Review: The Fish, Farncombe, Broadway, Worcestershire
The Fish Hotel is an inviting take on Scandi-cool-comfort and contemporary country living. Delivering hygge for the Cotswolds, The Fish is an innovative country retreat, a rural playground of some 500 acres on the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire borders. Home to buzzards, deer and foxes, as well as weary urbanites and salivating foodies. More rural community than hotel, The Fish’s collection of shepherds’ huts and treehouses is scattered amongst hillside banks of snowdrops and swathes of daffodils. Ponds glint in the spring sunshine, probably created centuries ago by monks to secure a regular supply of fish. Blending adventure retreat, relaxed rural hideaway and gourmet experience, The Fish features Martin Burge’s restaurant, Hook. His fishy menus bring Cornwall to the Cotswolds. The welcome The winding road through the estate’s acres, through beech and oaks, is long. Signs encourage doubting drivers, “You’re nearly there”, “Close” until they finally arrive at the timbered Lodge. Check-in is relaxed and informal. The receptionist stands and chats with us as she enters a few last details on her lap top. No desks, no barriers. Then she guides us to our Shepherd’s Hut. The Hideaway Hut A signpost to Titania, Fairy, Bottom, Snout et al signals that these Hideaway
