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Vaults/Depot -- Nice as always, but I'm starting to admit it's a bit loud and echoy when there's many people there, and I wish the menu varied. However, the food is very good (not quite as nice this time, maybe? But good), and it's palatable to vegetarians and gluten free people (although I don't know about people who are both vegetarian and gluten free, I think there's almost no intersection).

Next time I invite you there, remind me to consider in advance whether to tell people to wear suits.

Sala Thong -- I still haven't been, but had a meal in a pub reputed to have about the same cuisine, which was very nice.

Sainsbury's Pizza -- I don't know what Tesco's is doing wrong, but nowhere do they seem to have succulent pizza. Some fairly nice crisp pizza, but Sainsbury's seems to beat them into a cocked hat. I assumed I was just imagining this, but a quick check suggests no, it really does happen (I haven't checked online, they could have other pizza not in the store)

Seven Dials, Brighton -- Slightly more expensive than minimum (only £20 for three courses, but you'd probably want three), and the non-vegetarian food was less inspired than the others, but it was a very pleasant place and food was very good. For instance, there's a complementary pre-starter mushroom soup which is a wonderful -- all meals should have a little gratuitous soup just because.

But this probably isn't a very useful recommendation to most of you. Livredad took us all there when we were visiting her brother, but it's not worth going to Brighton just for the restaurant :)

King William IV, Heydon -- Thanks to Mobbsy for the suggestion, this one is worth travelling to from Cambridge (although in the rain or cycling is maybe a bit much of an adventure). The food here is very good. You might say restaurant food in a pub atmosphere (£11-£12 for a big main course), but I like the atmosphere, and the food was very good, probably my favourite all week.

They have a bunch of different vegetarian dishes (vegetarian pub food of the year award thrice),
and the food tastes like real food with real ingredients.

Pembury -- Thanks to timeplease for the Pembury, the first of a chain of Carltons in London. Lamentably what I wanted most was the soup (Brocoli and lemon!) and chips and desert, so I didn't have any of the real food, but it's all very nice and definitely recommended.

You also find yourself stalked by a lot of board games players, goths, and geeks.

Orchard, Grantchester -- OK, so just about everyone already knows about this, but for the sake of completeness, it's a sweet posh little cafe/tea garden in an Orchard (ish) in Grantchester, which serves nice tea, coffee, cakes, soup, etc, either inside, or in a vast number of deckchairs under flowering blossom outside.

Jade Fountain, Sawston -- Thanks to Robhu for introducing me, the food here is also very nice. A set menu is £15-£25, but probably over-generous, a few dishes would be sufficient for most people, which would make it very good value and it's extremely tasty.

So far as I'm aware it's the only "Jade Y" and "X fountain" restaurant in Sawston, but not the only Jade Fountain restaurant anywhere, so our navigating strategy of remembering the town (ish) and one of the words of the name seemed successful.