The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers
The Bell Inn
We assessed The Bell Inn in July 2026 and this review is based on the food menu and wine list at the time of the review. As menus and wine lists change, we name styles in order for the information to remain more useful as menus change. If things have slipped you can use the Vinealto Dining app including accessing an up to date reading using 'At the Table' from the wine list in front of you in the restaurant. How we assess
The Bell Inn is a historic Cambridgeshire coaching inn whose modern British kitchen is matched by a well-built, style-banded wine list of real range. The wine programme earns its standing on that breadth and on a generous by-the-glass offer (three sizes across the still wines, and a single measure reaching even to a Champagne and a dessert Sauternes) answering the hardest plates by the glass and closing the meal thoughtfully, short only of a personal cellar's individuality and a fuller fortified shelf. It will most reward the diner who wants genuine choice by the glass across an ambitious seasonal menu.
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Modern British tasting menu
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Wine bar and small plates
The Wine Rooms is a wine bar and shop in Cambridge where a small-plates, fondue and cheese kitchen exists to partner one of the most serious by-the-glass lists in the guide. The wine programme is genuinely elite for the format (125ml and 175ml glasses, half-bottles, a Coravin pouring fine and aged bottles a glass at a time, and a complete sherry, sweet and fortified range by the small glass) held back from the very top only because the food is small plates rather than a full kitchen. It will most reward the wine lover who wants to explore widely and adventurously, a glass at a time, over good cheese and charcuterie.
Read the assessmentThe Cambridge Chop House
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
British steakhouse
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Read the assessmentCambridge Wine Merchants, Cherry Hinton Road
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Wine bar and shop (cheese and charcuterie)
Cambridge Wine Merchants on Cherry Hinton Road is a neighbourhood wine shop with a small bar serving cheese, charcuterie and mezze boards. Every wine on its bar list is poured by the glass, the cheeses come with wine suggestions, and any bottle from the shelves can be opened for a small charge, or none above £50. It will suit anyone who wants to taste widely and drink well for little money in a relaxed setting.
Read the assessmentThe Pint Shop
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
British gastropub and charcoal grill
The Pint Shop is a British charcoal-grill gastropub in central Cambridge with a curated, organic-and-natural-leaning wine list, much of it offered by the small glass and the carafe. The wine programme is an honest and characterful fit for the grill-and-charcuterie food (bone-dry saline whites for the cured fish, an orange wine for the hardest plate, ripe reds for the steaks) broad by the glass and let down only by the near-absence of sweet and fortified wine. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to explore widely and cheaply, a glass or a carafe at a time, over good food cooked over coals.
Read the assessmentThe Millworks
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
British charcoal-grill gastropub
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Read the assessmentVino Tapas and Wine
St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Spanish and Italian-leaning tapas
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Read the assessmentThe Old Bicycle Shop
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Modern British gastropub
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