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This charming hotel is located in a tranquil setting and is only a short stroll from the centre of Bath, providing a true city retreat. Ignore the award-winning restaurant at your peril – headed up by Executive Chef Michael Caines MBE, the elegant dining rooms provide, superb modern European cuisine, with splendid views over the landscape gardens. The gardens themselves, tended to by award winning Gardener Jane Moore, roll effortlessly down from the sun terrace and provide a plethora of plants and flowers, as well as the walled Kitchen Garden, which produces fresh ingredients for the restaurant. If you are yearning for a well earned spa break, then the newly refurbished Garden Spa, complete with a heated indoor pool, elliptical steam pod, sauna, fitness suite and four treatment rooms, will ensure you are blissfully content. Awards | 3 AA Rosettes | Good Food Guide 4

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If you came here expecting an all-day fry up, you'd leave very disappointed. Bells Diner delivers innovative, envelope-pushing contemporary British cuisine with Chris Wicks and his team painstakingly preparing Bristol's most imaginative menus. The school of thought here is very much El Bulli, The Fat Duck and Juniper. If you're into food and want a great night out, go here!Awards | 2 AA Rosettes | Good Food Guide 4

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Family owned and run by the Sanchez-Iglesias’ since 1998, Casamia in Westbury-on-Trym started out as a traditional trattoria and has evolved into one of the most envelope-pushing Italians in the country with a Michelin star and three AA rosettes. The kitchen is now the domain of the two sons, Jonray and Peter, who are at the top of their game and producing modern Italian dishes that pull from the gastronomic influences of the world’s greatest chefs, past and present. Expect the unexpected here with quirky and witty renditions of the classics and flavour matches and presentation that have a definite wow factor. Casamia seats just 40 diners and is open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 7pm to 9.30pm and for Saturday lunch. Awards | 1 Michelin Star | 3 AA Rosettes | Good Food Guide 5

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Within view of the medieval Market Square in England’s smallest City of Wells, Goodfellows serves some of the best fish dishes in the West Country. Voted ‘Somerset Restaurant of the Year 2006’ by The Good Food Guide and with a score of 5/10 in the 2008 Guide, the restaurant also has two AA Rosettes. Previously the Michelin-starred chef at Charlton House Hotel, Adam Fellows infuses his cooking with a Mediterranean essence reflecting the countries where he has worked throughout his career. On the ground floor, the seating is arranged around Adam’s open kitchen. He loves the conviviality of the arrangement which makes a delightful change for him to be able to enjoy the two way interaction with his customers. The fish comes mainly from day boats off the coast of Devon and Cornwall and is cooked inventively, enhancing the natural flavours of the fish but never over-complicating them. An example of the menu would be English lobster salad with a mango and papaya salsa and coriander seed vinaigrette for starter, followed by fillet of sea bass with a smoked haddock and potato cake, red onion marmalade and champagne butter sauce, and coconut pannacotta with an intense mango sorbet for pudding. Awards | 2 AA Rosettes | Good Food Guide 5

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Located in the heart of the newly rejuvenated city centre and close to Bristol’s famous waterfront, Hotel du Vin Bristol is a magnificently restored sugar house, dating from the 1700s. Decorated in classic Hotel du Vin style, the building has been sensitively converted into a stylish and contemporary luxury boutique hotel with 40 bedrooms, including 3 double-height suites and a bedroom roof terrace. The hotel also boasts four quirky and inspiring meeting spaces and two bars as well as the award-winning trademark wine cellar and French-style bistro serving modern European cuisine with great emphasis on locally sourced produce. The bistro is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week. Awards | 1 AA Rosette

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Tucked into the folds of the lovely Mendip Hills, Hunstrete House is the quintessential English country house hotel, an 18th century Georgian manor idyllically situated in 71 acres of beautiful woodland, gardens and deer park. Conde Nast Traveller named it one of the Ten Best English Country House Hotels. Head Chef Matt Lord only cooks free range meats from local farmers and insists on fresh fish from sustainable sources, good practice which has just earned him an AA Strawberry award. The expertly designed menus combine fresh seasonal ingredients from the resident Victorian Kitchen Garden with the zestier tastes of the Mediterranean and you will also find a revolving menu of local cheeses with freshly baked savoury biscuits. Hunstrete House is easily accessible, only seven miles south of Bath en route to the cathedral City of Wells and Bristol International Airport.Awards | 2 AA Rosettes

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Set in beautiful countryside, Homewood Park is a luxury country house hotel just six miles from Bath and only 30 minutes from the M4. The newly refurbished, nationally acclaimed restaurant now offers diners a really stylish place to enjoy the finest in modern English cuisine. It is one of the most revisited restaurants in Bath and has been voted Country Restaurant of the Year in the Good Food Guide. Head Chef Daniel Moon creates seasonal menus which are English at heart with a European twist and has recently been rewarded for his efforts with the coveted accolade of von Essen hotel Chef of the Year. Guests can enjoy a stroll in the ten acres of beautiful hotel gardens whilst the hotel's drawing room, study and bar are furnished to ensure guests enjoy comfort and unassuming luxury by the log fires during the winter months. A complete refurbishment has taken place this year and the bedrooms have each been individually designed in keeping with the period of the house. Modern fabrics and bold prints add a twist of colour and bring alive antique furniture and traditional linens. Awards | 2 AA Rosettes

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Located on the Trowbridge road on the outskirts of Bradford on Avon, the award winning Medlar Tree restaurant is housed in the elegant Georgian Widbrook Grange Hotel. Noted by the industry as a homely and relaxing country house hotel, you will find resident owners and staff here unobtrusive yet attentive. Think atmospheric, warm and cosy with log fires in winter and 11 acres of gardens to explore in the summer. The restaurant is named after an ancient tree on the hotel's grounds and it’s the domain of head chef Phil Carroll, who with his passionate team creates modern and classic British cuisine using as much home grown produce as possible from the kitchen garden. Everything else is locally sourced and delivered daily. They also run a successful ‘Dining & Wine Club’, which has over 250 members who can choose to come to special evenings during the year.Awards | 1 AA Rosette

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This superb Palladian mansion is set in one of the West Country's most romantic estates, Ston Easton Park in the Mendip Hills just 11 miles from Bath. Log fires, comfortable antique furniture and exquisite paintings evoke memories of a more leisured age and the well-preserved classicism of Ston Easton provides the kind of welcome you might associate with a magnificent private country house. A large scale refurbishment has just been completed and each of the newly-refurbished bedrooms is highly individual but with certain modern conveniences in common such as flat-screen televisions and high-speed broadband. Head Chef Matt Butcher and his brigade insist on supporting local producers and where possible use vegetables, fruit and herbs from the estate's Victorian kitchen garden. Local, seasonal flavours are therefore abundant in Ston Eaton's modern British menus. The Sorrel Restaurant is beautifully appointed and overlooks the tranquil gardens and lawns sloping down towards the cascading River Norr. Non-residents are warmly welcomed for lunch, dinner, afternoon tea and private dining, seven days a week.Awards | 2 AA Rosettes

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The Dower House restaurant overlooks the secluded gardens of the Royal Crescent Hotel, one of Bath’s best-kept secrets. In the summer months, the sunny terrace and manicured lawns make the perfect setting for al fresco dinning, either for a leisurely lunch or a relaxed informal dinner. Head Chef Gordon Jones has created a contemporary British menu that draws on influences from around the world. It changes with the seasons to match the climate and to make the best use of the very finest fresh ingredients. The expertly managed cellar complements the menus and provides ample choice for both the casual diner and the fine wine connoisseur. The hotel also offers a number of individually designed rooms, including the Pavilion Conservatory, The Library and The Montagu. These provide the ideal setting for those who would like to dine in private to celebrate a family occasion or to host an important business gathering. Awards | 2 AA Rosettes | Good Food Guide 4

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Just 15 minutes from the M5, Thornbury Castle is the only Tudor castle in England to serve as a hotel. You can stay here and walk in the footsteps of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and with its yew-hedged gardens, stone-flagged courtyard, Tudor hall and roaring fires, Thornbury Castle is everything you would expect from a piece of living history. There’s even a 500-year-old vineyard within the castle walls which still produces wine. The two-AA-rosetted restaurant is open for lunch and dinner and offers a range of menus showcasing the kitchen’s modern British cooking. The food is ably complemented by an award-winning wine list. Awards | 2 AA Rosettes