Diners' Choice: Hot spot restaurants in Hertfordshire

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Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for restaurants that are the best hot spots in Hertfordshire? 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!

Gables Restaurant

4.8

4.8 (571)

£26 to £40

International

Hertford

About the restaurant

The Gables Restaurant is pleased to announce that we are now open!

The Gables Restaurant in Newgate Street Village is the social hub within the local community, we are conveniently located for Cuffley, Potters Bar, Hertford and Cheshunt offering fine dining with a range of Mediterranean cuisine.
Whether you’re celebrating with friends and family or planning a romantic dinner for two our relaxed atmosphere is sure to provide the perfect setting. We also offer seated and buffet style party functions in our cocktail bar area or for larger parties in our restaurant area.

Top review

Sarah

Dined on Jun 7, 2025

Fabulous as always. Thank you to Theo and the team for a fabulous evening. From start to finish first class. This place gets better and better. Thank you again x

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Experience

Set Menu

Kite at The Red Hart

4.7

4.7 (690)

£26 to £40

British

Hitchin

About the restaurant

Welcome to Kite at The Red Hart, we are looking forward to serving you! All reservations will be sat indoors unless by request and each booking is for 1hr 45 mins.

Please note we are a cashless venue. Card and contactless payments only.

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MARK

Dined on Jun 1, 2025

A nice birthday celebration. Staff were friendly. Food good Ambience good overall

Spark Bar & Kitchen

4.7

4.7 (398)

£25 and under

Turkish

Hoddesdon

About the restaurant

Our Turkish restaurant aims to provide customers with supreme taste, renowned quality of service, a pleasant dining experience, and is determined to become the best Turkish restaurant in Hoddesdon and the UK. Please advised on Friday and Saturday booking before 8pm have a 2 hour time limit.

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Victoria

Dined on May 30, 2025

Always guaranteed a lovely experience at Spark the staff are helpful and attentive. It was busy but it didn’t affect the quality or the service. Fabulous live singer.

Nonna’s Kitchen

4.7

4.7 (17)

£25 and under

Italian

Broxbourne

About the restaurant

Founded by Joe Ricotta in 2012, NONNA’S KITCHEN began with an idea that would bring generations of families together to enjoy traditional Sicilian food in the heart of our home town in the UK. Nonna’s is a family run business which prides itself on sourcing the highest quality ingredients to ensure the best flavours for our customers. As you may know Nonna’s Kitchen translated means Grandmother’s Kitchen. As a Sicilian family we wanted to create a little bit of Sicily right here in the UK by bringing together all of our Nonna’s traditional Sicilian recipes.

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Sarah

Dined 7 days ago

Lovely meal great for families and great tasting food.

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Experience

Boots And Bling Country Line Dancing Night £39.95

Experience

Harry Cambridge as Luther Vandross

Experience

Rob Lamberti as George Michael - £55 pp

Ember

4.7

4.7 (63)

£26 to £40

European

Hertford

About the restaurant

Nestled inside the iconic 42 Fore Street, this dimly lit restaurant provides a unique venue combining the rustic charm of ember-cooked cuisine with the vibrant energy of a vintage listening bar.

Top review

Katherine

Dined on May 30, 2025

Brilliant evening, food was absolutely delicious! Great service, lovely drinks, the music in the background seems loud at first but actually is perfect. Really looking forward to returning.

Hermitage Rd Bar & Restaurant

4.6

4.6 (2676)

£26 to £40

British

Hitchin

About the restaurant

Set in the impressive former 1930s Hitchin ballroom, on the first floor, Hermitage Rd restaurant & bar boasts a seasonal, award winning and sustainable premium food offer, from the awarding winning ACI team and a bar renowned for it's bespoke cocktails, quality wine and beer range. Recently refurbished.

Additionally we also have a street-level wine bar, which we collaborated with the award-winning Nyetimber to create. This intimate and romantic space can be hired exclusively, and is open on Friday & Saturdays only from 5pm. We serve a variety of small plates, including oysters and is perfect for a pre dinner glass/snack.

Our coffee shop has also expanded and offers an amazing space to socialise and/or work, open 7 days a week, offering dine-in or take-away bagels and PACT Coffee, plus various size meeting rooms for hire. The coffee shop is also available for evening hire as a venue for private parties, corporate bashes, book launches etc.

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Natalie

Dined 5 days ago

Wonderful anniversary dinner, free glass of bubbly each when we arrived. Staff were so friendly.

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Experience

Elysian Evening

Lavish Bar & Grill

4.6

4.6 (1424)

£26 to £40

Mediterranean

Stevenage

About the restaurant

We are a mediterranean inspired grill in the heart of Stevenage Old Town, serving the very best steaks, grills and fresh fish alongside some amazing cocktails.
Our steaks are our signature dish, these are very carefully sourced and cooked by our master grill chefs on the word renowned Josper grill.

Our restaurant is rated no 1 on trip advisor.

We have live music every Friday.

We look forward to welcoming you, please call our reservations team for any further information.

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Reno

Dined 2 days ago

Fantastic service great food and atmosphere . Would recommend as a venue for anything

Craft & Cleaver - St Albans

4.5

4.5 (1675)

£26 to £40

Barbecue

St. Albans

About the restaurant

Craft & Cleaver is an Industrial, Brooklyn-Inspired Barbecue Joint & Bar – bringing authentic wood-fired Barbecue, expertly-sourced Craft Beer & awesome Cocktails to St. Albans.

A great venue for date night, weekend Brunch or any celebration - we've got you covered with booths, restaurant & garden seating.

Proudly independent, open 7 days a week!

Top review

Dined on Jun 7, 2025

Cocktails were amazing , food wasn’t as expected a little dry but tasted nice , tables were too close together ruined the experience a little

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Experience

Bottomless Brunch

Bill’s Restaurant, Café & Bar – St Albans

4.5

4.5 (1028)

£25 and under

British

St. Albans

About the restaurant

Fun fact: St. Albans is a twin town with Fano, Italy. It's also home to a fabulous Bill's restaurant. Tuck yourself away inside or watch the world go by outside with fresh food and classic cocktails. Our menu features an array of delectable dishes, whether you're kickstarting your day with breakfast, treating yourself to brunch or refuelling with a light lunch. And we've got all allergens covered, from vegetarian and vegan to gluten-free. Who needs Italy?

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Paul

Dined on Jun 1, 2025

We arrived for brunch, instead of dinner, which meant that we were able to take advantage of some brunch specials-such as a bottle of Prosecco for £20. We loved everything about our stay; the seafood platter was so fresh and tasty as were the burgers. We were so comfortable in the armchairs and really could have stayed longer but had a concert to attend that evening. We will look out for other Bill's in the future.

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Experience

ROLL & WIN THIS FATHER'S DAY

Craft & Cleaver - Hitchin

4.5

4.5 (320)

£26 to £40

Barbecue

Hitchin

About the restaurant

Craft & Cleaver is a Brooklyn-Inspired Barbecue Restaurant & Bar – bringing authentic wood-fired Barbecue, expertly-sourced Craft Beer & awesome Cocktails to Hitchin.

Proudly independent, open 7 days a week!

Top review

Claire

Dined on Jun 7, 2025

Fantastic food and drinks with outstanding service! Restaurant has a great ambience too, will definitely return and highly recommend

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Experience

Bottomless Brunch

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