Michelin star dining with Renaissance decor in a converted Tudor-style hotel with limited seating.
The Tudor Room at Great Fosters in Forster
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We went for an wedding events open day.
Good characterful venue and very enjoyable food. Service was also good.
Take the sommeliers advice: youll thank me, if you do.
Really enjoyed the entire menu, would highly recommend to all foodies
If this were a poker game Parkin delivers fives aces. Totally superb. Flawless food creations served by friendly FOH in a stunning location. Some interesting flavours a real bonus and ... just visit here. Soon! Thanks Team Tudor Room!
MoreFantastic food and service will be going back again soon
Beautiful venue for a superb lunch. A clever menu with twists and delights. This was chefs craft at its best. Perfect cooking of in season ingredients. Subtle flavours with everything beautifully presented; each course is explained by a chef and the service is excellent.
MoreRelaxed and elegant dining. Lunch menu excellent
Amazing food, friendly services and very relaxing. Beautiful setting too.
The lunch tasting menu was just exceptional! And the staff were so friendly and welcoming. Really enjoyed the experience!
MoreBetter than average. Overall it is tasty apart from the first tuna starter have fishy aftertaste. It is not very experimental and not very memorable either though. I would give 4 stars if I booked a normal table. However I booked chef’s table, which charges £30 more per person. Thought it would be a dining experience with chef cooking in front of you and introduce each dish to you. However it’s just a separate room with the same dishes but charges much more. The atmosphere in the main restaurant is much better. The chef’s table room is where they store the wines. Although it’s a separate room, you have no privacy with the door open and different waiters keep coming in to get wines for other customers. Also, I would say the food presentation can be better. There’s some details aren’t right.
MoreSuch an amazing experience. The staff is brilliant and the food is just perfect
Awful. Fur coat, no knickers. Avoid.
My 2nd 5 star report on this place. Previous comments still apply. Totally recommend this hotel and for me a local, the restaurants.
MoreStunning setting, exquisite food and first class service. Me and my guest were really made to feel welcome an unforgettable lunch. Massive thanks to Tony and the team.
MoreLovely afternoon tea and the staff were both accomodating and relaxed. It was so easy to lose hours having a gentle Sunday. Really recommended
MoreDont expect the evening to be cheap, but the dining experience and food are exceptional. Went for my wifes birthday and it was well worth it. Service, food and dining room were the best Ive ever experienced. Highly recommend doing at least once. Youll be hard pushed to find a better dining experience
MoreSimply amazing
My reservation was at 2pm. I was trying to call Tudor Room since 14:05 to say I was running 15 minutes late. When they finally picked up the phone at 14:15 (being very preciseand I was few steps from the place, I learned the chef had left. That’s the way they treat their customers. I’m very used to fine dining, but this is the first time ever a restaurant refuses to serve us for being 15 minutes late. There are so many Michelin starred restaurants in the U.K., therefore I would never recommend anyone to try this place. By having no choice, my husband and I are currently having afternoon tea at the hotel.
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Beautiful setting for afternoon tea.
Fabulous, starting from location and finish with great waitstaff service! Food is outstanding, beautifully served for your eyes to prepare your taste buds at first! Beautiful view of the precisely carved park .Only if there was more running water noise to cover the noise of the motorway...
MoreFantastic venue with great food.Having been here multiple times on a several occasions, I was never left disappointed.
MoreAfternoon tea was plentiful and delicious and the service on point. Thank you.
My husband and I had a lovely evening yesterday. The service and food was excellent! Will definitely be back!
MoreAbsolutely fantastic meal, bursting with flavour. Every course was a delight. My family and I have been to a number of top restaurants in the area and this one outdid the rest.
MoreGorgeous food in a beautiful setting, excellent service too
Wonderful memorable lunch. Very accommodating kind staff. A lovely experience. Would highly recommend.
MoreIncredible food, lovely staff, fantastic evening. Great way to spend out wedding anniversary. Will certainly be back soon!
MoreSimply amazing! Why go into London when you can have fine dining at Great Fosters in Egham. We dined at Tony Parkins Tudor Room on our anniversary (having been married in Great Fosters the previous year). From the moment we were met by the friendly team our experience was flawless. Each course is carefully designed to wow but not over power. The dishes included goats cheese and beetroot palate cleanser, sea bass & cavair, quail, monkfish and a honey & milk pudding. Stephen the awesome sommelier matched each course with a beautiful glass of wine including a Verdicchio and Sancerre. I have to say it was simply a lovely evening and at £95 for 5 courses it is true value for money. What made it even better is that Tony personally introduced the dishes and talked about their creation, bringing each dish to life. We will be back very soon!
MoreTook the misses here for our anniversary so beautiful the scenery she was proper happy and so was I. The waiter made the evening fee even more special thanks u
MoreNice hidden treasure in Egham
Waited some time for our drinks for a private function we had - food was ok but not amazing as expected. Decor and venue itself is very nice and elegant but overall somewhere I wouldnt rush back to soon
MoreTheres nothing like going through a "Small Door" of an entrance into the sound of squeaky floorboards of a lovely Old Hotel. This hotel has plenty of character unfortunately Ive not had the privilege of staying here overnight or any kind of dinner or even breakfast, however Ive dropped off lots of people here and Ive not heard one bad thing about it.
MoreWonderful settings.Sandwiches were nice - bread was a little hard on some parts.On entrance, one of the waiters (blonde short hairwas very rude. My partner left the front door open and the waiter said "you could shut the door". Then later as I went back to the room from the restroom, the same waiter was moaning to the reception staff saying "this is ridiculous, it makes no sense". Not a very good atmosphere.
MoreExquisite No need to go into London for fine dining now.
This place never fails to deliver. Delicious food, exceptional service and every room of this manor house has its own magical charm!!Steve and his colleagues always make us feel welcomed.
MoreLovely place for family gathering.
Good service and average food for the price. Noisy music next to restaurant was not ideal
MoreA very special place to indulge
Be aware - they have a formal dress code which isnt mentioned anywhere on their website. Our afternoon was rather spoilt when we showed up in smart casual which weve not had a problem with at other restaurants at this standard or higher in similar settings, and we were made to feel quite foolish.The food itself was decent, but not anything special. I enjoyed my dessert, but the starter and mains were forgettable.A word of advice to the restaurant - I have no problem with the concept of a dress code, but, a simple note on the website or when the customer makes a reservation costs nothing and helps set expectations appropriately to avoid embarrassment on both sides. A Michelin star these days does not automatically tell the customer that they should be in full formal attire.
Moreexcellent food excellent service and very close to where i live
Absolutely delicious food, extremely well presented, lovely ambience. Great service, will definitely return.
MoreWe had a great lunch menu at the Tudor Room yesterday. It is indeed a room, with maybe 8 tables in total, and a bit dark, but with nice views to the beautiful gardens, which are worth a visit. The staff was very friendly and took the time to explain thoroughly every dish. They were particularly attentive, perhaps a bit too much so (constantly looking at us), but it didnt spoil the experience, as the food was really top-quality, definitely worth a Michelin star. We were welcomed with some lovely canapés followed by a small olive oil and peas pre-starter, which was subtle and refreshing, even if on the small side. The bread and butter was very nice indeed, warm and crusty as it should be in a restaurant of this standard. We then had starters: my pigeon was particularly nice, but the cold crab dish of my guest wasnt so flavoursome. The sea bream was refined too, but not exceptional. For mains I had a really tasty pork dish (made of various parts of the pork, including some tender cheek cooked in barbecue sauceand my guests had the equally well-executed turbot with lovely parmesan gnocchis. For dessert, two of us had a light and exquisitely presented dish celebrating the gariguette strawberry (compressed, fresh, as a sorbet, tuilesand the other guest enjoyed a rich manjari chocolate sponge with coffee cream and yuzu sorbet. Both desserts were equally good, but flavours in the starters and mains could have been more consistent. Only three tables of the room were used on a Friday lunch, which makes me wonder why cancellation within 48 hours would incur a charge. Overall the experience was great, service was faultless and we will probably return, but we had even better food at the Latymer, which is now unfortunately closed for lunch on Fridays. If possible, I would have given 4 and a half stars. Going there for a lunch is nice the gardens are beautiful too. Highly recommended.
MoreMothers day afternoon tea! Go every year , absolutely delicious, staff are amazing as is the building itself! Love , love , love this beautiful place 😍.
MoreTruly stunning meal. The attention to detail was second to none. Customised menu due to my wifes needs and offered alternatives. They went out of their way to make our meal special and special it was. I cant thank the manager enough for one of the best meals and experiences! Highly recommended. Worth every single penny!
MoreWonderful experience, food was fantastic as was the service. Some great humour from the waiters and overall had an enjoyable experience. Would definitely return in the future!
MoreChose this restaurant for my mother’s and girlfriend’s birthday. The entire experience was fantastic, from the charismatic waiters, to the food, the attention to detail was spot on and my family had a great time. If I could criticise one thing, it would be that they had one piano tune on repeat the whole time in the restaurant - it became a little repetitive for some of us - but other than that a very enjoyable experience.
MoreProbably the best meal Ive eaten this year❣We were made to feel like royalty. Every dish on the menu is carefully crafted and plated like a work of art. Magnificent wine choices by the sommelier and flawless service by the entire team.
MoreExceptional fine dining experience. Im only glad I discovered it before the Michelin assesors did.
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