The urban guide to the countryside -
Buckinghamshire
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Ready to fine dine?
You betcha! Nelson St restaurant has buffed its interiors, refined its menu big-style and is now offering food 'flights'. Fasten your seatbelt (and loosen your trousers, you know you want to) we're about to take off.
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The Garage, Buckingham
Cool aesthetics? Tick. Good food? Tick. Cocktails on tap? Ticketty tick! Fill up to the top at Buckingham's stylish new addition.
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The Ivy Marlow Garden
I ate, I drank, I started writing. The first review evaaaahhh of brand spanking new The Ivy Garden Marlow - only on Muddy Stilettos.
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THE CROWN, GRANBOROUGH
We're whoppingly blessed with pubs around here and here's another corker - we're hard-pushed to fault this place at all!
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Fine dining nirvana: Humphry’s at Stoke Park
Looking for somewhere really special to go for lunch or a spot of dins? Stoke Park country club, hotel and spa – and home of Humphry’s Fine Dining Restaurant – certainly makes a jaw-dropping first impression. Think turning up on a blind date and finding Ryan Gosling waiting at the bar. Well, hello! The exquisite late 18th century mansion […]
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Muddy eats: André Garrett at Cliveden
What’s a girl to do when she’s too goddam fat to review another restaurant without fear of a hernia? Call Rachel, fellow elasticated trouser wearer and brilliant Muddy Berks editor, that’s what! Rachel was deputy editor of a national newspaper before she joined us over at the frothy side, so she really knows her stuff. […]
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Muddy eats: The Astor Grill, Cliveden
I’ve been a naughty blogger. I went on a lovely family walk around Cliveden a month or so ago that is really worth you knowing about, but *sob* haven’t yet posted it. Sorrrryyyy! However, now’s the time to remedy that, particularly as I’ve just had a fantastic meal at The Astor Grill in Cliveden so […]
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The Cape, Beaconsfield
It’s tough in the food business these days, isn’t it? So much choice for punters like us, and squeeeeezed margins for the owners of pubs, restaurants and cafés. What I’m seeing more and more of, in all kinds of businesses, is diversification – so a café like The Cape in Beaconsfield is able to offer […]
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Muddy eats: Canaletto, Kingswood
When disaster hits and I can’t make a food review, my first call is always my fellow mucker Kerry Potter, journo extraordinaire for Elle, Grazia, The Pool and the broadsheets, who lives in Thame and happens to be nearly as gluttonous as me. She slipped into something a little more roomy – the venue […]
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Muddy eats: The Mash Inn, nr Radnage
Tis true that Muddy Stilettos has a terrible weakness for a cool new foodie venue. The team from The Mash Inn had barely stepped across the threshold of the former Three Horse Shoes in the rural hamlet Bennett’s End (just outside Radnage, mid Bucks) before I was peering through the window, and apart from a […]
