Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Cambridge from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Cambridge
Cambridge's tasting-menu rooms carry the city's fine-dining weight, with the starred restaurants joined by a vegetable-led menu on Mill Road.
Midsummer House on Midsummer Common holds 2 Michelin stars and an exceptional wine program. Its contemporary British tasting menus draw on European haute cuisine technique and native produce, with an extensive wine list.
Restaurant Twenty-Two on Chesterton Road pairs a Michelin star with tasting and set menus built around precise British cooking. Its extensive wine list sits alongside flavour-forward dishes, with luxurious ingredients handled carefully and in-house soft pairings.
Vanderlyle on Mill Road serves a six-course vegetarian tasting menu in an open kitchen. It holds a Michelin Plate, and the drinks list includes alcohol-free pairings alongside a wine list, with seasonal produce and regenerative-agriculture sourcing shaping the menu.
Cambridge's clearest wine focus sits in a small group of rooms, led by one exceptional list and supported by dining rooms.
Fancett's on Mill Road is a French bistro with an extensive wine list. The list includes Spanish rosado by the glass and Chablis Premier Cru by the bottle, and it supports a daily-changing set menu built around seasonal cooking.
The Oak Bistro on Lensfield Road has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list alongside Modern British bistro cooking. The restaurant serves an a la carte menu featuring Beef Wellington.
Parker's Tavern in Cambridge City Centre pairs an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Its Modern British brasserie format sits in a historic coaching inn setting, with seasonal British comfort food and set menus on offer.
Midsummer Common and Lensfield Road matter most for the exceptional wine programs in our guide. Midsummer House on Midsummer Common and The Oak Bistro on Lensfield Road are the clearest wine-led rooms, while Chesterton Road, Mill Road and Cambridge City Centre add wine lists.
There are 2 Michelin-starred restaurants in our Cambridge guide, with 3 Michelin stars in total. Midsummer House on Midsummer Common holds 2 stars, and Restaurant Twenty-Two on Chesterton Road holds 1 star, both in tasting-menu settings.
Tasting menus appear on Midsummer Common, Chesterton Road and Mill Road in our guide. Midsummer House, Restaurant Twenty-Two and Vanderlyle all run tasting formats, and Midsummer House and Restaurant Twenty-Two anchor the starred end of the city.
Midsummer House and The Oak Bistro have exceptional wine programs. Fancett's and Parker's Tavern both have wine lists with extensive wine lists, and Fancett's also lists Spanish rosado by the glass and Chablis Premier Cru by the bottle.
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Set inside a Victorian villa overlooking Midsummer Common, Midsummer House holds two Michelin stars and a 92-point La Liste ranking, placing it firmly among Britain's most decorated destination restaurants. Chef Daniel Clifford's tasting menus draw on European haute cuisine technique while keeping one foot in native British produce. Lunch service runs at roughly half the dinner price, making it the more considered entry point for first visits.
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A Michelin-starred address in a Victorian townhouse on Chesterton Road, Restaurant Twenty-Two holds a distinct position in Cambridge dining: classically rooted technique delivered with contemporary precision and genuine warmth. The set lunch (Thursday only) and evening tasting menus draw on luxurious ingredients handled with care, from 48-hour braised wagyu to in-house soft pairings.
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On Mill Road, Cambridge's most independently-minded stretch, Vanderlyle holds a Michelin Plate. Alex Rushmer's cooking draws on regenerative-agriculture sourcing and seasonal discipline, with alcohol-free pairings as carefully considered as the wine list. Booking opens monthly on Tock and fills fast.
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Fancett's on Mill Road is Cambridge's most committed French bistro, holding a 2025 Michelin Plate for cooking that runs from twice-baked cheddar soufflé to calf's liver with pancetta. The wine list spans Spanish rosado by the glass and Chablis Premier Cru by the bottle, guided by an attentive floor team. A daily-tweaked set menu keeps the format honest and the prices accessible at the £££ tier.
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On Cambridge's food-rich Mill Road, Fin Boys has built a following around seasonal seafood handled with care and a strong Japanese accent. Counter seats, window perches, and an ever-changing menu of sustainable fish, from dry-aged bluefin tuna to Cornish monkfish, make it one of the street's most focused dining propositions. The drinks list runs fish-friendly, and the cooking wastes little.
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The sibling restaurant to Restaurant Twenty-Two on Chesterton Road, Margaret's trades in seasonal, produce-led cooking wrapped in a room of deliberate calm. Neutral tones and natural light set the register, while the kitchen pushes flavour through technique rather than complexity. The opening bread and dip selection alone signals serious intent from a team that clearly knows what it's doing.
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A Spanish restaurant on Green Street, a short walk from Trinity College, Mercado Central holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025. The menu draws heavily from northern Spain, with Galicia and the Basque Country shaping most of the cooking. Open-flame preparation is visible on the ground floor; a quieter dining room sits upstairs.
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Ranked #137 on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats in North America in 2023 and #173 in 2024, Toscannini's on Brattle Street is one of Cambridge's most recognised ice cream counters. Open seven days a week, it draws Harvard Square regulars and visitors alike with a programme that sits well above casual soft-serve territory. A benchmark for the city's informal dining scene.
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On Bene't Street, a short walk from King's College, Bread & Meat occupies a focused position in Cambridge's casual dining scene. The name signals the brief: quality ingredients, a short format, and a counter-style experience that sits at a different register from the city's tasting-menu restaurants. For visitors moving between the colleges and the river, it functions as a precise, unhurried stop.
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On Hills Road, Cambridge's busiest commuter corridor, Golpo Bengal Cafe & Restaurant represents the Bengali dining tradition that Southeast Asian immigration brought to British university cities from the 1970s onwards. The kitchen works within a register that prioritises regional specificity over pan-Indian generalism, placing it in a different tier from the city's contemporary tasting-menu circuit.
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On Newmarket Road, Navadhanya occupies a quieter stretch of Cambridge's dining scene where Indian cooking rooted in ethical sourcing sits apart from the city's formal fine-dining corridor. The kitchen draws on the breadth of the subcontinent's regional traditions rather than defaulting to the Anglo-Indian canon that still dominates much of the UK market. For a city better known for its tasting-menu rooms, it represents a different kind of seriousness.
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Noodles Plus serves Shanghainese noodles and dumplings at 24A Mill Rd in Cambridge, with xiao long bao, handmade noodles, and a casual, conversational setup for lunch or dinner.
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Parker's Tavern occupies a prominent address on Regent Street in central Cambridge, placing it within easy reach of the city's colleges and river. The dining room draws on the traditions of the British tavern format, updated for a contemporary audience. It sits in the mid-to-upper tier of Cambridge's restaurant scene, competing with destination dining rooms that have made the city a more serious address for British cooking.
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Scott's All Day on Mill Road sits inside Cambridge's most culturally layered dining corridor, where independent operators set the tone rather than chain formats. The all-day format places it in a tier of venues that serve the neighbourhood across multiple dayparts, from morning coffee through to evening plates. For visitors wanting something rooted in the local independent scene, Mill Road is the right address.
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On Lensfield Road, a short walk from the Fitzwilliam Museum, The Oak Bistro occupies a stretch of Cambridge that sits between the academic quarter and the city's quieter residential south. The bistro format here reflects a broader shift in British provincial dining toward focused, approachable cooking that doesn't require a tasting menu to justify the visit. For Cambridge, where the dining scene skews toward occasion restaurants and tourist-facing spots, that positioning matters.
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Selected by the Michelin Guide's 2025 hotels list, Graduate by Hilton Cambridge sits on Granta Place at the edge of the River Cam, placing guests within walking distance of the Backs, the market square, and the college courts that define the city. Among Cambridge's riverside addresses, few combine brand reliability with that specific quality of outlook over the water and the punts below.
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A Michelin Selected hotel on Trumpington Street, Hotel du Vin & Bistro Cambridge occupies a cluster of converted historic buildings that place it firmly within Cambridge's architectural conversation. The bistro format and wine-led identity position it differently from the city's newer design hotels, offering a familiar but well-executed template for travellers who want character over contemporary polish.
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The Fellows House Cambridge, part of Hilton's Curio Collection, holds Michelin Selected status for 2025, placing it among a small tier of Cambridge hotels recognised for consistent quality. Located on Milton Road, it offers a considered alternative to the city's more formal university-adjacent properties, with a character-led identity that sits outside the standard chain template.
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The Varsity Hotel & Spa holds a Michelin Selected designation for 2025, placing it within a small cohort of Cambridge hotels recognised for quality above the category average. Positioned on Thompsons Lane with views over the river and the city's collegiate architecture, it operates at the design-led end of the city's accommodation tier, where spa access and rooftop space carry meaningful weight in the guest experience.
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University Arms Hotel on Regent Street is a MICHELIN Selected property that anchors Cambridge's traditional grand hotel tier. A Victorian landmark restored to contemporary standards, it places guests within walking distance of the university's central colleges and Fitzwilliam Museum. For visitors who want architectural character, a credentialed dining programme, and proximity to the city's academic core, it represents the city's most historically grounded full-service option.
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