Sopwell House was once the Georgian country home of Lord Mountbatten and today, in its new role as a friendly country house hotel provides an excellent setting for a romantic wedding with those added special touches, a corporate event or a quiet vacation with the family. The airy interior with beautiful lighting fixtures and well spaced tables are some of the eye-catching features in the restaurant, and on the food side expect some serious British cooking.

Smoked Scottish salmon with horseradish crème fraîche, micro cress salad and lemon oil, and pressed terrine of smoked chicken and Gressingham duck might precede a main course of roasted rack of lamb in the company of herb crust, dauphinoise potatoes, redcurrant jelly jus, rosemary oil and buttered green beans and shallots. Desserts could well be a vanilla pannacotta with a winter berry and cranberry compote or glazed lemon tart teamed with a fromage frais sorbet.