PRESS & Awards

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“The future, if we have a future, begins here.”

- GILES COREN, THE TIMES

Awards

ESTRELLA DAMM TOP 50 GASTROPUBS:

  • Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs 2026

GOOD FOOD GUIDE UK:

  • Good Food Guide Top 100 Pubs 2025

  • Good Food Guide 2024/2025

  • Good Food Guide 2025

COUNTRY & TOWN HOUSE X POLESTAR:

  • Best Seasonally Inspired Restaurant of the Year 2025

  • Highly Commended ‘Sustainable Hotel of the Year’ 2025

  • Top 5 Most Sustainable Hotels 2024

  • Top 5 Most Sustainable Hotels

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SRA AND ESTRELLA DAMM:

  • Winner of the National Restaurant Awards 2024 Sustainability Award

Soil Assocation BOOM Awards:

  • Best of Organic Eating Out 2023

COUNTRY & TOWN HOUSE:

  • Best Country Restaurant UK 2023

Food Drink Devon:

  • Sustainability Pioneer 2022/23

‍Food Reader Awards:

  • Best Dining Pub 2022

‍Condé Nast:

  • Best B&B’s in the UK 2022

Soil Association BOOM Awards:

  • Best of Organic Eating Out - 2021 Finalist

Sawdays Gourmet Getaways:

  • Best For Food 2020

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC:

  • Big Sleep Awards 2020

THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES

  • 100 Best British Hotels 2021

  • Eco Hotel of the Year 2020

PRESS & MEDIA

“9/10. Charmingly eclectic and lovingly restored – exceptional food and drink, indulgent furnishings and upcycled interiors”

— THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

“Good to its core… Book that ticket.”
(#1 UK’s Best B&B’s)

— CONDé NASTE

“Owner Geetie Singh-Watson has a stellar track record in green-minded gastronomy. Feels private and intimate. Food superb value.”

— THE GUARDIAN

“Chalkboards declare a manifesto that attests to fairer trading and models supply-chain transparency”

(Top 10 of the World’s Most Extraordinary Sustainable Luxury Hotels)

— THE EVENING STANDARD

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