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This 18th century pub has been taken over and refurbished by Daniel Crump and Margriet Vandezande-Crump who have worked together fine-dining restaurants including Petrus, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, Trinity, and also The Oxford Blue in Old Windsor.

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Summary

£101
£££££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“A real delight” declares the strong local fan club of this “beautifully decorated out-of-town pub-cum-restaurant” in the heart of chichi Beaconsfield, which has been run since 2019 by Daniel Crump & Margriet Vandezande-Crump and has garnered no end of awards in that time. The food is very much not gastropub fare: you can eat à la carte (with mains about £40) or there’s a seven-course tasting menu for £110 per person and practically all reports say results are “superb”. One reporter this year, though, said that while “others seem entranced by this place, it seems to always be trying too hard and slightly misguided” (a view echoed by the Guardian’s Grace Dent in her August 2025 review who thought that “in a bid to be the best restaurant for miles around, they might just be missing the chance to be simply delicious”). For fans, though, “it just keeps getting better”.

Summary

£97
 ££££
4
Very Good
5
Exceptional
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Entering its fifth year since its founding in 2019, Daniel Crump & Margriet Vandezande- Crump’s converted coaching inn continues to dazzle with its all-round excellence (and was sensibly rewarded by the AA as their 2024/5 ‘Restaurant of the Year’). It’s not a gastropub, but “an outstanding fine-dining restaurant”, where you can eat à la carte or there’s a tasting menu for £95 per person. “You notice the service from the second you arrive. It isn’t a surprise to find the same staff there, year on year, as they have careers and are developed as professionals. The food is always of the highest quality with a very accomplished kitchen” led by head chef George Sweeney. A very large proportion of locals said it delivered their best meal of the year and it is now one of the top-100 most commented-on destinations outside London in our annual diners’ poll.

Summary

£95
 ££££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Four years down the line, Daniel Crump and Margriet Vandezande-Crump’s “gorgeous” converted seventeenth-century coaching inn is simply “perfection” to the very many diners who comment on it: “not only do you experience fine dining” (an “innovative menu” whose “consistency is something to behold”), “but you get the choice of great beers too, because it’s a pub!” On the food front, “excellent” tasting menus (including dedicated vegetarian and vegan options) are ably abetted by a “brilliant-value set lunch”. Add in “incredible” service and “what more could you want?”

Summary

£87
 ££££
4
Very Good
5
Exceptional
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Beautiful building… beautiful food… beautiful people” – Daniel Crump and Margriet Vandezande-Crump have transformed this old pub (since they took it over in 2019) to create a “wonderful” destination in this chichi town, once devoid of much in the way of culinary interest. They are not only “amazing hosts” (“and have put together a fantastic team”) but also “constantly innovating as well as working actively in the local community”. “The menu changes rapidly to reflect the best seasonal ingredients at any time of year” and the “strong standard of cooking” adds to a “wonderful” offering all-round.

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Have you eaten at The Greyhound?

33 Windsor End, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JN

Restaurant details

Yes
No dress code
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What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Guardian

Grace Dent “foxtrotted neatly and nimbly around the world of fine dining” at a “decidedly fancy” restaurant in a “charming and quaint” former coaching inn in a “heroically lovely market town” – all of which left her pining for something a little more down-to-earth – and tasty.

“There’s some clever, cogent cooking going on at the Greyhound, with some hits, some misses, but an overall sense that, in a bid to be the best restaurant for miles around, they might just be missing the chance to be simply delicious.” 

Dessert showed her what the kitchen was capable of when “a mood of pure decadence was allowed to let rip and flourish… we had îles flottantes with limoncello custard and raspberry souffle with sarsaparilla sorbet”. 

Grace Dent - 2025-08-03

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Lunch £35.00 £40.00
  Cost Availability Courses
Menu1 85.00 Always available 8

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Veggies Pudding
£20.30 £29.50 £4.95 £13.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £35.00
Filter Coffee £3.00
Extras  
Bread £0.00
Service 10.00%
33 Windsor End, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JN
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday12 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑8:30 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑8:30 pm
Thursday12 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑8:30 pm
Friday12 pm‑2 pm, 6:30 pm‑8:30 pm
Saturday12 pm‑2 pm, 6:30 pm‑8:30 pm
SundayCLOSED

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