The Beehive White Waltham

The food is prepared with decent, many local ingredients, and is allowed to stand up for itself on the plate with no ridiculous gimmicks. I always know that when I eat here I will not be disappointed. It is really bright, airy and friendly with the restaurant normally busy, however they have not put tables too close together to try and cram more people in and I am always grateful for that. I don't find them to be expensive, they are an average price for the area but they are very child and dog friendly (dogs are in the bar area, not the main restaurant).

A really gorgeous country pub in Binfield Heath, just outside of Henley. They serve such delicious food, have an amazing drinks list and the service is second to none. It's the kind of place you can pop into just for a quiet drink through the week or a proper sit down treat of a meal! Can't recommend it enough.

How reassuring to find a restaurant that takes pleasure in making sure that its customers are made to feel welcome in a well laid out dining room, where the service is properly friendly and expert and the food well-presented and delightfully tasty. The Beehive, with Dominic Chapman at its helm, provides a super dining experience without resort to fashion or unnecessary trendiness, just peerlessly professional cooking of top-class ingredients in expertly balanced dishes. With our aperitif we had some very good rosemary and sea-salt bread rolls piping hot from the oven and, as we tend to when we are faced with an attractive à la carte menu, we selected different dishes for all three courses. My wife’s starter was a properly crispy tart with excellent sweet beetroot beautifully balanced against fairly strong goat’s cheese and with fresh apple slices, frisée and radicchio salad providing a mouthwatering accompaniment. I chose wild rabbit lasagna, the chef’s signature dish; this was a delicious mix of perfect shredded meat in a lovely pasta with a sprinkling of chervil in it and wood blewits pointing up the tender rabbit and contributing to the tasty sauce. Brixham is an excellent source for the best fish, and the whole lemon sole, on the bone of course, was a splendid example of classy freshness, beautifully seasoned, allowed to speak for itself, and complemented by splendid brown shrimps, dill and lemon butter sauce bringing out the tastiness of the fish, and even some super mash. Cornwall can also be relied upon to provide good fish and the perfect roast cod with its intense red wine jus, wild mushrooms and nicely browned gnocchi was another winner. The level of enjoyment was kept up by the first-rate desserts, a brilliantly conceived, modern take on toasty baked Alaska, and a luxurious chocolate fondant with almond biscuit, a real toffee sauce and indulgent coffee ice cream. We really enjoyed the meal and we were wholly in agreement that The Beehive is yet another example of a restaurant which is easily of the same quality, if not better, than many on the Michelin one-star list but sadly not recognised as such by the tyre maker.

Really great venue, good food that I can actually recognise what I am eating and NO NITROGEN is involved in the preparation of any of the food. Dom is great and regularly chats with his customers. The service is good. Really great place.

First visit today, with friends, on a busy lunchtime. I'm often disappointed when I eat in pubs, but this was a clear exception , and it seems much more like a restaurant than a pub. The menu though does have a foot in both camps, with an interesting a la carte, and a good value set lunch, but there's fish 'n chips and burger for those that want them but that doesn't seem to mean that the more complex, adventurous dishes aren't cooked well. Three of us chose the set lunch, with fishcake and cauliflower soup starters and goulash and moules frites mains. No complaints from anyone and quite a few positive murmurs, especially for the mussels which were held to be notably better than the usual. I tried the wild rabbit lasagne ( more like a very large ravioli truth to tell) with wild mushrooms and a sauce that might have been better with a touch more flavour. Nevertheless the dish worked well and I'd gladly eat it again. My main was roast cod on a cassoulet containing morteau sausage. Again this worked well, and again I'd have preferred a bit more flavour in the cassoulet. The cod was cooked very nicely. The star dessert was without doubt a very large and tasty baked Alaska. Coffee and petit fours were good too, though some round the table found these too much after a substantial lunch. All told I think its fair to say that we were all impressed with today's lunch and indicated that return visits might not be far away. A quick word on value. The bill worked out at £85 per couple including coffee & service and we felt that this was decent value. Its an easy drive from home and they can reckon on us going back.