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Restaurant & Bar near A1 at Huntingdon

Heading North or South on the A1?

Looking for a restaurant or pub lunch?

Nice place to stop near the A1?

Between Peterborough & Biggleswade on the A1 is the small town of Huntingdon on the river Ouse and if you are looking for a pitstop whilst travelling up or down the A1 then The Exhibition Pub & Restaurant is a perfect place to stop. We are just minutes from the A1 & A14 interchange and are family & dog friendly.

From the A1 follow signs for the A14 towards Cambridge and exit at Godmanchester. Our postcode for Sat Nav is PE29 2HZ.

At Brampton on the A1 is a service stop with a Brewers Fayre Restaurant, McDonalds and a BP petrol station but if you are looking for something more different then we are definatley worth the five minutes drive to find us. We have ample parking at the rear, we are open all day, there is an enclosed garden for the kids & dog to run around in and the food is great.

 

 

 

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Restaurants in Huntingdonshire

To see our restaurant menus click here.

For some more information about restaurants in Huntingdonshire click here.

Huntingdonshire is a historic county in England covering the area around Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. Between 1889 and 1965 it additionally formed an administrative county. Since 1974 it has been administered as a district within county of Cambridgeshire.

Locals now tend to refer to Huntingdonshire as the general area surrounding Huntingdon to the west of Cambridgeshire to the Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire borders. There are many suburbs and villages including Hartford, Houghton, Wyton, Brampton, Buckden, the Offords, the Hemingfords, the Paxtons, Eynesbury, Eaton Socon, Eaton Ford, Southoe, Hail Weston and Sawtry. Nearly all of the these places have a pub & restaurant and you’d be unlucky not to find a good one.

There are some fabulous restaurants within the Huntingdonshire District, many gastro pubs and lots of take away restaurants. We had a look at the reviews on TripAdvisor to see how they all rank, to read more about click here.

The Exhibition Pub & Restaurant is located in Godmanchester, two miles from Huntingdon. For more information on how to find us click here.

 

 

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Pubs with open fires in Huntingdonshire

There are a few pubs now in and around Huntingdon with open fires. They seem to have come back in fashion.

At The Exhibition in Godmanchester, 2 miles from Huntingdon we have an open fire as soon as the temperature drops and the nights draw in. It is a great focal point in our bar area.

The Old Bridge Hotel in Huntingdon often have their fire going as does The Mill at Brampton. There is a small fire in the bar at The Axe & Compass in Hemingford and The Pheasant out at Keyston has open fires in a beautiful old thatched pub.

To find The Exhibition use our postcode PE29 2HZ or have a look at the map below:


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Christmas menu from Huntingdon restaurant

christmas lunch & dinner menu

available from November 30th until December 24th

 

starters

Parsnip & apple soup, olive oil croutes (v)

Prawn salad, sweet chilli & coriander dressing, cucumber linguine, cherry tomatoes

Tandoori marinated chicken, raita, mango chutney, mint yoghurt, poppadom

Cheddar & chive fritters, red onion marmalade, mixed leaves (v)

 

mains

Roast turkey breast, dauphinoise potatoes, vegetables and all the trimmings

Slow roasted shoulder of lamb, crushed parsley potatoes, roasted root vegetables, winter greens, red wine jus

Roast salmon supreme, cream of watercress sauce, beetroot potatoes, winter greens

Tomato, red onion & chilli tart, herb salad, sweet pickle vegetables, roquette dressing (v)

 

puddings

Christmas pudding, brandy anglaise

Sticky toffee pudding, vanilla ice-cream

Winter berry fool, viennese biscuits

Iced chocolate orange brownie & marshmallow terrine, dark chocolate sauce, candied zest

Cheese & biscuits, homemade chutney

 

£23.00 per person

please let us know if you have any food allergies

 

To book please call us on 01480 459134.

 

 

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New Winter pudding menu from The Exhibition

We have some great coffee, dessert wines or liqueurs but there is no substitute for a good pudding!

Our Winter pudding menu is available from Thursday 18th October.

We normally have a couple of other choices of our specials menu too.

 

pudding menu

Sticky toffee pudding, vanilla ice-cream 

Apple & blackberry crumble, sauce anglaise 

Chocolate & pear sponge, hot fudge sauce, vanilla ice-cream 

Peanut butter & rum truffle creme brulee, white chocolate chip cookie

Cheese & biscuits, homemade chutney

Affogato

Homemade chocolate brandy truffles

 

what do you fancy?

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Huntingdon Restaurants – Where is your favourite?

When you are looking for a restaurant what is important to you?

Whilst we were trying to write about our restaurant we fell into the trap of boasting about the best food, the nicest atmosphere, the best service, the most fabulous menus, great prices, good value and all the other stuff every biased owner of a restaurant would use.

We have a review page on our website and do well on TripAdvisor but you can’t please everybody. We work hard to ensure that The Exhibition is a great choice of Restaurant in the Huntingdon area.

We have just had the front of the building restored and the terrace at the front all replaced. We decorate the restaurant and bar every year to change the atmosphere for regulars and to keep it clean & fresh for everyone. We alter our menus with the seasons so there is always something new to tempt you.

When we visit other restaurants in Huntingdon we are always comparing with ours, some are very good and serve great food, some we find expensive, some are a little snooty and some not that individual but on the whole Huntingdon and the surrounding villages has some great pub/restaurants or Gastro Pubs. Funnily enough on TripAdvisor the restaurant currently ranked #1 in Huntingdon is a Thai take-away on an industrial estate.

The Pheasant at Keyston is at #2 and it is a beautiful pub in a very pretty village. It featured on one of Gordon Ramsey’s TV shows but since then has become part of the Huntsbridge group again, the same people that run the Old Bridge Hotel & Restaurant in Huntingdon which is ranked #3.

#4 is a pie shop? #5 is The Dragoon pub in Brampton that was closed last time I drove past. #6 is The Crown at Broughton which deserves to be higher up, great restaurant and one of our favourites. Pop Bellies on Huntingdon High Street is at #7 then The Darjeeling Indian Restaurant is at #8  before you find The Exhibition currently at #9.

TripAdvisor lists 57 Huntingdon Restaurants and as you will see, some are shops and others, cafes, chippy’s and takeaways but not a bad list to work your way through!

Here is a link to Huntingdon Restaurants on TripAdvisor:

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurants-g209939-Huntingdon_Cambridgeshire_England