Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Rugeley
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Rugeley restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in Rugeley and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Rugeley restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Rugeley Restaurants
1. Little Seeds
British, Modern restaurant in Stone
16 - 18 Radford Street - ST15
The “lovely garden” at Sophie Hardman and Jake Lowndes’s ‘bar and kitchen’ received a major boost this year as it was expanded and improved; and it has a “snug” interior too. There’s the odd quibble that results are “pricey for Stone!” but all feedback says the modern British cuisine is “good” or “very good”.
2. Moat House
British, Modern restaurant in Stafford
Lower Penkridge Rd, Acton Trussell - ST17
2023 Review: A “smart hotel” with its own lake set in the Staffs countryside, where the “cosy restaurant serves good value food using local produce”. Tuesday night is grill night – on other evenings steaks and pub classics feature on the menu alongside somewhat fancier fare.
3. The Boat
British, Modern restaurant in Lichfield
Walsall Road - WS14
2023 Review: You’re “always guaranteed a superb meal” from “a favourite top chef” – Liam Dillon (who has worked for the likes of Marcus Wareing and Tom Sellers) – at the “great pub” he has converted into an ambitious restaurant, with 4- and 6-course tasting menus in the evening and a chef’s table option.
4. The Lighthouse Restaurant
International restaurant in Ashbourne
New Road, Boylestone - DE6
2022 Review: Over a decade on, this fine dining spot “sitting at the back of the Rose and Crown plum in the middle of nowhere” is “a revelation” to some reporters, “trying too hard” for others. The “regularly changing tasting menu” (the only option, coming with or without wine flights) is “getting even better, if anything”.
5. Bilash
Indian restaurant in Wolverhampton
2 Cheapside - WV1
“Can’t beat it” – there are “lots of Indian restaurants to choose from” in these parts “but make sure you book this one”: Bangladesh-born chef Sitab Khan’s veteran destination (est. 1982), where “unusual dishes are all prepared to a great standard” and “your tastebuds will not be disappointed”.
6. Upstairs by Tom Shepherd
British, Modern restaurant in Lichfield
25 Bore Street - WS13
“Getting a booking is no mean feat” at Tom Shepherd’s “absolutely brilliant” operation – a “bright and crisp” 28-cover space “above his father’s jewellery shop” which in two short years has established itself as one of the Midlands’ most celebrated culinary destinations. “If you do, you will be rewarded with exciting and original cooking” with dishes that are “thoughtful in their concept, prepared meticulously and served beautifully”. BREAKING NEWS – In September 2023, Tom announced a second, more informal venture in the city (‘we’re going to open up with the mindset of small plates, drinks orientated, and the small plates will develop so you can almost have your own tasting menu’).
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