Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Bedford
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Bedford restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 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. 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...
2. 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 ...
3. Paris House
British, Modern restaurant in Woburn
Woburn Park - MK17
“Of course it has a wonderful location… but the food more than surpassed this”. “In a wonderful parkland setting” (22 acres of the Duke of Bedford’s Woburn Estate), this striking mock-Tudor timber building (originally built in France in 1878) is nowadays the stage for chef/patron Phil Fanning’s highly ambitious cuisine. The main event is a “memorable six-course tasting menu” for £99 per person, which on practically all accounts delivers a “thoroughly professional and delightful” experience: “each course is exceptional, with complex assemblies of often more than 10 components, but all complementing each other”. “It is fortunate you can have a two-hour walk amongst the deer after your meal!”
4. The Plough at Bolnhurst
British, Modern restaurant in Bolnhurst
This “lovely ‘olde worlde’ village pub” (dating from the Tudor era) puts in a “consistently assured performance” under Martyn & Jayne Lee, owners since 2005, with “terrific food and excellent service” – “nothing much changes (which is not a criticism!)”.
5. Birch
British, Modern restaurant in Woburn
20 Newport Rd - MK17
“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
Bedfordshire-born Steven Barringer opened this popular restaurant alongside wife Amy seven years after starring on the 2011 season of MasterChef: The Professionals. The “great taster menu” (coming in five- or seven-course versions that change monthly) and “knowledgeable staff” have contributed to its local success – so do think to book in advance.
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