South West Restaurant Guide

Nick Armitage made a bold choice when he decided to move into the defunct Dog & Duck pub next to the old Whiteladies Road cinema.

85 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol

The location is as hip as they come, there are jaw-dropping views of the two-mile stretch of sands at Watergate Bay.

Watergate Bay, Newquay, Cornwall

Adam Fellows came to Wells after hitting the heights at the Charlton House Hotel, but he has swapped sumptuous country house elegance for the streetwise pizzazz of Goodfellows.

5 Sadler Street, Wells, Somerset

'Public House and Dining Rooms' is the billing for this revamped Grade II-listed seventeenth-century hostelry tucked away in an archetypal Clifton mews.

Boyces Avenue, Clifton, Bristol

From the outside, you might think the George and Dragon at Rowde was just another Wiltshire roadside pub, but the interior tells a different story.

Rowde, Devizes, Wiltshire

There's no finer setting for a dreamily elegant, refined and overtly luxurious city hotel than Bath's iconic Royal Crescent - arguably Britain's most glorious Georgian terrace and a masterpiece of European architecture.

16 Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset

"I didn't get where I am today by eating meat- or by not visiting the Veggie Perrin's Web Site!" What more can we say!

97 Mayflower Street, Plymouth, Devon

The Rising Sun is an award winning 14th Century thatched smugglers inn overlooking a tiny picturesque harbour and Lynmouth Bay.

Harbourside, Lynmouth, Devon

Originally a watermill, The Vine Tree at Norton is now a truly inviting pub/restaurant in a tiny Wiltshire hamlet a few miles to the south of Malmesbury.

Foxley Road, Norton, Wiltshire

Originally known as the Harrow Inn, this unostentatious Wiltshire hostelry has been impressively transformed by Roger and Sue Jones, who have turned it into a fully-fledged country restaurant famed for its remarkable wine cellar and top-flight, seriously accomplished Michelin starred cooking.

Little Bedwyn, Marlborough, Wiltshire