What an awesome tea room! Literally on the Thames!…read more 7 of us booked a table for brunch and were not disappointed! This is quite a big barge and seats about 20 people comfortably, offering a great range of cream teas, sandwiches, breakfasts and drinks. A little quaint, traditional barge tea shop. The cups and saucers are just fabulous and the coffee mugs are varied - all adding to the variety and experience of this wonderful place. The tea is served in leaf form so you have your own strainer, which is really cool! I opted for a full breakfast today which was just right! Unfortunately they had ran out of bacon but I got an extra sausage for that! Locally sourced food which was cooked perfectly from the kitchen you can see at the end of the barge. All the staff were extremely friendly and helpful, offering their advice and explaining the food options as well. The service was excellent and relaxed. The most important part of finishing the meal is the separation of the bill, especially in a group. However they offered to spilt this and each of us pay separately, this worked great! Overall, this is place is highly recommended for anytime of the day, relaxing on the Thames, in wonderful surroundings, watching the swans swim by.

How am I the first to add this to Yelp? What an outstanding find. It's a small barge moored along…read morethe Thames. Great tea, food, service, and atmosphere! Highly highly recommend...

Good hearty breakfast, with options for all. Outdoor…read moreseating available. Clean and spacious.

Great place and the staff is heavenly and beautiful!! Service is happy and prompt. Who could ask…read morefor more???

Went for lunch at this rest-stop during a bus tour to Stonehenge and Bath. The wait was a little…read morelonger than I expected, but the English breakfast was so good! I felt full and energized throughout the day's adventures. There were some wall sockets for charging under the booth seats, which was also appreciated.

Brunch was tasty, coffee came after my meal, and I requested the bill three times before getting…read moreit, so overall not ideal. My biggest frustration though is the service fee that is automatically included in your bill;

Everyone knows I have a crush on Bill. His Brighton home wooed me from the moment I met him there…read moreand discovered his macaroni cheese. I then uncovered the amazing desserts, wonderful wines and charming service. All of that under one roof in a fabulous old barn. So when hearing that Bills was opening up in Reading (which is about as close to my home town as you can get) I squealed with excitement and insisted on taking the parents out for dinner there. The building again is amazing. Bill has a way of choosing places with real character and this old house is the perfect setting. Upstairs there are two private dining rooms one with an enormous farmhouse table perfect for sitting large parties all together. The food is again, wonderful. I feel that the desserts didn't look quite as amazing as they do in Brighton. They were a bit mean on the fruit front, they also charge you per portion of bread, even though the portions are tiny. My final whinge will be that the didn't let us book as we wanted to eat at 6.30 but when we got there made quite a bit of a fuss about the fact the hadn't booked. The staff were all very confused. They had a lovely selection of drinks and I enjoyed a very modest Hedgerow Fizz which was a mere £3.501 In this area, you will not find better food, ethically sourced anywhere else. It really is quite wonderful. They also have a food store here and do hampers for gifts with goodies like Berkshire honey and Bill's homemade chilli jelly. It's worth eating here if you're in the area.

Staying in the attached Hilton for a week, I've eaten in the Larder Restaurant several times,…read moretrying quite a number of things from the dinner menu. I've also enjoyed the breakfast buffet, which is nothing if not perfectly consistent day after day. Scrambled and fried eggs, sausages, blood pudding, sauteed mushrooms, bacon, toast, porridge, smoked salmon, yogurt, juices, fruits, and much more. They'll also prepare nearly anything you want fresh if you want to wait, though I haven't. From the dinner menu, I've had the thyme-infused chicken breast with spinach mash and green beans. It was excellent and very fresh. The two pasta dishes were adequate, but I felt they were just a jumble of sauce and veggies mixed up and I don't recommend them. The wild boar burger was an interesting choice, but with the melted gruyere cheese, it was just odd. I also tried the room service menu once, having the chicken tikka masala, which was good. Served with a pile of rice and riata and chutney and naan, it was nicely spicy and a good sized portion. It was delivered extremely quickly, so I wonder if this is some sort of reheated freezer pack, because there was no way it was prepared fresh. Also, the chicken in there was a grilled chicken breast that had been chopped up, so while it was good, the chicken didn't actually have the flavor it would get from being cooked with the sauce for a while. Service is excellent and very friendly. These people stick to a high standard and I really appreciated everything they did. Obviously, if you're staying in the hotel, this is the closest choice. If I lived in the neighborhood, I think I would still dine here.

Yes, it's in the bottom of the hotel I'm staying in so convenience is 10 stars! That's said, the…read moremeal, atmosphere, and service were very nice. I was pleasantly surprised with their wine list. The Rose Champagne was lovely and very reasonably price at 9.5GBP. They had a good variety of other wines and offer 125ml and 250ml glasses (always a plus if you want a bit more wine but not a full glass). The food as well prepared and presented. Started with the tomato and mozzarella salad. Both were drizzled in really nice basalmic and micro greens. For the main I went with the roasted cod which was really great. Nice crispy skin on top yet the flesh wasn't over cooked. It was on top of a slightly spice harissa mash (I soo want to make at home!) and fennel (yay for more fennel!). The flavors worked really well together! Service was the right amount, attentive but not overly present especially as someone dining alone. For atmosphere they had light music in the background that did well in blending the sounds from the bar I could hear. Honestly, I'd come back here even if it meant having to walk or drive instead of take an elevator down :)

Cafe style food and I stopped in this morning for breakfast. With a few choices, i opted for the…read more"Munchees Breakfast" and was pleased with the quantity. It certainly had all of the usual suspects as far as what I've heard of British breakfasts. A fried egg, sausage, bacon (very salty), baked beans, grilled mushrooms, and two pieces of fried bread. I'm hoping the staff is trained at CPR as I'm feeling dizzy just looking at it. I managed to leave the sausage and the bread behind. Coffee was good and strong. Seating is tables for two or four. A party of five came in while I was dining and they had to split themselves over two tables. If you sit by the window, or at one of the outside tables, there's plenty of people watching to be had. There's also an upstairs "eat as much as you like" Nepalese style dining but I didn't try that. Maybe another time.

It's a great place ran by a Nepalese family. They used to run a buffet upstairs but it has be…read moreclosed indefinitely for over a year now. The cafe downstairs is still running and serves cheap breakfast all day. Full English breakfast at a little less than 6 quid. You walk up to the counter where the kitchen is to order or sit down in a diner's booth. Someone will come take your order. A lot of sandwiches and sausages. Great prices and decent food.

Bottomless brunch is my new favourite kind of brunch, and this was definitely the place to do it…read more Everything about this place is super cute and photogenic, and bottomless mimosas definitely didn't hurt either. Would have given this five stars, but did feel that the food portions were a bit small considering the amount of alcohol they could anticipate people consuming...but I guess most people drink their money's worth!

Don't go here for a fancy meal. You can fall back on their sandwiches etc but avoid anything that…read morecould be, and of course will be, microwaved. But for drinks and cocktails, it's not a bad spot. Drink promotions are always running and it's somewhere you can grab a seat and have a natter. Fairly decent surroundings. Not the best, not the worst.

The food tasted great. The cappuccino was delicious. I couldn't give them 5 starts because they…read moremade such a big deal About me asking for scrambled eggs instead of poached. In the end they gave it to me, but really scrambled is easier anyway.

Friendly servers, delicious espresso drinks. Banana dark chocolate bread was simply amazing. Their…read moresandwich and salads menu looks very creative (and tasty).

I felt that the food at the Crab verged on pretentious. This place has an amazing reputation but…read morethe decor just felt a bit to Disney for me and although the food was good I still felt hungry when I left.

An elevated position on the Downs above Newbury. A brilliantly converted (and extended) old pub…read morewhich now serves fine dining meals. Fish is one of their major strengths, but all their food is excellent. We have never had a dud meal there, and if you are feeling particularly picky, and well behaved, the chef will vary his menu to your taste, within reason, of course ! If turbot appears on the menu, choose it.