Riverside Restaurant in King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Wetherspoon garden going down to the river Ouse in King's Lynn.

Awesome experience with speed boats

We visited on a Saturday lunchtime and were shown to a nice window table overlooking the river inside the restaurant. They were very quiet that lunchtime, but the friendly staff were excellent and we had a lovely 2 course lunch. The food was served with appropriate timings and was very well flavoured and prepared. Highly recommended.

I would recommend anyone wanting to eat here to phone ahead and book. We went on spec while holidaying in King's Lynn. It was a Wednesday evening shortly before 7pm and the place was closed. More than that it didn't appear to be trading anymore. There was no menu outside and no indication of when the restaurant was open. It had every appearance of being permanently closed.

Charming low-beamed restaurant overlooking the river with great view, especially when the tide is high. The service was smiley-faced and prompt and their mushroom soup with croutons and French bread and butter was delicious. Tea for two, cappuccino and a slice of their Victoria sponge just hits the spot when you've been shopping or sightseeing around Lynn 👌

Excellent place to eat and great location. The staff were brilliant.

Very nice food ,and place too..

Good food and excellent service. Only 4 tables had customers. Hopefully a blip because of the fair. Would hate to see them close down.

Lovely meal, really lovely staff! I only took away one star as it took a while to get a hold of them too make a booking. As their phone lines where down. So get in contact over Facebook. Also heart radio was blasting but we were the only ones in ahah added photo of opening hours as they seem to be different online x

Thank you so much for our lovely meal and welcome and experience one Saturday evening with our lovely poodle using our charity voucher I had won

Lovely restaurant by the river, so much character! Dark exposed beams and trusses with white painted ceiling panels. Nicely complemented by the lighter stained wooden tables and floor. The soft palette of white and light grey on the walls makes it feel bright and airy. The food was really good! Starter of shrimp and leek tart, with local brown shrimps, had a well balanced combination of flavours and was very tasty. Main of strips of monkfish with chorizo. Very well executed. The combination of flavours was great and the sauce delicious. Had I been at home I would have been dipping on that delicious sauce with bread! Both a starter and main had a beautiful combination of flavours and textures, the main in particular. My only nibble, the portion was a bit on the small side for a main. They probably know that so it was accompanied by a good size portion of chips. My dessert of double chocolate cheesecake was to die for and a fitting end to a delicious meal. In brief, a lovely restaurant with very good food. It has a very relaxing and comfy vibe, the staff are great and service first class. Special mention to Grace, she was just superb!

Lovely food near the river. Now its cold u can sit inside and watch the river and its inhabitants

Thought I would try the Riverside Restaurant tonight (Wednesday15 Nov). Checked this app. All good with previous reviews and open. Arrived outside the Guildhall and “A” frame on the pavement again confirmed its open. Checked the menu just inside the alley way. Still good as menu looked okay . Walked further down the alley to the River. Looking worrying as very dark. Tried the door and clearly closed. Disappointing journey and no offer despite all indication the restaurant was open. Please update for future customers. Would have scored zero for the experience but cannot do!! Poor advertisement for King’s Lynn visitors.

Excellent lunch from the Norfolk Restaurant Week menu. Actually we went twice it was so good the first time. Prompt and friendly service.

Interesting architecture and brilliant food....

Lovely restaurant tucked away behind Shakespeare Barn overlooking the river. What a hidden gem! The staff were friendly, welcoming and attentive. We went as part of Restaurant Week and were not disappointed, probably the best we have been to all week. The food was outstandingly good, relatively unpretentious and beautifully presented. So impressed we booked for next week too! Our rating 10+/10

Just called in hoping to get a table and we're fortunate that it was quiet on a thursday. Lovely looking out over river and food was excellent. When next in KL will definitely return.

We stumbled across this restaurant on a recent visit to King's Lynn and were so glad we did. Food is excellent, menu is varied and all the dishes we had we're lovely. Staff were very friendly and it is a beautiful setting. We watched the sun set over the river as we ate. We loved it so much we returned the next night with more of our family and my parents visited again a few days later. Good kids menu with their dishes cooked fresh and desserts were divine. Just wish we lived closer to be able to visit more often!

Excellent food,service and surroundings. Recommended.

Favourite Restaurant in Kings Lynn. View perfect, food perfect. Service perfect. Very Charming interior.

We've just had a delicious dinner at the Riverside and we we're very happy with the food and service from the beginning to end of the meal. Its location is alongside the river and it has a pleasant terrace where we enjoyed a drink before eating in the restaurant. The young waiting on staff were eager to please and their attention added to the pleasure of the meal. I thoroughly enjoyed the Arbroath Smokies, the Sandringham lamb and the cheese board whilst my husband also recommended the chicken. A very pleasant meal at reasonable prices.

Great views and great food. Friendly staff.

Stopped in for a couple of evening drinks on the terrace by the river - very nice and peaceful location and friendly staff.

Another excellent lunch. Good food and service

Excellent restaurant, staff polite, attentive and helpful. Food was great full of flavour, hot and well presented. Will definitely be returning.

Lovely location, nice restaurant, attentive staff, only negative is that the menu is quite limited

Had the over 60,s set lunch tasty food and delicious cheesecake, however felt the main meal was too small to be considered good value. Also the room was far too warm for us to enjoy the occasion. Will return but try a coffee and a cake outside in the lovely seating area overlooking the river.

Enjoyed a coffee and a light cooked snack . Nice place to relax and enjoy the atmosphere

Food was excellent. Good service, very welcoming.. Great place. Would recommend

The best restaurant in kings lynn the food and service are excellent

Fabulous location, really great service.

Its one of the best pubs in been to and meals are great

Lovely location, however service very slow considering there were only 5 tables occupied. Atmosphere was some what stifled maybe due to the lack of customer's. Not sure we would come back again as I am a foodie and the menu was very limited.

Superb location overlooking the estuary. Very pleasant staff.

A wonderful place with great food. Not over priced for the quality of flavours presented.

Had lunch here twice recently. Very good on both occasions. Best restaurant in King's Lynn I'd say.

Excellent food and friendly staff and service at this picturesque old Quayside warehouse.

Great food and very helpful staff what more can you ask for.

Sadly cannot give a view on this as although outside and on Google the place opens at 6.30 when we arrived at 7.00 on Monday 26/7/21 the place was locked up and most definitely closed. I cannot say anymore except that if they are only open on certain days they need to update their signage.

Food and drinks good, all very good value. What let it down for me was having to use the app to order. Come on get back to proper menus and staff to take orders. App would make think twice about going again or to any pub, restaurant with the app ordering.

Great locally sourced food, friendly staff pleasant setting.

Excellent service, interesting venue with super choice of food.

Fantastic, Fantastic, Fantastic! That about sums it up. Great location off the beaten track with lovely river views. Fantastic welcoming staff, friendly and full of smiles. Then there is the food, Wow! The best meal my wife and I have had for a long time and very reasonably priced. We had a lovely evening thank you for ending our weekend away on a high.

We booked in for an early meal on Friday evening. When we arrived we were given a river view table which was lovely. The menu was quite short but we both found enough to choose a starter and main course. The starters of Arbroath smokies and garlic and Stilton mushrooms were lovely. The main course of shrimp and leek tart was delicious. Service was friendly, all safeguarding measures were in place and we certainly would book next time we are in Kings Lynn.

The Riverside is open again and clued up on the latest rules. We called in for coffee and cake, which is available from 10.00 and were impressed by the quality and reasonable price. The menu for lunch and dinner looks interesting and affordable, so may well be back to dine looking over the river.

Excellent service and food came just as ordered and my wife is a vegetarian.three course and full keep on doing what you do ing we will be back

We were disappointed with the main meal. the service was good. However, I think they should think about better refine dishes to match the location. It is too simple for dinner. I had chorizo monk fish came with chips , I would have it with pasta or rice with the lovely sauce. I want the restaurant to do well, but it has to be better.

Not easy to find at the end of an alley way but it is right on the river. As it was a Saturday we booked a table for the evening and on arrival were lucky enough to get a riverside view. Starters and mains had excellent choices and the serving staff were really friendly. Quality of the dishes was exceptional and prices reasonable. Would visit when next in Kings Lynn.

Hubby and I spotted the restaurant in the courtyard, lunch of omelette for both of us was delicious, and good pricing for the quality of food and service would definitely recommend

The Arbroath Smokie and the Brown Shrimp and Leek tart were the best dishes we had tasted and made our brief trip to King’s Lynn a memorable one! Thanks for your hospitality!

Like to give the place more stars. But having got a table and a couple menus we never got served. Fantastic location, shame about the lack of customer service. Place didn't seem overly busy, probably blame it on Coronavirus as everything else is.

Location is lovely but wasn’t impressed with the service... place got great reviews. We walked in with a 3 year and we were the only people there as it was early.. my wife asked if she could charge her phone and we overheard the owner say ‘no she can’t do that’ to a waiter who passed on the message.. obviously understand why a restaurant may have a problem with this but there is a way of communicating it... very blunt I thought particularly as we were only customers! food was ok but nothing amazing.. felt like a place with a great reputation that was sorta living off that..

Whilst fully understanding the new normal for service in restaurants this place has done everything to reduce the health risk and nothing for the ambiance, menu content or advertising. For the price I would at least of expected a table cloth. The room resembled a deserted pub, although the pub we ate in the previous night didnt deliver the cutlery in a tin bucket. On the approach to the restaurant is a very nice and varied menu which matches the website. Imagine the dissapointment when presented with an understandably reduced but not thought through or balanced menu. 3 fish mains, a beef stir fry and a 1980's throwback of chicken Kiev. Should have gone to Iceland. At between £13.95 and £14.95 per dish one should rightly expect something more appatising. Regardless of what is going on in the world customers are still expecting value for money. This place is not. I would suggest putting in a bit of thought for the customer experience.On top of this, last orders are at 8pm. That's a very small service window and made us feel rushed. The staff were charming but it didn't make up for anything. Just paying lip service to a business does not bode well for its future.Having visited previously we don't see ourselves returning.

My wife and I enjoyed a shared feta cheese salad as a starter, stir fried beef, cod and smoked bacon mains, and chocolate and honeycomb cheesecake, for dessert. The food was beautiful cooked and the setting on the riverside outstanding as the sun went down and a fabulous sunset falls itself in symphony of reds and oranges. Highly recommended. Clean and courteous. Card machine not working.

Fantastic food highly recommend, nice staff and the restaurant looks stunning.

We couldn't think of a better place to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary. The food is always beautifully presented and very tasty and again we weren't disappointed. It was delicious. The service was good without being over bearing. It is our favourite place to go and was the perfect place to celebrate. We even had our favourite table....the window seat.

Went for lunch, party of 4. Service friendly and good. Food well cooked but nothing special and portion sizes on small side, very small portion of chips with the scampi and no vegetables offered. Nice but overpriced

In Lynn for an evening and fancying something a bit more than pub food we tried the Riverside. The place was warm, looked good and smelt great. OK there was only one other couple eating at 8.20 but it was a cold night. Rather unnecessarily asking if they had a table for two, we were told that the kitchen closed at 8.15. just five minutes before we arrived.Given that they restaurant doesn't open until 6.30, this leaves a service of just an hour and three-quarters. So not exactly a place to go to for a leisurely meal and convivial evening with friends.With those hours, it should be competing with fast food joints!

really enjoyable evening great food .service and price

Food excellent as was the service! Wouldn't hesitate to recommend. Really lovely evening. Thank you.

We went as a party of 4 for restaurant week dinner. Food was excellent. The brown shrimp and leak pie was gorgeous! Good varied menu. Friendly staff. Would be happy to go back.

Had not been for 21years and staff and food was excellent will not wait that long again many thanks for making us so welcome

An excellent place to eat excellent food. It looks out over the River Ouse, so the fishing boat you see sailing in on the flood tide might be bringing in today’s menu.

We were just staying locally overnight following a football trip and as it was our wedding anniversary we wanted to have a nice meal in comfortable, quiet surroundings. I had read reviews and thought this would be a good place and we were not disappointed. The hardest bit was finding it in the dark. Surprisingly on a Saturday night it was not busy, the menu provided a good choice and we both chose the seafood gratin which was served with new potatoes and salad - it was delicious and complemented with a bottle of the light, fruity house wine. For dessert I chose the autumn Eton mess and my husband the sticky tiff pudding and both were excellent. Wish we could always find somewhere like this, nice environment, friendly staff and good quality food.

We booked a table at the Riverside restaurant in Kings Lynn on Saturday 12th October with another couple for the first time and what a lovely surprise. We entered the restaurant and wow, its so beautiful with its wooden beams and cosy. It's not a big place but very welcoming and friendly. I can imagine in the summertime it would be lovely watching the river flowing and there is seating outside. Our waitresses were friendly and we were able to have a laugh with them. The food was absolutely gorgeous, well cooked and nicely presented. We all thoroughly enjoyed our meal, couldn't fault any of the courses.Would recommend this place... 10/10

Every year we go to the riverside for the Rotary Club of King’s Lynn presidents change over. Without exception the food service and atmosphere has been great. This year as it was close to my 60th birthday I managed to organise some port for all those attending and the restaurant was happy to provide and serve. The restaurants views over the river are second to none and I would recommend it to everyone.

Rather slow service but the food was well worth the wait. If it's on the menu I highly recommend the brown shrimp and leek tart

Spent a very nice evening at Riverside,lovely setting,really good food and service was good despite the restaurant being really busy

I can't really talk about atmosphere, as we were there on a Monday night and there was only one other table taken. But this was ideal as it meant we had a table right by a big window overlooking the river. We watched the sun go down, with the sky quite magical.

Excellent meal on a Monday night. Super setting ,window table overlooking the river. Very good choice on menu with excellent service.

Fantastic meal with friends with a beautiful view.

Great place to eat, amazing views and superb food, I had the special which was chicken with pancetta in a creamy sauce it was delicious and a raspberry cream desert great place to eat and excellent service, I would highly recommend and on my next visit to Kings Lynn I'd go there again, ps it's dead romantic to eat here!

Absolutely fantastic meals for all four of us, lovely friendly young lady that serviced us. Would highly recommend this restaurant and will definitely be returning on our next visit to Kings Lynn

Set behind the impressive old buildings is this lovely restaurant. There are gardens which are well kept outside and then the highlight is the view over the Great Ouse where you can see down the river. We only stopped for coffee, which was good, but would recommend as a place to take a break

We had a wonderful meal. The staff were great

Went here in May - there was an offer on for lunch - buy on e get one free on all starters, mains and desserts, Had the brown shrimp and leek tarts to start - an iconic item on the menu and always delightful. The pastry is amazing. One of us had the seabass (photo attached). Huge piece of fish and delicious. I had the pasta - good dish, but when you take into account the price - WOW. Not the easiest place to find but great views over the river

Had dinner here last evening with family. The four us had a really good meal. Service was a bit on the slow side. However as each dish is individually cooked this is understandable. Two of us had the stuffed chicken which was absolutely delicious, and really tender. The stack of chips with it were crispy and superb. For a starter I had the brown shrimp and leak tart. What a dream of a starter this was absolutely delicious. You can have that as a main course which is what I will do on my next visit. My wife had the fish pie which she said was really nice, however the sauce could have been a bit thicker and it could do with a bit more fish. My son had the chicken burger and this he said was really good. All in all a very good meal. Our only complaint was that the staff could have been a bit more friendly and welcoming.

We popped in for a celebratory wedding anniversary lunch and enjoyed our time there.

Friendly staff and good service food very good

My partner & I had booked an early supper here as we were staying over night a stones throw away & the reviews suggested good things. The location is just lovely & we sat enjoyed the river view at low tide before going in to eat. We were seated in the window with prime views of the waders & seabirds. The food was excellent & good value (we're not talking high end but quality, piping hot & a good selection of delicious options) , the service friendly & efficient & we had a most enjoyable evening. Finished off by relaxing outside again with a few liqueurs until darkness fell. Will be back when we are local again.

What more could you want than to sit eating lunch overlooking the the river with the ferry going backwards and forward and ducks leisurely floating by. Beautiful building with lovely fresh cooked food. There is an outside space also for lovely sunny days. Only downside is there are steps up to it and stairs down to toilets otherwise first class.

Excelent cuisine and very good value for money

Popped back to Riverside for lunch, and enjoyed it so much we headed back for dinner too :)

Really nice food with river views and terrace

I visited the restaurant today with some friends. We had heard that the food was good and that it i was a lovely place to have lunch. We went into the restaurant and ordered a drink while we waited for our friends. We told the lady behind the bar we would be expecting friends and would like to have lunch. She appeared a little off hand but we ignored that. We were going to sit on the upper terrace but in truth could not find a seat or table that was clean, they were either green or had bird poo over them. We went down to the lower garden and found the cleanest table.

We both very much enjoyed our meals at The Riverside Restaurant. The beef medallions in peppercorn sauce was tender with perfect crispy chips and salad, and the salmon was also perfectly cooked. Service was also very good. Puddings were very tasty. Sitting out on the garden, looking over the river just made our evening perfect.

Beautiful restaurant with beautiful food. ReAlly recommend having a lovely evening out with loved one or friend.

We went to The Riverside on a Saturday evening with friends and really enjoyed our evening. Informed the staff when we arrived that I’m coeliac and they were very helpful. We had drinks sitting in the bar area and then were called to our table. I had the Lamb and it was delicious, everyone of us enjoyed our meal and will definitely go back again. Good wine list as well.

When I looked at the menu realised that because of dietary needs I was a little stuck but they were really helpful and the result was delicious plus the home made chips were special plus great coffee. The setting is great right on the river and we sat outside. There were two levels one riverside and lower down pretty garden. A little old fashioned menu wise but strangely comforting.

Very well presented and very well cooked!

Very good food, but very quiet for a friday night

We had a great experience here. Not the easiest for tourists like us to find but it was well worth the effort.

We discovered by accident his small place down an alley. Had a lovely meal with a sweet little waitress. We were the only ones dining and they told us they had just that day reopened for the season. Considering our solitary splendour the service was slow, but it was worth the wait for the truly excellent food made from scratch. If you are in Kings Lynn and want to escape the crowds and the chains, come to this place. Beautiful view of the river,too.

Amazing food lovely place to go as a family or as a couple. Not ideal for elderly as no parking there.

We were a party of 7 and had booked lunch. Table was ready and waiting. Staff were attentive and friendly. Food was great. Good large portions. Plenty of room between tables so although busy it didn't feel 'overcrowded'. Can thoroughly recommend this restaurant.

Excellent food and very friendly helpful staff.

Were lucky to get a window seat with a great view out westwards overlooking the River Great Ouse. Loved the Arbroath smokies starter and had the local Kings Lynn Brown Shrimp & Leek Tart for mains. Both unusual and very tasty. Carefully chosen selection of very reasonably priced wines available to accompany the food. Overall a very pleasant experience and will revisit whenever back in Kings Lynn.

Lovely food. Great service. Not so keen on all the steps/stairs

Lovely food and great views, would highly recommend

Having an overnight stay in Kings Lynn and wanted somewhere last minute for evening food. Found this place after reading reviews and loved the location and historic building. About two minutes walk from our hotel so very handy. Food was really lovely - not fine dining but smart and just really good. The shrimp tart is obviously very popular and husbands was delicious. The potatoes it came with were amongst the best we’ve tasted. His smokies starter was also excellent but could have done with some bread. My chicken and mango starter was lovely as were the mussels. Cheesecake and breadsticks and butter pudding both fab! Only downside was a very limited wine by the glass list which is no good when one part of a couple doesn’t drink (or is driving).