A Rather Refined Veganuary: Garden-Led Plates & Plant-Forward Pleasure

Bodysgallen Hall & Spa

Set on Pydew Mountain with views across to Conwy Castle and Eryri (Snowdonia), Bodysgallen Hall is one of Wales’s most atmospheric country-house hotels. In its 2 AA Rosette Dining Room, Head Chef Abdalla El Shershaby offers a dedicated plant-based menu that’s genuinely enjoyable. You might start with heritage beetroot with vegan feta or melon compressed with cured fennel, before moving on to generous mains such as herb risotto with estate vegetables or roasted squash with king oyster mushrooms. Desserts continue the theme with black pepper caramel pineapple or a dark chocolate cake sharpened with redcurrant sorbet. This is luxury vegan British food shaped by seasonal British produce and served with an absolute sense of place.

Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa

Set in the quiet Wiltshire countryside, Whatley Manor invites you into a benchmark of modern, mindful luxury. When you take your seat in The Dining Room, one of the first in the UK to receive a Michelin green star, you can feel that commitment reflected in its plant-based tasting menu. Here you’re met with dishes of the calibre of aged carrot with pomelo, chilli and lime, tempura aubergine with perilla and a remarkably gratifying risotto XO with cucumber and enoki. Even dessert draws you in, bringing together orange, macadamia and pistachio in an easy, unfussy way.

The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa

Montagu’s Mews at The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa in Bath invites you to enter plant-based heaven wrapped in calm, understated Georgian elegance. Once you’re seated in these elegant surroundings, Head Chef Martin Blake’s vegan tasting menu feels deliberately composed rather than dutiful, a six-course celebration of seasonal British produce. You’ll encounter dishes built around beetroot, carrot and artichoke, each treated with the sort of attentiveness usually reserved for the finest cuts of meat and lifted with unexpected touches like Douglas fir or black cherry. It’s a plant-based fine dining hotel with precision and personality, entirely at ease in one of the country’s most iconic luxury hotels.

Boringdon Hall Hotel & Spa

Vegan food isn’t just about lunch or dinner, and Boringdon Hall proves it with an afternoon tea that feels every bit as thoughtfully put together as a full tasting menu. This grand Devonshire manor may have a past that stretches back as far as the Domesday Book, but what arrives at your table is entirely contemporary. Served in the dramatic setting of the Great Hall, with its carved stone hearth, tall windows and the soft glow of a log fire, the hotel’s plant-based afternoon tea offers its own unique interpretation of this quintessentially British ritual. As you settle in, you’ll find delicate sandwiches, generous patisserie and glossy little cakes arriving alongside warm scones that are soft, fragrant and impossible to resist.

The Montagu Arms Hotel

Set in the heart of the New Forest at Beaulieu, The Montagu Arms offers vegan dining that feels inspired, rooted in nature and designed for the whole year. With ingredients drawn directly from its gardens and the surrounding forest, the kitchen invites you to savour dishes crafted by Executive Head Chef Alistair Craig and his team: from heritage beetroot with raspberry, hazelnut and truffle to oyster mushrooms with shallot ketchup. A stay here, whether dining in The Terrace or unwinding in Monty’s Inn after a walk beneath ancient trees, becomes a tranquil and exceptionally satisfying getaway for the plant-based diner.