Lunch at the Bloomsbury Restaurant in the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza was part of the Cambridge package tour we’d bought- all three of us were on tight budgets and would probably not have eaten at a posh hotel restaurant otherwise. The Bloomsbury, however, though upmarket, turned out to be an enjoyable and rather warm place-definitely not snooty. The décor’s all in warm tones of brown, gold, and maroon, and huge windows look out onto the street below- the ambience is relaxed without being stuffy. Coming to the food: the menu’s pretty extensive, with a decent range of no-frills food of the `typically’ English variety. Good, well-loved salads, soups, roasts, pies and the like, all fairly affordable. We had a deliciously flavorful cream of mushroom soup, a roast beef, roast turkey, and a Caesar salad- all well-cooked, hot and delicious- for less than £10 each, including fresh juice and dark chocolate for afterwards.
A comfortable and friendly restaurant- on the whole, a place I’d like to visit again.