Top 10 Places to Eat

Bath is packed with award-winning eateries and fabulous restaurants, so finalising our top 10 hasn’t been easy but we think we’ve nailed this list by representing the wealth of foodie offerings across the city to fit all styles, budgets and diets.

1. Chaiwalla, regularly comes out top of the best places to eat listings and its only a take away! Asian Fusion food on a budget that you will not regret. Plenty of gluten free and vegan options.
2. In contrast concept restaurant Menu Gordon Jones offering a daily menu where the diners ‘let the chef surprise you’. Award winning, quirky and hard to get a table so plan ahead.
3. A very recent Michelin starred winner (surprisingly the only one in Bath), this fine dining restaurant resides snugly inside the Queensberry Hotel and describes their style as classical flavours with modern techniques. Currently hot hot hot.
4. Just around the corner is The Chequers, part of The Bath Pub Company, and most definitely their foodie leader. This gastropub punching way above its pub status weight. It is cosy, beautiful and award winning; a Trencherman’s multi award winner no less.
5. The Circus is often sited on broadsheet ‘must eat’ lists, so if it’s good enough for The Times to declare it one of their 20 ‘secret restaurants that foodies love’ then it’s good enough for us.
6. Sotto Sotto set in barrelled shaped sexy basements underneath North Parade is a seductive Italian experience. Simple ingredients of exceptional quality, they tell us is the main characteristic of their cuisine styling. Cosy and exclusive, booking is essential.
7. No.1. on the Bath meat eaters list must be Hudson Steakhouse. Inside a legendary converted Victorian pub, these guys were voted 3rd best steakhouse in the UK. Planning is required because tables are at a premium. Good luck but with anything perseverance always pays off.
8. Acorn Restaurant is an award-winning vegetarian and vegan restaurant. Listed in Harden’s, Trencherman’s and The Good Food Guide this bijoux venue has fans across the UK.
9. Sally Lunn’s, a historic eating house with a secret bunn recipe brings the tourists flocking as a must visit Bath site; we’d agree. If you’ve a sweet tooth then try the lemon curd atop their trencherman bunn as it’s off the scale…
10. Last but by no means least, get yourself to Corkage (on both Walcot Street and just off Queen’s Square on Chapel Row) which is a small plates heaven. Simple, fresh food with a professional yet fun approach. Add to that unrivalled wine knowledge, no lists here just tell them what you like!

Total Guide to bath, eating our way around Bath on your behalf….you’ll find us at the gym.