Travel

• Test Driving The Mash Inn - a long lunch you won't want to end

  

  The Mash Inn has taken to alfresco dining with aplomb - this is a country restaurant that fully embraces the concept of a long lunch. 

• The best new UK hotels for foodies opening in 2021

  

  With every popular hotel booked up till the end of summer; if you're planning a UK staycation (and who isn't) then what you really need to know about are this year's interesting new hotel openings.

• LeBlanq launches luxury cycling tours with Blanc, Bosi, Palmer-Watts and Bradley Wiggins

  

  Love cycling? Love eating well? If you're at the intersection of both of those on a Venn diagram, then LeBlanq would be the perfect holiday for you. Imagine world-class food and the best sports icons in cycling coming together for a weekend.

  Originally organised for last Autumn, before certain restrictions got in the way, it's now kicking off this summer. 

  The man behind this luxury cycling tour is

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• 48 hours in Treviso - a travel guide to weekending in Prosecco country

  Fancy taking in a long weekend in Prosecco country? Here's where to eat, drink and stay in and around Treviso.

• Birch, Zebra Riding Club and Valeries - a review of the new-style hotel and restaurant to de-stress city folk

  

  Barely 30 minutes away from central London, this new Hertfordshire getaway is aiming to shake up the UK hotel scene, pitching itself as a hotel meets festival experience. And it comes with a restaurant from Robin Gill to boot. 

• Checking into Coworth Park for a bespoke menu experience

  

  Five star country hotel Coworth Park has come up with an incredibly personalised restaurant experience for special occasions. We went to try it out.

• 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.