The Hampden Arms in Wycombe

Visited with my friend for a catch up. Amazing food as always and welcoming atmosphere. We love returning to this pub. We will be back soon

First visit for a birthday event welcomed by landlady and all the locals enjoying their Friday night drinks. Very friendly pub, everyone in our group enjoyed their meal which included Dover Sole, Sea Bream traditional fish and Chips, delcious pub food served by wonderful staff. Its really important that local pubs are supported. This traditional old pub is a gem not to be missed. Everyone is made very welcome, highly recommend.

Sunday Lunch here was such an enjoyable experience and great value for what we had. The rib of beef was amazing, loved the vegetables and that you get cauliflower cheese, a great Sunday roast!

Popped in for lunch. Great traditional pub menu, friendly staff and well priced. Love the fact the chef pops out to say enjoy your meal. A great country pub

Fantastic and excellent value Sunday lunch with friendly table service. Plenty of choices, roast lamb was very generous portion. Roast potatoes were great size and came out piping hot. Gravy was really flavoursome and Yorkshire pudding was nicely cooked and generously sized. Sticky toffee pudding was great size and also piping hot. Thanks to the chef and the staff for a great family meal out.

What a friendly welcome in a lovely pub in the countryside. The place was just where we wanted to be after a walk nearby. Very well presented and chips to die for Well done everyone A perfect stop off for a birthday lunch for my friends

I visited on a Monday lunchtime and ordered a pie and regretably opted for roast potatoes. They had the taste of being previously cooked a long time beforehand and reheated (leftovers from previous Sunday's lunch maybe?). They were so hard they were very difficult to cut them. They were dreadful, totally unaccepatable for a chef to turn out this quality of cuisine, I shan't be returning

Amazing food, steak was perfect. Honestly some of the best food we have had in a long time in a pub. Hidden Gem

Lovely friendly pub. Staff all very welcoming and helpful. Food was top-drawer and very reasonably priced. Can't wait to return .... Wish it was my local !

This is one of my Favorite Haunts. Con/Louise put on a 3 Course Greek Themed Meal on a Saturday Lunchtime for 33 Guests. The Event was for Charity. As always my only complaint was that the Portions were too large but very Tasty & wholesome. Everyone had a really enjoyable experience. The waitress's were Friendly, Bubbly & added to the Family Run Establishment. Louise kindly Donated a 3 Course Meal for 2 plus a Bottle of House Wine that was Auctioned.

Amazing meal on Mothers Day, there was 12 of us and we all had a delicious meal and great experience. Such a friendly pub, the staff were very attentive and great with the kids. So good to be able to enjoy a meal out with family somewhere local. Will definitely be back, thank you 😊

Our booking by phone was effortless, and confirmed in a pleasant and professional manner. We arrived on time being welcomed on our entry and escorted to our table. The atmosphere is extremely pleasant, exactly as we expected from a wonderful old pub nestled in the Chiltern Hills, with log fire and pictures showing the local history giving you that warm feeling of times gone bye. The menu is just right not to long covering most favourite dishes, all involving local produce as expected. This included a good variety of local beers and a well stocked wine menu. The service was excellent delivered in good time with pleasant efficiency. We will definitely return very soon. A wonderful gesture at the entrance foyer boxes of local produce Sprouts, Carrots for any Senior Citizens to help themselves during these trying times. Thank you Graham & Kathleen Liggins

A Thursday evening and this typical country pub was heaving with a good natured crowd of locals which in itself says alot. Luckily we had booked a table for four in an adjacent dining room. The menu offered a choice of starters, main courses, a separate steak menu and desserts, The wine list whilst not extensive was balanced and outstanding value as was the food. The food was generous in quantity, excellent in quality and in short good honest pub grub. The steak and kidney pudding was outstanding, my chum had a ribeye steak and the ladies a very generous portion of grilled halibut each with a shared bowl of broccoli, peas and chunky chips. Service was informal, good humoured and efficient. Value was outstanding. Will we go again? Too right we will!

I booked The Hampden Arms for a post Christmas walk lunch with a group of 14 friends and could not recommend it highly enough. From the moment I first phoned to enquire as to whether they could accommodate us (a few weeks beforehand), Louise could not have been more helpful and welcoming and this was the same when we arrived yesterday. Louise brought the menus out to us when we arrived at 11am (before the walk) so that we could pre order which was really helpful and we were all really happy with the excellent food when we ate it a few hours later, after our walk. We had a slightly scary incident with one of our party suddenly fainting at the table whilst in the pub but Louise and her staff all dealt with it very professionally and sympathetically for which we were very grateful. Will definitely return and would very highly recommend.

I've had the pleasure of visiting this Unique Establishment for 20 odd Years. Since Constantine & Louise took the Reigns. The food is always Excellent, Great Value & large Portions. Their Real Ales are always kept in Tip Top Condition & although their Wine list is Limited but is competitively Priced. I visit at least once a Week at Lunch Time to Sample their Home Cooked Ham Sarnie which they serve up with a seperate Ham Portion for my 4 Legged Companion. The Clientele are Colourful as are the Bar Staff.

Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff, delicious food andddd dog friendly! What more could you ask for! ‘One of the best roast dinners we’ve had in a long time’ - we all had different meat but all said the same! Thank you so much, definitely recommend and will be back again soon!

We spent the evening out for dinner with friends from Seattle and had a lovely evening at the Hampden Arms. Great food and a lovely welcome!

Lovely warm pub, relaxing atmosphere... Disappointed with the Kleftico, it was very nicely cooked, but not as I had expected (quite British with gravy). It is made to the Cypriot recipe ... no additions. Unlike the Greek Kleftico, full of flavours culminating into the most delicious dish ...of lemons, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, oregano and wine. As we went there especially for this dish as special occasion... was disappointed.

A group of 14 of us enjoyed some excellent food here after a long morning walk. The service was friendly and professional and the food was first class. Some of the best pub food I’ve enjoyed ever.

On the spur of the moment we booked an early table at the Hampden Arms. Haven't been there since the start of lockdown. The food was wonderful! Great scallops and salad as starters and the roast cod and scampi and chips mains were excellent. My only coplaint was that the portions were so generous we didn't have room for a desert! The service also was friendly and kind. We will return - soon!

Best pub I’ve visited in a long time. Great food, great service and I’m so glad it’s my local too! With Louise out front and her husband Constantine cooking they are a formidable team.

We were visiting family who live nearby and had Sunday lunch here (on a glorious sunny afternoon). The lamb was delicious and portions plentiful, also very good value and extremely friendly Staff

We both had a Ploughman's lunch and I have never been so disappointed. The celery and chicory was fithy. The butter dish glass was cracked. The tray it came out on was so dirty. Hardly any cheese or ham. Bread was dried out. Cuterly was...

4 of us booked a table for lunch today. The service and chosen food were sadly lacking. At 1.30pm we were advised that the pub had run out of chips. One of the meal choices came with a basket of bread. We had to chase...

A beautiful country pub set in an idyllic village location, varied menu of pub grub and Greek Mediterranean, Sadly there was no Kleftiko to try as they had run out of it so i went for the steak and kidney pudding which was below par,...

We love the Hamden arms it’s a proper family run unpretentious country pub with a lovely spacious garden & great honest home cooked food by the chef/ owner who really knows how to cook beautiful food. The seafood is fresh, delicious & perfectly cooked, we...

We've eaten here many times both outside and in. We were not too sure how well their lovely food would work as a takeway but we were hopeful - and were not disappointed! Beautifully cooked liver and bacon with a tangy traditional vinegar gravy. Warming,...

Great service from this quaint village pub. I had a take away and the food was served freshly made (I got to see the chef) and when it got home it was piping hot and delicious. It is family run and I was greeted by...

We've just had a couple of Sunday evening take-away roast dinners and they were both absolutely delicious and great value for money. We'll definitely be getting take-aways again while the lockdown's on, and will def visit once things are open again. Highly recommended.

Had a lovely lunch there today. Extremely friendly staff, great food (the garlic and chilli king prawns are to die for!) and a really good pint. Dog friendly too. Can’t think of a nicer way to spend a wet and miserably Wednesday lunchtime. Thanks!

Visited the Hampden Arms as part of a walking trip in the Chilterns. Warm welcome by the bar staff and landlord and landlady who were efficient and friendly throughout. Interior is like a proper pub, cosy and well cared for. Very good well kept local...

Found this place in a pub walk book. It’s in a small village, and unless you know it’s there you’d probably miss it. We stopped here for lunch and was pleasantly surprised with the menu. My husband had a ploughman’s and he was really impressed,...

Once again good food and really nice and friendly pub . You are looked after really well . Will be back soon.

All four meals and desserts were excellent and reasonably priced. Lovely peaceful garden. Staff very friendly . No complaints will definitely return and recommend.

So lovely to come back here today, & sit in the sunshine with our drinks. We had a really warm welcome, and loved the peacefulness out in the garden - it’s such a nice spot, and was a good place to start and finish our...

A welcoming cosy traditional country pub/ Resturant. Great selection of Beers and drinks especially from local Breweries. Did not eat there but the food that we saw served looked and smelt delicious, my companion who has been a regular there for many years says the...

After a lovely Chilterns walk, how delightful to end with a really good pot of tea, beautifully served in the sunny beer garden. It’s also the only pub I’ve been to that asks you not to feed the kites! Excellent value for money.

Amazing pub!! Am Spanish and I just ate the best garlic prawns ever in the UK!! Highly recommended!!!

We had lunch at the Hamden arms yesterday. All the food was lovely fresh & beautifully cooked. The portions were generous & good value for money. We will be back to eat again soon. Maybe I will just have a starter as I want to try some of the lovey homemade desserts that we saw others enjoying.

Been few times and all lovely. Food is good pub grub and staff are friendly. Garden is lovely. Owners are attentive and food very tasty

We were a group of eight cyclists who used The Hampden Arms as a lunchtime stop on a two day cycling tour of the Chilterns. I had taken the precaution of booking ahead as I knew that many pubs are still emerging from lockdown, not offering food and maybe not accepting groups. The landlady couldn't have been more helpful and the food itself was superb. All of our party commented favourably on this! We were sat in the wonderful garden, so no issues with social distancing at a couple of the many well spaced out benches. It really was a lovely spot and we particularly appreciated the outdoor ordering and collection system for food and drinks. All in all, this was a great experience and we would all recommend without hesitation.

12 of us went for our first out of Lockdown Lunch on the 4th of July. The food is still great and the service was good.

Really generous portions sizes. Deliciously cooked well seasoned. Lovely meat and vegetables and very polite and friendly service. We will be back.

Hidden gem!!!I was recommended this place by a mate of mine, and I was told they have the best steaks in the area! However I didn’t fancy the steak, I had the venison, which was absolutely amazing and literally just fell part in my mouth. My Mrs has the mussels, I’m not a seafood fan but she had loads of them and loved them also.The starters were equally as good. Obviously, I’m a restaurant you slightly “rubber neck” and noticed the table next to us, they had one of the pies, and a mixed grill which was huge. Staff were fantastic and friendly and it was so nice sitting next a lovely warm wood burner and what has been a naff winter.I’ve eaten in some top end restaurants around the world and this place would happily sit up there with the best of them! I will definitely be going back.Oh, and reasonably priced to!

Delicious food, lovely staff, they sell Rebellion beer, and for 6 starters and 6 mains with drinks £140.....fandabbydosy

The food is always good and the beer is well kept, they also have a great selection of wines and the owners are great people.

Popped after an 8k walk with Mrs M, on my birthday. After that walk we wanted decent wholesome food. We were made welcome and shown to our 'reserved' table (we had parked in the car park earlier and asked the chef if we needed to book for lunch). For some bizarre reason I wanted Scampi and Chips but it wasn't on the regular lunch menu. A glance to my right and there it was - on the specials board. That is also where the wide range of steaks are listed. The scampi was well cooked and the chips were perfect. But it's the little things isn't it? The coleslaw with the salad was homemade and really added to the dish. The chef (I now know to be Constantin) came out and wished us a happy lunch. It was a great birthday meal and we will be back for dinner one evening to try one of those promising steaks. Highly recommended!!

I have not eaten here for years. It was a quick stop whilst viewing a nearby property and being extremely hungry, I came away most impressed. It is as if time has stood still here, it’s got a real 1950s feel somehow, the furniture is old, it’s quite dark inside, the staff are absolutely charming and overall it is reminiscent of days gone by.I opted for an omelette, it was cooked so beautifully and was arguably one of the best I’ve had ever

Visited with a walking group. We had pre ordered and the food came in good time and in generous portions. Moussaka was very good. Washed down well with Rebellion IPA. A nice, traditional country pub.

My parents and I try to visit at least once a month. Louise is brilliant front of house. Her hubby Constantin is a very good chef. We feel like one of the family every time we visit! Lovely olde worlde quaint pub, and genuine friendly hosts. Well done guys!Di Al and Su xxxx

Sadly, there are increasingly few pubs like this one left in the Chilterns as the more traditional inns either close or get turned into chic but overpriced gastropubs. The Hampden Arms remains untouched, much as it must have been fifty years ago or even earlier. The atmosphere is great, the decor is full of quirky character, the welcome and the service are both good and the food and beer are not just decent quality but sensibly priced. I had a beautifully tasty pint of Addlestones Cloudy Cider and a big plate of ham, eggs and chips. Definitely one of my favourites in the area.

Perfect place the stop on a walk for lunch but limited seating inside with small bar area. Booking is recommended but the landlady allowed me to call on the day with numbers .Very helpful and the food was excellent . Would highly recommend this Pub to everyone.

I forgot how wonderful this place is. I have not been for a year and then three times in a week. The prawns are the best followed by the squid and then their salads. It’s consistent and amazing value for money . It is a must.

Popped in for Friday lunch, absolutely superb, excellent food, friendly staff, great location, need to come back to enjoy rest of their tasty menu

Called in here for a quick drink on a Sunday afternoon. A long wait to be served at the bar and sorry we stayed . Very rundown, dated and not friendly. Discovered afterwards it has a hygiene rating of 1. We won't be returning.

My friend and I have just had Sunday lunch here. We both had roast pork and the whole meal was delicious. The desert choice was great . My friend had the fruit meringue which she managed in spite of the huge first course she had just demolished. I would have had it too but was just too full. I highly recommend this pub for great food, excellent value and friendly and speedy service.

This is about as typical a traditional pub as you’ll find in the Chilterns in these benighted days of over-hyped and expensive gastropubs. They coped without any fuss with 16 of us turning up at once, despite our food pre-order having gone astray. The food is good quality pub grub, served in generous portions. A range of draught beers, lagers and ciders are available. This place is a tribute to good inn keeping.

Walking from Great Missenden with a Group, we had arranged to have lunch at the Hampden Arms and despite being slightly later than anticipated were made to feel very welcome. The beer was excellent - Chilten Brewery or Rebellion - being the main choices and the food was really good - tasty, piping hot and freshly prepared. What more could one ask for?

We have frequently eaten Sunday lunch at the Hampden Arms over the last few years and can't recommend it highly enough. We love the comfortable traditional charm of the place - always cosy and warm in the winter with a lovely open fire. Huge garden area for the summer. The food is just great - the roasts are always consistently good (with lots of it!!) and the cypriot dishes also always go down very well with a couple of members of our mob. Beer is always great which is a big thumbs up! Most importantly of all though, and why we love this place SO much, is the amazing welcome we always get from the Landlord (and Chef!), Constantine, and the lovely Landlady, Louise - always huge smiles and lots of banter, and those two in our opinion, tick every single box for the way they run their lovely country pub. A few places could learn a lot from these two!

We went today Monday Bank Holiday A lovely lunch with friends. Relaxing atmosphere and great food I loved the chilli squid starter ! We will definitely be back

This is one of my favourite places to eat, Great food and a lovely welcome every time. Sunday lunch is an absolute must.

We found ourselves passing and hungry, the welcome and the food was hearty.

Lunched in this pub today (30 Jan-19) following a Chiltern Society Wednesday walk. Had chicken, ham and leek pie with veggies. Simple but perfectly acceptable pub, nice ambience, and the food was excellent in terms of quantity, quality and price. My wife had leek and potato soup which she throughly enjoyed. Recommended.

This is a lovely little pub, set in the heart of the Chilterns. The ideal place to warm up by the fire after a country winter's walk, as we did. The menu was very much to our taste, seafood , meat or veggie. The chef is Greek , I believe and his lady wife deals competently at front- of-house.

After a long week of hosting and cooking for everyone, we stopped in to have a roast dinner today.

We organised a walk around Great Hampden with a couple of friends and had booked the Hampden Arms for Lunch. We arrived around 1300hrs and were immediately made to feel welcome. The pub was cosy with fires going. We were given a lovely table and stared with nice Chiltern Brewery ale. The food choice was good but I was never so surprised at how fantastic the food actually was. I had the scallop starters which were to die for and the girls had the late. My wife is Coeliac and they had gluten free bread and a great choice for her to choose from. The chef personally came out to talk to her and advise what was in the food and what choices she could have. Great example of personal service. I ordered the steak, we also had the lemon sole and the festive turkey dinner. We did wait for a while but wow, was the wait worth it. The food was all freshly made, the steak and fish were superb and the festive turkey dinner was huge. We also had a big dish of 3 different veg plus another dish of roasted parsnips which was wonderful. Also really nice touches of a plate of breads with butter and Tapenade which was also lovely. It meant no room for the puddings which also looked good. Really great food for a good price. Lovely atmosphere and cosy so a really memorable lunch and would definately recommend this pub to everyone. I organise walks with friends and end up with a nice lunch so this is definately going to be the next pub on my list to visit again and I cannot wait. Great staff and a great pub

Group of 11 of us had dinner and throughly enjoyed the food particularly the home made steak and kidney pie plus the well priced set menu. Staff very pleasant and drink prices reasonable, would go again.

Met up for a long overdue midweek family lunch. Comfortable, quite, great food and service. All round good experience and we will be getting together there more often for sure

We came for a meal in this lovely country pub, and what a great meal, 2 of us had the fillet steak we asked for blackened on the outside and medium, not an easy thing to do. I have eaten in many restaurants worldwide and can say rarely you get the perfect steak. THIS WAS EXCEPTIONAL great service a fantastic warm and friendly pub and the chef came to our table to ask if we where enjoying the food, 5 stars isn’t really enough well done all of the staff

Excellent, great food, great service and decent drinks choice. Very good wine options from Lloyds Wines.

Following our first visit several weeks ago I wrote a glowing report. Our second visit started just as well, with a warm ambiance and a good choice of menu. The disappointment was the food. My halibut was dried out and lacked succulence, and the serving of chips was mean; £16 for overcooked fish and a few chips was too much. On this occasion the chef didn’t come out to speak to us, and we weren’t asked if the food was alright.

This is a lovely family run pub which is dog friendly and frequented by the locals.

Couldn't be bothered to cook last night so thought would treat the other half to pub dinner. Popped in and reserved table for two for 45 mins later and took the dog for a walk. Pub is dog friendly which is always a bonus for us. We ordered from the set menu (£10 for two courses) and the food was absolutely delicious, and plenty of it too. Good bottle of Malbec too and reasonably priced. Staff v friendly, as were the locals too! Will definitely be returning. Never bothered to do a Trip Advisor review before but was blown away by the quality of the food hence a 5/5 rating. Compliments to the chef and staff. Cheers!

What a great place. We had absolutely delicious chilli and garlic king prawns and a lovely halloumi and avocado starter. Generous portions and gorgeous home made bread and tapenade on the side. The owners are very friendly.

Excellent freshly cooked food and exemplary service in a lovely garden setting. Price very reasonable too.

A small,typical country pub providing a warm welcome and efficient and friendly service. The menu provided a wide range of options and, in particular, had the best range of choices for fish dishes l have seen in a pub, these included red mullet, sword fish and sea bream. The cooking was simple but excellent, and the chef was confident enough in his abilities to come out to say he hoped we would enjoy our meal.

We thought we would try this as I've driven past it lots of times but never came in. I'm so glad we did the staff were friendly, just what you want in a local pub. The food was fantastic and very generous portions. We will definitely be returning to make our way through the rest of the menu. They also have a great beer garden and football net so my boys were also very happy.

Despite our walk instructions being impossible to complete, we arrived back at the pub car park following an appropriate distance ready for a decent meal. We were not disappointed at all. The pub is relatively anonymous from the outside but has a very cosy, quite small interior (so booking advisable, I guess, especially if on a busier day or a larger party).

I remember visiting the Hampden arms some years ago and had fish & chips and to be quite honest it wasn`t good at all. However, this time was different albeit new landlord/chef etc..

This little pub is some what of the beaten track but is really worth finding. It is a proper pub with no separate dining area . We booked a table for lunch and were glad we had done so. The pub was packed.

There is not much that tops a traditional Sunday Lunch, and this was one of the best we've had n a long long time. Well cooked beef rib /roast chicken, lots of traditional veggies, lovely roast potatoes and a fabby gravy. The place was filled with an eclectic mix of people from locals to walkers and had a buzzy feeling even at Sunday lunchtime. The staff were keen with being annoying - Fantastic thanks

We booked a table at the Hampden Arms at 8pm on a Friday evening after reading positive reviews online. This is not somewhere to have an evening meal! We were given a table literally in the bar. Drinkers had to remove their drinks from our table before we could sit down for our meal. The dining area was very noisy due to regular drinkers standing around our table. A very uncomfortable experience.

Called in for Monday lunch, not many local pubs offer lunch on Mondays, but the Hampden Arms is superb value and offers a range of very well presented home cooked fare, served by polite and friendly staff. There are always special boards with a wide choice of menus. The house red wine was also excellent, and reasonably priced, a nice touch was the chef and owner personally enquired whether we enjoyed the meal, which we certainly did, really recommend this pub.

Nice bar lady and food was good but quite expensive. Room was quite cold but we liked it. Was a bit worried as they have had hygiene issues reported in the kitchen in the past but we had a good lunch

After a Coombe Hill circuit in some wintry weather enjoyed a hearty lunch of fish and pies. Friendly informal service. Delicious satisfying food. We will be back.

Sunday lunch just before Christmas, so it was very busy, but the service was still excellent. Usual pub food, but with a few differences. I had tomato and red pepper risotto which was very tasty. They also did very reasonable children's meals. Definitely worth a return visit.

10 family members got together once again following a family bereavement some time ago. The people here give excellent service the landlord/ chef is really good providing high quality food which all arrived together, so always worth a visit. We will of course be back.

Called in for Monday lunch, not easy to find local pubs catering for lunch on Monday, and greeted by polite and helpful staff. Great menu choice, including breast of duck in redcurrant sauce, which was delicious. All our meals were obviously freshly cooked, and to very high standard of presentation This pub is hard to find, but well worth the effort.

A group of eight of us had a very nice meal following a lovely walk in the surrounding Chilterns. The service was excellent - and very amusing to boot! Great food and excellent value. Good all round!

Decided to have a quick trip to the Hampden Arms for dinner.

This little gem is becoming increasingly busy. Lovely independant family run pub and restaurant. Menu varied with great fish. Fresh halibut was quality. Starter prawn and calamari with garlic Butter with a hint of chilli great. Best to book.

Ate here with family as a spontaneous birthday treat. Awful, the food was horrible I had a mixed grill that just tasted of liver. Will not be returning to this place again.

Came for lunch with my walking group, part way through a strenuous 10 mile walk. We got exactly what we needed. Tasty sandwiches and jacket potatoes and a good selection of beers and ciders, all served efficiently by friendly staff. There was special praise for the chips. The menu is relatively limited, without all the glitz of a gastropub. This is very definitely pub grub. The interior of the pub has hardly changed since I first came here almost fifty years ago as a volunteer pub inspector for CAMRA. Exactly what a local country pub should be.

Beer was a bit tired and the food was average. I had hoped for better Greek specialities, but the kleftico was a bit tough (with that reheated from frozen aspect), but it was a nice touch putting fresh thyme in the gravy it was served with,; almost brought it back to life!

Have always had good food from lovely salads during summer in the gardenon colder days great omelettes and perfect fish and chips.

Not many houses round about so how does the Hampden Arms get so busy? Because it's bang on! We booked a table for an evening meal because at lunchtime the place was rammed to the rafters. Really friendly staff, good menu for both carnivore and vegetarian, proper ales and ciders (some of it locally brewed) and the food itself was excellent. I couldn't drink too much as I was driving but next time I'm staying nearby I am going for a meal and a steady session.

We was recommended to eat at this very cute pub by some friends and we was NOT disappointed two of us had fillet steaks that were fantastic and the other two in our party really enjoyed there food also,the dessert of caramel soufflé was to die for and the cheese board for two to share was huge we will be returning

Fantastic food great service staff very friendly and helpful would recommend lovely steak cooked to perfection

My wife and I needed a good, not too expensive place to dine for four consecutive evening meals (including a Sunday, which always limits choice) while on business in the area. A search of the internet highlighted the Hampden Arms (British food with a Greek influence) as a serious contender. It came up trumps! Excellent, hearty food in a quirky, friendly environment. There was enough choice to enable us to dine well each evening, culminating in a choice of excellent roast dinners on the Sunday evening. I took the opportunity of inviting some friends as well on one of the evenings, again with a resounding seal of approval. After tiring days standing in a cold marquee it was good to know that a treat was awaiting us. We will be back next time we are in the area. Many thanks Louise and Constantine!

I live a short stumbling distance away from this chiltern gem, and I am very grateful for that fact. As a big foodie I love eating out and probably eat here once or twice a week on average. Try the garlic and chilli prawns as a main course - they are better than some of the best I have had in Spain or France, a heavy chilli kick and a lovely well seasoned garlic sauce ideal for mopping up with bread although check with your partner before ordering!! I took my Dad here a few weeks ago who ordered the sea bream. This is a man who eats out 10+ times a month all over the world and he said it was the best fish he had eaten in years. The steaks are also great, rib eye or chateau the best.Every dish is seasoned really well, they don't really need the salt and pepper on the tables. It's obvious the chef is clasically French trained and it shows in the food - generous portions, no pretentious rubbish or food served in buckets or trowels etc.Good selection of local beers and an interesting and affordable wine list.Basically, a great place. Visit!