Cambridgeshire Restaurant Guide

Fox and Hound

As with many of its kind this slightly out of town Peterborough pub, built on the grand scale of the '30s when brewers were expanding their estates as the motor car made itself felt, has had a chequered career, but now, taken over by Orchid Pubs seems to have found its sense of direction.

• Address: Thorpe Road, Longthorpe, Peterborough, PE3 6NB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Frankie & Benny's New York Italian Restaurant & Bar - Cambridge

Frankie and Benny's combine the best of classic American and Italian in both style and cuisine. They specialise in home style cooking 'just like Mamma used to make it'. This is a great place to take the entire family and represents excellent value for money.

• Address: Cambridge Leisure Park, Clifton Way, Cambridge, CB1 7DY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): American, Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £18.00

Frankie & Benny's New York Italian Restaurant & Bar - Peterborough

Frankie and Benny's combine the best of classic American and Italian in both style and cuisine. They specialise in home style cooking 'just like Mamma used to make it'. This is a great place to take the entire family and represents excellent value for money.

• Address: Boongate Retail Park, Peterborough, PE1 5TA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): American, Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £18.00

Fratelli Ristorante - Castor

Outwardly The Fitzwilliam Arms in Castor would not immediately strike you as the country cousin of nearby Stamford-based Fratelli's. To add to any confusion there is another Fitzwilliam Arms only three miles away, such is the staunch loyalty to the family who own the picturesque 20,000 acre estate to the west of Peterborough upon which both pubs are located.

• Address: 134 Peterborough Road, Castor, Peterborough, PE5 7AX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £30.00

Gourmet Burger Kitchen - Cambridge

Gourmet Burger Kitchen was the brainchild of three New Zealanders, who craved after the way that food tasted back home. The chain was instrumental in changing the perception of many people who saw the traditional burger purely as a fast food option; instead they are now seen as more sophisticated products, made using fresh, good quality ingredients.

• Address: 43-45 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): American
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £20.00

Graffiti

Featured Restaurant

Cambridge - rather surprisingly - is not particularly well served for the aspiring gastronome, so the addition of Graffiti at the Felix Hotel to the available options has been universally welcomed by the locals.

• Address: Hotel Felix, Whitehouse Lane, Cambridge, CB3 0LX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Mediterranean, Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £24.00, Dinner: £42.00

Hart of Bythorn, The

This relaxed and friendly restaurant, offering both a la carte and bar menus, is located in The White Hart. The menu is Anglo/French based with, in the main, local ingredients being used. A typical meal might include a prawn and mussel cocktail to start, followed by twice cooked shoulder of lamb with a garlic and rosemary jus served with a crescent of seasonal vegetables, and for dessert sticky toffee pudding with a butterscotch sauce.

• Address: The White Hart, Thrapston Road, Bythorn, nr Huntingdon, PE28 0QN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, English, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £30.00

Huntly Restaurant, The

Orton Hall is an attractive and quite unusual country house on the outskirts of Peterborough. There is original panelling about and the skyline has some affinity with the Victorian architects, Page and Garling, who remodelled Grimsthorpe Castle, not far away.

• Address: Best Western Orton Hall Hotel, The Village, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, PE2 7DN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £61.00

Jade Fountain

If I was looking for a recommendable Chinese restaurant I would tend not to head for the heart of Cambridgeshire, but according to the local grapevine that's exactly what The President of China did when grounded at Stansted Airport a couple of years back.

• Address: 42-46 High Street, Sawston, nr Cambridge, CB2 4BG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £23.00

Kingston Arms

"A gastropub to rival London's The Engineer and The Lansdowne" - The Observer Food Monthly Feb 2004. Customers and critics all point out how well the combination of traditional pub, award winning ales and first rate cooking works in this cosy venue where equal attention is paid to the range of beers, the wines and, of course, the daily changing menu.

• Address: 33 Kingston Street, Cambridge, CB1 2NU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British, Modern European, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £26.00