Local Guide

The Mill (14 Mill Lane, CB2 1RX, www.themillpubcambridge.com 01223 311829) is a traditional English pub selling local brewed beer and serves pub classic food with a twist. The pub features an LP where guests can choose LP records and place on the record player.

It is located by the river's edge next to the punter's favourite hirer, Scudamore, and beside the green where the public picnic on hot days watching punters

The Eagle Pub, since 1667, (Bene’t street, CB2 3QN - +44 (0)1223 505 020 www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk) has been pouring pints in gratitude for it’s patrons’ achievements.  From Watson and Crick, the regulars who discovered DNA and celebrated that phenomenon here, to the hundreds of WW2 RAF pilots who left behind a wall of messages in the hope they were never forgotten.  

The Fort St George is located on Midsummer Meadow (CB4 1HA www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk +44 (0)1223 354 327) and is the oldest pub on the River Cam, with timber framed building dating back to the 16th century. The unusual name of the pub, commonly abbreviated to just ‘Fort’ reflects a supposed resemblance to the East India Company’s Fort St George at Madras (now Chennai) in India.

Fitzbillies Café and Shops are located in Trumpington Street and Bridge Street (www.fitzbillies.com). It was founded in 1920 by Ernest and Arthur Mason, using their ‘demob’ money from the first world war. It quickly became the cake-shop of choice for the university and townsfolk with its popular Chelsea Buns. Shop here for the popular cakes, brownies, butter shortbread and macarons.

Cambridge Gin Distillery was founded by William and Lucy Lowe wanting to create gins that captured the taste of the English Seasons using botanicals grown in and around their home (Distillery & Showroom 20 High Street, CB3 9NF +44 (0)1223 751 146 www.cambridgedistillery.co.uk)

The Green Man in Grantchester, 59 High Street, CB3 9NF, (+44 (0) 1223 844 903) is a great old rustic village pub, with log fires in the winter, serving great food and drinks. It has a garden area, great for alfresco dining and drinking. Grantchester was home to Rupert Brookes one of our most famous First World War poets who wrote “The Old Vicarage Grantchester”.

The Red Lion at 33 High Street, Grantchester CB3 9NF, (+44 (0)1223 840121) is a large country pub, with a log fire in the winter, serving a British menu with good wine and Real Ales. There is a landscaped garden - lovely on sunny days for alfresco dining. It is set very close to the river meadows of Grantchester, made famous by Pink Floyd in their 4th album Ummagumma.

The Cambridge Chop House at 1 King’s Parade CB2 1SJ specializes in interesting meat cuts and chops, with meat aged for at least 28 days. The also have fresh fish specials and hearty vegetarian food. Their wine list is focused on the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France and their British Real Ale is served straight from the cask. For reservations: +44 (0) 1223 359 506