Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in West End
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best West End restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in West End and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing West End restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Paris House
British, Modern restaurant in Woburn
Woburn Park - MK17
“In a superb location up a rural driveway with deer grazing. What could be more tranquil?” than a visit to this picture-book mock-Tudor timber building (originally built in France in 1878). “Chef Phil Fanning is on top of his game” and offers a six-course tasting menu for £125 per person. “Truly a consistent treat” – “Everything about the restaurant is good and the sommelier Howie is particularly knowledgeable about the interesting wines”. “Why has it not achieved a Michelin star in recent times” – “Surely they’ve got to get their star back soon?”
2. The Oakley Arms
restaurant in Harrold
98-104 High Street - MK43
Independent, produce led pub restaurant.Situated an equal distance from Bedford, Northampton and Milton Keynes sits our 400 year old thatched pub, The Oakley Arms, Harrold. Run by husband and wife chef...
3. Birch
British, Modern restaurant in Woburn
20 Newport Rd - MK17
“All food pubs should be like this!” – according to fans of this “perfect pit stop” on the outskirts of town. “You can’t fault the intent or enthusiasm of the service and the food, if unadventurous, is very decent”.
4. The Plough at Bolnhurst
British, Modern restaurant in Bolnhurst
“It’s always a pleasure” to visit this “beautiful rural pub-restaurant”, a 15th-century village inn where Martyn & Jayne Lee celebrate 20 years in charge this year. It’s a “very consistent” operation, with an “excellent choice of well cooked food”.
5. Eileen's
British, Modern restaurant in Ampthill
86a Dunstable Street - MK45
“Stunning tasting menus” prepared by chef Steven Barringer provided a couple of reporters’ best meal of the year at this “intimate dining room” – a high-ceilinged, midnight-blue room on a road into the town. It’s sign bills it as a ‘Relaxed Fine Dining Restaurant for Everyone’, inviting passers-by to ‘Come in and enjoy our tasting menus’: but you’d have to have a little time on your hands, with the options being either five or seven courses, starting at £70 per person for the former.
6. Dipna Anand Kitchen & Toast Microbrewery
restaurant in Milton Keynes
200 Unity Place Grafton Gate - MK9
Two minutes from the station, a scion from the dynasty behind the famous Brilliant Indian restaurant in Southall has spread her wings to open a 150-cover venue in the shiny new Unity Place development in late 2023; dusting off some of her family’s oldest recipes (and there’s an in-house microbrewery too). No survey feedback as yet, but in her June 2024 review, The Guardian’s Grace Dent declared it one of the best things to have happened to Milton Keynes in ages – “absolutely charming” once you leave the exterior streetscape behind, with “light, thoughtful cooking that determinedly sets out to incapacitate you, with lovely, kind service”.
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