For the table

Best luxury hotels for food lovers

Plenty of luxury hotels lose the plot at dinner: most great rooms sit above a forgettable restaurant, the kind you eat at once and then book elsewhere. This list is the exception: hotels where the kitchen is a reason to stay, not an afterthought, and where the food holds up under the same scrutiny as the room. These are the places people who paid the bill actually wrote home about, not for the marble, for the meal. At the top right now: Cheval Blanc St-Tropez, Dining 19/20.