Russell’s
Broadway, Worcestershire
Good Hotel Guide Review
In plum position on this quintessential Cotswold town’s high street, Russell’s restaurant-with-rooms offers imaginative food and modern bedrooms among comforting original features. Rubbing shoulders with antique shops and art galleries, the mellow-stone building, with its people-watching terrace, has been skilfully updated from when it was the showroom of wartime utility-furniture pioneer Sir Gordon Russell. Both bar and restaurant are cool and airy with sea-blue banquettes and mid-century tables set against beams and exposed-stone walls. Bedrooms are similarly light and spacious – even the smallest have window seats and armchairs – with pale walls and carpets, contemporary furnishings and splashes of colour in suede headboards and velvet armchairs. All have natural-stone bathrooms, bathrobes and courtyard or high street views. Two huge under-eaves rooms have views of the Cotswold hills. Food is the big story here with a menu serving up imaginative dishes such as saddle of rabbit with poached quince, and stone bass with potato and spinach curry. Breakfast includes locally smoked salmon, plus a full grill.
Hotel details
Address
The Green
Broadway
Worcestershire
WR12 7DT
England
Telephone
01386 853555
Bedrooms
7. 3 in adjoining building, 2 on ground floor.
Open
all year, restaurant closed Mon/Tues evenings.
Facilities
bar, restaurant, private dining room, in-room TV (Freeview), patio (heating, meal service), parking, restaurant and bar wheelchair accessible, adapted toilet.
Background music
in restaurant.
Children
all ages welcomed, under-2s free, extra bed £15.
Dogs
allowed in 1 ground-floor bedroom (no charge), some areas of restaurant.
Credit cards
MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £140, singles from £130. À la carte £50. 1-night bookings refused weekends.
There is no garden, and it is rightly described as a restaurant-with-rooms, but most of its rooms are special in their own way. We stayed in two. They were clean, with excellent furniture. Though the building overlooks the main street we were unbothered by traffic noise. The breakfast is comprehensive and served accurately. Dinner has a short fixed menu and a carte. The presentation and quality of the food are exceptional. The long wine list has a choice of reasonably priced house wines. The staff take trouble to please.
- Tom Mann - August 1603
Information from the 2022 Good Hotel Guide.
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