Valentine 2008 - Marston Farm Hotel - Sutton Coldfield

They didn’t build 17th century farm houses in town centres. When we say The Marston Farm Hotel is in the country, we mean deep in the country.

For this was the ancestral home of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of Her Majesty’s constabulary, which is why they’re called Bobbies. In its 9 acres of beautiful Warwickshire countryside, you’re on the Birmingham-Fazeley canal. When did you last take a towpath walk? Just smell the honeysuckle and the grass; nectar.

The hotel has inglenook fireplaces, original rafters, wattle and daub, a pretty courtyard for quaffing away during the summer and armchairs so deep you’re asleep before you’ve come to rest. There’s a lovely permanent marquee for weddings as well. So the key question is, why bother to put up with the noise and pollution of a Birmingham city hotel if you can settle back in the countryside and take it really easy? Oh, and there’s a tennis court as well.

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SAMPLE VALENTINE'S DINNER MENU

Twice baked goats cheese soufflé, pear and walnut salad, aged balsamic dressing
Seasonal melon, finished with passion fruit sorbet and frosted mint
Buffalo mozzarella and beef tomato salad with pesto and basil leaves
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Asparagus and white bean soup
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Baked chicken breast filled with banana and ham, presented onto Korma sauce with pilau rice
Steamed plaice fillets wrapped around bell peppers together with a delicate gazpachio sauce
Wild mushroom risotto, with parmesan and garden herb wafer
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Raspberry, strawberry and meringue flummery
Dark chocolate and orange truffle torte
Stilton, Cheshire and Brie cheese plate with raisin and port chutney
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Coffee and Petite fours

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