Midsummer House Restaurant

Said to be the best restaurant in Cambridge it has a divine location set on the river Camb - perfect for summer dining. This may be a hot spot for doting parents entertaining their student offspring but also well worth a trip out of town on a warm summer's day for the stunning setting and delicious fare. What's cooking? French/Mediterranean cuisine. Signature dishes include seared sea scallops, truffle vinaigrette a 'la Jean Bardet', roast rump of spring lamb, fresh ratatouille couscous, confit garlic, cherry tomatoes, jus of olives. Midsummer House Restaurant was voted one of the Best Restaurants in East Anglia in the Observer Food Monthly's 2006 Food Awards."Midsummer House and its head chef, Daniel Clifford, have been awarded a Michelin star... where the big tables are generously spaced, slabs of sunshine spill onto lemon-stippled walls and where views of the garden are quite a thrill for a city-bound girl like me. The restaurant likes to describe its menu as French Mediterranean, although this cutting-edge inclusion of savoury ice creams, assorted foams and even a cheeky white chocolate and caviar sauce (with roast salmon) clearly shows some of Clifford's major influences. The thrill of the new has not entirely eclipsed the established order of the old. There are plenty of diverting, classical choices on both the set menu and the a la carte. The fish tastes properly wild - rare these days - and is of a very high quality. It is all rathe