Destination
United Kingdom
Edition · 2026
A small register on the British Isles — country houses, walled gardens and the longer English weekend.
The edition begins in England and travels by way of country lanes — Hampshire first, then Yorkshire and Cornwall, eventually the Highlands. The houses we keep on this register share a common shape: long-restored, set on land they eat from, and built around a fire as much as a table.
From the carnet · United Kingdom
- May 6Moor Hall · AughtonA three-Michelin-star restaurant with rooms in a Grade II listed Lancashire house, kept by Mark Birchall with Andy and Tracey Bell since 2017 — five acres of gardens around a lake, a Green Star for sustainability, and a Provenance menu cut from the land at the door.
- May 6The Glenturret Lalique · CrieffA two-Michelin-star restaurant inside Scotland's oldest working distillery — twenty-six covers under two gold-lustre Lalique chandeliers above the River Turret, kept by Mark Donald since the room opened in 2021.
- May 6Pine · East-wallhousesA tasting-menu restaurant in an old cow barn at Vallum Farm on the Military Road above Hadrian's Wall — Cal Byerley cooking with Ian Waller from a Northumberland kitchen garden, foraged from the country between the Wall and the Tyne.
- May 6The Black Swan at Oldstead · OldsteadA Michelin-starred village pub on the edge of the North York Moors, kept by the Banks family — Yorkshire farmers for generations — with a land-based tasting menu drawn from the farm, garden and forage at the back door.
- May 6Home by James Sommerin · PenarthA small Welsh dining room in a corner of Penarth, kept by James Sommerin and his family — a Michelin star, four AA Rosettes, and an eight-course surprise menu cooked from the Glamorgan coast and the Monmouthshire forests, with his daughter Georgia at the pass.
- May 4Swinton Estate · MashamA castellated North Yorkshire country house on a twenty-thousand-acre family estate — Samuel's Restaurant in the oval room, a country club and spa set in the woods, a cookery school upstairs, and the longer English weekend in the dales.
Continue
Sister countries.
- FranceA country read slowly. From the river light of Paris to the quieter harbours of the south — a deliberate collection of stays, tables and passages where time lengthens.
- ItalyA country read aloud. From the cool light of the lakes to the long afternoons of the south — cities, hill towns and tables we keep returning to.
- SpainA country whose tables hold the highest pressure in Europe and whose old towns hide them behind plain stone doors. Our Spanish chapter opens slowly, on a single street in Cáceres.
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