Fodor's Expert Review Frenchgate Restaurant and Hotel

This three-story Georgian town house on a quiet cobbled street has a secluded walled garden for summer days. The bright and welcoming interior is packed with 18th-century period features, such as beamed ceilings and wood paneling in the public rooms, but many of the bathrooms are completely up-to-date, with marble floors, ambient lighting, and free-standing Italian baths. Works by area artists fill the hotel, and the elegant bedrooms are tastefully decorated in restful creams and taupes, some with oak four-poster beds or original fireplaces. Be careful not to confuse this with Frenchgate Guest House, a B&B on the same street.