Padstow Townhouse named AA Restaurant with Rooms of the Year

Paul Ainsworth's Padstow Townhouse in Cornwall has been named Restaurant with Rooms of the Year at the AA Bed and Breakfast Awards 2017 this afternoon.

Padstow Townhouse is a collection of six individually styled suites where guests can choose between a Townhouse breakfast served in their suite or a table in Ainsworth's Rojano's in the Square. All guests also have the opportunity to dine at the four-AA-rosette Paul Ainsworth at No. 6 or the one-AA-rosette Rojano's in the Square.

All the winners were nominated by AA inspectors who inspect and rate more than 2,000 B&Bs throughout the UK. Winners received an award certificate and an engraved Villeroy & Boch decanter.

The 2017 winners are:

• AA Guest Accommodation of the Year for England â€" Nanny Brow, Ambleside, Cumbria
• AA Guest Accommodation of the Year for Scotland â€" Pool House, Poolewe, Wester Ross
• AA Guest Accommodation of the Year for Wales â€" Mansion House, Llansteffan, Camarthen
• AA Guest Accommodation of the Year for Northern Ireland â€" The Old Schoolhouse Inn, Comber, Belfast
• AA Unique B&B of the Year â€" Maiden’s Tower, Leeds Castle, Kent
• AA Restaurant with Rooms â€" Padstow Townhouse, Cornwall
• AA Eviivo B&B Story Award â€" The Grove, Cromer, Norfolk

Andrew Oxley, head of AA hotel services, said: “We, at the AA, are always delighted to host the Bed and Breakfast Awards, so that we may publicly reward and thank all of B&B owners for the hard work, passion and dedication that they put into epitomising good hospitality in their bed and breakfasts.”

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