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The Padstow restaurant with rooms that launched Rick Stein's empire

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Fiona Duncan

Our writer returns to the Seafood Restaurant as it celebrates its 50th anniversaryI'm on my feet, dancing. So are dozens of others, to a stream of Seventies hits. Rick Stein is manning the turntables of his mobile discotheque; the strobe lights are flashing, the glitterball is glittering and there's no chance of a brawl breaking out at the Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, celebrating its 50th anniversary in style.
Celebrating Women in Municipal Government

4 weeks ago | nlc.org | Fiona Duncan

In honor of Women’s History Month, the National League of Cities (NLC) reached out to members of the Women in Municipal Government (WIMG) Constituency Group to share their personal reflections on the impact and importance of women serving in local government. These women leaders, who serve as mayors, council members and other local government officials, spoke candidly about the importance of recognizing women’s contributions to society and advancing gender equity in municipal governance.
The wonders of British springtime (and where to see them)

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Richard Madden |Chris Leadbeater |Fiona Duncan |Sophie Butler

As warmer weather settles across the country, our expert reveals how to make the most of this beautiful seasonSpring. The word itself says it all: longer, warmer days that (quite literally) put a spring in your step and a smile on your face. In the natural world, the changes are even more profound, with our gardens, meadows, hedgerows, hills and woodlands bursting into life with a riotous display of colour, scent and sound.
How London’s Dorset Square defined boutique hotels

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Fiona Duncan

Kit Kemp’s Firmdale group turns 40 this year – and it all started at Dorset Square, which has newly decorated suites to celebrate Dorset Square was the first hotel opened by Tim and Kit Kemp Credit: Simon Brown Fiona Duncan Hotel expert 02 March 2025 11:00am GMT Some good things, thankfully, don’t change. In the constantly fluctuating world of hospitality, Firmdale Hotels stand out like beacons, as individual and imaginative, contemporary and colourful, warm and welcoming as when they first...
I’ve lived in the New Forest for 50 years – I’m sick of selfish cyclists and dog walkers

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Fiona Duncan

Fiona Duncan Hotel expert 01 March 2025 6:00am GMT Ask me what county I live in and I am prone, if momentarily, to forget the answer. Oh yes, that’s right, it’s Hampshire, but an area so different from the rest of the county that it feels completely detached. How I love hearing the rattle of the cattle grid that marks the boundary of this other world as I drive inside. Suddenly, I am in the New Forest, 219 square miles of open heathland, ancient and ornamental woodland, rivers, valley mires,...
Tuscany’s secret rugged region where a three-course meal costs £15

1 month ago | msn.com | Fiona Duncan

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Tuscany’s secret rugged region where a three-course meal costs £15

1 month ago | msn.com | Fiona Duncan

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Tuscany’s secret rugged region where a three-course meal costs £15

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Fiona Duncan

Fiona Duncan Hotel expert 25 February 2025 2:00pm GMT Most British tourists think they know Tuscany. And yet, most of them haven’t been to – or even heard of – the Lunigiana. Few tourists of any stripe have, in fact, which is one of the joys of this small but magical region. It’s a different Tuscany – different heritage, customs, dialects and gastronomy – tucked into the region’s northernmost corner, bisected by the River Magra and caught between the Apuan Alps to the south (where Carrara...
‘All the character of a country inn with the luxury of a fine hotel’

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Fiona Duncan

The Swan Inn Fittleworth is the latest glamorous addition to this increasingly well-heeled corner of the south coast The Swan Inn, a 16th-century West Sussex coaching inn, recently reopened after extensive refurbishment Fiona Duncan Hotel expert 01 February 2025 3:00pm GMT Forget the Cotswolds – so yesterday, so twee. And Somerset: yes, the Newt and Hauser & Wirth are draws but how dowdy Bruton ever became an epicentre of creativity and country cool beats me. Let me take you instead to West...
A Magical Family Escape: Estelle Manor - Review

2 months ago | countryandtownhouse.com | Fiona Duncan

Fiona Duncan checks into Estelle Manor with her family in tow. Review: Estelle Manor, OxfordshireI’m a hotel critic by trade. I go to hotels, usually on my own. I check out the food in the dining room, walk around the grounds, sleep in the bed, eat breakfast, go home, write my review.