Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Cambridgeshire
Hardens guides have spent 30 years compiling reviews of the best Cambridgeshire restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 144 restaurants in Cambridgeshire and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Cambridgeshire restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Cambridgeshire Restaurants
1. Restaurant Twenty Two
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
22 Chesterton Road - CB4
A “top foodie spot in Cambridge” that’s going places – in early 2018, Gordon Ramsay protégé Sam Carter and his wife Alexandra (FOH) took over this long-established Victorian townhouse restaurant on the fringes of the town centre, and the “new chef has revitalised the site” to the extent one or two local foodies prefer it to nearby Midsummer House. Even those who poke fun at its “modish rough, scratchy, plates” say its “fabulous and imaginative, local and seasonal set menu” (from three to seven courses as well as the à la carte) is “excellent and comes at a good price”.
2. Pint Shop
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
10 Peas Hill - CB2
“Tasty, simple, British bistro fare” washed down by a “great selection of craft beers” plus a “brilliant range of gins” is the formula at this “great traditional pub with a twist”, launched five years ago. There’s a second branch in Birmingham, but a spinoff in Oxford closed down.
3. House of Feasts
International restaurant in Eye Green
41 Crowland Road - PE6
“A very decent addition to the scene in Peterborough” – Damian Wawrzyniak’s three-year-old venture in a village a short drive outside the city specialises in modern Polish cuisine, which you can enjoy either via the à la crate menu or a ten-course tasting menu.
4. The Three Hills, Bartlow
British, Modern restaurant in Barlow
Dean Road - CB21
“Smart gastropub” – twenty minutes drive from Cambridge – a seventeenth century building extensively refurbished in late 2017 and with six bedrooms: “good food, with nice combinations and they do a great – and I mean great! – Sunday lunch” (“the black treacle roasted beef is an especially delicious option”). A gripe? – “staff are pleasant and friendly” but a couple of reports suggest that “more training is needed”.
5. Navadhanya Cambridge
Indian restaurant in Cambridge
73 Newmarket Rd - CB5
“Wonderfully subtle-tasting Indian food” (“go for their tasting menu…so good”) is now the order of the day at this former pub turned dining room; it’s “not the cheapest but the menu is always interesting”.
6. Amelie Flammekueche
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
Grafton Centre - CB1
Look out for the bright yellow Citroën van, if you want to try veteran restaurateur Regis Crépy’s latest venture, selling Alsatian pizza-type Flammekueche in a Cambridge food court. For a tasty, cheap ’n’ cheerful snack that’s a little out of the ordinary, these “light”, “fresh-tasting” and “reasonably priced” wafers of bread dough complete with toppings are just the job.
7. Prevost
British, Modern restaurant in Peterborough
20 Priestgate - PE1
Lee Clarke’s ambitious Priestgate three-year-old accounted for some reporters’ best meal of the year, with both its three-course menu and more extensive options (running to nine courses) inspiring the highest praise. There is the odd duff report, but on most accounts the culinary experience is “innovative, very enjoyable and good value for the level of cooking and service”.
8. Vanderlyle
restaurant in Cambridge
38 Mill Road - CB1
In April 2019, former MasterChef finalist Alex Rushmer, who closed his Cambridge restaurant Hole in the Wall in 2017, took over a former Subway shop a little outside the city centre, with his former sous chef, Lawrence Butler. Focusing on local, ethical food, it offers a fixed five-course vegetarian menu which changes daily and features a chef’s table where diners sit at a countertop pass for four with views over the open kitchen. Its fanclub is still small as things stand but couldn’t rate it more highly, saying its “very inventive non-meat cuisine” is “well-sourced and just perfect”. Don’t plan on dropping in though: bookings are released on the first Thursday of the month, two months in advance!
9. Midsummer House
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
Midsummer Common - CB4
“Amazing… every time” is still the most typical assessment of this acclaimed Victorian villa – one of the UK’s most renowned eateries – which is very picturesquely situated across the Cam from the Varsity’s boat houses and bordering Midsummer Common. Daniel Clifford and his team deliver “a superb overall dining experience: the number and quality of amuse-bouches, the sourdough bread, each individual course… the service… all of the highest order”. Even many fans feel that the “exuberant bill is hard to justify”, however, and to its critics the “staggering costs” are plain OTT, with toppish wine prices a particular gripe (“some more reasonable ‘house’ options would be welcome”).
10. The Blue Lion
British, Modern restaurant in Hardwick
74 Main Street - CB23
2018 Review: A cosy 18th-century village pub with quaint decor and a lovely garden; it offers an “imaginative menu” of “well-cooked” classics and more adventurous dishes – including some ingredients produced on the premises (they also rear their own rare-breed sheep).
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