Cherry Valley — Restaurant in Huntingdonshire

Firstly, the food was fine once we had it.

We were a table of four people and ordered half of crispy duck and pancakes as a joint starter. When it eventually came there was a decent sized plate of duck but only 9 pancakes (2 each and one left over). The hoy sing consisted of a very, very small dish with about two teaspoons of sauce. After requesting some extra pancakes and sauce (a similar amount of hoy sing was provided so a further request for enough for four people) we finished our starter in two shifts.

After some delay, two main courses arrived and were getting cold while we waited for the other two to appear. The waitress told us that there would be a delay of around five minutes - we suggested that all four of us would prefer to eat at the same time and asked to talk to the manager. When she arrived, with an apology, she said that they were very busy due to a large party downstairs - this turned out to be a table of eight ladies (hardly unmanageable). The food was OK but eating in shifts was not what we had planned.

Drinks were very expensive (£3.40 for 30cl of bottled beer - around half a pint).

Overall, not an experience that we wish to repeat. There's a very nice Turkish restaurant on the opposite side...

What an absolute find! We stumbled across this place at 6.30 on a sunday evening when it was throwing it down and we hadn't booked a table (our intended destination let us book a table for 8 and failed to tell us they stopped serving food at 6). Thankfully Cherry Valley managed to pull some tables together upstairs and after a few short minutes to ensure we were Covid safe we were escorted to our table. I can honestly say this is the best meal I've had in a long time, really fresh, quick and tasty and even the fussy kids ate enough to be rolled home! It's a shame we were only in St Ives for a brief holiday because this place would definitely be our local. Extra little mention for the staff who were really engaged and interested in where we were visiting from and what we'd managed to see while in the area. Customer service really does set such a great atmosphere from the start. The kids were especially grateful for not one but two lollies each to take home! Thank you so much we had a fabulous...

This is the first time we have been to this restaurant.

There are two dining options a la carte or fixed price 'buffet' menu. We went for the fixed priced menu. There are various 'courses' that you order from in turn. You can order as much as you want from each course before moving on to the next course, once you have left a course you cannot go back to a previous course.

The food was excellent, all freshly cooked. I had 5 starters and my wife had 4 before we moved on. The food was hot, succulent and very tasty. The portion sizes were just right so that by the time you finished the mains you were full. I don't know if they do desserts or how good they are because I was already full by then.

The service was brilliant. Friendly and available but not pushy.

We will...