Lickfold, British, Traditional Restaurant Guide

A “brilliant pub with delicious food, great service and a very special garden”, which is “everything you could hope to find” in a 350-year-old establishment on the edge of the Petworth estate, with “country-chic bedrooms”. There’s a “warm, welcoming atmosphere”, and “very fresh food” on a seasonal menu with “an innovative twist”.

2023 Review: With its “delightful setting looking out across the South Downs” – a view from the window said to have inspired William Blake’s anthem Jerusalem in 1803 – this eighteenth-century coaching inn is quite a draw, especially in summer when you can dine in the garden. The cooking is generally “creditable” (although both highs and lows were reported this year). The business has been owned since 2007 by Giles Thompson, formerly executive head chef at The Ritz. Jerusalem.