Fireside at Heckfield Place
2. Fireside at Heckfield Place, Hampshire, England
Nowhere embraces a farm-to-fork ethos fairly like Heckfield Place, and no yet another so than culinary director Skye Gyngell. The Australian-born chef is enthusiastic about championing seasonal produce following biodynamic rules at her Michelin-starred eating places. She and the staff grasp this at Heckfield due to the property’s farm, kitchen backyard, orchards and livestock. From the foraged elderflower liqueur used to make the reasonably tempting tipples in Moon Bar to the rhubarb jam served with recent croissants throughout breakfast at Marle, every little thing is seasonal and native, and nothing is wasted. Fireside, one of many lodge’s two eating places alongside Marle, sits within the property’s former stables – all bare-brick partitions, arch-shaped doorways main out to the patio, heavy wooden tables and chairs and sheepskin rugs. The centrepiece is the towering, soot-covered fire, the place the cooks cook dinner every little thing to order over flames. The menu is traditional and unpretentious with a recent twist, with every dish coming one after the other to be savoured and shared. We tuck into candy scallops, barely charred from the hearth and topped with garlic and almond picada, courgettes filled with the primary peas and broad beans of the season, and lamb kofta with the fluffiest flatbreads baked within the wooden oven and doused in za’atar butter. For pudding, rhubarb and custard ice cream sandwiched between buttery shortbread slices is an absolute pleasure. Sarah Allard
Tackle: Heckfield Place, Heckfield, Hook RG27 0LD
Web site: heckfieldplace.com
Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles Resort
3. Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles Resort, Perthshire, Scotland
Gleneagles wants little introduction at this stage. Few would argue with the assertion that that is Scotland’s most well-known lodge – 2024 might be its centenary, and up to now 100 years, numerous well-heeled visitors have flocked right here for a slick style of correct nation life. We even named it among the best motels within the UK, not to mention the perfect motels in Scotland. After all, any great lodge is made all the higher if it has a superb restaurant, and Gleneagles isn’t any exception. The property is house to the one two-Michelin-star restaurant in Scotland, Andrew Fairlie. The lavish eating room units the stage for a flurry of servers to seem with plates of Scotch beef tartare with Bloody Mary and child greens, caramelised veal sweetbread with almond pistou or (the signature dish) Dwelling Smoked Scottish lobster with lime and herb butter, all whipped up utilizing produce from the restaurant’s Victorian walled backyard.
