Danish Camp in Bedford

First visit in about 6 years. It's expanded a little but has not lost any of its charm. Sat on the banks of the river Ouse with ample seating inside and out. Numbered tables. Order at till and your food/drinks are brought to you. Very nicely cooked food. A little higher in price but then the quality and quantity is better than others I've had in the area. Recommended.

Don't walk in just after 11am on an autumnal day, no hot food available, only sandwiches.

If you want to party, this is the place to be. Friendly staff, good food and an relaxed atmosphere. I'm so glad I'm local

Nice atmosphere. Good coffee & scone. With walking for health group

Had a lovely lunch today, all meals were lovely from the roast dinners to the burgers. All staff were very helpful, friendly and attentive. Thank you! We will be returning.

Had a great evening at Danish Camp, the place was buzzing as the live music started, with complimentary cocktails, we danced the night away, with generously portioned hot food we couldn't ask for anything more, though we got it, as the owner Roy made sure all the guests were well catered for and everyone had a good time.Wp;; defo be returning with more of our friends from the movie business.

Stopped for a cuppa after walking along the river Not much selection for cake so didn't bother.

Brilliant fresh food. Friendly staff. Great live music evenings

Sad that is no music to entertain during day and is boring. Overall a very nice location, some life is missing to be complete

Great venue let down by uninterested staff. Not busy but tables left uncleared

Lovely location by the River Great Ouse, we had been visiting friends in the nearby picturesque village of Willington, when we were told of this gem, hidden away on the banks of the river Great Ouse. Having walked along tree lined winding paths we entered the Danish camp,met by a smiling Host Roy, we were shown to a table on the impressive balcony, overlooking the river where drinks were ordered and brought to our table. The place was quite busy, for reason! it's special and a very popular establishment with a unique historical past. The comprehensive menu meant we were all able to order our chosen dishes, orders taken and another round of drinks the food was brought out hot and well cooked, people were now queuing to enter the restaurant part, there's some lovely outdoor seating areas on a beautifully lawned area. Definitely going back next time we are visiting Bedfordshire. Apart from the restaurant, this place also I believe has a river boat offering trips along the river on certain days. Highly recommended.

Slow service, tables not cleared for a long time but a lovely venue with beautiful scenery.

I Love the Danish camp! Fab live bands, atmosphere, food, family and dog friendly! Well done!

Been here several times now - hired a small boat for an hour, other times cycled around the area; this time met friends for breakfast. We enjoy it - lovely riverside location and the food and drunk are good although prices are rather high. Danish Camp is idea for families and is almost always busy.

Great place for a simple lunch.

Very pleasant riverside area, an ideal stop off on a walk or cycle. Nice cakes and coffee!

Lovely spot. Very busy Bank Holiday Monday

Needs more staff on sunny days.

We enjoyed a lovely breakfast and amazing coffee ☕️overlooking the River watching boats passing by on a nice wooden elevated decking area. Our full English breakfast was delicious served promptly on hot plates. The staff are very pleasant and willing to help and advise on menu options. There was for us plenty of seating to choose from we chose to dine outdoors. 🍳🌭🍽 afterwards we went for a quiet stroll looking at the moored boats and then going to see the aviary with the beautiful budgies and I think some barn owls 🦅🦜🐥🐥 I'd recommend a visit if your in the area for a meal snack or a beer they also have a couple of bars and icecream 🍦🍦🍦🍺🍺🍹🍷hopefully you'll enjoy your visit 😃

Brilliant night watching live music, the place was packed with a great atmosphere, especially as it was adults only, kids and dogs no thank you.

Beautiful place in the country. heaven on earth

Rivers edge, Scandinavian style log cabin, love it!! Fab food, cafe style.. beautiful setting, boat hire depending on weather/season, Boat trips. Bird sanctuary. Ozzie the owl is spectacular! Chickens, ducks, geese, peacocks, budgies and more! A function room is vailable to hire for special occasions. A lovely relaxing place to be, by the river. Beautiful view. Inside/outside eating. Outside bar, TV for the big match's. Plenty of seating. Dog friendly! Lovely place and staff. Made very welcome by my fellow Watfordians'! Live band once a month. A real hidden beauty of a place, cannot fault it. Really welcoming place. May have to join a queue in the cafe sometimes but that's because its so popular! Have lots of events going on through the year so check website. Closed Monday and Tuesdays.

Fairly pricey but nice location

Great place for breakfast or lunch. Limited menu but tasty food, good beer and unique atmosphere, well worth a visit.

Good food just seems a little overpriced for the style of food on offer.

A shame that the website does not mention that it is closed on Monday and Tuesday We totally wasted our time going here for lunch.

Only had a quick drink here but it had a lovely atmosphere and Riverside views

What a lovely little Gem of a place. Well worth a visit.

Lovely area by the river with a bar and a good food menu. The sandwich wedges are a very good size! The general vibe was pleasant and they also have a large avery outside with an owl (Ozzie) and a another with various smaller birds just adding to the picturesque setting

Loooong wait for food any time of the day. It seems that despite of well known disappointment with a serving time in this place , the owners can’t be bothered to do anything about it. Not the way to run a businesses especially when very little home made food served

Amazing attraction! Great place for kids! Just beware the river! lots to see and do plenty of space to run about lots of bird houses and interesting animals including a HUGE owl. Boat trips with the owl available too. The cafe was clean and tidy with helpful staff and the food was good with fast service. Well worth a visit

Fantastic food in an amazing surrounding.

As always very nice Car park could do with better organisation

Very nice location. Good food. On the more expensive side for what you get but good food. Not a massive menu choice but has basics most people like. Don't take cash

The staff, food and place is so lovely. 6 of us went for lunch and had a lovely time. There are lovely wooded walks along the river too.

Found this place very difficult to find, alone with just SAT NAV. Plaque small, phone number from web unhelpful. My experience IS my experience! No obvious apparently huge car park, no signs to large car park either. But plenty of criticism from woman who backtracked phone call. I went to a tremendous amount of effort to visit what I expected to be a lovely place and the day shone also. My experience was less than. If I’m expected to run all over an ‘overflow’ park, told I missed it (by caller). What is going on? I’m STUNNED at her poor attitude! A driver should be watching the road, the only sign, which is angled slightly away from a drivers main focus, shouldn’t be upbraided for watching the road (which came to a dead end). THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG! Proof would be found in a ‘Subject Request’ of dialog. Please take someone with you. In heavy traffic on skinny road, with folk parked up so there is only aa single lane (welcome to England). It can be hard to find. And one is not allowed to say so!

Artful Dodger canal boat ride at Danish Camp was awesome. You can have up to 12 people on board but today it was just three of us. We had one hour with Ozzy and his humans (who were great hosts) on the canal boat. One hour with them was like a little holiday away. Just lovely. Great value for money. Highly recommend.

Very tranquil and sedated. Nice families having a nice time together.

Great atmosphere. Could sit there all day. Service is great the staff are all very well presented and helpful. I was a little let down by the food, I kind of expected it but hoped it wouldn’t be, the burger was microwave job and I paid £18, I didn’t taste of anything and then there is san Miguel at £6.50 a pint lol. It’s a shame because it’s a nice place but is slightly let down by sub par expensive food and drink.

Very good, nice location could do with better facilities for cyclists to lock up their bikes etc..but otherwise great 👍

Nice coffee ☕️ and cake 🎂 with a nice view of the river.

We walk from Great Barford to here, lunch and walk back. Dog friendly

The coffee is made by two bean to cup machines which seamed to be at the better end of fully automated coffee making. However, it is a million miles from a well made good coffee from a good barista. The beans used were ok and didn’t have the bitterness of cheap coffee but overall it was a very ordinary overpriced coffee. It was £4.10 for a flat white, I paid £4.00 for the same drink at a specialty coffee shop in London which was way better.

Our preferred place to visit here many times as there r plenty pictureque places next to great river Ouse n on the bank of river Ouse Danish Camp is restaurant built by wood logs warm to be sitting inside,outside projected wood log balcony with plenty seat out with view if river even at bank if river many benches to seat,this time we r sitting next to bar lucky that day having live band next to us,we had our dog with us so it's dog friendly having toilet facilities for both men n women they have boat trips over river Ouse as well self hired dingy with safety jackets,they have a pet Owl it's so big to see it's best attractions,there is breakfast menu n main menu with glass of beer,if u feel hot icecream shop is within primices,you will get bike hired here,nice riverside roads at least few miles in both directions for bike n walk only,they had there sufficient big free car park for their customers

My local friends love this place, so I joined them for lunch during my visit. I had the southern fried chicken wrap which was delicious and was a good portion. The service was friendly and efficient.

Really lovely spot by the river, indoor and outdoor seating and plenty of grass space. We visited for lunch on a very busy weekend and food orders took about 45 mins, no problem there as they had lots of signs up and a notice on their app. It felt a bit pricey for the food though, which ended up being quite simple with no frills. Ice cream prices felt nice and fair though.

This has changed outside so much since we used to stop off on our boat. Great place to come and have a beer or coffee with lovely ice cream as well.

Lovely atmosphere, however, the speed of service and coffee quality didn’t match up. Overpriced for a standard coffee.

Lovely setting,very nice food and lovely venue Will definitely return

Lovely Picturesque venue, with boat hire and lots of fun, had a lovely lunch with fish, chicken and a vegan, served with generous portions of well cooked fayre. The desserts were equally tasty with apple turnover and double cream, ice cream Knickerbocker Glories in a pint size vase! Even better on Friday evening the mre and myself just had to return, the place was buzzing with atmosphere.

So nice to sit near the river, have a snack and a drink after our walk with the dog although quite expensive. It was a shame that the grass areas were still closed as the signs said risk of flooding. Still plenty of seating although the grass area was out of bounds. Just a lovely relaxing place to spend an hour or so.

Stopped in for a bit of brunch with my daughter, not realsing that I was about to invest in the world's most expensive bacon sandwich. To add insult to injury, I also paid over the odds for a luke warm attempt at a flatwhite coffee (!). Nice setting but was absolutely staggered at the prices - £23 (!) - for two sandwiches, a hot chocolate and a coffee. Feeling rather bent over.... :(

Charming, friendly professional and hospitable staff. EXCELLENT scones, very light. Apparently they stop serving food at 4 pm, but they let us sit there by the river until they were ready to leave at nearly 5.....))

Lovely setting but the coffee was lukewarm, had to ask for hot coffee.

Looked online and decided to go for Sunday lunch, but that's gone, just poor quality burger and chips at £15 a head, £4 for a coffee, the place was half empty, I wonder why? we won't be coming back

Fantastic to eat beside the river. Food was Highly recommended.

I was here on a sunny Sunday afternoon in late September. Lovely grounds to walk in, then sit outside enjoying a drink . The restaurant and food stalls had stopped serving about 4pm'ish Dogs must be on a lead in eating areas.

Didn’t get anything to eat but my friend and I were freely allowed go in, great views from the deck/balcony.

Lovely place to sit outside everyone friendly great atmosphere.

Lovely place to visit. Outside areas particularly good. Nice pit stop when walking or biking on the cycle route.

Visited here with family and really enjoyed it. Nice to chill by the river and see the geese and ducks, and also the owl, which was absolutely beautiful. We had lunch and the food was good, nice relaxed atmosphere. Would recommend. :)

Excellent place to start your walks around the lakes and back for some food and drinks

Went midweek for breakfast. Lovely food which had obviously been freshly cooked to order. Staff were friendly and efficient and the outlook was very nice. We sat in the dog friendly area (although we had no hound with us) which looked to be nicer. The downside was that we were the only clients there which was a shame

Lovely ice cream and I'm sure other grub but, why the musak? I don't want to sit in a tea garden with musak being piped out! There was musak from the garden and musak from the garden bar area, not even playing the same! Popped in for a cuppa and cake. Sad to say the Victoria sandwich and the apricot and almond slice was of very poor quality. Looking around at others people's plates of food, I wouldn't be tempted to have any kind of snack or meal.

Always a lovely experience here. Staff are so sweet. I love the breakfast bread wedge and Sunday roast. It’s such a friendly atmosphere, I can bring the kids and the dog and it’s always welcoming.

Very good place nice wall and people at the caffe

We really like this place, and since we live about 10 minutes away from it, whenever we want/ need to get a little break from work (we both work from home since the pandemic), we come here for a nice long walk! Truly is a beautiful + peaceful place, where one can regain it's sanity before getting back to the workload out there!

I thought a bit expensive but the food was good, the size of the sandwich was amazing. Would recommend this place.

Absolutely lovely place. Great walks, great food and lovely staff

Staff were excellent, food was only a short menu as it was a music event night but what I did have was very nice, the group played varied music for all generations making it a brilliant atmosphere, I will be goin again 😀

The place is set just on the river so you have a beautiful view wherever you sit. The service could be quicker but ok when it's not busy. The food is good.

A great stop off for Sunday lunch and brunch-y goodness. The owl is a real treat to see.

Always a pleasant place for lunch.

A nice little hidden cafe with fresh food nice staff and great views 👍

Loved it here, delicious food in large portions.

went there for company work do excellent

Lovely place and the staff were really friendly.

Lovely place for some good coffee and something nice to eat.

A lovely place to go for lunch with friends, a real shame you can't book a table.

First visit and staff made us very welcome and even supplied a dog treat! they cater for coeliacs and it had a warm and and cozy ambiance. Roast di. er great value and served hot with a smile. tables decorated and would thoroughly recommend.

Hidden gem in Bedford. Well worth the drive over for a Sunday walk and amazing roast! Easily one of the best meals I’ve had out in a while. The staff are friendly and attentive, and it’s a great cosy hideaway in the winter months.

Had a very good breakfast one of the best fry up going 😋

Only had ice cream. Coffee ☕️ good

Wonderful place to come. Great surroundings. Beautiful owl there too.

Came here after doing dog agility at JDA 2 miles away. Went for a 2 mile walk around the woods and decided it was time for a pie and pint. There is an area for folks with dogs and is inside and very nicely presented with plenty of space. Outside, you are next to the river Ouse with garden space and tables, or you can sit on the balcony undercover and watch the river go by.

A great family run place next to the river. Live music was really good. Will be going back to try out the food.

The Terrace was comfortable and warm, although the weather was cold and wet. The menu was broad and there was Sunday roast available. My wife became ill with an unrelated problem and the manager looked after us, providing a wheelchair to get her to our car. She didn't need to go to hospital.

A nice space, it went downhill after that! Undercooked beans, mushy cauliflower cheese, did I say cheese, not much of that! Roast potatoes passable but only 2....pork ok, not so lucky for the beef eaters, under cooked and stringy/tough were the words uttered around the table....complaint passed to waiter, chef will be informed! No response, 6 plates returned to kitchen with inedible beef still on them. Manager arrives, annoyed and unhelpful, basically no apology, full price must be paid! Twelve customers will not be returning, from an active Sunday Lunch Club

Beautiful setting tasty sandwiches

Friendly and calm with yummy hot chocolate and coffee. Such a beautiful place!

Always nice to stop for drinks 🍸 especially after a walk or paddleboarding

Didn't stay - 'no bikes' notice on front of building.

We were at an event nearby and got chatting with a couple who are keen walkers and they mentioned this place , we had enough time so decided to pop down with view to planning a future visit as there are some decent walks in the area which include the Priory Marina . We were not hungry so decided to grab an ice cream and sit by the river ,but first walked into the bar / restaurant area and although the staff members saw us we were not acknowledged in any way so after checking it out we went to the small kiosk , purchased our ice creams , the staff member was friendly enough then we went to find table by the river . The scenery is lovely and is certainly appealing as well as relaxing but what we noticed was most of the empty tables including ours had not been cleared which isn’t a good look for any restaurants when new customers walk through the door . Having looked at the menu , prices , the ice cream was only 1 x scoop ( not that big ) and cost £3 , the amount of tables that had not been cleared during our visit, the lack of any acknowledgement from bar staff and the reviews which mentioned it was a better venue in the past we doubt very much we would be dining there . We will pop in for a coffee, when going for a walk or cycling and leave it at that until the reviews and word of mouth experiences convince us otherwise.

Just found it ,fantastic Walks the camp is a hidden gem cafe excellent food outside bar must be great in the summer, boats moored up for lunch, just starting Sunday roasts It's a MUST ..

This place offers a slice of the countryside for the unadventurous. Web site suggest U16s are not allowed in unaccompanied due to licensing laws - a dubious interpretation of the law for a cafe that serves the odd drink.

Had a latte it was awful no taste very weak. The setting is lovely the coffee is not 😓

Always stop for coffee and a snack when I’m cycling past.

Popped in for tea and cake. Lovely setting by the river. Loely cake and good service

been a few years ago and visited over the weekend...i must say it's very soulless and missing charm. The bike rack was full and the owner didn't like us to bring bikes in ( insurance was the reason although never been asked that anywhere before). the staff looked very unhappy and the food and drink was overpriced and the website said it was a could be a 60 minute wait for food ( it wasn't),i wouldn't expect that long a wait in a restaurant for a more complicated meal to be cooked let alone a simple breakfast. such a pity as its a lovely place to stop.

An idyllic location set among a wooded avenue on the banks of the River Ouse. Although tables are limited inside the main building there is an abundance of tables on the veranda, on the outside decking and on the grass bank adajcent to the river. Food was well presented, hot and tasty too. I had never visited the location before but would definetly recommend and would visit again.