Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Shefford
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Shefford restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 10 restaurants in Shefford and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Shefford restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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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
“In a superb location up a rural driveway with deer grazing. What could be more tranquil?” than a visit to this picture-book mock-Tudor timber building (originally built in France in 1878). “Chef Phil Fanning is on top of his game” and offers a six-course tasting menu for £125 per person. “Truly a consistent treat” – “Everything about the restaurant is good and the sommelier Howie is particularly knowledgeable about the interesting wines”. “Why has it not achieved a Michelin star in recent times” – “Surely they’ve got to get their star back soon?”
3. Hermitage Rd
British, Modern restaurant in Hitchin
20-21 Hermitage Road - SG5
2021 Review: This former ballroom gains most praise for its “great breakfast/brunch” that makes “a brilliant way to start the weekend, with lots of free top-up coffee and newspapers to read”. In addition to “the best brews, home bakes and bagels”, there’s also a full dinner menu featuring sustainable local produce.
4. The Fox
British, Modern restaurant in Willian
2023 Review: This village pub-with-rooms just off the A1 offers “attractively presented food” on a menu which is “a cut above standard gastropub fare” – best enjoyed in the “new outside dining area, which in summer evokes a lovely Mediterranean feel”.
5. The Farmhouse at Redcoats
British, Modern restaurant in Hitchin
Redcoats Green - SG4
This “very comfortable” 15th-century farmhouse half an hour from London makes an ideal setting for a hotel restaurant with a “lively, vibrant atmosphere”‚ “keen and attentive staff” and “plenty of traditional dishes” on its menu. A meal here is usually “enjoyable”, if not gastronomically distinguished.
6. The Plough at Bolnhurst
British, Modern restaurant in Bolnhurst
“It’s always a pleasure” to visit this “beautiful rural pub-restaurant”, a 15th-century village inn where Martyn & Jayne Lee celebrate 20 years in charge this year. It’s a “very consistent” operation, with an “excellent choice of well cooked food”.
7. 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”.
8. Luton Hoo, Luton Hoo Hotel
International restaurant in Luton
The Mansion House, Luton Hoo Estate - LU1
2021 Review: Afternoon tea is “a real treat” in the “wonderful and friendly surroundings” of this country house hotel and spa, whose claim to fame is that it appeared in ‘Four Weddings’. Reports of more substantial meals here are more up-and-down.
9. Eileen's
British, Modern restaurant in Ampthill
86a Dunstable Street - MK45
“Stunning tasting menus” prepared by chef Steven Barringer provided a couple of reporters’ best meal of the year at this “intimate dining room” – a high-ceilinged, midnight-blue room on a road into the town. It’s sign bills it as a ‘Relaxed Fine Dining Restaurant for Everyone’, inviting passers-by to ‘Come in and enjoy our tasting menus’: but you’d have to have a little time on your hands, with the options being either five or seven courses, starting at £70 per person for the former.
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