Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Calne
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Calne restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 10 restaurants in Calne and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Calne restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Red Lion at East Chisenbury
British, Modern restaurant in East Chisenbury
North of Stonehenge, this thatched pub “continues its high standards” and is a “firm favourite” for a widespread fan club who travel to visit it. “It’s a lovely team for whom the food is the star of the show”: “we’ve never had a bad meal and just wish we lived nearer!”. “It looks like a pub, but it’s more like fine dining”.
2. The Duke Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Calne
1 Church Road, Hilmarton - SN11
The Duke Hotel is an independently run Free-house pub, restaurant and hotel set in the quaint village of Hilmarton a largely rural village on the north side of Wiltshire. The Duke offers 5 stunning en-suite boutique hotel rooms
3. Restaurant Hywel Jones by Lucknam Park
British, Modern restaurant in Colerne
“‘Old school’ dining… perhaps a bit stuffy, but the food’s good” – the dining room of this well-known luxury spa hotel has had, since 2006, chef Hywel Jones at the stoves. You can eat à la carte for £110 per person for three courses, or there’s an eight-course tasting menu for £140 per person, and the deft cuisine won nothing but praise this year. “The wild and woody setting of The Estate and the slightly faded grandeur of The House just make it a rather special place to stay” and it’s also praised for a “delicious afternoon tea in beautiful, elegant surroundings”.
4. Rick Stein
Fish & seafood restaurant in Marlborough
Lloran House, 42a High Street - SN8
“One of Rick Stein’s smarter outposts” – this centrally located outpost of the celeb chef family’s empire occupies a period building on the high street, and is a useful option in this surprisingly thinly provided area, including for “a business chat with friends”. Limited but positive feedback this year on its cooking, although the indication is that it’s “very decent”.
5. Grey's Brasserie, Whatley Manor
British, Modern restaurant in Easton Grey
2022 Review: The more informal dining option at this luxe Cotswolds country-house hotel, with an elegant grey colour scheme and a garden for summer months – the British-slanted menu offers “tasty food” in “good portions”, drawing on fresh produce from the kitchen garden.
6. The Dining Room, Whatley Manor
British, Modern restaurant in Easton Grey
Chef “Ricki (Weston) and the team do amazing work” at this Cotswolds country house hotel – “a lovely place to unwind”, which has been a gastronomic highlight of the area for two decades now. Those who visited during the previous tenure of chef Niall Keating report that the “food was amazing then, but Ricki has taken it further”, his “truly exceptional” tasting menu featuring some nicely performative touches too (“the whole experience of eating the first bites in the kitchen before being led into the Dining Room means the link between the chefs and the diners is well integrated”).
7. Dan's at The Crown
British, Modern restaurant in Marlborough
6-7 The Parade - SN8
Australian Dan Bond’s unpretentious restaurant, which gained an outdoor marquee in covid times, is a real local hit; “you know everyone will like the food, you know it will be fair value” and “you know they’ll work their socks off to give you a good time”….“plus, Dan’s just a good bloke”, so “how could it not be everyone’s favourite?” Top Tip – “their occasional wine dinners are great fun too”.
8. The Potting Shed
British, Traditional restaurant in Crudwell
The St - SN16
This cute whitewashed and beamed village pub “just outside Malmesbury” has its own two-acre organic kitchen garden and wins support for its “well prepared dishes from a nice menu” and “friendly staff”.
9. Bybrook Restaurant, Manor House Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Castle Combe
2022 Review: Chef Rob Potter wins solid praise for the consistency of his cuisine at this plush Cotswolds five-star hotel with golf club. The style is “traditional rather than super-inventive” (“we didn’t experience stand-outs but good quality throughout”).
10. The Black Swan Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Devizes
25 - 26 The Market Place - SN10
2023 Review: This “traditional market town coaching inn” is a “real delight” – offering “great service” and “tasty, inventive food” which makes good use of “excellent locally sourced meat and exceptional vegetables”. Top Tip – “top Sunday lunch”.
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