Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Bath from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Bath
Bath's tasting menus in our guide include one Michelin-starred restaurant and several Plate-recognised kitchens.
Olive Tree in Bath city centre holds the Michelin star in our Bath guide, most recently awarded for 2026. Chris Cleghorn's tasting menus run from three to nine courses of seasonally driven modern British cooking, and chefs present each course at the table. The kitchen draws on local and regional produce. The wine programme has an extensive wine list.
Menu Gordon Jones in Bear Flat serves a surprise tasting menu fusing English, Indian, and Asian influences with seasonal local produce. The menu is eight courses and changes daily. Gordon Jones serves many dishes from an open kitchen. The wine programme has an extensive wine list. Michelin awarded a Plate for 2026.
wilks is a six-seat restaurant serving one sitting per service, with the chef working as cook, waiter, and sommelier. James Wilkins cooks modern French fine dining around wild fish and shellfish, including hand-dived Orkney scallops and wild turbot. The restaurant serves a tasting menu, a set menu, and a prix fixe. The wine programme has an extensive wine list. Michelin awarded a Plate for 2026.
Three restaurants in our guide have an exceptional wine programme, counted citywide: The Bath Priory in Weston, Beckford Bottle Shop in Bath city centre, and Corkage in Chapel Row.
The Bath Priory in Weston serves modern British fine dining with an exceptional, sommelier-led wine programme and an extensive wine list. The restaurant serves a tasting menu, a la carte, and prix fixe. Michelin awarded a Plate for 2026. The kitchen, led by executive head chef Jauca Catalin, holds three AA Rosettes. The dining room overlooks the gardens. It also holds a Relais Chateaux award for 2025.
Beckford Bottle Shop in Bath city centre is a bistro inside a wine shop, with an exceptional wine programme and an extensive wine list. The list leans heavily on French and Italian producers, and the restaurant offers over 30 wines by the glass. A bottle from the shop can be brought to the table without corkage. Food is modern British small plates. Michelin awarded a Bib Gourmand for 2026.
Corkage in Chapel Row is a small-plates restaurant with an exceptional wine programme and an extensive wine list. The list is hand-selected and Eurocentric, with a skin-contact-forward tilt, and wines are offered by the glass. The menu is short and seasonal, drawing on the Mediterranean. Star Wine List recognised it for 2026, and The Good Food Guide marked it Good for 2025.
Bath has one Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, and one Michelin star in total. Olive Tree in Bath city centre holds the star and has held one since 2024. The restaurant serves a modern British fine dining tasting menu, and chefs present each course at the table.
Bath city centre has the most venues in our guide, with eight. In Bath city centre, Olive Tree is the Michelin-starred restaurant, Beckford Bottle Shop is a Bib Gourmand bistro inside a wine shop, and Root Bath is a vegetable-forward restaurant serving seasonal sharing plates.
Three restaurants in our guide have an exceptional wine programme, counted citywide. The Bath Priory in Weston has a sommelier-led programme and an extensive wine list. Beckford Bottle Shop in Bath city centre leans heavily on French and Italian producers and offers over 30 wines by the glass. Corkage in Chapel Row has a Eurocentric, skin-contact-forward wine list and a Star Wine List award for 2026.
Tasting menus in our guide include Olive Tree in Bath city centre, The Bath Priory in Weston, and Montagu's Mews in Royal Crescent. Menu Gordon Jones in Bear Flat, Oak in city center, and Acorn near Bath Abbey also serve a tasting menu. The Chequers in Rivers Street and wilks serve a tasting menu as well.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Bath's sole Michelin-starred restaurant occupies the basement of the Queensberry Hotel on Russell Street, where Chris Cleghorn's tasting menus run from three to nine courses of technically precise, seasonally driven modern cuisine. The kitchen draws on local and regional produce, with desserts that consistently outperform the broader course. Price range is ££££.
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Above one of Bath's most respected artisan bakeries on Walcot Street, this Michelin Plate-recognised small-plates bistro turns locally sourced British produce into seasonal sharing dishes with real confidence. The setting is unpretentious, stone walls, scruffy wood floors, natural wine on the list, and the cooking matches that register: direct, produce-led, and carefully executed. A ££ price point makes it one of the stronger-value dining propositions in the city.
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The Bath Priory elevates modern British cuisine within an 1835 Georgian manor house, where Executive Head Chef Jauca Catalin's 3 AA Rosette kitchen collaborates with award-winning gardens to create Bath's most distinguished fine dining experience across intimate dining rooms and enchanting terraces.
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Set inside the former carriage houses of Elizabeth Montagu's 18th-century estate on Royal Crescent, this Michelin Plate-recognised restaurant is the dining room of the Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa. The kitchen draws on south west produce, Somerset lamb among them, with seasonal menus built around ingredient quality. A garden walk separates the restaurant from the main hotel, making early evening arrivals particularly well-timed.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder on Bath's Saville Row, Beckford Bottle Shop operates as both wine shop and bistro, serving carefully prepared small plates alongside a list that leans heavily on French and Italian producers. The corkage option, pick a bottle from the shop next door and bring it to the table, makes it one of the more practical wine discoveries in the city.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for consecutive years, The Chequers on Rivers Street occupies a Georgian terrace in one of Bath's quieter residential pockets. Chef Tim Neal's menu ranges from produce-led British classics to dishes with international inflection, with blackboard specials that shift with the market. At the £££ price point, it represents the stronger end of Bath's neighbourhood pub dining.
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Menu Gordon Jones operates on its own terms: no menu handed to you, no substitutions, and a daily-changing eight-course format that fuses Indian spicing with top-drawer British ingredients. The open kitchen at 2 Wellsway doubles as theatre, with Gordon Jones himself serving many dishes and chatting with guests. Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 confirms its position among Bath's most seriously considered dining rooms.
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Six covers, one sitting per service, and a chef who acts as cook, waiter, and sommelier: Wilks on Chelsea Road operates at the furthest edge of intimate dining in Bath. James Wilkins brings a classical French foundation to prime British seafood, from hand-dived Orkney scallops to wild turbot, with a Michelin Plate awarded in both 2024 and 2025 confirming its standing in the city's upper dining tier.
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Acorn has spent years making the case that plant-based cooking belongs in the same conversation as any serious restaurant in Bath. Working from a narrow address off North Parade Passage, the kitchen produces vegetable-driven dishes of real technical ambition: coffee-infused cauliflower with hazelnut polenta, black truffle gnocchi, and an organic squash terrine that has become a house reference point.
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A 2025 Michelin Plate recipient occupying a converted Georgian greenhouse on Bartlett Street, Beckford Canteen operates at the accessible end of Bath's serious dining tier with a concise all-day menu built around quality produce and restrained technique. Window counter seats are reserved for walk-ins, and the sister Beckford Bottle Shop arrangement makes this one of the city's more intelligent corkage setups. Rated 4.8 on Google across 228 reviews.
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On a quiet stretch of Argyle Street a short walk from Pulteney Bridge, Chez Dominique delivers seasonal Anglo-French cooking that sits well above its price point. The prix-fixe lunch in particular draws a loyal following, with a menu that moves between classic French technique and sharper modern accents, kimchi alongside scallops, lovage sauce with sea bream, all backed by an affordable, predominantly French wine list.
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Corkage on Chapel Row is Bath's benchmark wine bar and small-plates restaurant, recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star for its Eurocentric, skin-contact-forward wine list and a short, seasonally driven menu that draws from the Mediterranean basin. The dining room runs long and narrow between a front bar and a tented rear terrace, with chunky wood furniture and an atmosphere that earns its neighbourhood loyalty the honest way.
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Inside the Francis Hotel on Queen Square, Emberwood is a brasserie that pairs Georgian architecture with a modern open kitchen and seasonal cooking. The menu draws on British produce and Mediterranean technique, with seafood from St. Mawes market appearing as the kitchen's clearest signal of where its priorities lie. A dessert trolley adds an old-school flourish that sits comfortably alongside the contemporary format.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised vegetarian bistro on North Parade, Oak runs on a direct principle: grow it, then cook it. Around 40% of its produce comes from an allotment just outside Bath, and that proximity shapes a sharing-plate menu where Jerusalem artichoke with ajo blanco sits alongside a five-course feasting option at dinner. Priced at ££, it sits at the more accessible end of Bath's dining scene.
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Bath's dining scene runs heavily toward Georgian grandeur and Modern British cooking, which makes Robun's Michelin Plate–recognised Japanese kitchen on George Street a genuine counterpoint. The robata grill anchors a menu that spans grilled dishes, precise sushi, and an afternoon tea format adapted through a Japanese lens. At the ££ price tier, it occupies a distinct position in a city where comparable awards recognition typically costs considerably more.
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Root Bath gives Somerset’s produce-led dining a brighter, vegetable-centred register: charred brassicas, pickles and braised greens rather than the usual meat-first rural shorthand. Its appeal is the way West Country ingredients are treated as the main event, with the spacious Bath setting making the format feel relaxed rather than doctrinaire.
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A two-floor fish restaurant on Monmouth Place that sits at the sharper end of Bath’s casual dining scene. The ground floor runs an open kitchen with chip-shop classics and market-driven specials; the upper deck adds an indoor/outdoor Mediterranean feel. The day’s catch is displayed in a vintage bathtub filled with ice, setting the tone for a meal built around British waters.
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A former bakehouse on Walcot Street that has cycled through several lives before landing on its current format: cocktail bar, clubby nightclub, and a restaurant backed by the owners’ own butchery operation specialising in native breeds. The kitchen handles day-boat fish and aged beef with equal confidence, and the Dilly Bar keeps pace with current cocktail thinking.
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La Terra sits on John Street in the heart of Bath, bringing a produce-led approach to one of England's most visited Georgian cities. The kitchen's emphasis on ingredient sourcing places it within a broader movement reshaping how regional British dining justifies its place on the plate. For visitors already exploring Bath's serious restaurant tier, it earns consideration alongside the city's better-known names.
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Marlborough Tavern sits on the western residential edge of Bath, positioned closer to the Royal Crescent than the tourist-heavy city centre. Among Bath's pub dining options, it occupies a neighbourhood-local register rather than the destination-restaurant tier, making it a reference point for understanding how the city's more understated dining scene operates away from the Georgian showcase streets.
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Occupying houses 15 and 16 of Bath's celebrated Georgian crescent, The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa sits inside one of Britain's most architecturally significant addresses. With 45 rooms, an acre of walled gardens, a full spa and bath house, and a La Liste score of 95 points for 2026, it operates at the summit of Bath's luxury hotel tier, a considered base for those who want the city's history as their immediate backdrop.
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A Relais & Châteaux member scoring 92.5 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking, The Bath Priory is a 39-room Georgian country house on Weston Road with award-winning formal gardens, an outdoor pool, and the UK's only L'Occitane Garden Spa. Rates start from around $316 per night. The dining programme spans a formal restaurant and the casual Pantry & Terrace.
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A Georgian country house in the Somerset hills just outside Bath, Homewood occupies a different register from the city's more formal heritage hotels. Thirty-one rooms run from colourful to theatrical, a heated outdoor pool anchors the spa, and the restaurant Olio works a British-Mediterranean line using local produce. From around £244 per night, it trades on personality as much as polish.
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Built on the site of a 19th-century hospital above a Roman thermal spring, The Gainsborough Bath Spa is the only hotel in Bath with direct access to geothermal waters. Across 99 rooms, the property pairs Georgian and Victorian decorative references with contemporary comfort, placing it firmly at the upper end of Bath's accommodation tier.
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Four John Wood the Younger townhouses joined behind a single address on Russell Street, the Queensberry sits at the quieter end of Georgian Bath with 29 rooms, independent ownership, and rates from around $217 a night. Where larger Bath hotels trade on formal grandeur, this one works through character, idiosyncratic floor plans, preserved architectural detail, and none of the corporate distance that comes with chain management.
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A Georgian coaching inn on Monmouth Place, The Yard in Bath occupies an 18th-century building converted into a 15-room boutique hotel. Antique details sit alongside modern fittings across four floors, with one room offering a private rooftop terrace. The courtyard café doubles as an evening cocktail bar, keeping the operation focused and the atmosphere deliberately intimate.
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Hotel Indigo Bath holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a curated tier of hotels recognised for quality and character in one of England's most visited Georgian cities. Located at 2-8 South Parade, the property sits within Bath's historic core, offering a design-led alternative to the grander Georgian pile hotels that dominate the city's upper end.
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A Michelin Selected townhouse hotel on Great Pulteney Street, No. 15 Bath by GuestHouse occupies one of Bath's most architecturally significant Georgian addresses. Part of the GuestHouse collection, it pitches itself toward guests who want close access to the city's historic core without the formality of Bath's grand-hotel tier. The property draws repeat visitors with a service model built around ease and familiarity rather than ceremony.
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A Michelin Selected hotel on Pulteney Road, The Bird sits close enough to Bath's Georgian centre to walk everywhere while remaining on the quieter residential side of the river. Against Bath's more formal hotel tier, think The Royal Crescent or The Gainsborough, The Bird operates with a lighter footprint and a less ceremonial register, suited to travellers who want proximity without pageantry.
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Positioned on a quiet Lilliput Court address in central Bath, The Hideout occupies the kind of tucked-away spot that rewards those who know where to look. Against Bath's broader dining scene, which spans Michelin-recognised rooms like the Olive Tree and plant-forward counters like Acorn, The Hideout offers a different register: smaller in scale, removed from the main thoroughfares, and worth seeking out.
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Kingsmead Square hosts one of Bath's more characterful drinking addresses. The Dark Horse draws a local crowd that tends to know what it wants, occupying a position in the city's pub and bar scene that sits clearly apart from the tourist-facing venues along the main thoroughfares. Whether you're planning a first visit or returning to the square, it rewards those who come with a sense of place rather than a checklist.
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