Best Tasting Menus in Bath

Acorn

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.

Menu Gordon Jones

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.

Montagu's Mews

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.

Oak

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.

Olive Tree

1 Michelin star

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 ££££.

The Bath Priory

Deep wine list

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.

The Chequers

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.

wilks

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.