Kenilworth Restaurant Reviews

I tend to do most of the cooking at home -  after spending all day staring at a computer screen there's something intensely relaxing about coming home from work and preparing a meal for the family (even if it's just a quick plate of Spaghetti Monsters). 

When your working day is measured in miliseconds you cannot beat pottering about in the kitchen with a cold cider in hand and a bit of Bassdrive on the stereo while waiting for a casserole to gently bubble in the oven or some homemade pizza dough to rise.
 
But now and again it's nice to let someone else take the strain in the kitchen and head out for a meal.  When we moved to Kenilworth we were pleasantly suprised by the variety of places to eat.   There are at least 45 different places where you can get a meal in Kenilworth - everything from formal French bistro dining to trendy gastro-pubs and cosy cafes to late-night takeaways.  For a town of 25,000 this is remarkably good; in contrast the village where I grew up boasts a single pub and a chinese restaurant (plus a kebab van at weekends!).

In the six years we've been living here we've sampled a fair amount of the food establishments in town, but my plan over the next few months is to get around as many of the rest as possible and share my thoughts on this blog.

Can't beat Spaghetti Monsters for tea

When I eat in town I'm usually joined by two delightful dining companions: my better half and my 3y/old daughter, plus various other friends and family depending on the occasion.

Kenilworth is increasingly a family-oriented town, and now that I am well into my 30s I have found that the criteria by which I judge a pub or restaurant tend include how well they accommodate small children and provide space for families to relax and spread out (rather than the ease with which they allow me to nail Jaegerbombs on a Friday night).

Clearly there are some restaurants in town which are not aimed at children, so on the rare occasions we get a child-free evening Mrs W. and I will aim to visit these establishments with our expectations appropriately adjusted.

So here's the list... I've separated it out into restaurants, pubs (only those which serve food), cafes & tea rooms, and takeaways.  There are also a couple of places slightly further afield which are close enough to interest locals and visitors to Kenilworth.

If you know of anywhere I've missed please leave me a comment or send me a tweet and let me know!

As I visit and review each establishment I'll update this post and add a link to the blog's sidebar.

Restaurants
Petit Gourmand  |  Harringtons-on-the-Hill  |  Beef  |  Restuarant Bosquet  |  The Cross  |  Loch Fyne  |  The Grand Hotel  | Ego  |  Zizzi  |  212 Bistro @ Holiday Inn  |  She Bar / V2  |  Thai Kitchen  |  Jade Restaurant  |  Full House Chinese  |  Raffles  |  Coconut Lagoon  |  Zaika  |  Indian Edge  |  Seetar Tandori  |  Sunam  |  Bilash

Pubs
The Green Man  |  The Clarendon Arms  |  The Queen and Castle  |  The Famous Virgins and Castle  |  The Almanack  |  The Cottage Inn  |  The Bear & Ragged Staff  |  The Lion  |  The Gauntlet  |  The Tiltyard

Takeaways
Alfie Grimshaw's  |  School Lane Fish Bar  |  Chips 'n' Fishes |  Kenilworth Kebab House  |  Sonali  |   Crystal Chinese  |  Kenilworth Cantonese  |  Mulan  |  Pizza Bella  |  Dominos Pizza  |  Subway

Cafes / Tea Rooms
Rocking Horse Cafe  |  The King's Table  |  Kenilworth Castle Tea Room  |  Cherry Tree Cafe  |  Escape  |  Ardens  |  Time for Tea  |  Costa  |  Starbucks

Further afield
The Anchor in Leek Wootton  |  The Saxon Mill in Warwick  |  The Red Lion in Hunningham