Markyate · food
Markyate is a linear A5 village: a short list of local places, and Hemel, Harpenden or Luton when you want a scene.
The Sun Inn and village takeaways do the honest work. Pretending otherwise is how guidebooks annoy people who live here.
Our listings will send you to Hemel or Harpenden where Markyate has no equivalent: and we will say so.
Base, oven, and whether ‘Italian’ means a family or a stock photo.
Markyate is small enough that an honest “best pizza” list should admit gaps. These are the nearest Dacorum options we would actually send you to.
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Tring High Street / former bank building · Tring
Barracuda sits in a former bank and behaves like a neighbourhood Italian: pizza, risotto, a house chicken everyone orders anyway. It is the Tring high-street restaurant you take visiting parents to when you do not want a gastropub lecture.
More from the directory: Markyate Fish Bar & Kebab HouseMarkyate Grill at Fusion FoodsMarkyate Cricket & Football Club
Planning
Supplementary Planning Documents for the HGC area are now adopted. They will guide neighbourhoods, infrastructure and the long argument about how Hemel grows north.
25 June 2026