Bedford, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

At The Stratton House Hotel we specialise in unpretentious food that makes the most of fresh, quality produce. We like to think it’s some of the tastiest you’ll find around Biggleswade.With a seating capacity of sixty-five, this well-appointed restaurant is ...

“Of course it has a wonderful location… but the food more than surpassed this”. “In a wonderful parkland setting” (22 acres of the Duke of Bedford’s Woburn Estate), this striking mock-Tudor timber building (originally built in France in 1878) is nowadays the stage for chef/patron Phil Fanning’s highly ambitious cuisine. The main event is a “memorable six-course tasting menu” for £99 per person, which on practically all accounts delivers a “thoroughly professional and delightful” experience: “each course is exceptional, with complex assemblies of often more than 10 components, but all complementing each other”. “It is fortunate you can have a two-hour walk amongst the deer after your meal!”