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The bygone colonial elegance of Raffles, with its white latticework and potted palms, lends this Kenilworth restaurant an engaging, civilised air. The Malaysian cuisine is equally cultivated, blending Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil Indian influences in a diverse and imaginative menu. The food is served in their very own regal house style with crystal cut glass and fine bone china in a colonial ballroom setting. Tinkling piano music and Singapore Slings keep the mood refined late into the evening.

Situated in the centre of Stratford-upon-Avon, this restaurant offers a warm, comfortable ambience to enjoy fine British cuisine. The interior features a colourful lounge bar with original wooden beams, sofas and a log fire. During summer the guests enjoy al fresco dining in the covered patio. More generally visitors dine in the Elizabethan dining room where oak beams and oak paneling enhance its historic atmosphere.

Among the smaller dishes pine nut and herb coated goat's cheese with red onion marmalade and sweet onion bread and Scottish oak smoked salmon are fit for royalty. With steak, mushroom, and Guinness pie topped with puff pastry and pan fried calves liver and crispy pancetta you may well feel like the famous actors who visited here during an earlier era. A zesty lemon and raspberry posit and sticky toffee pudding should take care of any craving for that little extra with which to end.

A traditional wine list and a well stocked bar will keep your spirits high throughout the meal.

With its cultivated take on provincial southern Indian cooking, The Coconut Lagoon is a bright, informal restaurant, which is popular with their easygoing crowd of Kenilworth regulars. Lively jade green walls and soft lighting create a subdued, relaxing atmosphere.

Their cuisine subtly explores diverse colonial influences of the invasions by the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British on provincial cooking. This restaurant recreates aromatic specialities from the South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Goa. These areas have long coastlines and generously use rice, seafood and coconut. Their feast menus designed for four people has varying degrees of spice - mild, medium and hot to suit different tastes.

For years the Fox and Hounds Inn had been tucked away in a corner of the North Cotswolds, the secret guarded by locals and the few outsiders who had penetrated through the undergrowth. Now they offer a warm welcome to all, with log fires when needed, traditional ales and over 180 whiskies to hand.

Preferring to be known as a pub that serves good food, they work from a limited menu that deploys freshly prepared meals. The menu tracks the seasons, but whatever the day you will always find a steak, gammon, haddock or scampi. Starters may feature crisp whitebait with brown bread and butter, salad garnish and homemade tartar sauce while the main event takes in a grilled swordfish steak topped with black olive tapénade on a bed of rocket with parsley, new potatoes and vegetables of the season.

To finish with orange and almond cake, served with Greek yoghurt, caramelised oranges in orange syrup is no hardship whatsoever.