30 | LUXlife Magazine - Restaurant & Bar Awards 2023 Best Contemporary Fine Dining Experience 2023 - Staffordshire Situated in the heart of Staffordshire, Hoar Cross Hall is an award-winning hotel and spa, boasting 104 stylish bedrooms, picture-perfect gardens, and a wealth of excellent spa facilities and wellness suites. The grounds are also home to a number of spectacular restaurants, all serving impeccably presented dishes to suit a range of tastes. Available to both hotel guests and visitors, the Hall offers high-class fine dining experiences bursting with the extraordinary flavours of local ingredients. Designed by renowned architect Henry Clutton, who redeveloped Covent Garden, the spectacular Hoar Cross Hall was built in an Elizabethan style with Jacobean undertones. The building is a sight to behold, with rich history in its stunning architecture and charming grounds, providing an incredible setting for an opulent spa and fine dining experience. Whether guests want to indulge in a selection of succulent savouries for lunch or an extravagant three-course meal for dinner, Hoar Cross Hall invites them to feel at home with a touch of luxury at its various dining establishments. The Hall’s fine dining A La Carte experience is set in its grand Rosette-awarded Ballroom restaurant, which provides the perfect meal to bring a day to an end, complete with Grade II listed William Morris wallpaper. Each overnight spa experience includes breakfast, a three-course lunch and a three-course dinner in the Ballroom, ensuring guests experience the utmost relaxation throughout their day knowing they have a delicious meal waiting for them in the evening or upon arrival. Hoar Cross Hall also features a daytime Bistro, Henry’s, which offers an alternative dining option for all guests. Serving sandwiches, salad bowls, stone baked pizzas, and sweet treats, there are plenty of options to tickle anyone’s tastebuds. Also open during the day is Hugo’s, the Hall’s spa restaurant, which is the perfect location for spa guests to stop for a midday boost. For a Afternoon Tea experience, guests and visitors alike can stop at the Library to sample a fine collection of teas and Champagnes, along with an enticing menu of savoury and sweet treats. Over the years, the core values of the Hoar Cross Hall team have solidified, with a particular focus on consistently delivering an excellent customer experience to ensure that visitors come back time and time again. To facilitate this, the hotel has introduced a compulsory training programme for all employees to ensure they are well-equipped to deliver the best customer care. Staff are encouraged to treat every guest as they would a friend or family member, making their experience feel as personal as possible. Whether guests are at the hotel to enjoy lunch, dinner, or the full spa experience, it is vital that all visitors leave with memories that last a lifetime. The team at Hoar Cross Hall is proud to have maintained its Rosette standard in the Ballroom, highlighting the unparalleled excellence of the A La Carte experience it offers. This award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the Hall’s food and beverage team and its talented chefs, delivering outstanding service to all customers. Alongside this, Hoar Cross Hall has been awarded the 5 Bubble Luxury rating by Good Spa Guide. Only a select number of venues received this award, further emphasising the dedication of its staff. All Hoar Cross Hall’s restaurants are managed by Executive Head Chef, James St ClaireJones, who has mastered the art of crafting seasonal dishes with a unique contemporary twist. James is highly experienced in his field, having spent 32 years working in all aspects of the hospitality industry as well as in food demonstration and development. In 2013, he competed in MasterChef: The Professionals, and has more recently received Gold Best in Class for the Culinary Plant Forward Challenge. Furthermore, the Hall’s Senior Sous Chef, Alex, has recently won the International Culinaire Plant Base Championship 2023. As part of this, Alex designed a new dish which will soon feature on the Hall’s menus. As a result of the superior customer experience it provides across all its restaurants, Barons Eden at Hoar Cross Hall has won Best Contemporary Fine Dining Experience, Staffordshire, in the Restaurant and Bar Awards 2023. Moving forwards, the Hall is in the process of taking action to reduce its impact on the environment. As well as sourcing meat and fish sustainably through local suppliers, the Hall has recently introduced honey bees to its grounds, whose produce it uses throughout its food and beverages. Contact: Sophie Sharpe-Neal Company: Barons Eden at Hoar Cross Hall Web Address: https://baronseden.com/hoar-cross-hall
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