The vast kitchen garden is a clue that this solid Victorian villa is not what it seems. A Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms, interiors are coolly elegant and flooded with light while head chef Paul Leonard’s food is creative, with a real sense of terroir. The seven-strong kitchen brigade build complex, though unflashy, and precisely flavour-balanced dishes that are more filling than their small size suggests. Perhaps beef tartare with caviar and smoked bone marrow, a punchy salad of pickled vegetables and walnuts, tiny gnocchi with caramelised shallots and wild garlic. All 20 rooms share the same softly elegant style: unvarnished fruitwood Gustavian furniture, chocolate carpets, dove-grey walls and shimmery fabrics in silver and delicate aqua.
Book it: Doubles from £320, including breakfast (01539 435250; theforestside.com)
Holm, South Petherton, Somerset
Impeccably stylish bedrooms and honest, creative food are the reasons to visit Holm, set in an attractive Ham stone village. The restaurant, led by a trendy chef from London, has earned accolades for both its food and its relationship with local growers. Seven bedrooms, set in an exciting modernisation of this former merchants’ house, take the enterprise to a smart new level. Choose between a reasonably priced chef’s menu at £59 or go à la carte. The torched mackerel, with tart turnip slices in a buttermilk and lovage dressing is a real hit, while the venison comes with spicy red cabbage ketchup and black pudding crumb. Breakfast is pleasingly proportioned, with options for chalk stream trout, smoked in-house over local applewood, or house-cured treacle pork belly, with an egg, sourdough and a hash brown.
Book it: Doubles from £140, including breakfast (01460 712470; holmsomerset.co.uk)
Myse, North Yorkshire
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