Crudwell, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

“Wonderful... imaginative... loved chatting to the chef” – Ricki Weston and his team maintain the renown of this well-known dining room, where fans applaud “unusual combinations, flavours to savour and the lovely venue”, all in the “beautiful and relaxed location” of this Cotswolds manor house, dating from the early 1800s. All reports are fundamentally very positive, if sometimes with the caveat that “standards can be a bit up and down”. You choose either a six-course meal for £145 per person or a nine-course menu for £175 per person.

2022 Review: The more informal dining option at this luxe Cotswolds country-house hotel, with an elegant grey colour scheme and a garden for summer months – the British-slanted menu offers “tasty food” in “good portions”, drawing on fresh produce from the kitchen garden.

“You feel exceptional” at this “comfortable”, “romantic” and smartly modernised Georgian-era hotel with 18 rooms, where the dining room has a striking glazed addition and whose kitchen has now combined the talents of Jake Simpson (ex-Bocca di Lupo) and James Erasmus (ex-Ledbury & Harwood Arms). Regular supper clubs supplement the à la carte menu that’s more luxe brasserie than it is ‘fayne dining’ and is sensibly priced, too. (Its sibling pub, the Potting Shed, is just across the road.)