, an inclusive ambience, sustainability, support for the community, perfectly judged simplicity.
The Rose & Crown
Snettisham
Top marks to Jeannette and Anthony Goodrich for the enthusiasm they bring to their pretty 14th-century pub, which serves pub classics and more ambitious fare. Traditional charm is matched by friendly staff, a happy vibe and decor with touches of humour.
The Cricket Inn
Kingsbridge
You can eat a soup of locally caught crab in the nautical-themed restaurant at Rachel and Nigel Heath’s Victorian pub overlooking Start Bay, as waves crash on the shingle beach. New England-style bedrooms are fresh and appealing.
The Greyhound Inn
Wantage
First out of the traps this year among Oxfordshire pubs, Martyn Reed and Catriona Galbraith’s red brick village local wins high approval for maintaining traditional values while innovating with jazz, pizza, garden parties. Liam Whittle cooks with flair.
The Wellington Arms
Baughurst
Fluffy tea cosies, fine china, new-laid eggs, home-grown produce and resident Jacob’s sheep add to the off-beat appeal of Simon Page and Jason King’s pub. Bedrooms
are beautifully appointed, and Mr King’s cooking has an unfussy elegance.
2019 Editor's Choice Pubs-with-Rooms
The UK’s best gastro pubs-with-rooms
The Old Coastguard - Winter Escape Special Offer
Penzance
Casual chic, a laid-back vibe and local art are the style at this former coastguard’s station turned dining pub in a picture- postcard fishing village. Enjoy Cornish produce, clever cooking, foraging walks, yoga weekends and sub-tropical gardens.
The Cat Inn - 15% Discount Two Night Stay Special Offer
West Hoathly
A log fire warms the bar of this popular 16th-century pub, its oak beams hung with pewter mugs. There is pub grub of the highest order, freshly decorated bedrooms, each with a Nespresso coffee machine, a good breakfast. The terrace and herb garden are the cat’s whiskers.
The Punch Bowl Inn
Kendal
You can sleep in a four-poster bed made of reclaimed elm at this atmospheric 300-year-old inn in a pretty south Lakeland village inn. The chef makes inventive use of prime Cumbrian produce. Vegetarians have a field day.
Beech House & Olive Branch
Clipsham
Readers write of the fun at this village pub/restaurant, but the food is seriously good. Options include tapas and creative, modern British fare, with fresh produce from the kitchen garden. The pub’s bedrooms in Beech House are rather glamorous.
The Gunton Arms
Thorpe Market
Venison from the surrounding deer park appears on the daily-changing menus at this extraordinary converted country house near Cromer, crammed with Victorian paintings, vintage novelties and Brit Art. One room has a marble bathroom from Egypt.
The Greyhound Inn
Wantage
Real ale, wine tastings, jazz evenings and quiz nights assure this 18th-century pub of a local following. The friendly staff, superior pub fare and smart rooms
supplied with freshly baked biscuits make it a Guide shoo-in.
The Colonsay
Isle of Colonsay
There are quiz nights and live music at the sole hostelry on this remote island. Simple bedrooms have views of hillside and sea, across to neighbouring Jura. A new chef is making waves. Why not come for the annual book festival?
The Bildeston Crown
Bildeston
Ancient timbers, a roaring fire in winter, alfresco dining in summer, characterful bedrooms (one with antique four-poster), the chef’s ways with local produce and an excellent breakfast won over our inspectors in 2018 at this historic coaching inn.
The Pipe and Glass Inn
South Dalton
Beyond a beamed bar serving hand- pulled Yorkshire ales, there are menus for children, for vegetarians, for everyone, in the Michelin-starred restaurant at this friendly former coaching inn. Jazzy, high- spec bedrooms surround a herb garden.
2018 Editor's Choice Pubs-with-Rooms
The UK’s best gastro pubs-with-rooms
The Rose & Crown - 'Winter Snuggler' Special Offer
Barnard Castle
This inn, next to a Grade I listed village church and overlooking the green, is in the heart of Teesdale’s walking country and strikes a happy balance between old-world charm and modern comforts.
The Feathered Nest - Two or Three Night Discount Special Offer
Chipping Norton
Guests have a bird’s-eye view over the Evenlode valley from Adam Taylor’s gastropub-with-rooms in a hilltop Cotswold village.
The Star Inn at Harome
nr Helmsley
Devotees of this thatched village pub-with-rooms and Michelin-starred restaurant will be thrilled when it reopens in autumn following 2021’s disastrous fire; rooms and breakfast, meanwhile, are unaffected.
The Felin Fach Griffin
Brecon
Tucked between the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains, this red brick inn glows with a warm welcome and down-to-earth charm that attracts walkers, dogs, families and couples.
The Rock Inn
Newton Abbot
‘Our favourite place to go for a meal,’ wrote loyal Guide readers who live near this traditional family-run inn in a rural Dartmoor hamlet.
Beech House & Olive Branch
Clipsham
Swing off the A1 down a tree-lined lane to this award-garlanded village gastropub, with rooms in a Georgian house opposite.
The King’s Head Inn
Bledington
Archie and Nicola Orr-Ewing have created a seamless blend of friendly village local and gastropub-with-rooms at their former 16th-century cider house overlooking the green.
The Beckford Arms
Tisbury
The bar was 'buzzing with convivial chatter’ when readers arrived at this Georgian dining pub-with-rooms on the edge of the rolling parkland of the Fonthill Estate.
The Brownlow Arms
Grantham
Wing armchairs, table lamps and a Farrow & Ball palette blend with wooden bar stools and high-back settles in the cosy bar of this 19th-century ironstone and limestone village pub-with-rooms.
The Red Lion
Somerton
There's bags of olde worlde character in Clare and Charlie Garrard's thatched gastropub, with flagstone floors and exposed beams and plenty of cosy corners and crannies.
2017 Editor's Choice Gastropubs
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The Feathered Nest - Two or Three Night Discount Special Offer
Chipping Norton
Guests have a bird’s-eye view over the Evenlode valley from Adam Taylor’s gastropub-with-rooms in a hilltop Cotswold village.
The Red Lion Freehouse - Two Nights for the Price of One Special Offer
East Chisenbury
A ‘laid-back, fire-in-the hearth, village pub atmosphere’ prevails at this thatched gastropub with riverside guesthouse on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
The Bell at Skenfrith
Skenfrith
Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.
The Stagg Inn
Kington
A former local boozer in a rural village where two drovers’ roads meet, The Stagg made history in 2001 when it became the first repurposed village pub to gain a Michelin star.
Beech House & Olive Branch
Clipsham
Swing off the A1 down a tree-lined lane to this award-garlanded village gastropub, with rooms in a Georgian house opposite.
The Gurnard’s Head
St Ives
Friendly, unfussy, effortlessly stylish, Charles and Edmund Inkin’s dining pub ‘retains a sense of the peacefulness, remoteness and wildness that make this part of the world so very lovely’.
The Talbot Inn
Frome
This 15th-century coaching inn with its old arched carriageway has been beautifully made over in casual-chic style as a pub-with-rooms.
The Bridge Inn at Ratho
Ratho
Expect a ‘cheerful welcome’ at this gastropub-with-rooms, which stands by a bridge over the Union Canal in a conservation village.
The Grazing Goat
London
A country pub feel close to the bustle of Oxford Street sounds unlikely but this pub-with-rooms with its popular pavement terrace in a quiet backwater manages it with unpretentious style.
The Devonshire Arms
Langport
Behind a handsome 18th-century blue-lias-stone facade, a former village inn overlooking the green is these days a contemporary drop-in bar and restaurant-with-rooms.
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The Sun Inn - Over 15% Discount Dinner, Bed & Breakfast Special Offer
Colchester
'A lovely old building in a nice location', this medieval coaching inn is set amid the pastoral landscape of Dedham Vale.
The Cat Inn - 15% Discount Two Night Stay Special Offer
West Hoathly
‘Fabulous as ever’, this 16th-century, timber-frame and tile-clad pub-with-rooms has everything you could look for in a village local and makes a good base for exploring the South Downs national park.
The Brownlow Arms
Grantham
Wing armchairs, table lamps and a Farrow & Ball palette blend with wooden bar stools and high-back settles in the cosy bar of this 19th-century ironstone and limestone village pub-with-rooms.
It’s when these details are combined with the best of modern hospitality; Michelin Star food, stylish design and luxury toiletries are all part of the experience.
Whether you fancy shabby chic decor in the Brecon Beacons or boats bobbing by in the sunny South West. Maybe you fancy a riverside retreat or somewhere that the music plays and the village congregate for convivial evenings full of community and joy. Whatever you choose, there’s a gastro pub with rooms waiting to welcome you, with food celebrating local suppliers and home grown produce from kitchen gardens.
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