The name for this charming tea room was inspired by the house’s connections with a local landlady...
Priory Farm Nursery, at the edge of the Sussex Downs, is a positive haven from the motorway. You...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel might be amazed to discover that his former Engine Shed, on the edge of...
In a building that blends into its landscape - think natural stone walls, rugged landscaping and...
The hard-working Grindal family has converted a series of buildings to make space for a café and...
Doddington Hall is a grand, late-Elizabethan mansion. Completed in 1600, it hasn't been sold or...
Dougie’s, The Cake Hole or however you know it, is a cracking place to break from the A1. “It...
Just off the M1, this attractive pub was runner up in the Observer Food Monthly's 'Best Places to...
Pioneer has only recently flung open the doors to its new food hall and café, and it’s already a...
A light-hearted café-bar on Boston Spa’s high street, Tom Foolery is decorated whimsically with...
When you’ve had enough of the tailbacks, few things will cheer you up quite like a field full of...
As the name suggests, this was once the kitchen garden that supplied the manor house at Dorney...
A Suffolk stalwart, Wyken Vineyards has been showcasing local and seasonal food for over 20...
Little sister to the original Ginger and Pickles in Nantwich, the Tarporley tea-room now plies...
Brockholes is a nature lover’s paradise with a unique, strikingly modern visitor village that...
Balsham’s former butcher’s shop has been at the centre of village life for more than 300 years....
Opposite the conical ‘village lock up’, this listed building’s former life as a farrier’s lends...
The Yard Café is homely and community spirited. Delicious brunches and lunches are served in its...
Tucked in a quiet corner of Waltham Abbey, the Gatehouse Café has enviable views over the town’s...
Nature lovers stuck on the M25 should stop off at the Rickmansworth aquadrome, a 41-hectare...
The March Hare, smart behind a charcoal grey shopfront on Market Rasen’s high street, is lively...
To discover you're going to a cow shed for lunch mightn't spark the greatest joy...until you...
If following the A21 to Hastings you'll almost trip over Eggs to Apples - a long, low-profile...
The wood-panelled Potting Shed drips with foliage and is a failsafe pit-stop on your way to or...
Slav and Daniela have run their well-liked café in this striking building - on the corner of Bank...
Isaac Newton made his science-enhancing discoveries at Woolsthorpe Manor (now a National Trust...
The seaside 'Artists' Town' of Kirkcudbright (kir-coo-bree) is the Solway coast's only working...
It is rare to find such a delightful family-owned pub so close to the motorway. You walk in to an...
A wall of the most fantastic scent of lavender greets you as you unfurl yourself from the car at...
Chicken scratch happily in the fields alongside, and birds sing merrily from boughs in the...
Who knew that Waitrose and Partners had their very own farm with a (predictably delightful) farm...
The old A30 runs through the historic village of Mitchell. The Plume of Feathers, its...