RestaurantsSomersetBathBA1

survey result

Summary

£86
 ££££
3
Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “wonderful newish restaurant” (a former bakery and sometime student nightclub) is “very popular with a sleek band of locals”, offering a “simple, decent menu”, along with a “wonderful atmosphere… relaxed, upbeat, urban”. Daily Mail critic Tom Parker Bowles enjoyed a “lunch of heartily refined cooking, confidently straightforward, with service to match” in his April 2025 review. Top Menu Tip – “their grilled pork chop is so good, it’s hard to consider anything else, though it’s also one of the rare restaurants in Bath to offer good fresh fish”.

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Have you eaten at Walcot House?

90b Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BG

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

Daily Mail

Tom Parker Bowles braved what was once “the crappiest nightclub in Bath” to partake of a long lunch of “heartily refined cooking, confidently straightforward, with service to match”.

It is a “vast, breezily cavernous space”, with plants in the steel rafters, “banquettes clad in a fetching shade of teal”, and a menu that mixes English ingredients with French technique to pleasing effect.

“There’s a boozy, swaggering Cornish fish soup, rich and rust coloured…. A ‘scrumpet’ of pork belly and black pudding holds that porcine heft in a crisp breadcrumb embrace, a bracing mustard and apple sauce ensuring things don’t get overwhelmingly piggy. Every detail is immaculately executed.”

Tom Parker Bowles - 2025-04-20

Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£15.00 £28.50 £7.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £30.00
Filter Coffee £3.60
Extras  
Bread £7.00
Service 12.50%
90b Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BG
Opening hours
Monday9 am‑11 pm
Tuesday9 am‑11 pm
Wednesday9 am‑11 pm
Thursday9 am‑11 pm
Friday9 am‑2 am
Saturday9 am‑2 am
Sunday9 am‑11 pm

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