RestaurantsShropshireLudlowSY8

survey result

Summary

£101
£££££
3
Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“This lovely Ludlow restaurant” makes a suitable setting for “old-fashioned high-end dining” that showcases “top-notch” cooking from well-travelled chef Wayne Smith, who has worked for luminaries including Pierre Koffmann, Richard Corrigan, Tom Aikens and Claude Busi – the latter having put this address on the gastronomic map as Hibiscus. The venue “has been a little inconsistent over the years”, going bust as La Bécasse, but Wayne has brought stability since 2015, and “recent meals eaten there have been excellent, each course finely prepared and very tasty”.

Summary

£81
 ££££
3
Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“The food can be exceptional”, while “service is spot-on without being overbearing and condescending” in chef Wayne Smith’s oak-panelled dining room – a lingering taste of Ludlow’s former heyday as a gastronomic destination. The cuisine may not quite match the heights of Claude Bosi’s late, lamented Hibiscus, which used to occupy the same premises – but “it is certainly value for money”.

Summary

£74
  £££
3
Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Inventive taste combinations and very professional service” are the hallmarks of chef Wayne Smith’s “welcoming”, “comfortable and oak-panelled” operation at one of foodie Ludlow’s most celebrated addresses – the former site of Claude Bosi’s lauded (now defunct) Hibiscus. “It’s now a good-value, if not cheap, country restaurant – you’d cross Shropshire to eat here (but perhaps not come from all over the country, as people did in Ludlow’s food heyday)”.

Summary

£74
  £££
3
Good
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Oak-panelled comfort” with “beautiful décor”, plus “charming” and “professional” service set a perfect tone for “delightful” and “inventive” modern cuisine at this well-known foodie address, formerly made famous by Bibendum’s Claude Bosi (and nowadays run by his protégé, Wayne Smith). Its ratings waned a little last year, though, on the back of some reviews which were not damning, but “disappointing at the price”.

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Restaurant details

Highchair,Menu
Yes
22
No dress code
30

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Lunch   £37.50
Dinner   £70.00
  Cost Availability Courses
Menu1 75.00 Always available 7
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £30.00
Filter Coffee £5.00
Extras  
Service 12.50%
17 Corve St, Ludlow, SY8 1DA
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
TuesdayCLOSED
Wednesday6:30 pm‑8 pm
Thursday12 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑8 pm
Friday12 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑8 pm
Saturday12 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑8 pm
SundayCLOSED

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