Leave room for dessert is probably the best advice when visiting these hotels. Ranging from a ringside seat with the chief 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.
2018 Editor's Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Editor’s Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Little Barwick House - Midweek Sparkler Offer
Barwick
Tim and Emma Ford ‘set the standard for fine country dining and impeccable hospitality’ at their ‘unpretentious, enchanting’ restaurant-with-rooms, Guide readers agree.
The Crown and Castle - October in Orford
Orford
‘The attention to detail, excellent service and quality of cooking at this brilliant restaurant-with-rooms have set the standard by which other hotels will be judged.’
Tuddenham Mill - Cosy Sunday Special Offer
Tuddenham
‘A graceful spot in Suffolk countryside, this modern make-over of a 243-year-old mill surprises with its boutiquey bedrooms and ambitious dinners,’ say Guide inspectors in 2017.
Tyddyn Llan
Llandrillo
In this thickly rural corner of north Wales, Susan and Bryan Webb run their much-admired, 'friendly, relaxed’ restaurant-with-rooms.
The Peat Inn
Peat Inn
Chef/patron Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife, Katherine, run their ‘luxurious, very special’ restaurant-with-rooms in an 18th-century coaching inn close to St Andrews and the Fife coast.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Dunvegan
‘We needed a break from our busy day-to-day, and we got it.’
Read’s
Faversham
‘Our stay was close to perfect. It was like spending a weekend at a country house where the hostess has impeccable taste and is a first-rate cook. All this at an outstandingly reasonable price, in an interesting and accessible corner of Kent.’
JSW
Petersfield
The low, whitewashed building, a 17th-century coaching inn, sits on a modest street, but within this ‘seriously impressive’ restaurant-with-rooms, the modern dishes are ‘exquisitely executed – very much deserving of the Michelin star’.
The Black Swan at Oldstead
Oldstead
In 2006, an ancient inn in a small village in the North York Moors national park was set to close, when local farmers Tom and Ann Banks stepped in to save it.
The Hardwick
Abergavenny
‘The buzz of contented diners fills the air’ at this ‘enjoyable, excellent’ restaurant-with-rooms in an ‘attractive rural setting’ outside the market town.
2017 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Editor’s Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Fischer’s at Baslow Hall - Autumn Mid-Week Breaks
Baslow
Fine dining is the order of the day at Max and Susan Fischer’s Jacobean-style Edwardian mansion in the Peak District, approached by a chestnut-shaded drive.
Morston Hall
Morston
‘The Michelin star is well earned’ at Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s friendly restaurant-with-rooms close to the north Norfolk coast.
Tyddyn Llan
Llandrillo
In this thickly rural corner of north Wales, Susan and Bryan Webb run their much-admired, 'friendly, relaxed’ restaurant-with-rooms.
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
Amid stone walls and wooded lanes deep in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms is liked for its ‘relaxing atmosphere’, ‘excellent, professional staff’ and ‘unpretentious, really super food’.
The Peat Inn
Peat Inn
Chef/patron Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife, Katherine, run their ‘luxurious, very special’ restaurant-with-rooms in an 18th-century coaching inn close to St Andrews and the Fife coast.
The Yorke Arms
Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale
‘Frances Atkins, the chef/patron, is lovely, and the food is divine’ at this creeper-covered 18th-century coaching inn run by the Michelin-starred chef and her husband, Bill.
The Albannach
Lochinver
Between mountains and sea loch, Lesley Crosfield and Colin Craig’s restaurant-with-rooms is the UK’s most northerly Michelin-starred outpost, an accolade held by the self-taught chefs since 2009.
The Neptune
Old Hunstanton
The creeper-covered, red brick building appears modest from the outside, but there are ‘excellent dinners’ within: Kevin and Jacki Mangoelles’s restaurant-with-rooms has a ‘well-deserved' Michelin star.
Llys Meddyg
Newport
Edward and Louise Sykes’s ‘personable, wholly likeable’ restaurant-with-rooms occupies a Georgian house on the main street of an ‘attractive village’, minutes from the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path.
Eckington Manor
Eckington
Judy Gardner runs her rural restaurant-with-rooms and cookery school in an ‘attractive conversion’ of farm buildings, in a ‘charming, peaceful' village on the edge of the Cotswolds.
2016 Editor's Choice Gourmet
Editor’s Choice Restaurants-with-Rooms
Plas Bodegroes - Exclusive 20% discount
Pwllheli
Chris and Gunna Chown’s restaurant-with-rooms, in a Grade II* listed Georgian country house on the remote Lleyn peninsula, enchants visitors old and new.
Read’s
Faversham
‘Our stay was close to perfect. It was like spending a weekend at a country house where the hostess has impeccable taste and is a first-rate cook. All this at an outstandingly reasonable price, in an interesting and accessible corner of Kent.’
The Royal Oak
Keswick
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.