Here’s a tip-top tipple that’ll turn the most frazzled of frowns upside down.

A trip to the tranquil Updown Farmhouse in Kent is an antidote to even the most topsy-turvy of tendencies.

This rural restaurant with rooms is a rare sanctuary from the mechanical ticking of modern life – serving up a menu of local and seasonal fayre in the awfully English setting of a 17th century farmstead and its idyllic country garden.

And what better way to let life’s cares tumble away than with the eatery’s signature dry martini, made with Broken Clock Vodka and deftly stirred up by Updown’s bar manager Joe Warden.