Its stylish contemporary ambience in an elegant Victorian setting makes the restaurant at Oliver's Lodge Hotel in Needingworth Road a pleasant getaway for dinner or lunch. Serving Indian and modern British cuisine, the venue is minutes away from the centre of St. Ives and the River Great Ouse.

If an Indian meal is what interests you, the selection includes Afghani chicken tikka, tuna kebab, potato cutlets, prawn jalfrezi, butter chicken and Kochi spicy fish curry. Otherwise, choosing British fare gives you options of spinach and potato croquettes, prawn peri peri, peppered sirloin steak with creamy crushed peppercorn Stilton sauce, crispy bacon wrapped chicken with creamy mushroom sauce, rack of lamb with pommes mash and poached salmon fillet with wilted spinach. The Sunday roast menu includes roasted loin of pork with apple sauce, roasted sirloin of beef with Yorkshire pudding and oven roasted breast of chicken with mushroom ragout. If the appetite can accommodate dessert, then it's a choice of lemon cheesecake, Bakewell tart and Alabama chocolate fudge cake. There is a separate bar menu.