"The genuine article -Turkish cuisine from experts" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Turkish cuisine - small snack/tapas - Turkish/Cypriot spirits & wine - summer outdoor dining Mini-review: Meze Bar would feel like your Turkish buddy's mother's kitchen even if the staff weren't so approachable
"affordable, ethical, award-winning food - and all that jazz!" review|hours Features
Feature(s): fine dining - strong ethical values - opulent surroundings Mini-review: The food was always interesting, and often very good indeed, while the presentation was very pretty... the portions were good and the service was excellent.
Feature(s): private conference Room - ideal for live performances, cultural and artistic events - available all day and evenings Mini-review: Like the bar itself, the food on offer is carefully considered and attractively presented
"d'Arry's Wine Shop - city drinking & dining" review|hours Features
Feature(s): British cuisine - impressive decor - wine specialists Mini-review: Around us gleamed hundreds of (empty) wine bottles on two sides of the room from owners d'Arenberg winery in the world famous McLaren Vale region of South Australia
Feature(s): central Cambridge - sophisticated dining - spacious venue Mini-review: staff hovered without being overbearing but with discreet concern for our contentment... a quality establishment...
"a warm and inviting place to be" review|hours Features
Feature(s): central Cambridge - pub grub - DJ nights Mini-review: The Fountain's unique selling point is a range of quality pies; its secret weapon in the pub lunch war.
"For the connoisseurs of Indian Food" review|hours Features
Feature(s): chic modern eatery - freshly prepared, home-style - comprehensive takeaway menu Mini-review: Care and attention has obviously been taken throughout to provide relaxing background to showcase the food.
Mini-review: the ambience of a lively family gathering, with several large tables filled with grandparents, young couples and children, all sharing their food and laughing over drinks in a Mediterranean way
"Relax on any day of the week at The Lazy Otter" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Traditional Pub - Riverside location - Children's play area Mini-review: The general theme here is for family dining. So good portion sizes and a menu that encompasses most tastes
Feature(s): elegant bar, cocktails - private function hire - excellent bar snacks and meals Mini-review: Visitors to Sauce also benefit from an excellent food menu
"Enjoy, share, relax, belong" review|hours Features
Feature(s): acoustic nights - cocktail bar - bar snacks Mini-review: you can sink into a sofa, relax, enjoy the ambiance and completely loose track of time.
"Great food, great beer, Warm welcome" review|hours Features
Mini-review: What's really interesting here is how only a curtain divides the pub into two very distinct halves. A raised dining area is separated from the bar and two drinking areas by a velvety red curtain. It's an evocative touch
"Best independent bar & restaurant in Cambridge" review|hours Features
Feature(s): party platters - sophisticated and intimate - unobtrusive & relaxed service Mini-review: Tucked away underground on Trinity Street the bar-restaurant is ideally positioned to be a favourite hang out
Mini-review: As part of the Rutland Arms, Carriages has fought hard not to be classed as a typical hotel restaurant, and it's succeeded - the only hint of hotel is the overly fussy carpet that would look out of place anywhere else
Mini-review: Even a visit to the toilet is an interesting and potentially educational experience - with learn Italian tapes playing in the background. Molto Bene!
Mini-review: Niche straddles the categories of café/bar and club. By day it offers a range of popular sandwiches and lunch dishes but when night falls the music kicks in and entertainment is on the menu.
Mini-review: No place that we know in Cambridge has as special a setting for that calm rest stop while shopping, the luxurious afternoon tea, the quick business meeting or a place to meet friends. For views of Parker's Piece, it is ideal.
Mini-review: Well-considered style continues from the décor to the presentation of the food, to the elegant crockery and cutlery and rubs off on the clientele
"The genuine article -Turkish cuisine from experts" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Turkish cuisine - small snack/tapas - Turkish/Cypriot spirits & wine - summer outdoor dining Mini-review: Meze Bar would feel like your Turkish buddy's mother's kitchen even if the staff weren't so approachable
"affordable, ethical, award-winning food - and all that jazz!" review|hours Features
Feature(s): fine dining - strong ethical values - opulent surroundings Mini-review: The food was always interesting, and often very good indeed, while the presentation was very pretty... the portions were good and the service was excellent.
Mini-review: The care and attention to detail given to the presentation of the food, the service, and the incredible sparkling cleanliness of the place really sets this restaurant apart.
Feature(s): private conference Room - ideal for live performances, cultural and artistic events - available all day and evenings Mini-review: Like the bar itself, the food on offer is carefully considered and attractively presented
"Easy going drinking and dining" review|hours Features
Mini-review: Benson Blakes Bar and Grill looks tiny from the outside, but once inside it opens up like Doctor Who's Tardis and the long building makes for an intimate yet spacious place to grab a bite to eat
"In this little gem you'll enjoy a fine indian" review|hours Features
Feature(s): well-established - near the river - large groups welcome Mini-review: Staff make an effort to make you feel at home, taking pride in their service and knowledge of the dishes
Feature(s): Italian and Croatian cuisine - seafood - good pizzas Mini-review: Excellent and wonderfully presented food, including a wide range of seafood, that draws on influences from both Croatia and Italy
Mini-review: As part of an already winning formula, and with an enviable location at the head of King's Parade, there is a certain expectation when you visit the Cambridge Chop House.
Feature(s): 'Blue Lagoon Lounge' - jazz , dancing, live music Fri-Sat - spacious and elegant Mini-review: two restaurants in one: pleasant, uncomplicated meals downstairs and memorable evening dining and entertainment upstairs... in the top class of Chinese restaurants in the area
"The Chequers hits the right note every time" review|hours Features
Mini-review: Endlessly cheery hosts Ian and Lisa Salmon have not only installed a full-on Indian restaurant but lure in punters with a regular weekly programme of free live music
"cosy village pub with good food at reasonable prices" review|hours Features
Feature(s): 15th century building - customer-friendly ethos - quality food Mini-review: the slow-roast belly of pork pie with cider and apples was excellent: full of flavour without over-reliance on salt
"16c hall & other elegant dining rooms" review|hours Features
Feature(s): 500 year old college - up to 130 capacity - formal dining Mini-review: One of the university's oldest colleges...good conference and wedding facilities.
"16c hall & other elegant dining rooms" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Conferences, banqueting and meeting facilities for up to 300 - modern college - exhibition space - dining hall up to 400 capacity - good transport links Mini-review: Striking 1950s architecture...conference and banqueting facilities available all year round.
"2nd oldest College in Cambridge" review|hours Features
Feature(s): up to 100 capacity - 17th Century hall for banquets - accomodation available Mini-review: A beautiful setting for a conference or event with a variety of rooms available.
"Magnificent paneled dining hall" review|hours Features
Feature(s): up to 160 capacity - central Cambridge college - formal dining Mini-review: A tradtional Cambridge college... modern facilities for conferences and elegant settings for banquets.
"Freehouse, restaurant & accomodation" review|hours Features
Mini-review: The façade of this firmly established and popular 18th century coaching inn is adorned with a colourful profusion of hanging baskets and planters
"d'Arry's Wine Shop - city drinking & dining" review|hours Features
Feature(s): British cuisine - impressive decor - wine specialists Mini-review: Around us gleamed hundreds of (empty) wine bottles on two sides of the room from owners d'Arenberg winery in the world famous McLaren Vale region of South Australia
"Dine in the finest location in Cambridge" review|hours Features
Feature(s): four luxury rooms - wedding licence - first class facilities Mini-review: ...a dark chocolate "pyramid" with Bailey's sauce... truly worth a visit for... If chocolate is your tastebuds' nirvana
"Elegant neo-classical dining hall" review|hours Features
Feature(s): conferences - licence to conduct weddings - large dining events - licence to conduct weddings - large dining events Mini-review: A popular setting for weddings.
Feature(s): Traditional village pub - Outdoor area - Available for receptions Mini-review: A good pie is dependant on the quality of its pastry, and we were not disappointed
Feature(s): central Cambridge - sophisticated dining - spacious venue Mini-review: staff hovered without being overbearing but with discreet concern for our contentment... a quality establishment...
"Greek food with cosmopolitan choices" review|hours Features
Feature(s): extensive international menu - warm welcoming atmosphere - devoted regulars Mini-review: The menu certainly gives the air of something passed down through generations. Its closely hand written descriptions range over dishes that must have been introduced by each successive chef
Feature(s): fine dining - Cambridge centre - independent Mini-review: further delving revealed the dark red fruit compote below ...epitome of bad for you sugar-and-cream goodness
"a warm and inviting place to be" review|hours Features
Feature(s): central Cambridge - pub grub - DJ nights Mini-review: The Fountain's unique selling point is a range of quality pies; its secret weapon in the pub lunch war.
"Traditional pub in Burwell with a Mexican twist" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Mexican Restaurant - real ales - 300-year old traditional pub Mini-review: We shared a 'chimichanga' served with ice cream and caramel sauce, the highlight of our meal
Mini-review: It's nice to see local produce in use - Suffolk rack of lamb, Dunmow pork fillet with pistachio mousse and Gressingham duck jostle for position
Feature(s): contemporary cuisine - fine dining - tranquill setting Mini-review: Alarmingly a painting of a huge black hairy tarantula lurks over the doorway. It's enough to send some diners scurrying back home at the double!
"For the connoisseurs of Indian Food" review|hours Features
Feature(s): chic modern eatery - freshly prepared, home-style - comprehensive takeaway menu Mini-review: Care and attention has obviously been taken throughout to provide relaxing background to showcase the food.
Feature(s): pub/restaurant - generous portions - good service Mini-review: It is clear that the chef, Richard Kennedy, has a commitment to quality but also a flair for putting together flavours in a creative way
"Family-run Italian restaurant with authentic, delicious cuisine" review|hours Features
Feature(s): authentic Italian - adjoining cake shop - function room for 30 Mini-review: combines excellent food bursting with flavour in a venue of equal character
Mini-review: the ambience of a lively family gathering, with several large tables filled with grandparents, young couples and children, all sharing their food and laughing over drinks in a Mediterranean way
"Relax on any day of the week at The Lazy Otter" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Traditional Pub - Riverside location - Children's play area Mini-review: The general theme here is for family dining. So good portion sizes and a menu that encompasses most tastes
Feature(s): Authentic French Cuisine - Patisserie and Restaurant - Intimate and Relaxing Mini-review: We couldn't think of one fault in our evening at Le Gros Franck
"Sustainably sourced fresh fish, shellfish and oysters" review|hours Features
Feature(s): fresh seafood - good service - fine dining Mini-review: refurbishment in January 2007 created a bigger bar/waiting area near the door, making it easier to pop for a quick oyster fix
"Romantic setting with the best prices" review|hours Features
Mini-review: At only £12.50 a head the set menu represents tremendous value for money, and the rest of the menu and wine list is equally well priced. Most importantly the quality of the cooking means you would hardly care how much it cost anyway.
"spirited hospitality at the heart of Cambridge" review|hours Features
Feature(s): 5 rooms & space for 150 - Perfect for exhibitions & performances - beautiful converted church Mini-review: elevate an ordinary midday snack to a spiritual experience
"Thai and E-san cuisine with style" review|hours Features
Feature(s): authentic Thai - peaceful setting Mini-review: Originally from the north-east of Thailand on the Laos border, the owners offer a rare opportunity to try their native E-san cuisine.
Feature(s): dining for up to 150 - Functions for 10 to 175 guests including wedding receptions, gala dinners, receptions, garden parties. Mini-review: a small redbrick college
"Friendly atmosphere with great food" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Friendly atmosphere - Great food - reasonably priced - Traditional Sunday lunches Mini-review: Landlord Keith Pawley used to be a regular at the New Wellington himself before he took over
"A gastro brewery with accommodation" review|hours Features
Mini-review: Recently refurbished in period colours, the eating area also has a blazing fire, on the mantelpiece of which is a candlestick so large one can imagine it being wielded by Colonel Mustard in the Library in a game of Cluedo
"Acclaimed Chinese food freshly cooked to order" review|hours Features
Feature(s): authentic flavoursome food - relaxed atmosphere Mini-review: "You must always share!" she advised us as we ordered, and good job too, as there is a huge variety of appetizing items on the menu
"A distinguished ancient setting" review|hours Features
Feature(s): up to 175 guests - central Cambridge location - conferences, weddings, dinners Mini-review: experienced in hosting residential conferences, wedding receptions, gala dinners and garden parties
"The first of the Cambridge Colleges" review|hours Features
Feature(s): formal dinning for up to 105 - standing buffets up to 180 - set in 5 acres of gardens Mini-review: Their medieval hall, completed in 1290 ...is available for formal dining
Feature(s): gastropub - outdoor courtyard - private dining room Mini-review: The mussels, served with sprigs of thyme, were enormous and may not be bettered this side of the Channel.
"vegetarian food that everyone likes" review|hours Features
Feature(s): vegetarian food - vegan & gluten free diets Mini-review: A glance at the menu reveals such a feast of ingredients that it's easy to forget the absence of meat.
Feature(s): traditional English food - Attractive village location - Sunday roast lunch and evening Mini-review: A place which invites intrigue and lets you sup the spirit of an ancient inn
"Kerala cuisine-Indian food but not as you know it" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Kerala Cuisine - minimalist decor - popular fish dishes Mini-review: Here the interior design clichés of the typical British Indian or Bangladeshi restaurant have been discarded as the spacious establishment has a light and airy feel with big wide windows
"excellent food, great views" review|hours Features
Mini-review: With an atmosphere of quiet serenity, magnificent views over the Cam and polite attentive service to match, the Riverside Restaurant is the perfect place for a special meal or business lunch. We were greeted with a smile and seated at one of the white tablecloth-covered tables.
"Unique dining experience in relaxed surroundings" review|hours Features
Mini-review: As you turn into the large car park of this charming hostelry your nostrils are assailed with the delicious odours of roasting, conjuring up all manner of culinary delights
"authentic, freshly prepared Indian and Thai food" review|hours Features
Mini-review: Whilst retaining the original name the new Royal Standard is not a pub and makes no effort to say so. Unashamedly a restaurant it covers an interesting combination of Indian and Thai cuisine.
"atmospheric interior with modern cuisine" review|hours Features
Feature(s): classy food - pretty village setting - famous Grantchester Mini-review: Here, honey may not be on the menu but you can be sure of a jolly good feed
Feature(s): elegant bar, cocktails - private function hire - excellent bar snacks and meals Mini-review: Visitors to Sauce also benefit from an excellent food menu
"the sort of place you go out of your way for" review|hours Features
Mini-review: ... we finished the evening joining the whole restaurant in a round of 'Happy Birthday' for one of the customers, and we left feeling as if it was our special day.
"Freshly made Middle Eastern & Persian cuisine" review|hours Features
Feature(s): City centre dining - modern interior Mini-review: The owner of Shiraz is Iranian and prefers to dwell on his own culinary heritage, selecting the most popular dishes from across Iran for his menu
"Indian and Bangladeshi banquet and buffet cuisine" review|hours Features
Feature(s): Eat as much as you like buffet - Tasty indian food - Out of the way location Mini-review: buffet offers a generous amount of dishes: twelve meat curries, twelve vegetarian curries and all the sundries your heart could desire
"Twice winner of the Daily Telegraph Perfect Pub award" review|hours Features
Feature(s): award-winning Catalan food - wide menu - cosy pub surroundings Mini-review: wild boar and strawberries ...it is no exaggeration to say that it was one of the best dishes we had ever tasted
"Enjoy, share, relax, belong" review|hours Features
Feature(s): acoustic nights - cocktail bar - bar snacks Mini-review: you can sink into a sofa, relax, enjoy the ambiance and completely loose track of time.
"Restaurant quality food at pub prices" review|hours Features
Mini-review: As you approach a charming little village square with its pleasing jumble of old buildings you will see the welcome sign of the Three Horseshoes
Mini-review: The warm and welcoming building is eclipsed by the warmth of the reception by Jane, partner and front of house dynamo, who positively whizzes around the place
"Exquisite Indian restaurant in Bury" review|hours Features
Feature(s): increase trade at lunch weekda - Sun-Thu eves and Sunday lunch - increase presence on internet Mini-review: The Valley Connection is definitely a cut above, without being expensive or unwelcoming
"Best independent bar & restaurant in Cambridge" review|hours Features
Feature(s): party platters - sophisticated and intimate - unobtrusive & relaxed service Mini-review: Tucked away underground on Trinity Street the bar-restaurant is ideally positioned to be a favourite hang out
"Friendly country restaurant with home-made food!" review|hours Features
Feature(s): capacity for up to 75 people - bed and breakfast accommmodation Mini-review: There's a piano in the restaurant but the kind of beautiful music they make in this pub-restaurant comes from the kitchen.
Mini-review: From the outside it looks like your traditional village pub - we were half-expecting real ale, dominoes and bar stools. However, the interior has a much classier feel
Mini-review: the open plan restaurant is transformed by a great Bedouin tent completely covering the ceiling, adding to the intimacy as well as the character
Mini-review: Although the prices are on the higher end of the scale, The Beehive is worth the extra cash for the quality food received and the pleasant atmosphere
Mini-review: ...rumoured to be haunted by "Mabel", a landlady who died there during the eighteenth century, though the present landlord claims this is "... just a myth, I think".
Mini-review: Dedicated to good food it certainly is, with a mission statement even: "to bring the flavours and aroma of truly traditional food from different regions of India prepared by our Indian Chefs"
Mini-review: A careful drive along a single track access road, past a small marina and a campsite for the aquatic nomads amongst us, and you reach the eighteenth century Mill
Mini-review: Our evening spent at The Bushel & Strike was one of the best value meals we have had in a long time, in terms of price, quality and atmosphere
Mini-review: Anyone who comes across Café Rouge in Bury St Edmunds will certainly remember the occasion. It occupies one of the grandest edifices in the heart of the historic market town
Mini-review: Uniquely among Cambridge's 25 or so Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants, Cafe Naz... has broken from the local flock wall paper crowd with a new, dynamic appearance ... still takes its food seriously