Diners' Choice: Innovative restaurants in Berkshire

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Updated May 05, 2025

Looking for the best restaurants that are fit for foodies in Berkshire? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Mova Restaurant

4.9

4.9 (23)

£26 to £40

Indian

Colnbrook

About the restaurant

Authentic Sri-Lankan & Indian Live Cooking Stations

Discover progressive Asian dining experience at Mova Restaurant, where authentic Sri Lankan cuisine takes center stage. Indulge in the finest buffet, featuring live-action food stations that showcase the very best of Asian flavors. A culinary journey like no other awaits!

Top review

Shell

Dined 1 day ago

We went on a Thursday night. It wasn’t packed but enough people for an ambiance. Amazing buffet food and so much choice. Lots of helpful staff and good service. Will be back!

Bombay Story - Maidenhead

4.8

4.8 (225)

£25 and under

Indian

Maidenhead

About the restaurant

Bombay Story is an informal, modern, genuine Indian kitchen; the concept is based on the highest quality Indian street and home cooked food. Salads, grills and breads feature in a short, but well thought out, versatile all-day menu.

Bombay Story perfectly designed to pivot between being a dine in, takeaway or delivery service business.

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Douglas

Dined 2 days ago

Second time here. As good as the last. Excellent food. Modern Indian cuisine. Very friendly service. We took a guess on the bill at the end and we were all way over. Very good value, especially at lunch time with various offers on.

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Experience

Bombay Story Bottomless

The Crown - Burchetts Green

4.7

4.7 (306)

£26 to £40

British

Maidenhead

About the restaurant

Welcome to The Crown at Burchetts Green.

My aim has always been to offer beautiful food in an authentic English pub. Dishes that are heart-warming, seasonal, and packed with flavor. All I wanted was for our guests to return home happy and contented! This aim established our reputation and remains firmly in place today.

At The Crown, our hospitality will be based on exactly these principles - seasoned, I hope, with a pinch of added ambition in the kitchen. And on the floor front-of-house, you will be greeted and looked after by Amber Flint and her team.
We look forward to welcoming you and cooking for you very soon.

Dominic Chapman

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Richard

Dined on Apr 29, 2025

Wonderful food, amazing menu. Extremely helpful staff. The venison was so tender and melted in the mouth. The John Dorey was an unknown choice however it proved to be delicious and we would have again. A beautiful dining area with plenty of sunlight and open doors letting in cool air on a very pleasant warm day. This restaurant is thoroughly recommended.

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Experience

Flavours of India

Clay's Kitchen & Bar

4.7

4.7 (886)

£26 to £40

Indian

Reading

About the restaurant

Welcome to Clay's Kitchen & Bar, and we look forward to serving you.
Our food is modern Hyderabadi cuisine ( a southern region of India) and some exciting small plates from different streets and homes of all the regions of India.

Our food has received praise from Jay Rayner, Grace Dent, William Sitwell, and Tom Parker Bowles and excellent reviews in the Guardian, Observer, and Delicious magazine, among others.

We are also a pub so you can come in for drinks.

Top review

Helen

Dined on Apr 30, 2025

Fabulous authentic food, great service, good for small or large gatherings.

The Loch & The Tyne by Adam Handling

4.7

4.7 (1877)

£26 to £40

British

Windsor

About the restaurant

The Loch & the Tyne is all about sustainable British luxury. The perfect countryside location for exclusive weddings, private events and country getaways.

We're a British pub in the countryside of old Windsor, offering a relaxed and cosy space where guests can pop in for a quick drink or retreat for the day trying out our list of local craft beers and wine. We very much celebrate English wines, both still and sparkling.

We offer British pub food, with a luxury approach. It’s a simple offering but showcases the
best of British produce. Our Sunday lunch is perfect to come and enjoy with friends and family (and
dogs are more than welcome too).

Top review

ScottVIP

Dined on Apr 29, 2025

We enjoyed ourselves start to finish. The staff was wonderful. The food was thoughtful and delicious. Highly recommend.

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Popular dish

Hake white bean chicken butter sauce

The Greyhound

4.7

4.7 (1480)

£26 to £40

British

Wokingham

About the restaurant

The Greyhound is a traditional pub with a focus on taking hospitality back to its roots with a warm welcome from our genuinely friendly team.

A wide range of AA Rosette awarded food from light lunches to decadent dinners.

Join us for a causal drink, a catch up with friends or to celebrate a special occasion.

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Deb

Dined 3 days ago

Delicious food, and friendly attentive service. Cosy interior and great value.

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Popular dish

300g sirloin

Experience

Supper Club - A Summer in Sicily

Experience

Supper Club - From the Land and the Sea

El Cerdo Maidenhead

4.7

4.7 (454)

£26 to £40

Tapas / Small Plates

Maidenhead

About the restaurant

Bienvenida!
Welcome to El Cerdo in Maidenhead, we look forward to serving you!
Step through the door and let El Cerdo ignite your senses. Feel the heat and passion from our open kitchen. Take in the sight of memories being created in front of you. Smell the traditional Spanish fare as it leaves our charcoal oven. Settle in with your nearest and dearest, and let us take care of you for a while.

The Colonnade, Maidenhead SL6 1QG.

Please note, all bookings are for two hours. However, later table bookings from 7:30pm onwards are given until close.

Top review

Nicola

Dined on Apr 29, 2025

Third time of visiting El Cerdo and always a delight. Food is exceptional, service is good and the atmosphere is lovely. Would recommend

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Experience

A Night with the Gypsy Kings Singer

Milaanj at The Beehive

4.7

4.7 (142)

£25 and under

Indian

White Waltham

About the restaurant

Welcome to Milaanj at The Beehive Restaurant & Pub.

We are a modern British Indian restaurant and pub in Maidenhead where Milaanj brings an exciting pub classics and innovative dishes, masterfully elevated with authentic Indian flavours, that are interpreted through a modernist lens. Our inimitable dishes pair seasonal, locally sourced fresh produce and the finest Indian herbs and spices, to create avant garde dishes that are executed with imagination, artistry, flair and precision. Come and enjoy a dining experience that is culturally resonant, yet distinctly unique.

Our menus evolve with the seasons are a panorama of refined and inventive dishes which seduce all the senses; a culinary journey of discovery for those that rejoice in the unexpected. Our broad, balanced menu is designed to gratify every dietary preference.

A carefully paired wine list and drinks menu of imaginative cocktails and curated beers, liqueurs and spirits are worthy of exploration.

Top review

Nick

Dined 7 days ago

Superb dinner, excellent service and delicious food!

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4.6

4.6 (146)

£26 to £40

British

Yattendon

About the restaurant

A rural public house serving local beers, Berkshire gin and ciders, as well as a great wine selection. Bar snacks and full meals available 7 days a week. Cooking over a central grill makes for great theatrical cooking from our open-plan kitchen, overseen by Head Chef Nick Galer.

Whilst a subtle Basque feel will permeate throughout, its roots are firmly founded on those of a classic English pub – so while featuring top end Basque dishes fit for a destination dinner, it also offers simple pub snacks for a light lunch… while the food may be inspired by the Basque country, the ingredients are local… and while the wines may be sourced from Iberia, the beer is very much English.

The crowning glory is the sensational open kitchen, with a huge, CHARCOAL FIRED parilla grill and a BRICK OVEN as its centrepiece and all in front of the guests – very visual and very theatrical.

The Pot Kiln has been a really exciting project, and we’re thrilled to be finally open.

Rob, Nick, Sphelo and Team

Top review

Alison

Dined 1 day ago

This is the first time I have visited the "new Pot Kiln". A great experience, from start to finish. We were met by a lovely young man at the bar who smiled and took us to our table. Lovely atmosphere in the dining room which was light and airy looking into the open kitchen with the chefs working. Lots of space in the dining room which is good news these days. As so many restaurants have tables so close together! I loved the menu which had lots of different dishes to chose from. I would certainly recommend.

Bombay Story - Wokingham

4.6

4.6 (718)

£25 and under

Indian

Wokingham

About the restaurant

An experience-led authentic Indian Kitchen & Bar, located in central Wokingham. Open for breakfast, lunch at dinner. Award-winning chefs, excellent customer service and world-class food - authentic, healthy, fresh and catering to many dietary requirements. Beautiful interior design, offering walk-in seats in a heated terrace or inside restaurant. Delivery and collection available.

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Lauren

Dined 6 days ago

The food and service are always amazing here. Really lovely and attentive staff and delicious food every time. Highly recommend!

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Experience

Bombay Story Bottomless

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