Travel

• Pasta making and wine tasting - Hot Dinners travels to Tuscany

  

  We head to the Rennaisance Tuscany Il Ciocco for a quick Autumn break. Barely a two hour flight from London, and you could be learning how to make ravioli, enjoying biodynamic wine at the vineyard which makes it or just lolling by the pool. Yes, it's fair to say we liked Tuscany quite a lot...

• Checking into the award-winning Moor Hall - an extraordinary restaurant with rooms

  Mark Birchall and his team have turned this Jacobean manor house into a world class destination for foodies - we checked in for a modern day feast. 

• Test Driving Culler de Pau - a restaurant on the edge of Galicia where location is everything

  

  Here on the very edge of Galicia - out on the O Grove peninsula, a Spanish chef is wowing diners with ultra local dishes given a very modernist treatment.

• Test Driving The Mariners in Rock (with a stay in Padstow Townhouse too)

  We do the Paul Ainsworth double - staying in his Padstow Townhouse before popping across the estuary to check out his Mariners pub in Rock.  

• Checking into the InterContinental Lyon - Hotel Dieu - a piece of Lyonnais history gets the luxe hotel makeover

  There's been somewhere for weary travellers to rest their heads on this site in Lyon since the 12th century, but the latest makeover is altogether more five star than before.

• Test Driving The Woodsman - Stratford-upon-Avon's hot new restaurant

  

  When the chap behind Michelin-starred pub The Harwood Arms opens a new place devoted to British food cooked over fire in Bard country, we thought it was worth taking a look. And yes, it happens to have a cracking cocktail trolley too. Sold.

• A super overnight destination for stressed Londoners - we check into The Grove

  

  Who wants to be facing a four hour schlep on the motorway when you can be at your minibreak destination in under an hour from London? We check out The Grove in Hertfordshire which has just seen its Glasshouse restaurant reopen after a three month makeover.

• Super handy for a Shannon Airport pitstop - Test Driving Adare Manor's Carriage House restaurant

  Our latest trip to Ireland sees us visit the newest restaurant at one of Ireland's glammest hotels. We take a look at the Carriage House restaurant that's part of the sprawling Adare Manor grounds.  

• Motels get the Soho House makeover - we check into Mollie's Motel and Diner

  Soho House's Nick Jones has designs on the UK's budget travel market and Mollie's Motel & Diner is how he plans to disrupt it. We take a look.

• Where to stay in San Sebastian

  Planning a foodie trip to San Sebastian - we've been a few times now, so here are our suggestions on where to stay there.

• Tapas and tortilla - a foodie break in Mallorca

  We pick all the reasons why this Balearic island should be on any self-respecting foodie's hitlist

• A Tudor coaching inn with wow factor - we check into The Lygon Arms

  Now part of a hotel group that encompasses Cliveden and Chewton Glen, Broadway's Lygon Arms post-makeover is quite the weekend destination.

• Checking into Whatley Manor - an ultra modern menu in a Malmesbury manor house

  Just outside the ancient market town of Malmesbury you'll find this beautiful manor house serving up an incredibly modern menu.

• Here's why Corfu should be your next minibreak destination

  In just a few hours you could be sitting in a seafront restaurant in Corfu, sipping Greek wine and eating salt-baked sea bream. Tempted?

• 24 hours eating and drinking on board the huge new ship Norwegian Bliss

  We take a super quick trip on NCL's latest ship from Germany to Southampton