The Guest List by Jenni Muir
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"Let's talk about you, you deserve a weekend away" begins this guide to the UK's most stylish hotels and fabulous restaurants. Alright then, if you insist!
The Guest List is a new AA guide book covering the best places to stay in the UK. This however, is no ordinary hotel guide. Huge corporations are excluded as they have "marketing budgets so large that you don't need us to tell you about them". Business hotels and places geared to producing conveyor-belt weddings are out too. This book focuses on character and comfort, and most importantly places that can offer up a wonderful dinner to boot.
Good food is the number one criterion for inclusion in this exclusive guide. The range varies from simple country cooking to elegant dining to cutting edge experimental restaurants. The unifying factor is that they are all good at what they do, and charge reasonably for it. Chic décor, comfortable accommodation and excellent service are all musts for inclusion as well, but swank interiors alone are not enough. These stringent criteria have whittled entries down to 42 top places to stay.
The venues featured include hotels, B&Bs and pubs/restaurants with rooms. Locations span the entire length of the UK and Ireland, from The Three Chimneys and the House Over-By on the Isle of Skye to Hell Bay on Isles of Scilly. While all being deemed good value for money, they represent a range of price points from "treat" to "blow-out". Some are places suitable for taking the children to, but largely, they are guessing, the reason you are looking for a hotel is to get away from them.
Each place to visit has four large pages illustrated with beautiful colour pictures of both the interiors and food on offer. If that isn't enough to tempt you to make a visit, the amusing and informative reviews will. As well as giving vital stats about the hotel, there is also a great section suggesting local foodie venues to explore from each hotel as well as some UK maps detailing where to find the best sausages, cheeses and brews. For those floundering in their culinary knowledge there is also a handy regional produce glossary.
The Guest List's contributors are all professional food writers "who knows their alliums". The impressive panel includes authors, award winners and contributors to national newspapers, magazines and guide books. They have written for publications such as Time Out, Egon Ronay Guides, Which?, Gourmet Magazine, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Olive, BBC Good Food and Delicious, among many others. There is no doubt that these are some fussy critics who will only recommend the best.
Buy the book and treat yourself to a spoiling weekend away... apparently you deserve it.
The Guest List is a new AA guide book covering the best places to stay in the UK. This however, is no ordinary hotel guide. Huge corporations are excluded as they have "marketing budgets so large that you don't need us to tell you about them". Business hotels and places geared to producing conveyor-belt weddings are out too. This book focuses on character and comfort, and most importantly places that can offer up a wonderful dinner to boot.
Good food is the number one criterion for inclusion in this exclusive guide. The range varies from simple country cooking to elegant dining to cutting edge experimental restaurants. The unifying factor is that they are all good at what they do, and charge reasonably for it. Chic décor, comfortable accommodation and excellent service are all musts for inclusion as well, but swank interiors alone are not enough. These stringent criteria have whittled entries down to 42 top places to stay.
The venues featured include hotels, B&Bs and pubs/restaurants with rooms. Locations span the entire length of the UK and Ireland, from The Three Chimneys and the House Over-By on the Isle of Skye to Hell Bay on Isles of Scilly. While all being deemed good value for money, they represent a range of price points from "treat" to "blow-out". Some are places suitable for taking the children to, but largely, they are guessing, the reason you are looking for a hotel is to get away from them.
Each place to visit has four large pages illustrated with beautiful colour pictures of both the interiors and food on offer. If that isn't enough to tempt you to make a visit, the amusing and informative reviews will. As well as giving vital stats about the hotel, there is also a great section suggesting local foodie venues to explore from each hotel as well as some UK maps detailing where to find the best sausages, cheeses and brews. For those floundering in their culinary knowledge there is also a handy regional produce glossary.
The Guest List's contributors are all professional food writers "who knows their alliums". The impressive panel includes authors, award winners and contributors to national newspapers, magazines and guide books. They have written for publications such as Time Out, Egon Ronay Guides, Which?, Gourmet Magazine, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Olive, BBC Good Food and Delicious, among many others. There is no doubt that these are some fussy critics who will only recommend the best.
Buy the book and treat yourself to a spoiling weekend away... apparently you deserve it.
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