Historical version 4 of Restaurant 22 (view current version)
- 01223 351880
- 22 Chesterton Road
- CB4 3AX
- restaurant22.co.uk
- 7pm to 9:45pm, Tuesday to Saturday
This is one of the best restaurants in Cambridge. The food is gorgeous — give into temptation and order the fish course, and be prepared to abandon decorum and try one another's puddings; the bread that comes with the meals would by itself be worth writing home about.
The menu changes monthly photo of the September 2010 menu, and uses seasonal British ingredients; the food is superbly made, interesting and not unnecessarily fussy, though some of the descriptions require a culinary dictionary: tians, salpicons, pithiviers, dartois and timbales all feature on the 2007 menus. There is usually only one vegetarian option for each course.
The restaurant has a Michelin 'Bib Gourmand', which means 'good cuisine at reasonable prices' and I think undersells it somewhat.
The advertised price is £26.50, plus £7 for an additional fish course and £7 more for an additional cheese course; without those additions it came to just under fifty pounds a head with wine the last time I was there, but was well worth it.
Note that the restaurant is closed Sunday and Monday