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Rules has the distinction of being London’s oldest restaurant. Established by Thomas Rule in 1798, Rules is known for it’s traditional British cuisine.

Classic game cookery, oysters, pies and puddings are all on the menu of this fine restaurant in Covent Garden. Much of the menu is sourced from their Lartington Estate, in the High Pennines, including high quality game birds, roe deer and Belted Galloway beef. Rules is renowned for its game dishes and the Game Season plays an important part in shaping the menu.

Rules has four private dining rooms, suitable for groups between 7 and 18 people. Along with a dedicated team of staff trained to make dining in these unique, historical rooms a memorable and unique experience.

Rules Restaurant
35 Maiden Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 7LB

Tel: +44 (0)207 836 5314
Tel: +44 (0)207 379 0258 (Private Room Reservations)

Website: Rules Restaurant

The Ivy is possibly the most celebrity-strewn eating place in London, where actors from the city’s West End theatres mix with politicians and celebrities of every hue. One is advised to book well in advance as it is always very hard to get a table here, but The Ivy is certainly worth the effort.

There is the air of an old gentleman’s club about the place with it’s oak panels, soft lighting and 1920s stained glass windows.

The food is mainly British/European, with a few influences from further afield. But classic British dishes such as Fish and Chips and Welsh Rarebit appear regularly on the menu, giving the place a delightful lack of pretentiousness. It was this atmosphere that encouraged the restaurant to be frequented by Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier and many other of Britain’s finest actors and actresses. Indeed, even the restaurant’s name has a theatrical lineage.

When the Actress, Alice Delysia, overheard Abel Glandellini apologising to customers for the inconvenience of building work in the restaurant when he was enlarging the dining room, she said, “Don’t worry, we will always come to see you, we will cling together like the ivy.”

The name stuck. And a legend was born.

The Ivy,
1 West Street,
LONDON,
WC2H 9NE
Tel: (020) 7836 4751

When Rowley Leigh opened this stylish and contemporary west London restaurant in 1987, it proved an immediate hit; not only with London’s media elite, who swarm to it every night, but also with The London Times’ food critics who rewarded it with their coveted Restaurant of the Year Award after stating, “This is the place, and about time too”.

KP has since almost doubled in size and yet continues to be as busy as ever, proving that it’s standards remain as high today as they were when Lady Diana used to list this amongst her favourite London restaurants.

The modern decor – with it’s enormous signature plate glass windows – guarantees a “see and be seen” factor, which has always been one of the restaurant’s attractions. This, coupled with the space’s madly buzzing ambience, has ensured it’s popularity into the new millennium.

However, it is for it’s food that Kensington Place is most renowned. Indeed, Leigh could be said to have started the current food renaissance as both KP’s style and Leigh’s food have gone on to be recognised as ”the most plagiarised and influential of the last decade”.

Kensington Place,
201 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LX 
Tel: (020) 7727 3184
Email: kpparty@egami.co.uk
Website: Kensington Place

The phrase, ‘weekend in the country’ could be said to have been invented at The Grove. Regular visitors such as Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Horace Walpole and Lord Palmerston would arrive on Saturday, returning to London on Monday morning. Owned by the 4th Earl of Clarendon, The Grove became a fashionable weekend retreat.

Today, The Grove is a five star hotel, set in three hundred acres of woodland and parkland, complimented by an 18 hole championship golf course and a rejuvinating spa. Tennis and croquet in the Walled Garden complete the experience. Awarded AA Hotel of the Year 2005, the 227 sumptuous and luxurious rooms and suites range from the luxurious to the truly palatial. Three restaurants along with meeting rooms create the perfect base for business or pleasure. Situated 40 minutes from central London, The Grove is ideal for short or longer stays.

The Grove Hotel
Chandler’s Cross,
Hertfordshire,
WD3 4TG
Note: some satellite navigation systems may use the postcode WD17 3TU.

Tel: +44 (0) 1923 807807
Fax: +44 (0) 1923 221008

The Grove Official Site

Set in the half-tamed border country between Herefordshire and Wales, the Penrhos Court Country Hotel is the perfect setting for your green eco-wedding. Be prepared for your wedding guests to dine on seasonal, organic food connected with passion, love and marriage. All for that extra special touch. Each menu is individually created between the couple and the award winning chef/nutritionist Daphne Lambert, with different slection of foods depending on the season. Penrhos holds a civil ceremony licence and ideally suits wedding parties of between 30 and 70 people. Also available at the Penrhos Court Country Hotel are food, health and cookery courses to set you on the right path to confidently preparing and cooking your own wholefood organic dishes as part of your new lifestyle. Why not treat yourself to a short break at The Penrhos Hotel with yoga, massage, reflexology and nutritional consultation.

Penrhos Court
Kington
Herefordshire
HR5 3LH

Tel: 01544 230720
Fax: 01544 230754

Penrhos Official Site

Burghley House has been the ancestral home of the Burghley Family since 1587, when this large and grand Elizabethan house was completed for William Cecil, later Baron Burghley. The house is a splendid example of 16th-century English architecture but also features a suite of rooms remodelled in the baroque style. Baron Burghley rarely stayed at the House as it was impractical for his work at the courts.

Today the house and gardens are used for weddings and corporate events along with tours and film work. Burghley House is the location for the annual Burghley Horse Trials.

Burghley House
Stamford
Lincolnshire
PE9 3JY

Tel: 01780 752451

Burghley House Official Site

Roger Brown Photography offers a fresh and contemporary approach to wedding photography with an emphasis on capturing those spontaneous moments often missed with more traditional styles of photography.

Roger previously worked as an editorial photographer working for publications such as The Times, The Telegraph Magazine, and Italian Grazia.

Roger Brown Photgraphy
Tel : 020 8769 9551

Roger Brown Photography

There is no better way to take a break, than in the New Forest. With it’s beautiful surroundings and natural habitat the area is a retreat in itself.
Westover Hall, a victorian mansion, is situated in Milford on Sea in the south of the New Forest and is within easy reach of the beach.
The hotel has a three star gold award and has stunning views to the needles and the Isle of Wight.

Westover Hall Hotel
Park Lane
Milford on Sea
Hampshire
SO41 0PT

Tel: 01590 643 044

Westover Hall Official Site

West Wycombe Park is a beautiful country house and gardens, situated near to the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. Built between 1740 and 1800 as a pleasure palace by the decadent libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood. Influenced by his Grand Tour, where the villas of the Italian renaissance had inspired him to recreate something similar.

Today, West Wycombe Park is still home to the Dashwood heirs, but is open in the summer months to the public. It is a delightful park, with Rococo landscape gardens with statues, grottoes and an ornamental lake.

The 18th-century home of Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the nearby and notorious Hellfire Club contains fine painted ceilings, pictures, furniture and sculpture. This neo-classical mansion remains one of England’s finest theatrical and Italianate houses. Set in an 18th-century landscaped park, and surrounded by smaller temples that act as satellites to the main house.

The park still contains many follies and temples. The “Temple of Music” is on an island on the swan shaped lake, inspired by the Temple of Vesta in Rome. It was designed for Dashwood’s fêtes champêtres, with the temple used as a theatre. Today, the remains of the stage survive.

The Park and house are used as a film location, for shooting and special events. It is also available for wedding hire, and would make a splendid wedding venue. The house and park was donated to the National Trust in 1943.

West Wycombe Park,
West Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire
HP14 3AJ.

Tel: 01494 513569

Located in Belgravia, adjacent to Buckingham Palace, The Goring Hotel was first opened in 1910 and was the first hotel to have private bathrooms and central heating in every bedroom.
Dine at their luxurious restaurant and sample some delicious menus. Vegetarians are also deliciously catered for.
Treat someone to a Goring gift voucher so they can experience it for themselves. The gift vouchers include champagne afternoon tea for two. lunch for two, dinner for two, a night to remember and not forgeting the champagne weekend.
Meetings, Weddings and Private Parties are also catered for.

The Goring
Beeston Place
London
SW1W 0JW

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7396 9000
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7834 4393

The Goring Official Site