Hotels with Michelin Star restaurants
driftwood hotel
Porthscatho
Fiona and Paul Robinson’s New England-inspired hotel, with ‘magnificent views over Gerrans Bay’, ticked all the boxes for a reader this year, from the ‘wonderful people’ to ‘food that is too good to be true’.
Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms
Aughton
Millions have been poured into the restoration of a Tudor manor house on a lake, today a restaurant-with-rooms and theatre for the skills of co-proprietor/chef Mark Birchall.
The New Inn
Tresco
Just off the beach, the only pub on Robert Dorrien-Smith’s private, car-free island is a ‘relaxed’ gathering place for locals and holidaymakers alike.
The Balmoral
Edinburgh
‘As well as being a “grand” hotel, the Balmoral is a very nice hotel – the two not necessarily being the same thing,’ say regular readers about this Edinburgh icon.
Wild Honey Inn
Lisdoonvarna
Discerning diners make a beeline for chef/patron Aidan McGrath’s 19th-century pub-with-rooms (the first in Ireland to win a Michelin star), which he runs with his partner, Kate, in a spa town on the edge of the Burren.
The Goring
London
A long-time favourite of its royal neighbours, this Belgravia grand dame is ‘charmingly old-school’, with red-liveried footmen, Michelin-starred restaurant, and one of the largest private gardens in London.
The Chester Grosvenor
Chester
Grand from every direction, this ‘very smart’ Grade II listed hotel is in a ‘central location that can hardly be bettered if you’re keen to be in the thick of things’.
St James’s Hotel and Club
London
In a quiet Mayfair cul-de-sac, this sophisticated hotel (Althoff Collection) houses silkily decorated bedrooms, a Michelin-starred restaurant, and a plush, velvet-seated bistro and bar.
21212
Edinburgh
Paul Kitching and Katie O’Brien’s well-regarded restaurant-with-rooms occupies a finely refurbished Georgian town house facing the Royal Terrace Gardens.
South Place Hotel
London
‘Distinctly cool’, this City hotel is liked for its ‘friendly staff’, ‘beautiful rooms’ and ‘tasty breakfasts’.
Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
Great Milton
It’s not just in the two-Michelin-starred restaurant of Raymond Blanc’s honey-stone Oxfordshire hotel (Relais & Châteaux) that you get great attention to detail: in the bedrooms, even the sugared almonds are colour coded according to the decor.
24 Royal Terrace
Edinburgh
There is modern art everywhere in the chichi bar at this boutique hotel in William Playfair’s palace-fronted Georgian terrace.
From a graciously restored Palladian mansion surrounded by manicured gardens and Cotswold countryside to a 15th-century Oxfordshire manor that has a been setting the standard for excellence in all areas for decades, from a thatch-roofed pub-with-rooms to a surprisingly dynamic village inn. The variety of places serving food and drink innovative and commendable enough to deserve this coveted award, spans the length and breadth of the UK.
