The Witney Four Pillars is a smart, contemporary hotel barely ten miles from the famous city of Oxford and reflects the charming architecture of the nearby Cotswolds. Guests who visit the historic market town of Witney can shop for the famous blankets, walk along the banks of the River Windrush and return to a contemporary brassiere for a wholesome meal.

Start with tiger prawns in a feuillete of puff pastry and bound in a cream and garlic sauce and woodpigeon with toasted pine kernels, mixed leaves and fresh raspberry vinaigrette. Among mains baked courgette filled with wild mushrooms, spinach and ricotta cheese served with puy lentils and herb mash and poached fillet of monkfish wrapped in seaweed and larded with pimentos set on a prawn risotto and finished with smoked paprika oil could do the trick. A summer berry pudding with cassis and clotted cream should end the roceedings on a sweet note.