Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
Restaurant of a Grand Chef Relais & Châteaux and hotel in the country
Just outside Oxford, the Grand Chef Raymond Blanc presides over a magnificent manor house, renowned for its hotel, cuisine and stunning gardens. For Blanc, “if the work itself is transient, the memory of the flavour remains”. In his vast garden, amongst the abounding lavender, Blanc grows almost 90 varieties of vegetables and over 70 aromatic herbs, which you are bound to find on your plate, in one way or another. Blanc swears only by “bio” and organic produce. This sublime food is matched by the suites of the hotel, which all have evocative names and distinctive feels, the exoticism of Opium, the haven of tranquillity that is Blanc de Blanc, the exuberance of Vettriano. Let yourself be enchanted in the native land of Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. ...Read more
United Kingdom, Oxford