The best restaurants in Elstow Bedford East of England

We’ve been eating here for years and always been delighted with the quality and service; this evening’s meal was no exception. Fabulous menu, perfectly executed dishes, superb wine list and great service as always.

Booked a group birthday afternoon tea, I wouldn’t recommend it. We had jam and cream scones, cup cakes, strawberries and cream, samosa,quiche,macarons and finger sandwiches. Sandwich filling not the best Quiche and macarons 50p size CHEESE scones with jam and cream on aah Strawberries cut up with spray can cream Would have been a lot better if the cakes and scones had been homemade and other items not come from Tesco finger food

Dropped in with a bunch of cyclists. The manager was very accommodating with our bikes to park around the back of the cafe (the front was a narrow pavement). Limited selection of cakes but the coffee & atmosphere more than made up. Warm & welcoming.

Visited here yesterday afternoon (3pm 18th May) I had booked over a week ago for 5 people and specifically requested a booth (my mother is disabled and the booths are close to the carvery). When we arrived and parked in the disabled bays a couple arrived in a large van and trailer and parked across from the disabled bays (basically blocking the bays in). We then went into the restaurant and despite two of the three booths being empty we were sat deep in the restaurant (far from the carvery). Sat right next to a large group of rowdy and drunken men, on the other side my chair was butted right up against another couple’s table. We could hardly speak to one another for the noise. Then they started loud phone calls on speaker phone, then playing loud music on their phone. But maybe the food would be okay? Sadly not, the carver on duty was the stingiest going with barely any meat. Also, what was there was fatty meat. My wife went to the toilets only for it to be blocked by two children. Once forcing her way inside the toilet a woman was in the cubicle playing loud music on her phone whilst her children stood outside. Overall we couldn’t wait to get out the restaurant it was truly horrible and fully of loud drunken guests…tells me everything I need to know about this place. Once out the van was still blocking the disabled bays, thankfully the space next to my parents was free so they could use that space to manoeuvre out. Won’t be going back here again.

Went to The Red Lion, it's got a lovely big beer garden lots of families, the food was cheap pub grub which was nice, wasn't much of a wait, staff were very friendly I would go back.

Excellent to have our local reopen again . Like normal excellent service nice to have a landlord that genuinely cares about his business the man never stops working . Great team felt safe with Covid restrictions. Would just be great if the pay at table app was more consistent to help take the pressure off the waiting staff .

We regularly use this pub/restaurant for our meet up with friends or just to get out of cooking a meal of an evening. I met up with a friends last night and we had a lovely meal. The staff were friendly and service was very good. As we have the Sizzling app we had 40% off our main course which is great - times are a bit hard at the moment so its great that they have these offers on. Will of course visit again but be sure to book a table in advance if you plan on eating here as it can get busy !