Bedfordshire Restaurant Guide

Restaurant at Menzies Flitwick Manor

A quite gorgeous Georgian country house surrounded by parkland and pretty gardens. The food matches this excellence and there is a pronounced European influence on the mainly English style. An excellent wine list with house wine starting at a slightly breath-taking £19.

• Address: Church Road, Flitwick, MK45 1AE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £37.00, Dinner: £53.00

Restaurant at Paris House

Chef/owner Peter Chandler opened Paris House in 1983 following a 12 year apprenticeship with Albert and Michel Roux. He was their first English apprentice, rising to sous chef at the Waterside Inn and a senior member of the Academie Culinaire de France.

• Address: Woburn Park, Woburn, Flitwick, MK17 9QP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £54.00, Dinner: £70.00

Restaurant at The Cock Hotel

Located in the centre of an area that contains a wealth of new industry and development, the village of Heath and Reach lives up to its bucolic name, offering an oasis of peace and quiet in the middle of some very attractive countryside.

• Address: 76 Woburn Road, Heath & Reach, nr Leighton Buzzard, LU7 0AR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £35.00

Restaurant at Woodlands Manor Hotel

The restaurant is part of an elegant country house hotel. Emphasis is on correct and careful treatment of food at all stages, with close attention paid to the additional formalities of a typically French-inspired meal.

• Address: Green Lane, Clapham, Bedford, MK41 6EP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £27.00, Dinner: £33.00

River Room Restaurant

Standing alongside the Ouse river in the centre of Bedford, this splendid house built for the 5th Duke of Bedford in 1794, makes an impressive sight. Within, the River Room Restaurant offers a wide ranging cuisine of quality with dishes that command respect.

• Address: The Bedford Swan Hotel, The Embankment, Bedford, MK40 1RW (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £40.00

Royal Oak, The

• Address: 4 Biggleswade Road, Potton, nr Biggleswade,  SG19 2LU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Family, Pub, British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £28.00

St Helena, The

This delightful restaurant in a small manor house at Elstow on the outskirts of Bedford is rightly popular and you will need to resort to guile if you want a booking at short notice. Dishes cover a wide range and there is an undoubted Mediterranean influence - all are prepared with that unbeatable partnership, care and flair.

• Address: High Street, Elstow, Bedford, MK42 9XP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £47.00

Stag Inn, The

• Address: The Green, Mentmore, nr Leighton Buzzard, LU7 0QF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £30.00, Dinner: £40.00

Villa Rosa Restaurant

• Address: Ram Yard, Off High Street, Bedford, MK40 1AL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £10.00, Dinner: £20.00

Wernher Restaurant at Luton Hoo

The latest acquisition by Elite Hotels is one of the more exceptional former stately homes in England. Luton Hoo changed hands in 1999 but such has been the scale of preparation that work did not start until 2005.

• Address: The Mansion House, Luton, LU1 3TQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A