The Orangery at Danesfield House

Yum. Typically restaurants at the hotels are not so great, especially posh ones as they tend to be less on the tasty side. This one is right on the money. The sea bass is amazing. The fish is served Branzino style, crispy on the skin side and soft and tender on the fish meat side. Served with some very flavorful greens and 3 droplets of mashed potatoes. A full meal. The smoked salmon appetizer is delicious, served super thin. If you want your table bread toasted just ask for it, goes great with the salmon. The shrimp cocktail is served as is a wedge salad with a french dressing or mayonnaise type dressing on top, wasn’t a fan of this as I don’t care for french dressing nor mayonnaise. The wine selection is great. The chablis is fabulous as is the malbec. Breakfast is good too, you can either order a hot food plate or do the continental buffet. The views from the restaurant are gorgeous, landscape of beautifully designed brush, flowers, stairs down to a maze and the Thames River and a nice walkway whereby you can see deer, etc. Great for a pre food stroll to get hungry or post food stroll to walk it off. The parallel bar is nice too. Closes early though for countries that tend to eat later, so get there early and make reservations.

A lovely country house that is now a good spa hotel, between Marlow and Henley-​on-​Thames. Set in extensive grounds that provide a good walk, the hotel has two very good restaurants including the Oak Room which has a FANTASTIC tasting menu of about 7 courses for £75. We have tried this, along with the accompanying wines (which are more expensive than the food), and it’s a great gastronomic feast.
The spa has an ozone-​cleansed (i.e. no chlorine) 20 metre pool, whirlpool bath, sauna and steam room, plus lots of treatments available. Limitless towels, robes and slippers, daily papers and lots of magazines, and kids banned from the spa area for the majority of the day (I like kids, but this is a relaxing/​romantic place, not one for kids ‘bombing’ the pool!).
It was used as an RAF Intelligence place during the Second World War.