An expert guide to the best luxury Cotswolds hotels, including the best for Michelin-starred restaurants, glorious spas, swimming pools with bucolic views, cosy bars and romantic rooms with four-poster beds and rolltop baths.
Bybrook, taking its name from the river which runs through the hotel's grounds, is the one Michelin star restaurant located at The Manor House (a member of Exclusive Hotels) in the picturesque Cotswold village of Castle Combe, making it a natural choice for food lovers escaping the city in order to enjoy the delights of this bounteous landscape. The sophisticated and contemporary new dining room is a fitting backdrop for Executive Chef Robert Potter's elegant tasting experience, offering diners the finest British ingredients and produce from the hotel's own kitchen garden. Transformed in time for spring and summer, even the comfortable green-upholstered armchair-style seats, replacing the former hardback wooden types (distinctly off-putting when embarking on a feast of this kind) reflect the immaculate lawns which Bybrook overlooks, immediately making you enjoy perusing the seasonally-inspired menu. And with seven courses but only one decision to make, whether to opt for