Co-owners Joel Cadbury (a scion of the chocolate family fame) and Ollie Vigors (of Longshot) alongside business partners Tim Edwards and Ian Todd, all have an understanding of the elements that make you want to return, time after time.
There is the most expensive private golf course club in the country here; you can do clay pigeon shooting, but nothing veers into the ‘staid and starchy’ field, especially with the interiors which have just the right amount of swagging and gilding.
Yes, the whole affair is ineffably wondrous. As for a suite for Tom Holland and Zendaya? It would have to be the Elizabeth Taylor, a riot of dusky blues and pink hues, a canopied bed, where you will want to lie horizontal and gaze at those views, eating those lobster tacos (again). But the highlight has to be the roll top bath that was once owned by Rudolf Nureyev. For even more privacy, or perhaps the best place to accommodate the family, the Dower House is a fabulous five-bedroom private house, complete with a dreamy pool buried deep in the countryside.
And then there is the culinary creativity of The Dining Room—a huge draw in its own right. Think: Japanese scallops, steaming slithers of wagyu; aged toro tartare with huge spoons of caviar; or a memorable grilled pork with red peppercorn sauce served in the shade of a bonsai tree. Many guests come here—repeatedly—to savor chef Wojciech Popow’s creations.
He’s been sober for a year and a half now after realizing that alcohol was “all I could think about.”
I really hope the happy couple’s guests had the privilege of trying the spell-binding work of legendary OG sommelier Giovanni Tallu, who spent many years at Mark Birley’s Annabel’s. He will give you an oenophilic education on delicate sakés, as much as silky Montrachets, and his pairings are unparalleled. (Tom Holland, of course, is famously a teetotaler.)
But whatever their poison the night before, guests all appear at breakfast with the unfakeable air of being truly rested. And then, few pleasures can match the simplicity of scrambled eggs with crispy bacon—both of which Beaverbrook does with aplomb.
The best post-wedding hangover cure, in my opinion, would be to stride through fields of wildflowers to the Meadow Hut, a fantasy realm presided over by resident master of treatments Lino Zinchi, known for his signature bodywork treatments that blend shamanic breathwork, shiatsu and Swedish massage to extraordinary effect. Or to indulge in a cacao ceremony with naturopath Camilla, sipping foraged chamomile tea beneath a 200-year-old yew as you wander further into the ancient woodland. And while this place may happily cater for Hollywood power-players, it also draws the spiritual kind too.
