Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Amesbury
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Amesbury restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 7 restaurants in Amesbury and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Amesbury restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Red Lion at East Chisenbury
British, Modern restaurant in East Chisenbury
North of Stonehenge, this thatched pub “continues its high standards” and is a “firm favourite” for a widespread fan club who travel to visit it. “It’s a lovely team for whom the food is the star of the show”: “we’ve never had a bad meal and just wish we lived nearer!”. “It looks like a pub, but it’s more like fine dining”.
2. Anokaa
Indian restaurant in Salisbury
60 Fisherton St - SP2
“Brilliant, delicately spiced food – in decent portions and well priced” – has established Farsi Solman’s “really good Indian” as one of Salisbury’s prime dining destinations over more than 20 years. “No wonder you must book”.
3. Cafe Diwali
Indian restaurant in Salisbury
90 Crane Street - SP1
2022 Review: “Consistently good and authentic street food” with “lots of extras” ensure a “very different Indian experience” at Muhammed Rasheed’s five-year-old, close to the cathedral. There’s a shaded patio out the back and craft beer available.
4. Greyhound
British, Modern restaurant in Stockbridge
31 High Street - SO20
In a “beautiful setting on the Test” in prime fly-fishing territory, Lucy Townsend’s decade-old hotel inspires strong feedback as both a romantic destination and a top dining pub. The “British-style food with nods to the Orient” is uniformly well-rated and abetted by “confident and skilled” service (they’re equally “welcoming to dogs, with generous treats included”). “I very rarely, if ever, say this but I couldn’t fault it!” Top Tip – the courtyard is “absolutely perfect for quality outdoor eating”.
5. Thyme & Tides
Fish & chips restaurant in Stockbridge
The High St - SO20
2021 Review: “Rather nice brunches and lunches await at this deli-café, with half a dozen specials chalked on the board” plus a garden and fish ‘n’ chip Friday nights. Though it serves an “upmarket clientele in an upmarket village”, it’s still “good value, with charming young staff” to boot.
6. Clos du Marquis
French restaurant in Stockbridge
Nomads House, High Street - SO20
“Garth (maître d’) and his wife (Maranda, the chef) run a truly delightful restaurant”, say fans of this long-running French venture, which the duo took over a decade ago from Paris-born chef German Marquis, and recently shepherded from its former setting on the A30 to a handier high street location. By all accounts, Maranda’s cooking is “superb” (prompting “possibly the best meal” one reporter had this year) and service is “excellent” too.
7. The Compasses Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Lower Chicksgrove
This “lovely old pub” with rooms – a thatched survivor from the 14th century – wins solid ratings for its “friendly service”, “great atmosphere and interesting food”, which ranges from standard pub burgers to Turkish eggs and Goan pork vindaloo. Owner Ben Maschler, son of restaurant critic Fay, ran Soho House’s food operations before heading to rural Dorset.
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