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Wellington Club Restaurant

The Wellington Club Restaurant. Experience one of London’s most famous clubs.

The Wellington is a club with quite the storied past. Formerly in Knightsbridge, its membership list read like a celebrity who’s who and was famously where Lord Lucan had a final tipple before vanishing.

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Church Road Restaurant. Leafy Barnes London Eatery

With all the good restaurants in central London, a neighbourhood eatery has to be something special to attract outsiders onto an Overground and a bus to join the chattering classes during the dinner hour. 

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Opened in the early part of the 20th century, the Waterhead Hotel, south of Ambleside, was one of a new ‘breed’ of hotels purpose-built to accommodate the rising tide of affluent tourists to the Lake District.

Waterhead Hotel, Cumbria

The discerning hotel visitor will know that there are few pleasures in life more agreeable than time devoted to the ritual of Afternoon Tea

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Lygon Arms, Broadway, Cotswolds 

The celebrity quotient is not surprising given the Lygon is the epitome of an English country hotel as viewed through a movie director’s lens

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The May Fair Hotel. Stay in a hotel immersed in wonderful cinematic history

The May Fair Hotel upholds the magic of London’s well-heeled enclave as the grande dame of Mayfair. A stone’s throw from Green Park and Hyde Park and the glitzy boutiques of Bond Street.

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It doesn’t happen very often that restaurants exceed expectations, but Chef Ruth Hansom’s cooking does exactly that at Pomona's Restaurant.

Excellent Pomona’s Restaurant. Notting Hill

Here the presentation and execution have both been spot-on and the mix of flavours has been subtle yet sophisticated

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