Tag: Cambridge

Review: Vanderlyle, Cambridge

Vanderlyle

Vanderlyle try pretty hard to emphasise that they are simply a fine dining restaurant (and, sotto voce, by the way they don’t use meat or fish). I completely understand why they take this slightly convoluted approach. When I’m thinking about going out for a nice meal, I can feel myself almost automatically skipping my gaze …

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Review: Fin Boys, Cambridge

Fin Boys is a seriously good fish restaurant in Cambridge. It would be a seriously good fish restaurant in London or anywhere else. They definitely put the “Oo!” into seafood. Hey… that was clever. : ) Sit at the counter if you can, that’s where we sat and talking with the chefs about seafood is …

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Review: Midsummer House, Cambridge

Sweet scallop

Daniel Clifford’s Michelin 2-star dining room in Cambridge has been on our hit-list for aaaaaages. It’s one of the stealthiest restaurants in the country. You walk across Midsummer Common and then stand there in faint bewilderment. There’s a pub. There’s a small detached Victorian house alongside. And there’s nothing else this side of the river. …

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