2023 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
Stay at Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms and you can expect a delicious six-dish breakfast in the morning. Dinner is a treat, too, featuring ingredients foraged from the surrounding countryside. Think Cornish plaice, Jack-by-the-hedge butter, Wye estuary greens and a sauce of the cooking juices.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
They charm both the eye and the palate here, with views to Skiddaw accompanying Ben Wilkinson’s Michelin-starred food. He uses fish and shellfish from the West Coast harbours, hogget from the fells and food foraged from Whinlatter Forest to create considered set menus that are never contrived.
Padstow Townhouse
Padstow
A five-minute walk from Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No.6, the chef’s townhouse offers six sybaritic suites. They’re the ideal foodie retreats for anyone wanting to sample Paul’s superb food and they come with foodie hints – candy-striped wallpaper or bedside tables made from flour bins.
Grassington House
Skipton
Step into John and Sue Rudden’s village restaurant and you’ll receive a hearty Yorkshire welcome as a side serving to John’s creative cuisine. Practically everything is made in-house, including ice cream and cheese biscuits, and you can even try their own-label gin before retiring to one of the luxurious rooms.
The Mash Inn
Radnage
Nick Mash and his staff spend their days foraging, pickling, fermenting, curing and harvesting produce from the kitchen garden to produce a no-choice menu devised around the finest ingredients that day. Food is cooked on a wood-fired range but the bedrooms above the restaurant come with contemporary comforts.
Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms
Aughton
Choose between one-star cooking in the beamed barn or two-star cooking in the glass-walled restaurant at this Jacobean manor. Chef/patron Mark Birchall uses produce from the impressive kitchen garden to create dishes such as guinea hen with morel, ramson and white asparagus ragout. Stay in one of seven chic rooms.
Locanda on the Weir
Exmoor National Park
Pio Catemario di Quadri brings Italian foodie flair to this superb restaurant with just five rooms. While he cooks up a storm for his nightly-changing four-course menu featuring foraged finds, kitchen-garden veg and local produce, co-owner Cindy Siu presides over the beautifully styled rooms.
Pensons
Tenbury Wells
With just two rooms across the courtyard from its impressive double-height barn, Pensons is possibly Britain’s smallest Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms. Chris Simpson’s estate-to-plate tasting menus for meat eaters, pescatarians and vegetarians all start with delicious individual loaves and yeast butter.
Kilberry Inn
Tarbert
The setting might be rustic, in a whitewashed crofter’s cottage with a red tin roof, but Clare Johnson’s food is outstanding – think monkfish stew with mussels and rib-eye of dry-aged beef with watercress and celeriac remoulade. Partner David Wilson provides banter and negronis. There are five comfortable rooms.
The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
Although he has a Michelin star for his cuisine, Kevin Mangeolles insists that the real stars are the locally sourced ingredients he uses in dishes such as scallop mousse with Brancaster mussel sauce. The four rooms are stylish, with lots of whites and soft greys, and there is even home-made jam at breakfast.
2022 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Peat Inn
Cupar
The modern Scottish cuisine served in this attractive restaurant, decorated in soft teals and greys, is so good it has held a Michelin star since 2010. Expect home-cured sea trout pastrami, or roe deer with butternut squash.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
Enjoy Michelin-starred dining at this 17th-century cottage with views of England’s highest mountain forest. Ben Wilkinson’s menus are brief, and his cooking blessedly unpretentious – hogget with lentils, or cured trout with oyster cream.
The Crab & Lobster
Sidlesham
Go birdwatching in Pagham Harbour Local Nature Reserve before dining at this picturesque 17th-century pub. The menus specialise in locally caught fish, but you’ll also find roast lamb alongside the beer-battered loin of hake and crab cakes.
Old Downton Lodge
Ludlow
Readers love this rural haven for its ‘faultless attention to detail’. Sip English fizz in the parterre garden before dining on Nick Bennett’s ‘exquisite’ menus: halibut with nasturtium root, or lamb with pea, mint and wild garlic.
Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms
Aughton
Mark Birchall’s Scandi-style dining room in five acres of gardens has two Michelin stars and features delicately balanced dishes such as baked carrots with Doddington cheese and chrysanthemum. There is a tasting menu at breakfast.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
Bryan and Susan Webb’s dining room in the Vale of Edeyrnion has built a loyal following over the years, and no wonder. Local meat, such as aged Welsh black beef, comes from their ‘vigilant butcher’; the fish ‘straight from the coast’.
Read’s
Faversham
This is an established favourite with Guide regulars, who say it’s like paying a visit to a more civilised era. Roast loin of Kentish lamb, potato gnocchi fricassée, and the freshest vegetables feature on Frederick Forster’s classic menus.
The Angel Inn
Skipton
Michael Wignall prides himself on a ‘contemporary, less formal approach to fine cuisine’ in his Michelin-starred gastro pub, with dishes such as turbot with courgette tempura, and potatoes cooked in seaweed.
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The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
Kevin and Jacki Mangeolles’ welcoming coaching inn, a stone’s throw from the sea, has held a Michelin star since 2009. Kevin’s contemporary British menus use the best Norfolk produce, served in a crisp, elegant dining room.
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.
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.
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.
2020 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Seafood Restaurant
Padstow
If you can't get enough of the freshest of seafood at this restaurant-with-rooms, you can learn to prepare your own lobster for grilling and the perfect hollandaise sauce at Rick Stein's cookery school across the road.
Lake Isle
Uppingham
Tucked away in the oldest part of Uppingham, this 18th-century whitewashed former shop is a welcoming restaurant-with-rooms with large dining-room windows overlooking the High Street.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
A whitewashed cottage on a steep woodland pass may seem an unlikely setting for Michelin-starred dining, but this restaurant-with-rooms charms both the eye and the palate.
Grassington House
Skipton
In a prime position overlooking Grassington’s cobbled village square, this handsome Georgian house, now a restaurant-with rooms, delights first-time visitors with its chic style.
Gordon’s
Inverkeilor
In a Victorian terrace house in a tiny village close to the North Sea coast, Maria Watson and her son, Garry, combine ‘superb hospitality’ and ‘outstanding food’ at their welcoming restaurant-with-rooms.
The Mash Inn
Radnage
Nick Mash wants guests to step back in time and reconnect with nature at his restaurant-with-rooms on a leafy back road in a scattered Chilterns village.
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.
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.
2018 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
The Peat Inn
Cupar
A dream destination for golfing gourmets, Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle’s restaurant-with-rooms offers Michelin-starred cooking just a 12-minute drive from St Andrews.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Isle of Skye
In the north of Skye, overlooking Loch Dunvegan, this whitewashed former crofter’s house with its distinctive three chimneys is the unlikely setting for a celebrated restaurant-with-rooms.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
There's no mobile signal to distract you at Susan and Bryan Webb’s restaurant-with-rooms overlooking the peaceful Vale of Edeyrnion, which means you can concentrate on the excellent food.
Read’s
Faversham
You can expect 'really excellent food with an interesting menu and varied wine list' at Rona and David Pitchford’s restaurant-with-rooms in a Georgian manor house on the edge of a historic market town.
Tuddenham Mill
Newmarket
The setting is pure Nellie Dean, with an old watermill by a stream in 12 acres of meadow. Run by chef/patron Lee Bye, it offers 'top-notch cooking' in a 'beautiful hotel'.
The Black Swan at Oldstead
York
The somewhat elusive location of this North York Moors Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms is a suitably tantalising teaser for the unexpected creations on the menus.
2017 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Morston Hall
Holt
Birdwatchers and bon vivants beat a path to Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms in a flint farmhouse with Blakeney nature reserve on the doorstep.
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
The beauties of the Wye valley that inspired the Georgian Picturesque movement are all around you at Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms.
The Peat Inn
Cupar
A dream destination for golfing gourmets, Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle’s restaurant-with-rooms offers Michelin-starred cooking just a 12-minute drive from St Andrews.
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall
Baslow
An Edwardian homage to 17th-century style, this beautiful manor house with rich Jacobean-inspired interiors is run as a luxury hotel with fine-dining restaurant.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
There's no mobile signal to distract you at Susan and Bryan Webb’s restaurant-with-rooms overlooking the peaceful Vale of Edeyrnion, which means you can concentrate on the excellent food.
The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
It is 16 years since Jacki and Kevin Mangeolles opened their restaurant-with-rooms, inspired by the little places you happen on in France, run with passion by a husband-and-wife team.
Eckington Manor
Eckington
A cavorting Pan with an overflowing cornucopia promises all manner of good things at Judy Gardner’s restaurant-with-rooms and cookery school in 60 acres of water-meadow pasture.
2016 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Best restaurants with rooms in the UK
Read’s
Faversham
You can expect 'really excellent food with an interesting menu and varied wine list' at Rona and David Pitchford’s restaurant-with-rooms in a Georgian manor house on the edge of a historic market town.
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.