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I'd always heard good things about Restaurant 22, but the couple of times I'd thought about going, the vegetarian option on that month's menu didn't look very attractive, so I put it off.

But last night I took Michelle there, and it was really awesome. It's fairly upmarket, but it feels friendly and intimate rather than ostentatiously swanky. The food was all really interesting -- almost every course I said "wow, I wouldn't have thought of that, but it sounds really nice". The vegetarian food was excitingly interesting, and all the different parts from main to side dishes, were really nice.

There's a set menu for each month, and it's the sort of place where you pay ~£30 for a whole meal of main+starter+appetiser+sorbet+desert+sweets (plus a few quid for side dishes), with no option to just have a main course. And it's the sort of place where it feels rude to not order drinks. But it's well worth it :)

Crossposts: http://cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com/823603.html

The anchor, sutton gaul (?) is a really great restaurant.

It's a converted pub, and feels cosy, but also like being at a r not a pub.

It's plonked down in the middle of the fens; outside the view is lovely.

It costs about 10GBP for a vegetarian main course and the food was really delicous. I'd definitely like to go back.

Trinity high table food (and wine) really is very good. I add it to my list of recommendations :)

I'll blog later about the evening. It was good to see people again, though I don't think any had gone to become programmers rather than london-types. Afterwards, despite not having gowns, we wandered down to say hi to people in borders and help ourselves to Potter.

The Vaults (now known as Depot)

Well, I'm not convinced by the name, but the restaurant is the same as it was years ago, and really is very good.

It's tapas-style, but not of Spanish dishes. Don't try to agree compromises between large numbers of people, it just provokes argument. But it's good to be able to choose two or three favourite bits and combine them.

The food all tastes really good. Choose two or three dishes each and swap bits. It's not even much more expensive than anywhere else: three dishes could serve as starter and main course, and might come to <£15.

The Granta

We used to come here with the tolkien society after meetings in New Hall, but I don't think I ever ate here. But the food was simple but very well done, actually. A mite more fancy than average pub food and very tasty.

The Zebra

Has changed hands *again* becoming a Polish themed pub! The food was generally nice but not special, and pleasantly unpronounceable, but I miss the pizza deals, those were very well done.

I was reminded to try the Sino Tap at some point.

The Rainbow

Well, nothing to add, it remains the best vegetarian restaurant in Cambridge, unfortunately. (The people, decor, soups and teas are excellent, but the food is good, just not outstanding.) But I always like being *in* there the way I like just being in libraries, I feel at home :)

We regularly go to Pizza Express by Parker's Piece for geek pizza, but it's been years since I went to the one on Jesus Lane.

I *do* like the décor. It has aspirations to be an shiny temple lined with old books :)

The menu is the same.

However, we were in the main section and it was loud, actually hard to hear what my soft-spoken friends were saying, and the waitress was unfortunately hurried -- though that's possibly because I'm not part of a group known as regulars spending £7k a year there.

Seriously, this is annoying. For many, many things, a google search does the trick. There's always room for improvement, but most of the time, I find the top hit being what I want, and the second hit being someone explaining whether what I want is any good or not, or vice-versa.

Only if you're looking for something a little obscure or awkward to google for do you really need google fu.

But for restaurants, oy gevault! The first N pages were entirely taken up with "find great X in [city]" sites. Which are a great idea, but maybe would help more if they weren't crap.

Many restaurants don't have a website (as far as I can tell, I might have missed it) which is fair enough. But you can't really tell. I assumed bruno's didn't until I hit the right combination of searches.

The final trick that pulled it off? Searching for "[cityname] [restaurant name] -[streetname]" worked, as did "[restaurant name] art gallery", though that probably wouldn't if it weren't one.

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