Buckden, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

This “lovely” ivy-clad riverside hotel on the outskirts of town is “well worth a visit”, having changed hands from former owners, John (Master of Wine) Hoskins & wife Julia to the East Anglian Chestnut group without event a couple of years back. The à la carte and afternoon teas usually garner respectable reports, but “the real highlight is the wine shop in the hotel”, packed with bottles and benefitting from an Enomatic machine for samples, with “excellent, knowledgeable staff who will help you find something you like”.