RestaurantsBerkshireEtonSL4

survey result

Summary

£72
  £££
2
Average
2
Average
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “stylish restaurant” near the bridge to Windsor has been run for almost 50 years by co-founder Lin Gilbey, who is responsible for its interior design. Her husband and business partner Bill (scion of the Gilbey’s Gin dynasty) sadly passed away in 2022, but Lin has pressed ahead with improvements, acquiring the premises next door to offer corporate entertainment and private dining facilities. Modern British cooking is generally felt to be “solid”.

Summary

£68
  £££
2
Average
2
Average
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

A “gorgeous cosy restaurant” (owned by the eponymous gin dynasty) near the bridge to Windsor, with a “lovely and romantic” front room and larger dining space to the rear. It’s “very traditional” in style and serves a menu of “solid if unspectacular, reliable, competitively priced modern British cooking”.

Summary

£68
  £££
2
Average
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Despite a dearth of feedback, we’ve maintained a listing for this traditional, family-owned (by the gin dynasty) wine bar and restaurant near the bridge. It’s never been a major culinary destination, but has a good wine list, is very agreeable in style, and worth knowing about in this under-provided locale.

Summary

£58
   ££
3
Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

The cuisine is “somewhere between modern British and French in looks and taste”, and reliably – if not perhaps dazzlingly – executed at this comfortable stalwart, on the high street near the bridge. As befits a venue owned by the gin dynasty, the wine list is worth a nose – “if possible sleep off the after-effects in one of the super bedrooms above” (which opened a couple of years ago).

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Restaurant details

Highchair,Menu,Portions
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16, 34
No dress code
150

Gilbey’s Restaurant Diner Reviews

Reviews of Gilbey’s Restaurant in SL4, Eton by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of Gilbey’s restaurant.
Max H
Good quality food in a very pleasant restau...
Reviewed 11 months, 15 days ago

"Good quality food in a very pleasant restaurant "

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Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Lunch £28.50 £37.00

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£16.50 £23.40 £9.75
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £25.50
Filter Coffee £3.50
Extras  
Service 10.00%
82 - 83 High Street, Eton, SL4 6AF
Opening hours
Monday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Tuesday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Thursday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Friday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm
Saturday12 pm‑3 pm, 6 pm‑10 pm
Sunday12 pm‑3:30 pm

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