Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Stony Stratford
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Stony Stratford restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in Stony Stratford and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Stony Stratford restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Stony Stratford 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. 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. 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”.
4. The Five Arrows
British, Modern restaurant in Waddesdon
High St - HP18
2022 Review: You can eat like a Rothschild at this gastropub on the Waddeston estate, dining on meat from the estate’s farms and vegetables from Baron Rothschild’s walled garden at Eythrope. The pub serves “really excellent food” and is set in “pleasant countryside”, with profits going to support the historic Waddesdon Manor, now owned by the National Trust while the Baron retains the estate. There is also afternoon ‘teapas’ – a selection of savoury small plates and more traditional scones and cakes.
5. 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”.
6. The Five Elms
restaurant in Weedon
4 Stockaway - HP22
“A hidden gem in the Buckinghamshire countryside” – this thatched pub has a “beautiful” village location, despite being just five miles outside of Aylesbury. A small fan club holds it in high esteem, proclaiming its “fabulous value and super atmosphere”. Chef Tom Moody is one of the two partners running the pub since 2021, and provides a menu that’s more pub-appropriate than pub-grub (e.g. Spiced, glazed lamb’s neck, Braised Beef Cheek, Teriyaki Duck Breast with Black Pudding Bon Bon).
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