South East

Artichoke is going through an ever-increasing period of expansion and increased profile. The food is of such high quality that The Independent once urged its readers to get a table by any means necessary (including moving to the area!) before it became impossible to book a space.

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Danesfield House offers luxurious European cuisine, with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal ingredients - an indulgent menu befitting its grand hotel and spa surroundings in Marlow-On-Thames, which also houses an orangery.

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Steve Drake moved his business to this beautiful townhouse on Ripley’s main drag which has since been awarded a Michelin nod every year since 2005. Small and intimate, with a relaxed and friendly air, the recently refurbished dining room throws the austere exterior into sharp contrast, with its contemporary design touches and furnishings. Diners sit amid the preserved beams of the room but in an environment which speaks of modernity and relaxed fine dining.

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Jewel in the crown of the Blanc enterprise, restaurant, hotel, cookery school and TV location - Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, colloquially abbreviated to Le Manoir, is a picturesquely-located paradise in Oxfordshire and one of the country’s most renowned restaurants. Under the auspices of Raymond Blanc and head chef Gary Jones, Le Manoir has secured a reputation as one of the best places to eat in the UK – it’s one of the possible stops on the Orient Express route, is unabashedly luxurious, and offers courses for visiting food lovers of an enquiring mindset.

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The Holder and Hartnett revolution has hit full throttle at Lime Wood. Gone are the formalities of fine-dining, replaced by the laid-back Italian cuisine of Hartnett's ancestors.

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Named after French delicacy, L’Ortolan is another luxury restaurant with scope and ambition beyond simply providing eager diners with somewhere to eat. Alongside the restaurant itself, classes and demonstrations are also available – plus a series of offers which facilitate private meals, events and ‘Michelin at home’, where the restaurant’s lauded cuisine is prepared and served within the comfort of your own dining room.

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Former Roux Scholar Matthew Tomkinson’s Terrace Restaurant offers a more formal dining experience at The Montagu Arms, while Monty’s Inn offers casual, gastropub-style environs for those who are looking for something a little more laid back.

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Part of a very impressive hotel and spa, one of the Historic Hotels range in the village of Cuckfield in West Sussex and therefore well-placed for the allure of Brighton, Ockenden Manor doesn’t do things by halves.

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Another fittingly luxurious part of the 10 in 8 group, set in a beautiful old house in expansive green grounds, is Paris House. Built in timbered mock-Renaissance style in Paris itself and then shipped to the UK (bit by bit), it was reconstructed in Woburn Park and enjoyed a vividly colourful history before becoming a restaurant in the early 80s.

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Pond Café is a snug, modern locale for Thompson’s award-winning modern European cooking. A relaxed setting with seating both indoors and in the shade outside not too far from the pond that gives the restaurant its name.

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The Chapman/Parkinson duo behind the award-winning Royal Oak pub now have a second venture, The Belgian Arms - a similarly relaxed country pub in the small village of Holyport.

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This beautifully refurbished public house in Marlow is one of very few restaurants in the UK – and the first pub – to have been awarded two Michelin stars and has seen its reputation grow meteorically in the few years since it opened in this form.

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As one of very few restaurants in the UK to hold five AA rosettes, The Latymer at Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa has a lot to live up to. With a self-proclaimed desire to become the ‘ultimate British five-star food destination’, the hotel it’s situated in certainly fits the bill in terms.

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There is something decidedly different about this West Sussex restaurant. There are CCTV monitors at each table, a snaking dining room and a tasting menu full of intrigue

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Part of a luxury hotel in a strip of Brighton teeming with such establishments, The Restaurant at Drakes is one of the reasons that the hotel stands out from the crowd. While the hotel itself holds plenty of attraction – modern, romantic and stylish, with pampering packages and gift bundles available for the visitors – it’s Andrew Mackenzie’s food that draws notably high praise.

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While the appeal of the Royal Oak in Maidenhead may initially have been driven by the familiarity to the British public of its landlord, Sir Michael Parkinson (a genial presence at the bar if ever there was one) - the place has since become, in the words of one reviewer ‘a very good restaurant that just happens to be in a pub’.

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Without cavilling much about its own locavore credentials (it doesn’t really need to), The Scullery provides what it calls ‘all-day dining in a country house setting.’

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Situated in a New Forest hotel and containing a number of dining options for guests and visitors alongside the Michelin star-winning Terrace restaurant, The Montagu Arms is a destination where the emphasis is on luxury.

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Kent is the garden of England - so the expression goes, and here in the most picturesque of locations sits a restaurant which celebrates the region’s prime terroir with supreme honesty and wonderful skill

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