5 ‘restaurants with rooms’ worth the trip, from Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in the UK, to Hiša Franko in Slovenia, run by Netflix’s Chef’s Table star Ana Roš
Ever wished you could go straight to bed after a delicious restaurant meal? Now you can: Sweden’s Vyn, India’s Naar and Italy’s Venissa all boast private rooms on par with luxury hotels
There are restaurants that merit a special journey, and then there are temples of gastronomy that are worth crossing seas, negotiating seemingly never-ending roads and summiting mountains to reach.
Not only do these restaurants offer some of the most exquisite food and wine on the planet, they also relieve guests of the need to move on after their meal: with rooms on site, diners can slip straight into the crisp cotton sheets of a capacious bed to digest in horizontal comfort.
Here are five of the most spectacular restaurants with rooms across the world.
Vyn
Simrishamn, Skåne county, Sweden
Few dining rooms offer the modern grace of Daniel Berlin’s two-Michelin-starred Vyn. With expansive windows letting in the view of farmland sweeping down to the Baltic Sea, bare wood floors and tables, and a palette of sand, stone and soil, it is a dream of nature-inspired Scandinavian minimalism only elevated by the supreme elegance of the dishes.
Menus are strictly seasonal, with Berlin growing, foraging and hunting from land and sea. Dishes may include the exquisite langoustine cooked gently in brown butter; white beetroots, raw shrimp, walnuts and Fjällko (Swedish mountain cattle) cream; or cockles with smoked red deer heart and roasted barley.
The former farmhouse also houses 15 serene guest rooms, and a more casual food and wine bar. Vyn, which opened in late 2023, is a seven-hour drive south from Stockholm, or two hours (three hours by train) over the eight-kilometre Øresund Bridge from the Danish capital of Copenhagen. But once you arrive, you may never want to leave.
Venissa
Mazzorbo, Venice, Italy
Venice – crowded, polluted, lost its charm? Not at Michelin-starred (both red and green) Venissa on the serene islet of Mazzorbo, a 50-minute vaporetto (water taxi) ride from the busy streets of San Marco. Upon docking in front of the restaurant – housed in a charming ivory-painted, wooden-shuttered building – a feeling of peace settles on the spirit.