Portpatrick, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

“A wonderful country-house hotel in a beautiful setting” whose place in the history books is anchored by Churchill and Eisenhower’s D-Day planning here and its inclusion in John Buchan’s ‘The 39 Steps’. Its place in this guide continues to be secured by its “superb food with regional produce” and “fortunately the chef has resisted the move to ever-increasing numbers of (ever-smaller) courses” while maintaining “an emphasis on excellent local ingredients”. “Some of the décor is very ‘Edwardian shooting lodge’ but the dining room is light and bright, particularly on a summer’s evening”.