Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Harston
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Harston restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 12 restaurants in Harston and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Harston restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Harston Restaurants
1. The Rupert Brooke
British, Modern restaurant in Grantchester
2 Broadway - CB3
In scenic Grantchester just outside Cambridge, this “modern and not overcrowded” inn makes an attractive run out of town and generates consistent reports of its “decent” cooking. And ‘is there honey still for tea?’ – as Rupert Brooke famously asked in his 1912 poem set in Grantchester. The answer is a resounding No: the owners seem to have missed a trick with their afternoon tea menu.
2. Millworks
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
The Watermill, Newnham Road - CB3
2021 Review: This “meaty joint” occupies an attractive converted mill, complete with working water wheel. It “continues to please students and locals in its airy space overlooking river and millpond (I saw a kingfisher!)”.
3. Stem & Glory
Vegan restaurant in Cambridge
50-60 Station Road - CB1
2023 Review: Limited but positive feedback on this successful vegan, which shifted to this new location in a new development near the station in 2021. Worth remembering if you are catching a train and a place of pilgrimage for those who eat meat-free. It’s a rare Cambridge eatery that has spawned openings in the capital (see also).
4. Oak Bistro
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
6 Lensfield Road - CB2
“Invaluable in the centre of Cambridge”, this smart independent bistro (est. 2009) maintains a “consistently high standard” with its Anglo-European cooking, and the “covered courtyard area makes a lovely place for dinner” in more clement months.
5. Garden House
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
Granta Place - CB2
2023 Review: “Focused on simple dishes, with excellent ingredients, all elevated by sharp cooking” – the year-old grill at this new Graduate Hotel (named for the previous hotel on this site) wins positive feedback in our annual diners’ poll (but too limited for a rating).
6. Steak & Honour
Burgers, etc restaurant in Cambridge
4 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB - CB2
2022 Review: “Consistently excellent burgers from a small fleet of vintage Citroën vans” – painted bright yellow and red – ensure this small local brand has high visibility around Cambridge. You can also sample the burgers from a more conventional bricks and mortar site in Wheeler Street.
7. The Cambridge Chop House
British, Traditional restaurant in Cambridge
1 Kings Parade - CB2
This “always reliable” outfit in a prime tourist location pleases carnivores with its selection of classic British cuts of meat – while the “midweek early evening short menu is very reasonable”. “The ambience is much better if you can get a ground-level table” with views of King’s College Chapel – (“but usually you can’t!”).
8. Pint Shop
British, Modern restaurant in Cambridge
10 Peas Hill - CB2
“A fantastic selection of beers (and gins)” makes the popular former home of E. M. Forster “a very useful and welcome gastro-choice in central Cambridge, where other options are not great”. The food is “reliable” and “decently done but nothing earth-shattering”. Top Tip – “stay downstairs: the upstairs dining room can have a chilly ambience”.
9. Sticks'n'Sushi
Japanese restaurant in Cambridge
2 Wheeler Street - CB2
“Expensive, but high-quality yakitori skewers and sushi” are a “delicious and original offering that suit all ages”, and win little but praise for this “very consistent” chain, whose minimalist Scandi style reflects its origins in Copenhagen. Success continues to bring fast expansion, with recent openings in Westfield W12 (in December 2022) and Shoreditch (in March 2023) and more soon to follow in Richmond (October 2023) and Kingston (early 2024). Phew! Top Menu Tip – “truffle paste cauliflower side dish to die for (who knew?)”.
10. Hot Numbers
restaurant in Cambridge
4 Trumpington Street - CB2
This “buzzy” trio (with live jazz at its Gwydir Street branch) has grown over a dozen years since founder Simon Fraser returned to his hometown from Melbourne, bringing a taste for Antipodean coffee culture. “All three branches including their roastery in Shepreth offer excellent coffee and light food, but their bread is the main event – it’s world standard!”
11. Fancett's
French restaurant in Cambridge
96a Mill Road - CB1
Holly & Dan Fancett’s “fantastic, French-influenced bistro” is “going from strength to strength” after two years in business (the pair previously ran the North Street Bistro on the North Norfolk coast). The “small, intimate” venue is particularly of note for its “excellent set-price lunch menu” (dinner is also a two- or three-course prix fixe) and service is just as “excellent” too.
12. Scott’s All Day
Pizza restaurant in Cambridge
Mill Road - CB1
“Good, well-made pizzas” are served by “cheerful and helpful staff” at Scott Holden’s modern all-day operation, carved out of a pair of 200-year-old shop fronts on a Mill Lane corner. By day the menu leans toward American-style brunch dishes, turning towards Italy with pasta dishes in the evening.
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