Wycombe's Best Restaurants (According To Me)🍴

Good morning, Wycombe! ☀️

Sun's out. Magnolia's blooming. Fridge is full of Mini Eggs. Spring might actually be here. Hallelujah!

This week:

👨🏻 The Dad & Toddler playgroup is back
🔥 Learn how to make your own Fire Cider
🍽️ B’Hive are testing out their new menu and want your verdict

Plus we’ve got Easter Egg hunts, a huge number of wellness events, spring walks, my ranking of the best restaurants in Wycombe and much more.

Editor’s Highlights

🔔 Relaxing Sound Bath for Young People

📍Patch | 🗓️ Sat 21st March, 3.30pm
A gentle, calming hour of sound healing for curious young people aged 11+ and their parent or carer, with no experience needed. £18.

🌼 Spring Walk with Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society

📍 Outside The Red Lion | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March, 10:30am
A free circular country walk through the spring countryside, dogs on leads welcome (about 2 hours, wear suitable footwear). No sign-up needed.

💃 Dance in Opera Discovery Workshops

📍Garsington Studios | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March 
Two free workshops for young movers: a family session for ages 5-11 at 11.30am, and a young dancers' workshop for ages 11-18 at 1.30pm, both led by professional choreographers.

🧘‍♀️ Family Flow Pilates Workshop

📍Flow Marlow | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March, 2pm 
A fun 90-minute mat Pilates session for adults and children aged 6+, blending playful movement, mindful breathing, and partner exercises to build strength and connection.

💜 Wellness Moments

The equinox has unlocked something in Wycombe — there are more sound baths and breathwork sessions this week than I've ever seen. Here are the ones worth knowing about.

• Awaken the Equinox Workshop | Whiteleaf Yurt, Oxmoor Farm | Sat 21st March, 10am-5pm 🔮 

• Spring Equinox Gong Bath | Flackwell Heath Community Centre | Sun 22nd March, 7pm 🔔

• Spring Serenity | Whiteleaf Yurt, Oxmoor Farm | Sun 22nd March, 1.30pm 🌸​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• Women's Wellness Deep Rest & Relaxation Evening | The Guildhall | Weds 25th March, 7pm 🕯️

🙋‍♀️The She Social
📍 The Dolphin Eye | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March, 2pm 
A cosy women-only afternoon of easy conversations, new friendships, housie and nibbles for anyone who's ever thought "I wish I had more local friends." £10, limited spaces.

🌿🔥​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Fire Cider Workshop
📍Lopemede Farm | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March, 11am–12.30pm 
Learn to craft your own traditional folk remedy tonic using organic and locally sourced ingredients, with every blend tailored to your taste.

🎶🙏 ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Evening of Kirtan
📍 Pila Yoga Studio, Marlow | 🗓️ Sat 21st March, 6.30pm 
A joyful session of call-and-response chanting rooted in India’s bhakti tradition, with tea and prasad (a traditional blessed offering) provided and no experience needed.

🎨 Get Creative

🌿 Fresh Spring Wreath Creative Session
📍Cedar Barn, Hazlemere | 🗓️ Tues 24th March, 7pm
Spend an evening making a beautiful fresh spring wreath with local duo Laura and Liz from Create Your Happy, with drinks and homemade treats included.

🍞 Introduction to Sourdough with Bramble Bakes
📍Oxmoor Farm | 🗓️ Sat 21st March 
A hands-on workshop covering everything from starter to shaping, with a light lunch included and two loaves to take home (sold out, but join the waiting list!).

🐦 Willow & Felt Blue Tit Wreath Workshop
📍National Trust Hughenden Estate | 🗓️ Weds 25th March, 10.30am
A gorgeous adults-only spring morning of needle felting and wreath-making in the Chilterns countryside. £50.

🎨 Botanical Watercolour Workshop
📍The Walled Garden | 🗓️ Sat 21st March, 1pm 
Learn to paint beautiful seasonal botanicals with artist Gail Jones.

🫟 Colour Workshop with Eighty Four Interiors & COAT Paints
📍Peterley Manor Farm | 🗓️ Tonight, 7pm 
Get ready to finally crack your home colour scheme, with expert guidance, fizz on arrival, and a goody bag to take home.

🔍 Family Fun Finder

⛪️ Lighthouse Live
📍 Hughenden Church (St Michael & All Angels) | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March, 3pm
A FREE session for children and their families, full of games for all ages, crafting and a shared tea together. We’ve been a few times and it’s such a fun, welcoming space - my children loved it!

👨Dads Playgroup
📍 St Thomas’s Church, Holtspur | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March, 10–11.30am 
A free, relaxed Easter-themed morning with crafts, toys, hot drinks and good company for dads and male carers with little ones aged newborn to 5. 🐣​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

📸 Mummy & Me Photoshoot
📍The Walled Garden | 🗓️ Sat 21st March
Celebrate Mother's Day and Easter with a gorgeous spring photoshoot in the Lambing Shed, including five digital images for £99.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Family Catch-up Café
📍 St Anne’s Church, London Road | 🗓️ Sat 21st March, 10am-12pm 
Toys, stories, crafting, tea and cake. Free and all family members welcome!

🐣Easter Egg Hunts

• Wycombe Museum | Sun 22nd March - Sun 12th April | £3.20

• Hughenden NT | Sat 21st March - Sun 12th April | £3.50

• St Michael & All Angels Church | Sat 2nd April | £2

• Cliveden NT | Sat 28th March - Sun 12th April | £3.50

Entertainment

🍜 Café Club Preview Evening
📍 B'Hive Cafe & Bar | 🗓️ Sat 21st March from 6pm 
Be among the first to try their new Global Nourish Bowls menu, with live music thrown in for good measure. Booking essential, strictly limited spaces.

🎭 This Blasted Place
📍Wycombe Arts Centre | 🗓️ Sat 21st March, 7pm
A powerful new one-act play tracing the long shadow of the Holocaust through three generations, performed by award-winning Bucks company Unbound; tickets from £8.

🕺Motown Meets Northern Soul
📍 The Three Horse Shoes, Hazlemere | 🗓️ Fri 20th March, 8.30pm 
Big soul tunes, great drinks and even better dancing.

🛍️ Markets and Sales

• MacIntyre Spring Market | The Guildhall | Today 11am-2pm

• Vintage, Vinyl & Pre-Loved Pop-Up Boutique | The Front Room | Sat 21st March 10am

• Marlow Market | The Causeway | Sat 21st March 10am-3pm

🚗 Fancy a Short Drive

🎶 Handel's Messiah
📍All Saints' Church, Marlow | 🗓️ Sat 21st March, 7.30pm
Marlow Choral Society perform the oratorio classic with the Marlow Sinfonia, conducted by Jamie Sperling. Tickets £19.

🎼 Amersham Festival of Music
📍Amersham | 🗓️ Sun 22nd March onwards
Kicks off with a free children's concert at 4pm and an evening performance from Orchestra of the City — then runs all the way to late April, with Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers with live brass band, the London Community Gospel Choir, and a Festival Finale of Holst's The Planets still to come.

🦮 Dogs in Yellow Day
📍 Cliveden | 🗓️ Fri 20th March, 11am
A free awareness walk for anxious dogs and their owners, in partnership with My Anxious Dog, with a self-guided route through the grounds. 🐾

Quiz Nights 🧠

• Belle Vue | Tonight | 8pm

• The Stag | Tonight | 7.30pm

• JB’s Bar & Café | Friday | 7.45pm

Sports and Activities

⚽ FOOTBALL

• Wycombe Wanderers vs Leyton Orient away on Sat 21st March. KO 3pm.

• Wycombe Wanderers Women vs Winchester City Flyers away on Sun 22nd March. KO 2pm.

🏉 RUGBY

• HWRUFC vs Chinnor III at home on Sat 21st March.

• High Wycombe Belles Women vs Ruislip RFC Women on Sun 22nd March.

🏃🏻‍♂️ RUNNING

"Off-Grid" Run Club at Oxmoor Farm on Sunday 22nd March at 9:45am — a free, friendly 5k through the woodland trails led by running coach Hayley Harvey, with 25% off breakfast afterwards (sold out, but join the waitlist!).

The One in the Woods at Danesfield, Marlow on Sunday 22nd March from 9:30am -- a trail run through forest and hills with 1k, 6.5k and 10k distances (plus a Little Sprinters 1k for the kids).

Regular runs: Parkrun (Saturday, Rye Lido, 9am) | Junior Parkrun (Sunday, Pann Mill, 9am) | Risborough Run In The Park (Sunday, Wades Park, 9am).

​​​​​​​​🗓️ Dates for your diary

🏃🏻‍♂️ Race for Life High Wycombe
Bradenham, Sun 26th July 11am
Walk, jog or run through National Trust grounds to raise money for Cancer Research UK, with tickets from £11.

🎶 Far Out Live Acoustic Music Show
The Front Room, Thurs 26th March
A packed evening of live acoustic sets from 11 local performers including Sepia Tone Folk Collective, Maz Marron, and the Menopazzi Sisters

Business News

Two big changes on the Wycombe town centre scene this month. Coco's is throwing open its doors at 3 Castle Street this Sunday (22nd March) — think boba tea, milkshakes and ice cream. Grand opening vibes incoming. 🧋

And if you've walked past Trilogy recently and noticed the shutters down, don't panic — it's having a glow-up. The nightclub is reopening on 2nd April as Labyrinth, with a fresh new look and longer opening hours. 🪩

Community Notes

Public Meeting at St Lawrence Church, West Wycombe on Tuesday 24th March, 7–9pm – a free community get-together to celebrate the association’s achievements from the past year and hear plans for summer 2026, with refreshments provided and everyone welcome. ⛪​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Silver Series is back at Eden 🥳

The popular programme for older adults returns for 2026 with coffee socials, cinema trips at Cineworld, and bowling at Hollywood Bowl. New this year: they're also taking it out to local care homes, which is a lovely touch.

Spaces are limited, so grab a spot early. 👉 RSVP at [email protected].

The Wycombe Wordle

Six guesses. Five letters. One Wycombe connection. Let me know if you get it!

🟩 Right letter, right spot
🟨 Right letter, wrong spot
⬜ Not in the word

👉 [Play here]

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Steph