For 70 years The Good Food Guide has been the go-to publication on where to dine in Britain, helping to make sure you never pay for a bad meal. From local gems to fine dining and everything in between, its team of independent inspectors eat at thousands of restaurants and only recommend the best places to visit.
You can become a paid member of The Good Food Guide, gaining full access to recommendations, restaurant perks and offers, and regular member events.
The Good Food Guide is offering Good Hotel Guide readers £10 off your first year of Good Food Guide Membership.
T&Cs: Membership will renew at regular annual price. This promotion is administered by The Good Food Guide.
Hotels, inns and B&Bs with a special offer
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Plumber Manor - England, Sturminster Newton
For more than 50 years, the Prideaux-Brune family have welcomed guests to their ancestral Jacobean manor house in an English country garden with the Divelish stream skipping through.
With sweeping sea views over subtropical gardens, what started life in 1832 as a coaching inn, has grown into a classic, large, family-friendly, dog-friendly hotel with outdoor heated pool and fine-dining restaurant.
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Stanwell House - England, Lymington
In a New Forest yachting town on the edge of the Solent, this Georgian hotel has been beautifully refurbished to create a 'very smart, well run, dog-friendly hotel'.
A jar of cookies in the bedroom is just one of the quirks at this fun, intimate boutique hotel, with bedrooms that mix vintage and modern, contemporary British cooking, great service – and Alnwick Castle a stroll away.
'Hotel settings don't get much more spectacular than the Polurrian's, on the cliff edge overlooking its own beach,' writes a guide insider. The relaxed family and dog-friendly hotel makes the most of the coastal views.
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Watersmeet - England, Woolacombe
'An exceptional seaside hotel', with views from the rooms and terrace to secluded Combesgate beach below, this family-friendly hotel is a former Edwardian gentleman's retreat.
Caroline and Jonathan Kaye are fun and welcoming hosts at their B&B, a Victorian gentleman's residence in walled garden, praised by many readers for its award-winning interiors, individually styled rooms and suites, delicious afternoon tea and great breakfasts.
An Edwardian country house in long-time family ownership is run as a spa hotel, restaurant and leisure destination with facilities for golf, tennis, bowls, croquet, swimming.
It's worth the expense to stay and eat in this 'lovely and historic house with delightful staff', conclude readers. Relaxed and easygoing, the Victorian Scottish baronial hotel on a 28-acre estate has plenty of comfy seating around log fires in bar and lounges.
A landmark on Dedham's picturesque High Street, looking onto St Mary's Church, Piers Baker's medieval coaching inn impressed our inspectors with a comfortable bedroom 'overflowing with character', swift and personable service, and expert cooking of elevated pub food, especially seafood.
Cross the causeway to an island renowned for its seafood and tuck into some of its best at this 'lovely dog friendly foodie retreat', left empty and derelict from 2013 until Piers Baker stepped in to revamp it in 2021.
The rustic-chic bedrooms in farmhouse, cider house and barn at this rural Wye valley retreat in the Forest of Dean are all excellent, but the cooking is a still-greater attraction.
Perennial popular, professionally run but relaxed, this former coaching inn with views to the Shropshire hills is an ideal base for walkers and a perfect stopover within sight of the Welsh border.
Named in honour of Shrewsbury's famous son, this Grade II* listed Sandford House, moments from the Severn towpath, has evolved into a B&B full of Darwin references, with animal and plant wallpapers, maps and natural history objets.
With views stretching across the Dales, this dark-sky accredited Edwardian country-house hotel has a wide choice of bedrooms, some with a conservatory, as well as an oak-panelled lounge with open fire, and short, appealing menus of local produce in the beamed restaurant.
The quintessential local gastropub in a Wealden village never ceases to please readers, with imaginative food, four good bedrooms and a warm, friendly ambience.
They market this seaside hotel on Cornwall's craggy Pentire headland as having rooms on the edge of the Atlantic, and they're not kidding: the views towards Towan Head and Fistral beach from most of the bedrooms are breathtaking.
For more than 50 years, the Prideaux-Brune family have welcomed guests to their ancestral Jacobean manor house in an English country garden with the Divelish stream skipping through.
This year there is no updated print edition of the Guide. Entries have been updated online.
You can still buy a copy of the 46th edition, which was published in October 2022.
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The Good Hotel Guide, founded 46 years ago, is totally independent. It receives no payments, no hospitality and no advertising from hotels selected for an entry in the printed edition. Hotels pay to be on the GHG website, but only those which have an entry in the printed Guide are eligible. Selected hotels are recommended by readers, backed where necessary by an anonymous inspection. Richard Fraiman is the owner of the Guide and is its chief executive. Jane Knight is the editor of the British Guide. Nicola Davies is a contributing editor of the Shortlist, and handles correspondence and research. The Guide specialises in small owner-managed hotels, inns and B&Bs in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and Ireland. It includes budget B&Bs, good-value hotels and inns as well as grand country houses and chic city hotels, all offering value for money in their price range.
For 70 years The Good Food Guide has been the go-to publication on where to dine in Britain, helping to make sure you never pay for a bad meal. From local gems to fine dining and everything in between, its team of independent inspectors eat at thousands of restaurants and only recommend the best places to visit.
You can become a paid member of The Good Food Guide, gaining full access to recommendations, restaurant perks and offers, and regular member events.
The Good Food Guide is offering Good Hotel Guide readers £10 off your first year of Good Food Guide Membership.
