toptable Dining Awards 2007 - Runner-up: Top Rated category
The Bath Priory restaurant in Bath has held a Michelin star since 1999. Found within the Bath Priory Hotel, a Georgian mansion of honey-coloured stone, it's a great place when you want sophisticated food in an elegant setting. Head Chef, Chris Horridge, turns out stellar dishes with a strong emphasis on kitchen garden ingredients and an inventive use of traditional herbs and flowers. For starters, try the home-cured salmon fragranced with alder bark smoke and served with creamed nasturtium, or foie gras 'kilner' with sycamore sap, cow parsley purée and sweet bread. Mains might be pink and tender pigeon with salsify, appled lentils and root syrup or John Dory confit, with romano pepper and seeds. Complete your taste buds' amazement with a caramel soufflé, served with green chartreuse and kifir sorbet. Where possible, all meat is locally sourced and the menu sticks closely to what's in season - an approach that Horridge's former mentor Raymond Blanc would be proud of.
