Herefordshire Restaurants

Restaurant at The Pilgrim Hotel

Six miles outside Hereford on the route taken by the pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St Ethelbert, the hotel has splendid views over the Golden Valley and offers sound eating in calm and pleasant surroundings.

• Address: Ross Road, Much Birch, nr Hereford, HR2 8HJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £35.00

Seven Stars, The

Tucked away on the Homend and a short walk from Ledbury's grand old Market House is The Seven Stars, originally built in the 16th century and reputedly the oldest inn in town. After a serious fire largely destroyed it in 2001, the Grade II listed coaching inn was painstakingly brought back to its original glory and once again offers guests a true taste of English hospitality.

• Address: 11 The Homend, Ledbury, HR8 1BN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Stagg Inn & Restaurant, The

Coming round the sort of corner that most people slow down for, you suddenly light upon The Stagg Inn, a modest but solid enough house with creeper clad walls and an air of having been there a long time.

• Address: Titley, Kington, HR5 3RL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £40.00

Three Crowns Inn, The

One of the more depressing aspects of reviewing restaurants is that when you stumble across a hitherto undetected winner, you know that you are slitting your own throat as, in the course of duty you expose its virtues to the world at large.

• Address: Ullingswick, nr Hereford, HR1 3JQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £38.00

Verzon House

Tucked away in the heart of rural Herefordshire, Verzon House is a charming refuge that made a humble beginning as a farmhouse in 1790. The world has changed much in more than two-hundred-years of the hotel's existence but the views it offers over an unspoilt country landscape stretching as far as the Malvern Hills are as pretty as they were years before.

• Address: Hereford Road, Trumpet, nr Ledbury, HR8 2PZ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): European, Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £42.00

Wellington, The

Located in the heart of the beautiful Herefordshire countryside and named after the little village it nestles in, The Wellington was bought by PR director turned chef Ross Williams in the summer of 2002 with a vision to transform it into one of the county's finest dining pubs.

• Address: Wellington, nr Hereford, HR4 8AT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Gastropub, Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £29.00

White Haywood Farm

A fully licensed Farmhouse Restaurant and Bar set in a traditional 400 year old barn at the foot of the Black Mountains; it is run by Pauline and Philip Goodwin and the rest of their family, who all live and work on the farm, so they always guarantee to give a warm welcome to every one of their visitors.

• Address: Craswall, Hereford, HR2 0PH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, Family, Traditional
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £14.00, Dinner: £22.00