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

Excellent table service, cheerful and prompt. Food very tasty, ordered and cooked within 15 minutes. Good ambience, great views if outside, all m all a good stop for brunch, will be back. The counter food looked delicious !

I really hate having to give just 2 stars but there is really only one reason. And it's not the venue, the venue, once a traditional but aging classic Italian restaurant, has been overhauled to a stylish, modern, contemporary Mediterranean brasserie with open kitchen and a warm friendly atmosphere. And it's not the staff, they were attentive, polite and very accommodating. And it wasn't the food, the food, what there was of it, was delicious - and we'll touch more on that. No, all of the above makes for a brilliant experience. But the price is a wholly different thing. I had the Mixed Shish (chicken and lamb) and at £23 i was expecting perhaps 2 skewers, with the accompanying items of rice and salad. I thought I'd order a side...but the fries were £8. In fact the cheapest side was £7. But I thought better of it, after all, because I thought that I probably wouldn't manage a side anyway.. When it came, I have to admit I was shocked. 6 cubes of meat, (3 pieces of chicken, three pieces of lamb) a tiny mound of rice and an undressed salad. All for £23. Now, i hate to use this term, because as a chef, I've worked in and dined in restaurants all over the world, but in London, in say...the financial district for example, I'd expect the same price and be equally unimpressed, but hey, it's london and you expect it, right?. But sleepy Hitchin? No. Totally unreasonable pricing. Comparing it to Pircio in Bishop's Stortford, for example, a chique and vibrant turkish restaurant which totally blows Mevan away, you literally cannot finish a full meal there, and your not financially broke at the end of it either.. But Mevan? Not so much. Final bill for 6 of us, one drink each, no starters, just main courses, no deserts or coffee Just shy of £400 I'll let that sink in. The food was well cooked, the three pieces of lamb tender, the three pieces of chicken succulent, the rice - we'll it's rice and it was fine, the salad unimpressive but fine. Suffice to say, we left disappointed and still hungry. So we walked back through town and stopped by the local chippy - yeah really. (The chippy was excellent by the way) In conclusion: Atmosphere and venue 9/10 Food 3/10 Price 0/10. Honestly I would say avoid, and choose any one of the buzzing, vibrant and better-priced restaurants in Hitchin that know they are in a local highstreet in a small Hertfordshire town and won't leave financially ruined - and hungry after. Two stars it is I'm afraid.

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.

Ordered from deliver oo and they accepted my order at 12 delivered 2 hoyrs later cold rubbery c h eese flan inedible and had missing items from my order