2021 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Morston Hall
Holt
Guests sit down at 8 pm for the seven- course tasting menu cooked by Michelin- starred Galton Blackiston. The hall is two miles from the north Norfolk coast so you can expect perhaps King’s Lynn brown shrimps or wild sea bass on the menu.
The Seafood Restaurant
Padstow
They specialise in simple seafood dishes with classic flavours at Rick Stein’s Padstow flagship, with a seafood bar in the middle. Whether it’s cod and chips or Indonesian seafood curry, you can be sure the fish is super fresh.
Lake Isle
Uppingham
Readers who have been visiting the Burtons’ restaurant for years tell us they have never had less than a perfect dinner. The irresistibly inventive menus feature dishes such as guineafowl with sherried lentils and black pudding crumb.
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
Michelin-starred chef Chris Harrod forages for plants and herbs in the Wye valley to create his original dishes. They might include suckling pig with lamb’s sorrel, pigeon with wild chervil or pumpkin with three-cornered garlic.
The Cross at Kingussie
Kingussie
After working up an appetite in the surrounding Cairngorms national park, guests at this former Victorian mill can do justice to David Skiggs’s tasting menu which showcases Highlands produce, such as wild venison.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
The forest on the doorstep, the Lake District fells and west coast harbours all supply Michelin-starred Ben Wilkinson with ingredients for menus that might include Eden Valley pork with black truffle or salt-baked beetroot with sheep’s curd.
La Fleur de Lys
Shaftesbury
A passion for provenance means Marc Preston and David Griffin-Shepherd’s food wins high praise from readers. You can feast on dishes such as tart of local scallops and prawns on smoked salmon, and pan-fried saddle of Dorset lamb.
Barley Bree
Muthill
It’s the perfect pairing: French cuisine using the finest Scottish seafood and game (you might even find haggis and onion tartlet on the menu). Chef/patron Fabrice Bouteloup also has the perfect partner in his wife, Alison, a wine expert.
The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
A stone’s throw from Hunstanton beach on the north Norfolk coast, Kevin Mangeolles’s Michelin-starred restaurant is big on seafood dishes such as lobster tortellini and monkfish with Brancaster mussels. There are four immaculate rooms.
2020 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Seafood Restaurant
Padstow
Not for nothing is this fishing port town nicknamed Padstein, with 40 catered rooms spread around six properties, but here is the restaurant-with-rooms where it all began.
Lake Isle
Uppingham
Satisfied diners have been coming for years to this restaurant-with-rooms in the heart of the pretty market town.
Crossways Hotel
Wilmington
David Stott and Clive James ‘nurture an atmosphere of repose and tranquillity, along with informality and laughter and the friendliest of warm welcomes’ at their restaurant-with-rooms beneath the South Downs.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
Now with a Michelin star, this restaurant-with-rooms has confirmed its status as one of the Lake District’s top foodie places – and is set in an enviably tranquil location.
Grassington House
Skipton
Overlooking the cobbled square in one of the most attractive Dales villages, this smart restaurant-with-rooms combines chic bedrooms and creative food with a warm Yorkshire welcome.
Blackaddie House
Sanquhar
The River Nith ripples past the garden of Jane and Ian McAndrew’s old manse and gastronomic destination, in a rolling landscape with views to the Lowther hills.
Gordon’s
Arbroath
Readers are charmed by the warm welcome they receive from hostess Maria Watson and the ‘outstanding food’ created by Garry, her son, at this restaurant-with-rooms in a Victorian terrace house in a village close to the North Sea coast.
The Mash Inn
Radnage
It is all about earth and fire at Nick Mash’s red brick 18th-century pub, reinvented as a restaurant-with-rooms, amid a rural community of hamlets.
The Little Gloster
Gurnard
So close to the Solent that it’s practically afloat, Ben and Holly Cooke’s restaurant-with-rooms has a cool Scandinavian vibe.
Restaurant James Sommerin
Penarth
There are great views over the esplanade to the Bristol Channel and the Art Deco pier pavilion from Louise and James Sommerin’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms.
2019 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Lake Isle
Uppingham
Not on lake-lapped Innisfree but in a Rutland market town, Richard Burton’s romantically named former shop, with bijou bedrooms, rates highly for gourmet cooking. Chef Stuart Mead has a sure touch with local, seasonal ingredients. Breakfast includes fishcakes and fresh juice.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Isle of Skye
Long-standing owners Shirley and Eddie Spear are welcoming hosts at their loch- side island retreat. Suites are generously equipped. Chef Scott Davies uses excellent local produce in his highly creative cooking.
Barley Bree
Muthill
Modern French cuisine, local produce and warm Scottish hospitality are the prime ingredients at Alison and Fabrice Bouteloup’s former coaching inn. He cooks with flair (perhaps brisket of beef sous vide); she is a wine expert.
The Mash Inn
Radnage
There is rural peace without, a happy buzz within, as guests tuck in to Jon Parry’s no- choice menus at Nick Mash’s reinvented village inn. Meat and fish sizzle on a bespoke wood-fired grill. Vegetables are fresh from the garden. Simply brilliant.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
‘We’re not a hotel,’ say Susan and Bryan Webb, but rooms at their rural stone house are of a high standard, while Mr Webb’s Michelin-starred cooking showcases the best of seasonal Welsh produce.
The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
Kevin Mangeolles’s Michelin-starred menus at this former coaching inn delighted Guide regulars this year. Pork and game are from surrounding estates, fish and shellfish locally landed. Jacki Mangeolles is welcoming front-of-house. Full marks for enthusiasm.
JSW
PETERSFIELD
Guests arrive for Jake Saul Watkins’s memorable Michelin-starred cooking (perhaps a tasting or vegetarian menu), sleep in comfort, awake to freshly squeezed orange juice and pastries from Paris.
Tuddenham Mill
Newmarket
The name sounds folksy, but this 17th- century converted mill has contemporary rooms with perhaps an alfresco hot tub or a Philippe Starck bath. Chef/patron Lee Bye’s cooking is ambitious; breakfasts are first class.
The Hardwick
Abergavenny
Stephen and Joanna Terry alchemised a grotty roadside pub into an establishment that inspires readers to make return visits. Alongside Mr Terry’s first-rate menu, offering plenty of choice at a fair price, there are modern, well-equipped bedrooms.
Little Barwick House
Yeovil
Classically inspired food and an exceptional wine list win praise at Emma and Tim Ford’s Georgian country house. Airy, comfortable bedrooms have flowers and shortbread. There are gardens, warm hospitality and an excellent breakfast. A place to relax.
2018 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Peat Inn
Cupar
Lending its name to the hamlet that grew up around it, this former coaching inn turned restaurant-with-rooms held Scotland’s first Michelin Star in 1987.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Isle of Skye
In the remote north of Skye, a whitewashed stone crofter’s cottage overlooking Loch Dunvegan, with views to the peaks of Harris and North Uist, is home to an ambitious restaurant-with-rooms.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
The views roll out over the Vale of Edeyrnion to the Berwyn mountains, and provide a backdrop for the ‘superb’ food served in this restaurant-with-rooms.
The Crown and Castle
Woodbridge
In a pretty village on Suffolk’s heritage coast, a Victorian inn with Gothic flourishes is today a well-regarded restaurant-with-rooms.
Read’s
Faversham
‘We can see why you awarded it a César,’ writes a trusted reader about this restaurant-with-rooms which has been run by David and Rona Pitchford for 45 years.
JSW
PETERSFIELD
‘Stand-out’ Michelin-starred food is at the core of this ‘elegant’ restaurant-with-rooms in a whitewashed 17th-century coaching inn on a ‘pleasant, leafy street’.
Tuddenham Mill
Newmarket
Swans glide, willows weep, and the great brick chimney no longer belches smoke at this 18th-century watermill, now a smart, modern hotel.
The Black Swan at Oldstead
York
This once run-down pub up a sleepy country lane has turned into a Michelin-starred sensation, yet remains grounded by its Yorkshire roots and farming-family owners.
The Hardwick
Abergavenny
In an ‘attractive rural setting’ outside the town, chef/patron Stephen Terry has transformed a former roadside pub into a destination restaurant-with-rooms.
Little Barwick House
Yeovil
Little Barwick House is currently closed, and plans to reopen in September 2021. ‘Amid gentle Somerset countryside’, a Georgian country house is home to Emma and Tim Ford’s ‘utterly charming’ restaurant-with-rooms.
2017 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Morston Hall
Holt
‘Amazingly gorgeous.
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
It would be easy to miss Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms, tucked away above a single-track road in a Wye valley hamlet – but miss it and you’d miss out.
The Peat Inn
Cupar
Lending its name to the hamlet that grew up around it, this former coaching inn turned restaurant-with-rooms held Scotland’s first Michelin Star in 1987.
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Baslow
The style is 17th century and the interiors Jacobean, but Max and Susan Fischer’s manor house in ‘stunningly beautiful’ grounds on the edge of a Peak District village was built in 1907.
Llys Meddyg
Newport
Near the edge of town, a walk from the beach, this 19th-century town house is a popular restaurant with smart contemporary rooms – and a rather chic yurt.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
The views roll out over the Vale of Edeyrnion to the Berwyn mountains, and provide a backdrop for the ‘superb’ food served in this restaurant-with-rooms.
The Albannach
LOCHINVER
In a wild coastal corner of the Highlands, this white-painted Victorian house gazes out across moorland, croft and sea.
The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
There are just four ‘immaculate’ rooms at this ‘wonderful’ Michelin-starred restaurant in a former 18th-century coaching inn on the north Norfolk coast.
Eckington Manor
Eckington
Judy Gardner’s restaurant-with-rooms and purpose-built cookery school sit amid a working farm in the Avon valley.
The Yorke Arms
Harrogate
The Yorke Arms is now an exclusive use venue. In the rolling Yorkshire Dales, the creeper-covered 18th-century shooting lodge, with extensive gardens, has an ‘unsurpassed’ location and dominates tiny Ramsgill. Inside, antiques and squashy sofas, plus hand-painted hessian wallpaper, are set against flagged floors and beamed ceilings. Bedrooms feature earthy colours and quirky themes: ‘Brew’ has teapot-patterned curtains. There are classy bathrooms and monogrammed linen. ‘The vegetable, fruit and flower gardens are wonderful, a real joy to walk around.’ Good walks from the door, too.
2016 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Royal Oak
Keswick
‘As super as ever’, the former 18th-century farmhouse and one-time miners’ tavern continues its century-old tradition of providing accommodation for visitors and hikers.
Read’s
Faversham
‘We can see why you awarded it a César,’ writes a trusted reader about this restaurant-with-rooms which has been run by David and Rona Pitchford for 45 years.
Plas Bodegroes
Pwllheli
On the remote Llyn peninsula, Gunna and Chris Chown’s Georgian country house, in a magical woodland setting, is run as a much-loved restaurant-with-rooms, offering ‘good food, a relaxed atmosphere, peace and quiet, and a beautifully maintained garden in an area of outstanding natural beauty’.
Mr Underhill’s
LUDLOW
Named after a cat (no longer around), Chris and Judy Bradley’s ‘unpretentious’ restaurant-with-rooms, in this lovely old market town, stands on the banks of the River Teme. Sadly, Mr Underhill’s is closed for the first six months of 2016. Please check in the Autumn.
Set in charming inns and beautiful country house hotels, good food is always combined with excellent locations and atmospheres, not to mention wonderful customer service. Here are the Good Hotel Guide’s Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms.
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