The Eagle in Cambridge

5 stars for the decor and the atmosphere and also because I enjoyed it, yes yes. I had a grilled salmon steak with maple syrup, I loved it. For the accompaniments and the service, I know how it works in England, we weren't surprised. It's a very good memory.

Ran out of several food when we went but the food that we did have was food

Definetly recommend, my favourite is the nice selection of burgers, the house burger is delicious

Amazing pub! The RAF bar is so cool with all the war history. Food was really good and the staff are so friendly!!

Amazing service !! Great food and delightful atmosphere, we will definitely be back !! 🙂

Not only is the food tasty and they have a nice selection of beer, but the outdoor patio is wonderful. Even in 2° weather I was out of the wind with a heater and comfy chair.

Great pub! Delicious food and sooo much history! Thank you! ☺️highly recommended

It's an ordinary pub, but it's famous for being the place where Watson and Crick presented their research on the double helix structure of genes. The atmosphere was good, but there were always so many people that I couldn't get a seat...

We ate and drank here on New Year’s Eve. Excellent pub, the RAF bar is particularly good.

Wonderful welcome from the staff. We have a very large dog and were given a table with enough space to accommodate him. He also received a squeaky Christmas pudding, a little mat to lie on, some water and some special boar sausages. Louise, our waitress was lovely and our meal was great. We have been having our Christmas dinner at the Eagle for 6 years and wouldn’t go anywhere else. Perfect!

Good traditional character filled pub with history. Nice oak panelling decor & smart bar. Enjoyable food & drinks with good service. Updated visit: had 2x fish & chips were good with nice Guinness & Peroni. Was busy afternoon but service was good.

The Eagle Pub in Cambridge is a historic establishment that offers a selection of real ales and traditional British food, like fish and chips and pies. The food and drinks are great, but the best thing about it is it's history and ambience. During WWII, airmen frequented the pub and left graffiti on the ceiling and walls using candles, lighters, and lipstick (a tradition preserved to this day), and, its where Crick and Watson, announced their discovery of DNA.

Had a lovely steak ,cooked how I liked it ,tasty,juicy. Food hot ,good value for money . Very busy pub ,staff nice Toliets could be upgraded.

Il pub più famoso di Cambridge, in cui Watson and Crick annunciarono la scoperta del DNA. E pub ufficiale della RAF con tutti i cimeli. Fanno quasi tutto anche senza glutine portando le pietanze contrassegnate da una bandierina come in molti locali AIC italiani. Sì può prenotare tramite app (e c’è un apposito menu sg) oppure al bancone dicendo che si è celiaci (basta dire gluten allergy anche se allergia tecnicamente non è). Per esperienza consiglio di fare al bancone perché sul menu digitale spesso viene fuori che alcune portate non sono disponibili, mentre chiedendo dal vivo invece le possibilità ci sono. Offrono varie birre sg, tra cui la famosissima inglese Old Speckled Hen sg. Da provare!

Historic pub with brilliant food served. A definite stop whenever you are in Cambridge.

The Eagle has been a tourist spot since the announcement of the discovery of DNA over 70 years ago. We were able to get a table without reserving one before we arrived there early. Because of its popularity, I thought the quality of food might be compromised. My fish and chips turned out to be better than expected - the cod fillet was moist and the batter was light and crispy. My dog was kindly offered a bowl of water. Every single piece of artefact and old photo inside the pub tells a story. Definitely a great place for experiencing a traditional pub.

A classic Cambridge pub, steeped in history, with two bars, several rooms for seating and an outdoor courtyard. The beer choice is pretty good from Greene King Abott and IPA, to more local and seasonal offerings, plus the usual national brands like Beavertown. I try to visit whenever I'm in Cambridge - it is reassuring that it has not changed as much as the rest of the city.

The rude staff ever I meet in my life strongly despoiment

Nice legendary pub, but shocking Guinness on my latest visit. Unfinishable

Brilliant staff, food was lovely too

Worth the stop. Steeped in stories. DNA beer was proper. Solid B+ fish n chips that’ll scratch the itch if you got it. Peas taste like peas, chips are to be expected as a great counter point to the brew.

Amazing atmosphere and it’s a great place for aviation enthusiasts! Good food options too!

A great pub in the city center of Cambridge, if you're in the corner you have to stop in for a pint. A good selection of beer, friendly service and a great crowd, even when it's really busy like last weekend on December 21st, everyone is relaxed and peaceful.

It is said that the origin of the discovery of DNA occurred in this bar. The atmosphere inside the bar is good. The famous DNA beer (including all drinks) is not on the paper menu. You need to order at the counter or online through the app. Different people have different opinions on the food (Orientals may I'm not used to it), it's worth recommending the desserts (it's delicious), the staff service is a little indifferent, but they will still help if you need help!

Amazing atmosphere staff are very friendly. Even though they were very busy they found time to find us at table and made us feel very welcome . Would definitely visit again

We came to see The King's Men preform Christmas songs. As part of a broader Christmas break in Cambridge. Loved the historical atmosphere in the Eagle.

Very busy but efficiently run by welcoming staff. Service was welcoming and helpful with menu knowledge, especially regarding food allergies.

Very expensive and they had ran out of alot. Visited with friends and visited this and some other sites owned by the same business as part of a tour.

Everything was fabulous, the food came quickly and it was delicious. The place itself it's an historic building so that was our main reason to book. Thank you for offering us a table in the RAF Bar!

Delicious food and stellar beer selection. Combined with the history and ambiance of the setting, especially in The RAF Bar, that is why The Eagle is a mandatory stop for me whenever I'm in Cambridge.

Great place. Reasonably priced. Excellent service.

Great pub! Booked for Christmas party! Delicious food and prompt service. Loved the Christmas tree.

Excellent beer, lovely staff. Always a great visit, good beer, good service. Do expect it to be busy, but a regular place to visit.

Booked a Xmas lunch here for 7 people. We work in the genetics department at cambridge university so thought it would be apt to have our staff lunch there. The pub is fantastic, so much history, lots to look at, but the food let them down. We had booked well in advance, over a month and they only had 2 christmas dinners even tho they must have known we were coming that day and they had ran out of cauliflower for the 2 meals. There's a market a few walks away guys, you could get fresh veg there!! So we ended up with 2 of us having the dinners and the rest having burgers etc. Not what we wanted so won't be back next year. What a shame on what otherwise is a great place.

It's a large store, but it seems to be a popular one, so it's crowded all the way to the back. You order and pay at the cash register, tell them your table number, and they will bring it to you.

Great drinking spot when you are on a night out in Cambridge. Always a go to!

Nice atmosphere but mediocre steak.

Decent range of beers, two large bar areas. Steeped in history. Lots of different seating, including heated outdoor seating. Friendly staff. Easy for taxis puck up and drop off.

I used to like this bar, but now I am a bit disappointed. The food is still cheap and delicious, not very exquisite, but it is good to drink and eat. This time I had garlic butter pork chop which was delicious. I don’t know what happened to the beer. It’s as if I didn’t finish it at the dormitory party last night and put it in the refrigerator to drink today. The atmosphere is still good. If you are nearby, you can come and do a DNA pilgrimage, but there is no need to go out of your way.

The food was tasty and the atmosphere lovely, but what made us fell in love with the place was an absolutely extraordinary manager (sadly we didn’t ask the name). After a small accident he went so many extra miles to make sure we were happy. 12/10 service and I would give 6 stars if I could. Regarding the food: the chestnut soup and the pies are fantastic.

Came after work for food and drinks and had a great night. Staff were brilliant.

Discovered the secret of life~ Crick "unofficially published the double helix structure of DNA" bar! A shop with a great atmosphere, and the DNA beer is delicious!

The drink menu is nothing short of impressive, with a wide variety of cask ales, craft beers. The real standout, however, is the pub's selection of traditional British ales, which are perfect for any ale enthusiast looking to experience authentic brews. The bar staff is friendly and knowledgeable, always happy to recommend something to suit your taste. As for the food, it’s comfort food at its best. The fish and chips are crispy and golden, with a perfectly flaky interior, while the stake and ale pie is a hearty, savory delight. The portion sizes are generous, ensuring you leave feeling satisfied. Service is efficient and friendly, with the staff going out of their way to make sure you feel at home. Experience that feels like a genuine slice of English pub culture. Overall, Eagle is a must-visit for anyone looking for a cozy, authentic pub experience. With its great selection of drinks, delicious food, and welcoming atmosphere, it's easy to see why this place is beloved by locals and newcomers alike.

Had a fantastic time at The Eagle in Cambridge! It’s full of history and charm. The food was excellent, and the staff were incredibly welcoming. A must-visit for anyone visiting Cambridge

Great pub, full of history. Amazing food and friendly team. Will definitely be back.

Great pub, tonnes of history and a must-visit for anybody touring the town. Great service and food too. Will 100% visit again anytime I’m in Cambridge.

Excellent (dining) café. Since time immemorial 👍

Fantastic traditional and historic pub, great staff and lovely food. Would highly recommend visiting this place.

Steady old man’s pub. Great beer lots of old men. Great service too. Food looked and smelled amazing.

Best place in Cambridge! Great food!

Excellent food for all 3 of us, excellent service and advice for drinks and colleagues loved the history.

Excellent traditional pub with different proposals. Good Eagle beer

At 12.30 requested Chicken Kiev but was told they didn't have any. Then asked for chicken sharing platter. The chicken coujon's were rock hard ( looked as though they had been reheated) when asked if everything was ok wesaid no. The server said she would bring more coujons but on returning said they had no more and offered us a refund which we accepted. Sadly all we wanted was some decent food!!

A great pub in the heart of town stacked with history. We didn’t have the food but it looked delicious and the smells were tempting. Very happy friendly staff. It can be busy as popular with all sorts of people which means it’s working well.

Great service and good was brilliant Thank you Tomas and Dovy for making my experience one to remember will definitely return

fish n chip is very nice. the turkey roasts is a bit too dry. burger is okay. overall not bad. sitting can be quite tight. gald they welcome dogs.

Great place. Bit crowded on a Friday evening but no complaints here. We had nothing posh but one of the best fish and chips I ever had. Young team but professional and welcoming.

100% English atmosphere, super large place, we went and sat down without a reservation without any problem, we loved the food, attention to detail, normal price, I recommend coming here on your visit to Cambridge and trying the duck and the fish & chips, they were exquisite!!!

Despite being packed to the rafters inside and out the service was quick . Efficient and friendly. Our meal was hot and tasty and a huge portion. Someone outside the pub up the road recommended the eagle for good food so thank you , you were right. Will definitely come back when in Cambridge . Well done to the team of staff who were working hard but were so calm and professional when so busy . You are all a credit to the pub industry

Cracking couple of Pints of Hazy Day with the family

This is my new temple. As a PhD biochemist, to walk into the Eagle and sit under the plaque, tasting Eagle DNA beer, my life is complete. To top it all, bringing an American colleague who has served in the armed forces was the cherry on top. This is a piece of UK history, not just a pub. Beautiful place.

Very traditional restaurant and pub with a great ambiance. The food was great and the prices fair, from my perspective. Of course it is very full so we were lucky to get a table.

Very speedy service indeed considering how crowded the place was. Good quality food.

The Cambridge Old Bar was founded in 1667. Although it is the second oldest pub in Cambridge, its popularity may be higher than that of the oldest one. The main reason is naturally its legend and story. It was Francis Crick who discovered DNA when the Cavendish Laboratory was still nearby. It is a place where James Watson often visited and "worked over lunch". Crick also announced this major discovery with Watson in the pub. Therefore, there are signs commemorating related deeds hanging at the entrance and inside of The Eagle. The indoor environment of The Eagle, which is still frequently visited by teachers and students from nearby Cambridge, is quite quaint and very popular. I especially like the paintings hanging on the walls that have a bit of a scientific and artistic style. For the meal, this time I ordered not the "signature" fish & chips promoted by The Eagle, but the steak, which is also a regular customer of classic British pub food. I thought that a pub like The Eagle would become famous mainly for non-meal factors. The food may be okay, but unexpectedly, it exceeded expectations. The steak itself was well cooked and seasoned. The onion rings and fries that came with it were not overly seasoned and had enough aroma. They were quite comfortable and enjoyable to eat, and the ingredients were also good. Very good match. It seems that part of the popularity of The Eagle, located in the University District of Cambridge, is also due to its delicious food. recommend

Great Food + great beer = great pub And you can enjoy a location where history took place

Delicious food and drink with traditional English bar atmosphere! And the history and the story behind the eagle bar is interesting!

Classic British pub. Busy, wonderful, fun.

Very enjoyable experience, lots of atmosphere, good food, excellent location, very busy, busy able to get a table.

We had beef Sunday roast. They had run out of chicken. It came warm, not hot. Overall it was pretty blunt. The cabbage was definitely boiled and then put under fire to burn it a little to make it look as if it was roasted but it was definitely not roasted, just made to look it. The gravy was disappointing, lukewarm and tasteless. We asked for more gravy, which never came. They seemed to be busy that day. It’s a very old, large pub. They need to improve their services and food though.

A place with a lot of history, a lot of atmosphere and very beautiful! Mandatory stops if you go to Cambridge and want to have a few beers

A lovely pub with a great atmosphere and historical significance. Exceptionally friendly staff as well.

Lovely building and decor, let down by mediocre food. Lacking in flavour, served like warm and portion size of the fries was very small.

Enjoy a nice meal in 'The Eagle' where in 1953 Watson and Crick interrupted their lunch at their regular table to announce that they had 'discovered the secret of life', namely the structure of DNA. 🧬

If you like aviation history this is your pub. You can almost feel the bygone pilots raising a pint. Great vibe. Food and drink is typical of a British pub. I hit this place every time I’m in Cambridge

The Eagle has a wonderful, historic atmosphere, and we felt very welcome from the moment we walked in. It’s a great spot with so much character. I ordered the fish and chips, which was tasty overall, but the green mushy peas – didn’t have much flavor and felt a bit bland. Aside from that, everything was excellent, and I’d definitely recommend a visit!

Loved the history of this place!

To have a lunch between the history is fantastic. You can feel the atmosphere and the spirit of ancient knowledge around you. Stop here to have a single beer or a full lunch. It’s amazing. We had Sirlion steak and festive duck… wonderful. And the sticky toffee pudding is delicious

Historical, cosy pub with a nice atmosphere. Tasty food, but a bit overpriced for the portion size of my plant burger and chips. My niece's fish and chips was a generous portion however, so maybe mine was bad luck. The photo shows the chips before I ate any. We both thoroughly enjoyed our meal.

Popped in for a quick drink while out and about on a trip to Cambridge. Inside it was welcoming and warm, suitably bustling and surprisingly large, sprawling gently into various rooms. The bar staff were friendly and helpful, supplying my husband with a couple of samples of local beers whilst he decided what he wanted. They knew their products well and were able to describe what was on tap in some detail. Bar snacks were nice and served in little tubs not plastic packets. Lots of little things to look at on the walls ect. We never went into the beer garden but it looked full and friendly as we went past.

The cheese was not grilled and I found bacon pieces on a vegetarian meal. The bacon was on both vegetarian sandwiches!! So definitely not a simple mistake, but a systematic failure in the kitchen. As vegetarians we couldn’t eat this food.

The second oldest pub in the city, since 1667. It became famous after two students walked in and said they discovered the DNA double helix in 1953. They even have a beer dedicated to it. In addition to the cozy atmosphere and great service, we ate the best fish & chips of our trip, it was amazing!

The Eagle is fine, always seems very chain like despite being such an old and unusual pub, whist large, it is still in original division with several interconnected areas. Nice large courtyard.

Great pub with food and heritage. Nice garden.

Don't Panic As a beginner of the UK pub grub restaurants, it's too early to give a proper rating to Eagle yet. I need to try different pub grub restaurants in the Cambridge town centre before I give a conclusion. I think the UK style burger was very different to the US Diner ones. The UK ones are more lean. Too bad the bun was not warm. Glad that the fries were hot. The portion of the Sunday roast was relatively small, but it's acceptable. As the price was relatively cheap for the location. I thought the roast potatoes was flavourful. Crispy outside but soft inside. The gravy was not too salty. The restaurant looks rustic but clean, looks stylish. The inside is bigger than I expected. I will come back to adjust the rating.

An incredible pub, due to its history and association with Crick/Watson and DNA. A must visit when in the area, just to get a drink. Although it is very busy - and you need to try and be on the look out for seats all the time!

Not enough bar staff for a busy Saturday afternoon.

I'm afraid I've tried numerous times over 2 days to make contact and book a table for 6 for Sunday Lunch. No answer as yet. Hopefully they'll sort out their phone line.

Good boozer with a lot of history. Did not eat here but the food looked good. It is Greene King chain so personally not fond of the beers

I loved it, good food, super nice atmosphere, really worth it.

Well-known pub in the city. This time something disappeared.

Great pub, lots of history including ghosts! Always good selection of beers and drinks. Plus decent pub food. Recommend.

Wow 👌 if your looking for a traditional boozer with history, you have come too the right place. We only had a quick tipple, so we don't know what the food was like but I can tell you the Guinness was very lip smackingly good.

Worth popping in to see the history on the ceiling! It's nice inside but everyone sticks to their own groups.

What a brilliant pub in Cambridge! The Eagle Pub is a beautiful old-world classic that exudes charm and history. I was proud to share drinks in a place where the founders of DNA gathered right after their groundbreaking discovery. It’s a fantastic spot to enjoy a drink and soak in the local heritage.

Historic pub on the Cambridge sightseeing trail (you can read the other reviews for the history, which will be summarised more eloquently than I can), yet retains an authentic and non-touristic touch. Came on a Saturday lunch in Oct 2024 for food and a second time in the late afternoon for drinks/snacks. Food wise the weekend specials were decent for the price and location. In particular I had a confit duck leg on cabbage and potatoes and my companion had wild boar sausages on mash. There’s a wide variety of tap and cask ales but not so much in terms of craft beer or cider. Still, a great place to soak in the history and the place is constantly buzzy with people admiring the RAF graffiti or talking about Watson & Crick.

Very interesting place to visit for the history, good food and beer. Very busy, bit of a tourist trap.

Cracking pub in Cambridge. Will visit again

It is a very impressive place with its history and interior design. They have a wide variety of good beers. We ate pie and fish and chips during our visit. Both were very delicious. DNA discovery was celebrated in this pub. During the Second World War, British pilots hung out in this pub and wrote notes on the walls and ceiling of the pub.

Amazing food and service, with science!

What a gem of a pub and a fantastic find the place just oozes history and quality. We were in the raf bar and wow were blown away with it. Fabulous pub that we will definitely be going back too soon . The staff were great even tho it was busy but I guess that's I there dna.