Best restaurants in Bury St Edmunds

Complete with all the passion you’d expect from an award-winning French restaurant, Maison Bleue boasts a menu of continental classics enriched with modern flair. Expect precise cooking, rich flavours, and some superb fish dishes.

Located in the town centre and known for Parisian flavour and authentic French flair, Cote Brasserie is a favourite haunt for guests looking for relaxed quality dining, impromptu post-shopping lunches and reliably affordable romantic dinners.

Just a short distance into the countryside through the doors of a thousand-year-old mill, you’ll find Tuddenham Mill: a restaurant hotel specialising in field-to-fork dishes and imaginative but relaxed Anglo-European dining.

Within a converted 400-year-old barn, The Leaping Hare serves a menu of traditional and contemporary European fare composed of ingredients from their own Wyken Estate. You’re also welcome to take a post-supper walk through the vineyard.

Located in the City Centre, Giggling Squid offers all you could need from a Thai restaurant. A complex and satisfying collection of small plates, complex curries, satisfying noodles, and a pre-theatre menu to boot.

Serving an ever-changing menu of Moorish-inspired charcoal-grilled dishes, Pea Porridge is a Michelin-starred restaurant practising nose-to-tail techniques without the fuss and frills of traditional upmarket fine dining. Think produce-driven plates, confident flavours, and flawless execution.

Settled within the historic town centre, 1921 is a restaurant known for relaxed fine dining and local ingredients. Just don’t be fooled by the Tudor facade, this is a modern restaurant through and through.

Conceived by Bury St Edmunds local, chef James Carn, Lark is a restaurant known for its casual but polished atmosphere and clever modern European cookery. Expect hyper-seasonal small plates intended for sharing and satisfying flavours.