Old Boathouse at Cotswold Water Park, The

Those who feel a boathouse cannot be an attractive place to dine should think again, for things are a little different at the Cotswold Water Park Hotel. The Old Boathouse is a charming bar and restaurant that gives guests an opportunity to relax over good food and drink while enjoying picturesque views of the lake.

The menu offers home cooked modern British food created using fresh locally sourced ingredients. Amongst seven starters, look out for a chicory, poached pear, Oxford Blue cheese and walnut Caesar salad with croutons and Parmesan shavings, or enjoy a simple free-range Scotch egg with chilli jam and a mixed leaf salad garnish.

These could be followed by butcher Jesse Smith's curried chicken and mango sausages served with bacon crushed new potatoes and a red wine jus, or Cornish grey mullet and saffron risotto with wilted spinach and blistered vine cherry tomatoes.

The Boathouse serves breakfast until 12 noon, and a lunch menu of baguettes and light main courses is offered up to 6pm.