Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Great Missenden
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Great Missenden restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 5 restaurants in Great Missenden and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Great Missenden restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Great Missenden Restaurants
1. Artichoke
British, Modern restaurant in Amersham
9 Market Sq - HP7
“A classic, inspired menu is served in a lovely dining room on Old Amersham’s beautiful high street and supported by a great wine list” at Laurie & Jacqueline Gear’s 16th-century converted cottage. It waited almost 17 years for its Michelin star – having been founded in 2002 and winning the accolade in 2019 – and cynics say it’s “consistently good even after the award!” delivering “fantastic food, year after year”. “Prices are reasonable for the quality with dishes embellished with flair and complemented by the polite and engaged staff”. Many best meals of the last 12 months are reported here, and one reporter thought it “as enjoyable as any restaurant we have tried in the past three or four years”. It’s one of the top-50 most commented-on destinations outside London in our annual diners’ poll.
2. Tom Yum
Thai restaurant in Amersham
101 Sycamore Road - HP6
“Very good Thai food” remains the order of the day at this “cramped” fixture of the local scene, whose extensive menu (wok dishes, curries, fresh papaya salads) represents excellent value for money. From Tuesday to Saturday there’s a lunchtime noodle bar, and they also do a swift trade as a takeaway.
3. Rumsey’s
restaurant in Wendover
26 High Street - HP22
“A lovely place for morning coffee or afternoon tea” – and “the handmade chocolates are delightful” at this duo in Wendover and Thame from chocolatier and patissier Nigel Rumsey, who founded his business 34 years ago at the back of his home.
4. Pluma
Spanish restaurant in Amersham
18 High Street - HP7
Run by husband-and-wife team Charlie (who worked at Heston Blumenthal‘s Hinds Head pub in Bray) & Arantxa, this upscale high street tapas spot is “still the buzziest place hereabouts”. There are some quibbles in reports (“the food has lost its edge a little”) but also praise for some “super” dishes, ranging from their signature acorn-fed 100% Iberian pork, to the rather ingenious ‘Patatas Invisibles’ (“invisible chips”), which have zero calories and are essentially a £4.50 charitable donation to Hospitality Action.
5. Bistrot Twelve Twenty
British, Modern restaurant in Amersham
34 The Broadway - HP7
This “lovely” restaurant in Old Amersham is a “real cosy, friendly” spot where chef-owner Mark (a one-man band) delivers “great” small plates with punchy flavours that pick and mix from the Middle East, Asia and Europe; for the sweet-toothed, there are upscale Prosecco jam doughnuts, and for those who are never sated, on Saturdays they do a bottomless brunch.
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