Cambridgeshire Restaurants

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, Cambridge, CB2 4BG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £23.00

Jamie's Italian - Cambridge

• Address: The Old Library, Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £36.00

Kingston Arms

Named after it's location on Kingston Street, this neighbourhood gastropub is a great place, with good food, fantastic ales and wines, and an informal atmosphere, perfect for cosy first dates, business lunches or boozy get-togethers.

• Address: 33 Kingston Street, Cambridge, CB1 2NU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Gastropub, Modern British, Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £25.00

La Tasca - Cambridge

The lively La Tasca chain caters for parties, children's events and family gatherings in addition to anytime dining. These restaurants capture well the warm and vibrant spirit of Spain, and are best known for their tapas and traditional paellas.

• Address: 14-16 Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Spanish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £14.00, Dinner: £27.00

Le Gros Franck

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If fancy French cuisine is the mood of the hour, Le Gros Franck in Mills Road, Cambridge is as French as it gets. The ambience is lively and relaxed, as opposed to popular belief tagged to French restaurants - sophisticated and imposing.

• Address: 57 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1NT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French, Patisserie, Sandwiches
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Le Paradis Restaurant

Should you need a break from the academic purlieus of Cambridge head down the M11 a short distance to this haven of relative normality where Churchill, Bader and Crosby sometimes took refuge during WW2.

• Address: Duxford Lodge Hotel, Ickleton Road, Duxford, Cambridge, CB2 4RT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £42.00

Linfords Traditional Fish & Chips

Operating from an unassuming little shop in Market Deeping, five miles from Peterborough, for three generations, the Linford family has been keeping the true blue British souls happy with its unusually tasty fish and chips - fish that's caught straight from the sea and chips from the Lincolnshire fields.

• Address: 6 Market Place, Market Deeping, Peterborough, PE6 8EA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Fish & Chip
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Loch Fyne - Cambridge

Whilst the 49 Loch Fyne restaurants have a shared background there is a welcome degree of individuality encouraged throughout the group, which makes for customer interest. If you like wholesome, fresh and reliable seafood caught and reared under carefully controlled conditions, well presented in unfussy surroundings, and you enjoy being well looked after by pleasant staff, Loch Fyne is for you.

• Address: 37 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Grill, Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £25.00

Loch Fyne - Elton

Whilst the 49 Loch Fyne restaurants have a shared background there is a welcome degree of individuality encouraged throughout the group, which makes for customer interest. If you like wholesome, fresh and reliable seafood caught and reared under carefully controlled conditions, well presented in unfussy surroundings, and you enjoy being well looked after by pleasant staff, Loch Fyne is for you.

• Address: The Old Dairy, Elton, PE8 6SH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Grill, Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £25.00

Maharajah

To say that the Maharaja is towards the top of the list in Cambridge should not be received with unalloyed rapture. It is perhaps a tribute to the excellence of College Common rooms that the commercial sector has responded in such lacklustre manner to the culinary challenge of swathes of hungry academics and their acolytes.

• Address: 9-13 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Indian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £22.00