2019 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Little Barwick House - Midweek Sparkler Offer
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.
Tyddyn Llan - Six Course Tasting Menu Special Offer
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.
Tuddenham Mill - Three for Two Special Offer
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.
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
Dunvegan
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.
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.
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.
2018 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Little Barwick House - Midweek Sparkler Offer
Yeovil
‘So relaxing and homely, but with style and much attention to detail,’ Emma and Tim Ford’s ‘absolutely delightful’, ‘tranquil’ restaurant-with-rooms is the ‘complete package’, say Guide readers this year.
Tyddyn Llan - Six Course Tasting Menu Special Offer
Corwen
‘One comes for the food, and it doesn’t disappoint,’ reports a trusted Guide reader after a 2018 visit to Susan and Bryan Webb’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms in a ‘peaceful rural location’.
Tuddenham Mill - Three for Two Special Offer
Newmarket
A recent make-over has turned this 244-year-old mill into a thoroughly modern restaurant-with-rooms. Under strapping beams in the main mill, long-serving chef (and now chef/patron) Lee Bye serves ‘ambitious dinners’.
The Peat Inn
Cupar
An 18th-century former coaching inn, which gave its name to the village that grew up around it, is run today as a restaurant-with-rooms by chef/proprietor Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife, Katherine.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Dunvegan
‘We felt comfortable and well fed,’ report readers, following a stay at this remote restaurant-with-rooms overlooking Loch Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye.
The Crown and Castle
Orford
‘There have been changes since last year at this restaurant-with-rooms in a small coastal town dominated by its 12th-century castle and famous for its oysters.
Read’s
Faversham
Veterans of the hospitality industry Rona and David Pitchford run Georgian Macknade Manor as an elegant restaurant-with-rooms.
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’.
The Black Swan at Oldstead
York
‘The progress made by a family of farmers who thought that they would like to run a restaurant is quite remarkable.’
The Hardwick
Abergavenny
‘Our third visit.’ Readers tempted back this year to celebrity chef Stephen Terry’s restaurant-with-rooms – a reinvention of a ‘grotty roadside pub’ – found everything to their liking.
2017 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Tyddyn Llan - Six Course Tasting Menu Special Offer
Corwen
‘One comes for the food, and it doesn’t disappoint,’ reports a trusted Guide reader after a 2018 visit to Susan and Bryan Webb’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms in a ‘peaceful rural location’.
Morston Hall
Holt
‘An amazingly gorgeous hotel,’ writes a reader this year, of Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s restaurant-with-rooms, ‘ideally located’ for a seal trip to Blakeney Point.
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
Embedded firmly in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms again delighted readers’ taste buds in 2018.
The Peat Inn
Cupar
An 18th-century former coaching inn, which gave its name to the village that grew up around it, is run today as a restaurant-with-rooms by chef/proprietor Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife, Katherine.
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Baslow
‘The hotel, its staff and food were exquisite,’ a reader writes of an anniversary visit to Max and Susan Fischer’s stone manor house, in a village on the fringe of Chatsworth Park.
The Yorke Arms
Harrogate
After more than two decades, Frances and Bill Atkins have sold their cherished, creeper-covered 18th-century stone coaching inn overlooking the green in a Dales village – but fans should take heart.
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
‘A restaurant-with-rooms – and a very good restaurant at that.’ After visiting this year, a trusted reader sums up the appeal of Kevin (the chef) and Jacki Mangeolles’s 18th-century former coaching inn.
Llys Meddyg
Newport
‘The best of its kind.’ Standing in an ‘appealing’ village is Edward and Louise Sykes’s small, ‘equally professional and personable’ Georgian restaurant-with-rooms.
Eckington Manor
Eckington
With its own farm, orchard, vegetable and herb gardens, food is at the heart of everything at Judy Gardner’s restored restaurant-with-rooms, occupying a half-timbered farmhouse and rustic outbuildings.
2016 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Plas Bodegroes
PWLLHELI
In a sylvan setting on the remote Lleyn peninsula, Gunna and Chris Chown’s Georgian country house has enchanted guests for over 30 years.
Read’s
Faversham
Veterans of the hospitality industry Rona and David Pitchford run Georgian Macknade Manor as an elegant restaurant-with-rooms.
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.
The Royal Oak
Keswick
Leave room for dessert is probably the best advice when visiting these restaurants with rooms. Ranging from a ringside seat with the chef to the most exquisite fine dining, Michelin starred chefs are never far away in the gourmet restaurants that are peppered around the country – as long as you know where to find them. 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.