No. 131 Hotel

131 The Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Steaks. Serious steaks. Steaks including a 36oz T-bone Ruby Red Devon (for sharing, unless you’re from America’s Midwest) are the heart of 131’s splendid menu. With chefs from Michelin-starred Chez Bruce and the Square, it delivers quality English seasonal produce in a coolly eclectic restaurant, blending chandeliers and huge Georgian windows with contemporary artwork by the likes of Sir Peter Blake. With echoes of the successful Pig hotels, 131 re-energises a glorious period property with friendly and efficient young staff, relaxed public spaces and 11 stylish bedrooms boasting stonking bathrooms, botanical smellies and sumptuous bedding. IB. Doubles from £120