Step back in time to elegance of another era"

"Purely bliss with stone flagged floor; old oak settles and the kind of roaring fire which simply begs you to warm your backside against it".

"I might as well put the record straight here, the service in the Lord Crewe was superb ­ friendly and anxious to please"

"We followed the waiter on an awesome tour, along passages and up stairs, through rooms of Baronial splendour, to the restaurant itself. Here it required all our savoir faire not to stand and goggle like peasants brought before the squire"

"We left Merrie England behind. This room was more Ancien Regime France than Christmas card coaching inn. Walls dripping with huge portraits and mirrors reached up to high ceilings which in turn looked down upon tables furnished with flickering candles, their light reflected by the flawless crystal and silver on spotless tablecloths. At either end of the room there was a roaring fire and, discreetly from the background, soothing baroque music wafted over us"

"A truly memorable meal should be an experience and the Lord Crewe certainly fulfils all the criteria"