The Barn at Coworth

The Barn is one of the more informal spaces at Coworth Park (see separate entry, John Campbell), housed in - you've guessed it - a converted barn, where the stone floor, open-plan kitchen, huge glass doors opening on to a courtyard dining area and staff in orange polo-tops make for a relaxed, hang-loose kind of feeling. The classically-based English dishes keep things nice and simple, for starters such as a Windsor ham hock and Jersey Royal salad dressed in honey and mustard, rump of local lamb with confit tomatoes and pea-shoots (offering extraordinary punches of flavour for such a straightforward dish), and fishcakes with poached eggs, watercress and lemon mayo.