Nine houses. Nine very different patches.
Restaurants with hotels attached, in the New Forest, on the beach, near Bath, in the Cotswolds, the South Downs, Devon, Kent and Cornwall. Everything on the menu was grown close by, most of it outside the window.
- Garden
- from garden to plate, nothing further
- 9
- houses, each with a kitchen garden
- 4.8
- illustrative guest reviews
Nine houses, from Padstow to Canterbury.
Each one is a house with a kitchen garden and a local menu. No two are the same and none of them are grand.
Tonight
Tonight at The Larkspit at Hazelmoot
The menu changes with what the gardeners bring in. Picked at 7am, written at 11am, served from 6.30pm. Non-residents welcome; about half the tables are.
Book a tableThe local menu, Thursday
- Kitchen garden soup, sourdough, cultured butter9
- Dorset crab, cucumber, dill from bed 414
- New Forest venison, beetroot, blackberries from the hedge31
- Walled-garden pumpkin, sage, hard sheep's cheese22
- Line-caught bass, fennel, brown shrimp29
- Rhubarb from the forcing pots, custard9
Three courses £49. Written by the gardener and the chef at 11am; it changes tomorrow.
Rooms, from Tiny to Garden Hut
Prices are per room per night, bed and breakfast, for the lowest-rate night in the next ninety days. Midweek is cheaper. Every room has a monsoon shower, a larder of local things and a window worth opening.
from 14 m²Tiny
Sleeps 2
from £195 a night
ground floor, some with terracesSnug
Sleeps 2
from £245 a night
22 to 28 m²Cosy
Sleeps 2
from £295 a night
the best view in each houseCosy Plus
Sleeps 2
from £345 a night
family rooms at some housesGenerous
Sleeps 2 to 4
from £395 a night
lodges, huts and the Stone BarnGarden Hut
Sleeps 2
from £425 a night
Offer
Supper & Stay
The offer everyone asks about: a Cosy room, three courses from the local menu for two and breakfast, Sunday to Thursday, at any house.
from £265 per room, per night
Room, dinner for two and breakfast · Sunday to Thursday
Offer
Garden Supper
A Snug or Cosy room, a three-course supper built from whatever the gardeners picked that morning, and breakfast. The cheapest way to eat at a house.
from £225 per room, per night
Room, the garden supper and breakfast · midweek
Two offers. No small print to speak of.
Both run Sunday to Thursday at every house. Both include breakfast and the garden walk. Both can be upgraded to any room for the difference. Tell us which, and when.
Why there is a hotel at all
The kitchen garden came first. The bedrooms are so you can stay for breakfast.
Every house has a head gardener, a greenhouse and a walled or fenced garden that feeds the restaurant. What the garden cannot grow comes from close by: the boats on the coast, the forest deer, the vineyards down the road. The menu is a conversation between the gardener and the chef at 11 o'clock each morning.
- 7amPicking list from the gardener
- 11amMenu written, posted on the house's page
- 6.30pmFirst tables
Dogs welcome£25 a night · Snug and Garden Hut roomsDogs are welcome at every house in the Snug and Garden Hut rooms, in the bars and in the gardens, with a bed, a bowl and a towel waiting. Not in the restaurant, sorry.
Bothy treatmentsfrom £85 · From 30 minutes · in the gardenMassages, facials and the odd hot-stone in a shed, hut or old greenhouse in the kitchen garden. Products from the garden where we can manage it.What guests say, patch by patch
All reviewsSupper & Stay on a Tuesday: the room, three courses and breakfast for less than dinner alone costs in London. The garden walk with Edie was the highlight.
Lovely Cosy room over the deer park. Dinner was superb, breakfast slightly slow on a full Sunday. Would absolutely go back midweek.
Two nights in the shepherd's hut above the bay in February. Wood-burner, outdoor bath, the cliffs in the fog. The best thing we have done in years.
Last-minute rooms, this week
Cancellations go up here first, Sunday to Thursday mostly. Midweek rates from £195, bed and breakfast.
Tell us when, and we will tell you which house.
Dates, who is coming and whether the dog is. Reservations reply the same day with rooms, rates and a table.