"....a delightfully casual, youthfully sophisticated bistro. Very fresh dandelion leaves are the nicely bitter bed for a salad of bacon lardons, diced potatoes fried in goose fat and perfectly textured fava beans. Chilled pea shoot soup has the emerald colour and flavour of its main ingredient. Expertly timed scallops surround a mound of sliced shiitakes, spinach and zucchini. Desserts show rare, but always justified imagination. The small wine list is full of treats that suit the cooking."

"...good cooking at reasonable prices is hard to find in Stratford and the tables at Bijou are almost always full. The soups are all splendid, as are the salads. For those that admire the sweets, there is watermelon soup with creme fraiche."