The best restaurants serving Other european-cuisines food in Trumpington Cambridge East of England

I never know how to start these, anyway, long story short, wife booked a really nice hotel, and I had to book the meal, the pressure was enormous as you can imagine. Anyway, had a look around and saw the Michelin star place, looked great, just a bit not for us, what I wanted was great food in a more relaxed atmosphere and thats EXACTLY what we got, from the moment we walked in we were greeted by a great chap with long hair and he made us feel welcome INSTANTLY, it's the little things, knew my name when I walked in (had a reservation so not rocket science but a great touch) just those things that make such a difference. The food: Yea was legit, really good, if I HAD to be picky I would say my chips could have been a bit more homemade but also, I am the guy that ordered steak and chips when clearly more foodie based option, anyway, that makes the chips sound bad, they weren't there were great. Whole thing was great. Basically, if you are taking your wife or husband away, and want to get those points in for picking a decent place, pick this place, really nice, will go again.

Grubby plastic marque. Drinks took ages to come out, cocktails were underwhelming, small menu (which is fine, but they didn't have everything on it). Starters came out but olives and nuts we ordered didn't come - eventually (when everyone had finished their starters), a grubby bowl of olives came out but they had no nuts! Wine was expensive for what it was. Mains dribbled out, rather than all coming together, rare steak wasn't rare, food wasn't particularly hot. Tiny risotto. We had pudding and a couple of us ordered what we were told was homemade Bailey's ice cream with a chocolate fondant - it turned out to be bay leaf ice cream, which didn't go particularly well! Had some more underwhelming and overpriced cocktails in the bar. Woke up this morning feeling hard done by and then read a text from one of our party asking if I thought we should complain. Really disappointing and certainly not what you'd expect from an upmarket central Cambridge hotel. Won't be heading back.