Food & Drink

Dining Out at Rushton Hall

There are bad days. There are good days. And then, there are days like this one. Rushton Hall days. It’s Friday, prior to a Bank Holiday and I’m being paid – actually commanding a salary – in return for the privilege of visiting Rushton Hall. Please, nobody let onto my publisher, but I’d work for free… in fact, I’d pay him to do this! Trickling through the towns of Stamford and Oakham with their limestone architecture, then onto Uppingham and eventually Northamptonshire, with their changing architectural vernacular of ironstone, I’m minded to explain to readers why we’re featuring a dining out recommendation situated neither in Stamford nor Rutland. Short answer; it’s well worth the trip of the half an hour...