The House Stay on The Beaverbrook Estate – hotel review
We are blessed, in the Home Counties and Greater London, with a wealth of fine hotels. There are boutique hotels, glitzy city hotels, former ancestral...
The Garden House Restaurant, Leatherhead – review
This truly is a ‘garden’ house with the intimate character of a cosy cottage. (Read more about the Garden House here.) It’s part of the...
Luton Hoo to Stay – hotel review
Luton Hoo is an English country house and estate with easy access to London. But what is a ‘hoo’? The unusual name “Hoo” is a...
Champagne Taittinger at Luton Hoo – restaurant review
Champagne is the quintessential celebration drink. We enjoy it with friends and loved ones, accompanied by fine foods, perhaps in a drawing room with high...
Warren House, Kingston – hotel review
We might be in London for a short holiday. We see the sights, monuments, museums. We shop till we drop and we are swept along...
Careys Manor Hotel in The New Forest – hotel review
This is one of the most beautiful and unspoilt corners of the British Isles. The New Forest is an area in southern England with an...
Anderida, Ashdown Park Hotel – restaurant and hotel review
Ashdown Forest is an ancient area of heathland about 30 miles (48 km) south of London in East Sussex. It was once a medieval hunting...
Humphry’s Restaurant – Stoke Park – review
It is indeed a park, and a world-renowned 27-hole golf course set in landscaped grounds. Lots of facilities for club members, as well as for...
Stoke Park – Country House Hotel review
It’s the kind of country-house estate that we believe has disappeared. How can there be anything this magnificent so close to London (only 35 minutes...
Chef Chris Wheeler – Stoke Park – interview
Only 35 minutes from the capital and 7 miles from London Heathrow airport, Stoke Park offers everything you might want from a sport and leisure...
Auberge du Lac at Brocket Hall – hotel and restaurant review
Stately Homes have always held a fascination. Great houses set amongst manicured lawns, and trees often grown from seedlings collected by intrepid botanists a couple...
The Elms Hotel Worcestershire – hotel review
This is an imposing Queen Anne mansion. Go on, admit it, you can’t remember who Queen Anne was and didn’t know she was a builder....
Brockencote Hall for lunch – restaurant review
Joseph and Alison Petitjean have owned and run Brockencote Hall for the last 24 years. They had been living in France and were just married,...