Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, A Belmond Hotel, Oxfordshire

What the classifiers highlight

A honey-colored fifteenth-century manor house in Great Milton, built around chef Raymond Blanc's kitchen, where produce comes largely from the property's own gardens and heritage orchard. MICHELIN gives it Three Keys, one of only three English country houses to hold that rank, plus a Green Star and Two Stars held for the restaurant's full forty years.