This new Cotswolds bolthole hits all the right notes, in terms of both food and accommodation. Just don’t shout about it when you’re in the village
It is late in the evening and I’m walking on my own through the Cotswolds village of Painswick. I’ve just had a hugely satisfying and technically fabulous meal and I need to tell someone. It is eerily quiet on the streets as I chat on my mobile, and I worry that someone will admonish me – either for talking too loudly or for being a pretentious foodie waffler.
The meal in question started with cured salmon in a courgette flower with crispy pastry and celeriac cream (£10) and moved on to shoulder of beef draped in a single sheet of lasagna and served with cannellini beans and roasted vegetables (£24). The final transport was a tangy sweet explosion of a raspberry soufflé with raspberry ripple ice-cream (£8). See what I mean about foodie waffler?
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