Named after Britain's first professional woman painter, The Mary Beale Restaurant at the West Lodge Park Hotel in Cockfosters Road offers guests a pleasant contemporary ambience with a hint of traditional features. Extensively refurbished to a very high standard, many of Mary Beale's original works adorn the walls of the restaurant.

Executive chef Wayne Turner's gastronomic delights on the menu include seared Shetland salmon with mascarpone rilette and crème fraiche, duck and foie gras terrine with red onion marmalade and fillet of Falmouth mackerel with pea purée, for a start. Progress to Seacombe Hill Farm beef fillet with garlic fondant, Denham Estate blade venison, roasted pink, with parsnip and potato purée or Globe artichoke baked with wild mushroom in puff pastry with hollandaise sauce. Desserts of baked plum tart with blackberry bavarois, warm ginger sponge pudding with caramelized pear and Grand Marnier soufflé bring the meal to a fitting end. A range of cheeses such as lord of the hundreds, olde York, Isle of Avalon and Barkham blue give special delight.