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Garden restaurants
Make a plan to enjoy food among the flora at these glorious grounds and gardens with restaurants and cafés
Make a plan to enjoy food among the flora at these glorious grounds and gardens with restaurants and cafés
Skye Gyngell oversees the food at New Hampshire hotel, former chefs from The Dairy open new restaurant in Clapham and Soho institution launches first restaurant 75 years after opening its delicatessen
Country house hotels have been quietly shaking off their dusty image for years. Then the no-fly period of the pandemic struck and suddenly opinion-shapers were checking into places with glorious gardens, sumptuous interiors and kitchens whose food thrilled. Voluminous floral chintz in dusty dining rooms, prissy formality and palate-deadening food? There’s no space for that in these competitive times. Heritage-respecting style, easy informality laced with luxury, and inspired cooking by talented chefs using kitchen garden ingredients? Yes please.