Best Hotel Restaurant of the Year 2017: Cornwall Life Food & Drink Awards

PUBLISHED: 09:05 15 September 2017 | UPDATED: 09:50 15 September 2017

Hotel Restaurant of the Year

Hotel Restaurant of the Year

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We announce our 2017 winner of Best Hotel Restaurant of the Year at the Cornwall Life Food & Drink Awards...

This category enables our numerous hotel restaurants to stand out from the crowd. We were looking for venues that offer a sublime dining experience with fantastic food, drink and superb service. Would you still go out of your way to eat there, even if you are not staying overnight?

Our finalists were…

St Enodoc Hotel in Rock

The Greenbank in Falmouth

And our winner is…

The Idle Rocks in St Mawes

This award was sponsored by Savills.

Click here to return to our list of winners!

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