The French Horn at Sonning is a hotel and restaurant on the banks of the River Thames next to the Sonning Backwater Bridges, at Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire, England.[1][2] The hotel includes a number of riverside cottages that are now used as rooms for hotel clients. There is an old, rusty iron gate with the name of the hotel within the ironwork on the path by the river opposite Sonning Bridge.
| The French Horn | |
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 View from the Sonning Backwater | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Owner(s) | Michael Emmanuel |
| Head chef | Josiane Diaga |
| Food type | [Classic French & British] |
| Street address | [Play Hatch Road, Sonning on Thames] |
| City | Reading |
| County | Oxfordshire |
| Postal/ZIP Code | RG4 6TN |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°28′38″N 0°55′00″W / 51.47729°N 0.91667°W |
| Seating capacity | 70 |
| Reservations | +44 (0)118 969 2204 |
| Website | www.thefrenchhorn.co.uk |
Notable clientele included the film director and restaurant critic Michael Winner (died 2013),[3] who has used the location as a film set. It has also featured in the books of Dick Francis.[4]
Close by is The Mill at Sonning, now a dinner theatre. On the opposite Berkshire bank over the main Sonning Bridge is another riverside hotel and restaurant, the Great House at Sonning.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ The French Horn, Berkshire by Joanne O'Connor, The Observer, 21 July 2002.
- ^ The French Horn, Sonning, Berkshire: Rena Munro experiences a taste of France on the Thames in slow-lane Berkshire by Rena Munro, The Sunday Times, 11 March 2007.
- ^ Stop the week: Winner's dinners — Decent hospital food? Always a tricky operation by Michael Winner, The Sunday Times, 11 March 2007.
- ^ Francis, Dick (2010). Break In. Chivers. ISBN 978-1-4084-6521-9. OCLC 764510347.