Barely thirty minutes from and thirty miles west of Heathrow Airport is the Coppid Beech Hotel, one of Berkshire's finest four star properties. Clean and modish, it is well known among business travellers with all possible mod cons and facilities expected from a hotel of this repute. Rowans is the main restaurant at Coppid and reflects similar elegance in décor with stylish seating and brilliantly used glass and mirrors titivating the interior.

Appetizers such as crayfish mimosa, salmon pâté with red chard, pickles and smooth chicken liver and foie gras parfait help fuel the appetite for heavy mains that include venison on folded rocket pasta cooked in peppercorn and Pimms sauces and Oriental duck or prawn stir-fried with trevisano.

Desserts follow the same gastronomic line and marquis of chocolate, coffee and vanilla with frangelico cream guides the way, whilst a warm bread and butter pudding topped with Baileys custard is not far behind.