Margaret’s, Cambridge: A quietly brilliant neighbourhood bistro worth travelling for

A set menu with just enough choice – Margaret’s lets the ingredients do the talking - (Matt Hague)

You get the sense that Margaret’s wants to look after you. The restaurant is named after a regular – a long-time guest of its older sibling next door, Restaurant 22 – which says something about the kind of place this is: personal, thoughtful, quietly confident.

Restaurant 22, of course, is one of Cambridge’s most prestigious addresses, sitting alongside Midsummer House in the local fine dining hierarchy, complete with its Michelin star. With Margaret’s being the younger, more relaxed offshoot, expectations are naturally high.