Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Bedford
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Bedford restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 7 restaurants in Bedford and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Bedford restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Bedford Restaurants
1. Stratton House Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Biggleswade
London Road - SG18
At The Stratton House Hotel we specialise in unpretentious food that makes the most of fresh, quality produce. We like to think it’s some of the tastiest you’ll find around Biggleswade.With a seating capacity of sixty-five, this well-appointed restaurant is ...
2. Paris House
British, Modern restaurant in Woburn
Woburn Park - MK17
“A truly tremendous rural location that’s stylish but not pretentious” – this gorgeous mock-Tudor timber building was originally built in France in 1878, and sits now in a leafy deer park on the Woburn Estate. Phil Fanning has been in the kitchen here since 2010 and owned the place since 2014, and produces “a totally wonderful dining experience”. Choose between a four-course meal for £80 per person or a six-course option at £121 per person – “imaginative, flavoursome dishes served with efficiency and courtesy that always create a special experience”. And “the bill, albeit eye watering, is not as exorbitant as many of the others in this class”. “Wake up Michelin and give him his star back soon!”. Afternoon tea is another here, at £70 per person.
3. The Oakley Arms
restaurant in Harrold
98-104 High Street - MK43
Independent, produce led pub restaurant.Situated an equal distance from Bedford, Northampton and Milton Keynes sits our 400 year old thatched pub, The Oakley Arms, Harrold. Run by husband and wife chef...
4. The Plough at Bolnhurst
British, Modern restaurant in Bolnhurst
“Far and away an outstanding pub/restaurant in this part of the world” – this atmospheric and much commented-on 15th-century inn is “pitch-perfect in every way” after 20 years under Martyn & Jayne Lee’s direction, with “assured cooking for every course” – “we hadn’t been for a while and I would say the cooking has actually gone up a level”. Top Menu Tip – “the soufflés are truly amazing”.
5. Birch
British, Modern restaurant in Woburn
20 Newport Rd - MK17
2024 Review: “All food pubs should be like this!” – according to fans of this “perfect pit stop” on the outskirts of town. “You can’t fault the intent or enthusiasm of the service and the food, if unadventurous, is very decent”.
6. Eileen’s
British, Modern restaurant in Ampthill
86a Dunstable Street - MK45
“Fascinating dishes served with enthusiasm” make a meal at this small tasting menu-only restaurant on the edge of town “a great experience”. Steven Barringer is a “passionate chef” heading a young team “who clearly care” and he takes the time to chat to his guests, while his cooking is both “interesting and subtle”, in particular the “superb fish dishes” and “amazing desserts”.
7. Dipna Anand Kitchen & Toast Microbrewery
restaurant in Milton Keynes
200 Unity Place Grafton Gate - MK9
Two minutes from the station, a scion from the dynasty behind the famous Brilliant Indian restaurant in Southall has spread her wings to open a 150-cover venue in the shiny new Unity Place development in late 2023; dusting off some of her family’s oldest recipes (and there’s an in-house microbrewery too). No survey feedback as yet, but in her June 2024 review, The Guardian’s Grace Dent declared it one of the best things to have happened to Milton Keynes in ages – “absolutely charming” once you leave the exterior streetscape behind, with “light, thoughtful cooking that determinedly sets out to incapacitate you, with lovely, kind service”.
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