| The Very Good |
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The Crooked Billet, Newton
Longville |
Still the best
food in the area - fabulous wine list and award winning English cheese
board |
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The Swan Inn, Milton Keynes Village |
Great gastro
pub - as close to the perfect pub that you can get in this area and my
favourite place to eat in MK. Re-opened after a fire |
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The Vine
House, Paulerspury |
Affordable "fine dining" -
small but well formed menu - worth the trip into Northants |
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The Swan, Salford |
Nice
atmosphere and good food |
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Cameron's Brasserie,
Stony Stratford |
Brasserie food with
attention to presentation |
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| The Good |
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| Carrington Arms,
Moulsoe |
New owners serving interesting British food;
select meats from the counter or a la carte it cooked in an open grill area.
Can get pricey if you get too carried away when ordering |
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| The Old Green
Man, Little Brickhill |
Solid pub
food, good beer, friendly staff |
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| Wagamama, CMK |
Noodle bar -
quick and inexpensive - "fast food" as it should be done |
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| Calcutta
Brasserie, Stony Stratford |
Freshly prepared foods and
a menu not like every other Indian restaurant in MK. Unique and well
worth a trip - you have to see the unbelievably pretentious mural |
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Ye Olde Swan, Woughton-on-the-Green |
Under new ownership with a
more up market menu of variable quality |
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The Chester Arms, Chicheley |
New owners
doing a good job with fresh fish |
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| The OK |
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| Ask, XScape,
CMK |
Reliable pizza
/ pasta joint. A favourite of my teenage children when out with their
friends |
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| Brasserie Blanc, The Hub,
CMK |
Cheaper than
Le Manoir aux
Quat'Saisons. OK food, but not really worthy
of
the Great Man |
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| La Tasca, XScape, CMK |
Moderate Tapas, good
value wines |
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| Loch Fyne, The Hub, CMK |
Some interesting dishes and
improved presentation, but fish not as fresh as it should be |
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| The Living Room, The Hub,
CMK |
Trying for the
sophisticated atmosphere of a Manhattan piano bar (not that easy in
MK) - food is better than I expected and together with good live piano music makes for a nice evening out |
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Papaya, Oxley
Park
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Thai restaurant with a
modern bland interior with no sense of a Thai atmosphere. Food
probably amongst the best Thai in MK, but given how poor the Thai
competition is, that is not necessarily saying too much |
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La Collina @ The George Inn, Little Brickhill |
Italian
restaurant in a nice pub. Fake Italian accents dropping to more east
London. My wife thought the food good, I thought it only OK. Check the
bill. The tried to drop someone else's drinks onto my bill |
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| The Wavendon Arms, Wavendon |
Good modern
pub area with a couple of real ales. Flash eating area which my
teenage son liked - I didn't - but the food was only moderate |
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| The Not So Good |
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The Bell Inn, Beachampton |
Once one of
our regular haunts, now has new owners, poor service and poor food |
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| The Plough, Simpson |
Revamped but not better |
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| The Old Beams, Shenley
Lodge |
I really want to like this
place since it is close to where I live - good McMullens beer, a nice airy space
and a very good beer garden - but their food is mediocre
at best |
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| Thai Modern, Upper 4th
Street, CMK |
Nice decor, but more
decoration than mediocre food on plate |
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| Jaipur |
Pompous, unfriendly
service; overpriced food |
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| The Navigation
Inn, Cosgrove |
Nice canal side location;
moderate food; poor service; tired looking (and smelling) building.
Needs some investment |
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| Kam Tong,
Great Holm |
Mediocre food and surly
service do not make for a good evening out |
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| The Talbot
Inn, London Road, Loughton |
Returned to its original
name and given an expensive refurbishment, this is just what the
neighbourhood needed as far as the pub element is concerned.
Comfortable drinking area and a number of discrete dining areas. Food,
unfortunately is not up to much. A glorified carvery and not very good
even at that. |
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| The Bad |
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| The Old Talbot, Potterspury |
Over cooked
and totally unimaginative food. One of the most pointless eateries in
the area |
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Ortega, CMK |
Insipid food, tacky decor |
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| Royal Thai,
Stony Stratford |
Bland food, depressing
decor, funereal atmosphere |
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| Al Tamborista, Stony Stratford |
Once very good - sadly, now in
terminal decline |
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| The Ugly |
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Viet, Oldbrook |
Absolutely nothing to
recommend this restaurant disaster |
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Cafe Rouge, The Hub, CMK |
Order your
food a day in advance - corporate menu & awful service |
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| Shoulder of
Mutton, Calverton |
A good selection of well
kept ales - laughingly poor food - insultingly bad management.
At Christmas we, a party of 14 including 6 teenagers, were asked to
leave because we weren't drinking fast enough for the moron who runs
the place. 40 years of drinking in pubs around the world, this was a
first. Avoid at all costs. |
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