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Freemasons at Wiswell
Wiswell, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Excessive-end gastronomy meets basic English rural pub at acclaimed chef Steven Smith’s upmarket inn set among the many beautiful surroundings of the Ribble Valley. There are flagstone flooring, vintage rugs and furnishings to accompany elegantly offered dishes corresponding to roast rack, kofta and sweetbread of Herdwick lamb with miso aubergine. However that is nonetheless a neighborhood pub at coronary heart, serving a correct Sunday lunch and cask ales on the bar. Severe foodies will need to guide the ‘Mr Smith’s’ chef’s desk for an up-close-and-personal view of the kitchen in motion. Mains from £38. Double rooms from £240 together with breakfast.
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The Barrington Boar
Barrington, Somerset
This sensible hamstone-built pub with rooms in a picturesque Somerset village is run by husband and spouse crew Alasdair Clifford and Victoria Collins, who’ve labored in top-rated London eating places together with Chez Bruce. Be part of the locals within the flagstone-floored bar for drinks primarily sourced from the South West earlier than heading into the elegant and cozy eating room. Be sure you carry a wholesome urge for food for substantial parts of contemporary gastropub meals made with native components (in addition to recent fish from Cornwall) that may embody roasted Somerset duck with confit leg hash browns. Mains from £21. Double rooms from £140 per evening with breakfast.
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The Mutton
close to Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
This family-run pub, situated within the idyllic Hampshire village is about in a lovingly and elegantly restored nineteenth century public home and former put up workplace. Inside, there’s low ceilings, open fires, uncovered brick and a menu celebrating native seasonal produce. Should-orders embody the slow-cooked mutton served on a selfmade crumpet with purple cabbage, or the purple lentil dhal with vadouvan-spiced paneer. Outdoors, there’s a backyard terrace with a darkish inexperienced timber bar, snug sofas and a wisteria-covered pergola eating space with views over the encompassing fields. Mains from £19.
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Pink Lion
East Chisenbury
Cooks and homeowners Man and Brittany Manning spent years cooking in three Michelin-starred eating places throughout Europe and America earlier than taking a really totally different culinary path and opening this rural, thatched pub with rooms in 2008. Inside, there’s all of the flagstone flooring, wooden burning stoves and mismatched furnishings you can want for, whereas outdoors there’s a ravishing, peaceable backyard. There’s loads of ability on present in dishes just like the fantastically made crab tart (a signature and a should order if its on the menu) and the complicated desserts corresponding to white chocolate bavarois with raspberry-wasabi sorbet. Ensure to carry a wholesome urge for food for the generously portioned mains that may embody herb-roast Wiltshire lamb rump with sauce niçoise. Keep in one in all 5 luxurious up to date rooms within the purpose-built riverside visitor home just a few steps away from the pub. Mains from £25. Double room from £215 together with breakfast.
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The Gunton Arms
Norfolk
That is no odd inn. Nation pub meets nation house-hotel in a 1,000-acre deer park in north Norfolk, with interiors by a high London restaurant designer, topped off with a number of fashionable masterpieces by the likes of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. There’s much more of a way of event with venison from the deer park and native beef cooked over a big open fireplace within the pub’s Elk Room. You’ll discover domestically landed mussels and Cromer crab on the menu, too. Full your go to with an in a single day keep in a room that was as soon as frequented by nineteenth century socialite Lillie Langtry. Mains from £16. Rooms from £120 together with breakfast.
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The Punch Bowl
Crosthwaite, Lyth Valley, Cumbria
There’s enchanting countryside views of the Lyth Valley from the gravelled terrace of this gastropub with rooms, set in a transformed blacksmith’s store in a quiet Cumbrian village. The easy and stylish inside ticks the agricultural pub containers with uncovered beams, wood-burning range and cosy bar. Along with pub classics like haddock and chips and sausage and mash, there’s a detectable French accent to the menu that includes some Lake District produce in dishes corresponding to guinea fowl with pommes Anna potato, black garlic aioli and truffle sauce. Mains from £14.50. Rooms from £130 together with breakfast and cream tea on arrival.
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St Kew Inn
St Kew, Bodmin, Cornwall
This conventional fifteenth century village pub, set halfway between Wadebridge and Port Issac on Cornwall’s north coast, boasts 4 cosy and alluring indoor eating areas and what have to be the very best beer backyard in Cornwall. Secluded and shaded by bushes, it’s the proper spot to take pleasure in ales brewed close by and meals by chef Andrew Tuck, who you could recognise from the 2023 sequence of Nice British Menu. Domestically landed day-boat fish and high-quality meats are expertly cooked over a wooden fireplace. Dishes would possibly embody charred hispi cabbage with curry sauce, almonds and wild herbs. Mains from £17.
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The Three Horseshoes
Batcombe, Somerset
Surrounded by unspoiled Somerset countryside, The Three Horseshoes is a fantastically restored seventeenth century stone-built village pub and eating room with lodging lately opened by Margot Henderson of the a lot liked Rochelle Canteen in London. Constructed round native components, the just about austere dishes – duck leg and carrots or brawn and pickles, for instance – are mirrored within the spare, elegant inside design that options whitewashed partitions, a flagstone flooring, inglenook fire and uncovered beams. Outdoors, the backyard couldn’t be extra quintessentially English, with borders and beds planted with roses, geraniums, and kitchen herbs. Mains from £18. Rooms from £220 together with breakfast.
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The Crown
Ampney Brook, Cirencester
This stone-built, sixteenth century rural village inn is about in Cotswolds countryside near Cirencester. The inviting inside options a number of pure supplies with uncovered stone partitions, beams and floorboards giving the area a country but refined really feel. There’s a freewheeling strategy to fashionable gastropub meals on a menu that ranges from rooster and ham pie to bang bang cauliflower and hoisin-glazed duck and watermelon salad in addition to burgers and steaks cooked on a robata grill within the open kitchen. In good climate, dine outdoor in an alfresco dome and keep in a single day within the pub’s neighbouring Wild Thyme & Honey boutique resort. Mains from £14.95. Rooms from £150 together with breakfast.
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The Unruly Pig
Bromeswell, Suffolk
Persistently voted among the many finest gastropubs in Britain, The Unruly Pig is a good-looking red-brick rural inn set in Suffolk countryside. The stylishly quirky inside mixes and matches Persian rugs, uncovered brick, darkish gray wall panelling and caramel leather-based button-back banquettes. The ‘Britalian’ menu is one other work of fusion with dishes corresponding to native Orford lobster tail, claw and crab ravioli with carrot and avruga caviar. On a sunny day, ask for a seat within the giant backyard with its parasol-shaded, decked seating space. Mains from £19.
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The Star Inn at Harome
North Yorkshire
Reborn after a devastating fireplace in 2021, Michelin-starred chef Andrew Pern can now fortunately have fun greater than 1 / 4 of a century at this transformed 14th century thatcher’s inn. Situated on the sting of the North Yorkshire moors, the enduring pub boasts a comfy bar with roaring fireplace, a chic eating room and beautiful gardens. The signature grilled black pudding with pan-fried foie gras and scrumpy discount continues to be current and proper as a part of the tasting menu and as a starter on the eclectic a la carte menu that may additionally embody Skrei cod with Whitby crab and black truffle sauce. Keep in a single day in Cross Home Lodge straight reverse the pub. Mains from £30. Rooms from £170 together with breakfast.
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The Duncombe Arms
Derby
You’ll discover this Michelin Bib Gourmand-winning gastropub within the picturesque village of Ellastone on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border, overlooking the encompassing fields. The anticipated uncovered beams, stone flooring and roaring fires are contrasted with an eclectic assortment of furnishings and decorations to create a heat and alluring area. The seasonal mixture of pub classics and artistic dishes incorporates native produce and would possibly embody lamb from close by Dunwood Farm with carrot fondant, sautéed sweetbreads and lamb sauce. Keep in a single day in Walnut Home, adjoining to the pub. Mains from £19. Rooms from £195 together with breakfast.
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The Fox
Oddington, Moreton-in-Marsh
This nineteenth century rural village inn has had a surprising makeover courtesy of homeowners the Bamford household who additionally personal the close by Daylesford property and Daylesford Natural store. The pub manages to be each conventional and fashionable directly with restored Cotswold stone partitions, reclaimed timber and open fires contrasting with a up to date central oak constructed bar. There’s loads of farm produce on the menu as you’d count on, together with a wedge salad made with Daylesford blue cheese, crispy bacon and pickled shallots. The big backyard is the perfect spot to take pleasure in one of many vary of gourmand pizzas corresponding to ‘nduja, pepperoni, roasted peppers, fior di latte and rosemary honey. Mains from £14. Rooms from £225 together with breakfast.
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The Rat Inn
Anick, Hexham, Northumberland
This transformed 18th century drovers inn, set on a village inexperienced just a few miles from the market city of Hexham, has been run by companions Phil Mason and Karen Errington since 2007. Since then, the atmospheric pub with its low-beamed ceiling, cosy bar and open fireplace and has gained quite a few awards, particularly for the meals. The each day altering chalkboard menu primarily based round what’s out there would possibly embody mackerel with carrot and radish salad and XO dressing. In good climate, seize a seat within the gardens that provide spectacular countryside views.
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The Felin Fach Griffin
Felin Fach, Brecon
This Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded rural village pub with eight rooms is a part of brothers Charles and Edmund Inkin’s Eatdrinksleep group of inns, that additionally contains The Gurnard’s Head and The Previous Coastguard, each in Cornwall. It occupies an enviable place in a Welsh valley between the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons with views of Hay Bluff past the lawns – the place you possibly can eat in good climate. Welsh-born chef Gwenann Davies has impeccable pub credentials, having beforehand labored for Tom Kerridge, and provides a menu of native produce, some from the pub’s kitchen backyard, in dishes corresponding to steamed venison pudding with braised purple cabbage, roast parsnip and celeriac. The set dinner menu prices £37 for 2 programs. Rooms from £175 together with breakfast.
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The Bell
Ticehurst, East Sussex
The eccentric inside of this rural Sussex Tudor village inn options bowler hats as lampshades and shows of vintage books piled excessive. However there’s additionally a roaring open fireplace, stone flooring and mismatched picket furnishings to make you are feeling at house. Along with the menu of pub classics, each Wednesday, head chef Mark Charker (previously of Ockenden Manor) provides a five-course ‘The Stables’ tasting menu of Sussex produce that may embody smoked prawn tartlet with sweetcorn fromage blanc, artichoke, yuzu and foraged herbs. Mains from £17.50. Rooms from £121.50 together with breakfast.
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The Stagg Inn
Titley, Herefordshire
The Stagg is a conventional eating pub with rooms on the Herefordshire and Powys border; a good-looking ivy-clad constructing set in a topiary backyard and surrounded by fields and unspoiled countryside. The pub’s environmentally acutely aware strategy means they preserve their sourcing as native as attainable and keep their very own rising backyard. Dishes that replicate the ethos embody 36-hour slow-cooked longhorn Herefordshire beef, served with beef and spring onion bubble and squeak, child carrot and roasted cauliflower purée. Mains from £17. Rooms from £110 together with breakfast.
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The Three Hills
Bartlow, Cambridgeshire
This seventeenth century grade II-listed, award-winning pub with rooms is about amongst verdant Cambridgeshire countryside within the coronary heart of the tiny village of Bartlow. Restored in 2015, the pub now boasts a chic inside in addition to a patio and delightful backyard that appears out over the River Granta. Voted among the many finest gastropubs within the nation, the menu options subtle dishes corresponding to stone bass with clam cacio e pepe and confit fennel, in addition to a selfmade burger, and haddock and chips. Mains from £14.50. Rooms from £100, breakfast not included.
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Balloo Home
Strangford Lough, Northern Eire
This charming nation pub and restaurant is about near the Strangford Lough and has a historical past going again greater than 400 years. Downstairs there’s a comfy bar with stone flooring and open fireplace and a eating room the place the menu would possibly embody native Mourne lamb rump with new season broccoli, black olive and hazelnuts, in addition to each day altering specials created from seasonal produce and native seafood. Upstairs, luxurious grill restaurant Overwood includes a tipi-covered cocktail terrace with fireplace pit and serves a menu that highlights Himalayan salt chamber-aged Irish beef. Mains from £20.
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