Bath Restaurants

Beaujolais Bistro Bar

The Beaujolais Bistro and Bar has been  a culinary icon in Bath for the past thirty years but its present avatar indicates a renaissance of sorts that spans all the elements of this quirky little bistro, right from interior to the actual cooking.

• Address: No.5 Chapel Row, Queen Square, Bath, BA1 1HN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Modern European, Bar
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £25.00, Dinner: £30.00

Bistro Papillon

If you're anywhere between the Circus and the Royal Crescent, chances are that you're not too far from Bistro Papillon, a welcoming little refuge that gives customers a chance to sample some delicious French food and wine.

• Address: 2 St Margaret's Buildings, Bath, BA1 2LP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £28.00

Blackstone's Restaurant

• Address: 2-3 Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Café, Delicatessen
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £38.00

Bybrook Restaurant at The Manor House Hotel

Manor House Hotel, set in 365 acres of parkland, is superbly located for the leisure traveller, as it is just outside Bath, that jewel of the West Country with its Roman Baths and magnificent Georgian terraces, as well as being no distance from the glorious Cotswolds.

• Address: Castle Coombe, nr Chippenham, SN14 7HR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £26.00, Dinner: £70.00

Cafe Fromage

Café Fromage's mission in life is to provide well presented cheese dishes to a public amongst who a considerable number are cheese aficionados. And where better to do it than above Paxton and Whitefield's shop in John Street? The surroundings are comfortable and traditional, the range of dishes sufficiently exciting to make a visit worthwhile, including some of the non-cheese variety.

• Address: 1 John Street, Bath, BA1 2JL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £15.00

Cafe Retro

Don't be surprised if you experience a warm and personalised touch to most things that go on at Café Retro, a quality that most London cafes seem to have lost long ago. Customers love the ramshackle appearance, which helps to add to the allure of this cosy place overlooking the Parade.

• Address: 18 York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Café
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £26.00

Cafe Rouge - Bath

Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.

• Address: 15 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00

Casanis

Receive a warm welcome from Chef Laurent Couvreur and his wife Jill at Casanis Bistro, where New York efficiency meets Gallic charm. The ambience is cosily upbeat and the food authentically French.

• Address: 4 Saville Row, Bath, BA1 2QP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, French, Restaurant
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £19.00, Dinner: £30.00

Cavendish Restaurant, The

One of a range of tasteful conversions resulting in small intimate hotels with the Indian-themed restaurant very much the centrepiece. Not that there is anything very Indian about the food which is of a high quality and almost qualifying for the international appellation in terms of scope.

• Address: Duke's Hotel, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £28.00, Dinner: £40.00

Cedar Tree Restaurant, The

Built in 1740, Ston Easton Park had declined into genteel ruin until it was saved and restored to its former glory in the 20th century. The result is a magnificent country house hotel in which excellence and gracious living have top priority.

• Address: Ston Easton Park Hotel, nr Bath, BA3 4DF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £25.00, Dinner: £62.00