Olivier's
The Inn at Woburn,
High Street,
Woburn
Hotel restaurant, Contemporary European, 40
This hotel has long been a local landmark, although it was once better known as the Bedford Arms. It has now received a contemporary face lift and a new name. At least that has put a little zap into the operation and Olivier's is the new main restaurant. As you would imagine the décor is a bit brazen with wood and splashes of colour from pictures etc. I had a business lunch here and was generally disappointed with the food, although I understand the main menu is better. The soup was good, but unspectacular, the lamb imaginative but over-cooked, and the pud, ordinary. However for a tenner I suppose I can not complain too much. The wine list is extensive and interesting. I had a bottle of Chilean Carmenere wine which is a big wine formerly grown in Bordeaux, but not rated there as it is too tricky to grow and generally does not age well.

All in all an enjoyable lunch with good staff in pleasant surroundings which did a great deal to make up for the massacred lamb.
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