The Arches in Great Yarmouth

Great food. Friendly staff used this place twice whilst on holiday for a week

Food was excellent. Very varied choice on the menu. Staff are very friendly and sociable nothing too much trouble. Would highly recommend.

Very disappointed on our visit this year. We have been visiting the Arches every year we go to Great Yarmouth. That must be well more than 10 years loyal customers. We had a family of 10 wanting to eat with you over the bank holiday weekend. We're able to book with you on the Friday night but Saturday night became a struggle. After mentioning my health problems you kindly booked a table for us. After eating and paying the bill we asked if we could book for the Sunday evening. To my amazement you said no. No bookings were being taken. I really couldn't understand this comment as you'd let us book both Friday and Saturday. We have always visited on bank holiday weekends and previously never had this problem. Even regarding my health issues you refused. However, had accepted our booking the two previous nights. I felt well and truly let down by your company. Therefore, we had ti find somewhere else to eat on Sunday. I really can't understand you throwing away money for 10 people's meal. I worked it out and with food and drinks included you would have lost our business of roughly £160.00 which I'm sure your business can't afford to do in these times. Feeling very disappointed Jackie Lenihan

Food was amazing the steak was really tender and tasted beautiful. Service was excellent. Not a cheap place to eat but you get what you pay for. Will definatley dine here again.

Went here after family rated for years, service was polite, although felt decor could do with updating. All food was nice,apart from chips were slightly undercooked and the grilled cod had a few bones still in it. Asked for mayonnaise, but weirdly of the 8 sachets brought over in a bowl, 6 were empty???

Dropped in while visiting Yarmouth over the weekend. Restaurant was clean and well presented, staff friendly and professional, felt there was a pleasant atmosphere. Food came out in a reasonable time and was of nice quality. Decent price point too. I would recommend and eat here again. Thank you

Absolutely wonderful restaurant, had a great meal excellent service will be returning

Absolutely amazing food and the 2 waiters were truly great. we were a party of 7 and nothing we asked for was to much. We always go back here time and time again and we are never disappointed.

An absolute fantastic place. Went above and beyond with my food due to serious allergy. Amazing staff. Thank you.

Nice place great food and plenty of it.

Good food ,excellent service , eat here every visit to yarmouth. Staff very friendly. Easy access on the main shopping area

Lovely young man was our waiter, very quick, efficient, polite and professional. Food was lovely

Excellent food, professional waiters and service , friendly atmosphere :-) I will come back soon and recomend to everyone :-)

Great food great service from Kamil and Kamil nice and friendly atmosphere good music in background great drinks Deffo be back

Worst meal and over priced I have ever had

Food was amazing staff very friendly would definitely go again

This restaurant is pricey but fantastic! The staff in here have a great sense of humour too. I highly recommend the food, particularly the pawn omelette and chips. I like the fact the chips here are proper, chunky hand cut ones and not fries.

Great food, especially the seafood dishes!! staff really friendly and we all had a great time overall. Definitely recommend and will be going again

Yet again another good experience at this restaurant. Me and my girlfriend come and visit yarmouth every year and come to this restaurant when we can. This year we have ordered the mix grill for myself and mushroom strogonoff for the girlfriend. Even though it took a little while, the food was worth the wait. The strogonoff was nice and creamy and the choice of meat and the flavours of the dishes were excellent.

We used to love coming here as we found the food very good , but this week it was disgusting not sure what had happened the place looked grubby the cutlery was dirty and the food was disgusting we will never come back .

Had chicken roast dinners & lemon meringue pie for sweet. Very nice & served to the table quickly. Polite waiter & very clean if not a little on the cool side. Can recommend to families on a budget as some prices are very reasonable. Will call again.

Lovely food and excellent service

Fantastic place very friendly team

When we came the place was empty but the staff politely greeted us and brought us to our table. The place was clean and nice but no music or nice ambient lighting. The place looked rather 2000s and no theme. Staff were very polite and took our orders nicely. Food came rather quickly and was very tasty made by experienced chefs!

Thanks for the food poisoning guys👍

Nice food service good price good 👍

Excellent. The waiter was on his own and did a fabulous job of taking orders, serving food a d taking payment and all done extremely efficiently. Good food and generous portions. Would definitely recommend.

Walked in here as the board outside advertising roast dinners. 5pm - no roast left, no veg either. I wanted a salad but with no cucumber - wasnt able to as the salad was pre-made and had cucumber through it. I asked if i could just have plain lettuce and tomatoes- "None left!" Husband had sweet and sour chicken - almost £14 - was just dried chicken with an uncle Ben's jar thrown in it! I asked for the Halloumi burger, asking the waiter if this was a vegetarian burger with Halloumi- "yes" he replied. What arrived was 2 pieces of burnt Halloumi on a stale burger buns with limp lettuce and a couple of pieces of sliced tomato- which wasnt available 10 mins prior! - no veggie burger in sight. I called for the same waiter who said it was vegetarian- yes but I wanted the burger! He then proceeds to say he didn't understand- we didn't eat our food, still paid the bill - £32 - I work in hospitality so would not dream of not paying, but thankfully won't be in Yarmouth again anytime soon, and would avoid this place if it was the only place open!

100%recommend it !!! The portions are big and filling. The atmosphere is warm and friendly, and the staff are absolutely amazing. Will be returning again xx

For another 2pounds you are better off going down the road for a good roast.The roast mixed meat was ok but the vegetables that came with it were terrible…….I would not serve them even to my worst enemy. The vegetables were overcooked and not edible. The lamb chops were cooked to perfection very good…..the rest of it Iam struggling to rate it.for the price of it I think it’s not worth it…there are better places than this one.only good thing about it was the meat the rest no no no and no out of order.2/10

Been on "date night". Warm greeting, though we were 15 mins early we were greeted and seated immediately. Waiter and waitress were tentative and despite getting busy took time to chat and make us comfortable. Not a large wait for the food and I must say I would have waited longer for what we got! It was very very good with plenty on the plate. Dessert was more than equal to the meal. Highly, highly recommend. Rick and Mandy.

Very warm and friendly welcome upon arrival. No problems getting seated. Nice home cooked food and fairly priced too.

We recently stayed in Great Yarmouth for a couple of days and visited the Arches on the first evening. There was a lovely and varied menu, including a varied kids menu for my 9 year old. The staff were friendly and welcoming and the restaurant was quaint and clean. The starters were delicious...we had the Garlic Mushrooms and the Cheesy garlic bread. We then had lasagne, BBQ ribs and a child's Spaghetti Bolognese. Again...all delicious and piping hot. We loved it so much that we booked a table again for our 2nd night. The prices were reasonable and I would definitely recommend it. We look forward to visiting again next summer!

Service 10/10 Food 10/10 Atmosphere is lovely. Really welcoming team. Definitely will return

Had visited last year and was nice went 3 days ago Very few customers. Service was not great. Food was atrocious. Ribs were frozen, looked like they were bought in Asda. Salmon fillet was awful, tasted like it was microwaved. Wine was expensive My view. Stay away

Very good food ❤️ Differently than all Great Yarmouth. The cooker is from other country and makes really tasty plates.

Asked for haddock and got tasteless cod. Always visit her when in Great Yarmouth. But never again

Cannot fault the service. But when you ask for haddock and they give you tasteless cod, it was disappointing. When we visit Great Yarmouth we always go here. But not anymore

Have visited this establishment many times over the years. Perhaps it has changed ownership again this year (?) but I won't be going back. Very small portions for my main meal (Steak Pie) with very few potatoes & veg meaning I'd finished eating in under 2 minutes. My friend ordered Burger and salad with chips. Hardly any salad though and so few chips we thought there was a potato shortage. Even the drinks don't escape criticism - a pint of squash was pathetically weak. Didn't bother with a sweet course.

We visited twice we had a great 1st visit on the Saturday (we were a bit tired after travelling and wanted something fairly light to eat and somewhere nice & comfy to sit and eat it. We had a very attentive, welcoming and friendly waitress, the service was great, the waitress on hand to check if we needed anything, she brought our requested salad cream promptly and then checked back later that everything was okay, it certainly was the salads were gorgeous! The 2nd time we visited we were served by a waiter who brought my daughters salad and my Sunday Dinner and offerred to bring any condiments/sauces etc I asked for apple sauce to go with my pork however he promptly forgot and didn't come near the table until we had finished. He didn't really seem interested in serving us. The salad my daughter had wasn't as good as the one on the first visit. My Sunday Dinner was a mixed bag, in that the pork was nice, though a bit of crackling would have been a great touch, some of the veg was hard, the roast potatoes were divine! but the mashed ones were absolutely revolting you could have laid paving stones with it! I think it was probably smash rather than handmade fresh mash. After the second visit experience we ate elsewhere the rest of the week which was a shame because there was a lot of different choices on the menu we could have explored.

We visited on Sunday, I had a large Sunday roast, I’m sure it was frozen microwaved roast dinner from a supermarket- really really poor , 4 very small roast potatoes, wafer thin beef, lumpy mash etc. my wife had Spaghetti bolognaise, again really poor , tasteless with tough meat that had been defrosted, our daughter had a microwave pizza, they had no puddings , things crossed off the menu with blue pen . Damp smelly table cloths , lights missing , flies , we Will remember it for the humour factor forever, we ordered the food and it literally came out within 2 minutes. Personal preference but i wouldn’t recommend to anyone it’s a dive

Had a meal with the whole family, the food was good value and the staff were very catering - the deserts were AMAZING! Would highly recommend to anyone who is near or local to Yarmouth

Staff was very kind even though they had a very busy Saturday evening. We ordered roasted pork for our daughter from kids menu but we didnt know its gonna come with gravy. She has egg allergy and they changed that straight away. In the end, my daughter also got some candy which she was very happy for. Food was also great snd big portions. Thanks a lot for being so kind ☺️

Great food great service and our waitresses was outstanding

The food was outstanding and the service was fantastic will definitely be going back

Amazing food, amazing value, friendly and helpful staff highly recommend this restaurant provides high chairs and children’s menus

The food was fantastic and value for money

Good place to eat enjoyed my meal

Horrible roast, meat looked and tasted like it was done several days ago... The mash, roasted potatoes and vegetables were just horrible as well.

Excellent menu excelent food. Nice and clean. So glad to have found this place. Will be going again next time.

First time visiting meals were fantastic well worth a visit will definitely have from there again next time we are here very polite and couldn't do enough for you

garlic bread was bulky and tasteless steak pie was mushy and horrible my ribs were horrible looked more like a big knuckle chips soggy best thing was the wine what a waste of money would sooner have had fish and chips around corner will not be returning.

Staff were very polite & helpful , we had a roast dinner , and it was delicious , would definately go again .

Very lovely staff who were very attentive. We all had a Sunday roast which was lovely, would recommend!

I had a homemade mousaka followed by strawberries and cream, absolutely delicious and good value. No complaints and everything was very well done.

Great place to eat, friendly staff and helpful over diatry needs highly recommended

Lovely fish and chips crisp batter

Me and my two sisters went today 3rd July for a late lunch. We all had mushroom omelette with chips and peas/beans. It was great. It came up piping hot and was freshly made - you could tell. We even joked the peas were like lava. It’s somewhere we will definitely go again when we’re in Gr Yarmouth. We’d travelled in for the day from Norwich. Cannot fault the restaurant, service or food, it was all good. We even overheard another customer at a different table rave about the roast dinner he had just had - always nice to hear that other meals were just as good as ours. 👍👍

Staff very friendly food was good good value for money.

Highly recommend Sunday roast absolutely delicious great service would definitely eat here again

Very polite staff, good service and lovely food portions a good size

Turkey was like cardboard, wouldn't go there again

Friendly staff great food loved the home made strawberry cheesecake

Well what can I say first visit since last year, Di had fresh fruit cocktail and ice cream, I managed liver and onions, roast pot's, veg and gravy, pics before and after, was excellent best restaurant in Great Yarmouth in my opinion.

Booked a table for a Birthday meal, the staff and atmosphere in the restaurant was absolutely amazing! Food was delicious, totally recommend fillet steak half lobster!! We're 100% going to visit again.

Really good food, service very friendly .

Very friendly , excellent service, and very good value. We had the roast dinner, plenty of meat and vegetables

Great service and fantastic food

My Wife and I had Sunday lunch there today. Wifes was roast turkey and mine was home made steak pie. Both were brilliant with good helping of quality veg. The service was excellent and we will be dinning there again for sure. Thanks.

Enjoyed this restaurant and will be coming again.

Really loved the food, I had seabass fish it was amazing, fresh and cooked perfect. Portions are generous. Service 10 out 10.

We have been visiting Great Yarmouth at least twice a year for the past 10 years and and we always eat at The Arches. The food is amazing and the service is first class. The staff are always so welcoming and friendly and cannot do enough for you. Easily the best restaurant in Great Yarmouth.

The best food and service in Great Yarmouth, homemade steak pie is the best anywhere I've had the meat melts in your mouth , been going there as long as I can remember, the booths where you eat are great and comfortable, and service is always great , whenever I'm in Yarmouth always come here best by far , Anita, Courtney, the team best ever

perfect service friendly staff. Good food and plenty of it. We ate there twice. Having roast my husband twice and lasagne. Plus, desserts

Absolutely amazing food and service Freshly cooked food not waiting ages for food to come out piping hot Staff were really friendly Took my daughter and 18 mth old granddaughter nothing was too much trouble especially with grand baby, lovely clean high chair Ate here 2 out of the four nights we stayed well recommend a visit 2 nd year visiting this restaurant will be back next ye

Where do I start.... The beginning is always a good place... As soon as we walked in we were seated by a girl who apparently works there as a waitress funny looking attire for a waitress, as I didn't realise that trainers were the correct...

Good is great fast and really friendly staff

Only work in the kitchen but the food looks good.

Excellent food will visit again

Excellent reasonably priced food

The staff there where amazing and so very helpful

Food was fresh and tasty. I've never had a steak and kidney pie with big chunks of real beef. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal. The prawns were fresh and very tasty. Service was excellent, young man who was the manager couldn't do enough to help us. I highly recommend having a meal from here. Very good value for money 👍

Friendly staff. The food was very good thoroughly recommend

My Wife and I visited this establishment last Thursday 18th Aug 2022. We have eaten here previously on several occasions, without any problems. I ordered the llamb Roast & my Wife the Gammon Roast. Both meals arrived withon a reasonable time. At the rime of...

Went in here after a recommendation from somebody who had just left. First impressions are a sticky floor and outdated so my expectations were low. Food was average and overheard staff complain about other staff. Pushchairs were in the way so couldn't initially sit where we wanted around our table. With a lot of tlc and staff training this place could improve a lot

Absolutely amazing place to eat. We’ve been eating here for a few times now and we’re definitely going back. Delicious, fresh, well prepared meals, friendly staff and lovely atmosphere. I highly recommend this place.

Had an amazing meal yesterday. Staff were very friendly. Will definitely will be going back

Visited after seeing positive reviews and wasn’t disappointed at all! The staff were all amazing, making sure we had everything we needed and just all around made it a great experience. The food was just as amazing with large portions and delicious homemade feeling food!...

I came here yesterday as i was walking past this restaurant with a few friends of mine. As soon as we walked in the staff politely greeted us and walked us through to our table and quickly served us some cold drinks as it was...

we came in to the restaurant a few days ago and we weren’t disappointed. we didn’t book a table but the lovely staff still managed to fit us in even though they were very busy. my boyfriend had the lasagne and i had the carbonara....

food very good service perfect we were there by accident because we always walked next door but the food and service became terrible now we will only come to this restaurant

Space is limited inside so be careful if arriving with pushchairs. The food was good with decent portions. Everyone in my party enjoyed their meal very much. My steak pie was nice but I suspect it was meat from a tin, although the extra gravy was made perfectly. I'd go for lasagne next time.

We had a lovely meal here on saturday. Server did well and the food was nice although a little on the pricey side. My only concern is that a few days later we ate at the place next door and we saw the server/manager come...

Such a shame that the beautiful meal was let down by the terrible service. Would 100% return for the food elsewhere. From the minute we entered we were ignored. The waiter took our order and that is the only time we were spoken to we...

Wow cooked to perfection 👌 Compliments to the chef 👍😁 We ordered fillet of steak and lobster Thermidore and it was just beautiful we were both amazed at how good our dishes tasted. The restaurant was full and people were queuing at the door for the next empty table this just speaks for itself thank you so much we shall def be returning not sure we will ever find a meal as delicious as this one from your restaurant anywhere else 👍👌 thank you.

Sticky carpets, extremely poor food, stay well clear

First time visit and we will definitely go back. The food was excellent. Plenty of choice. The service given by Ruby and Fabian was so good. The place was really busy but we didn’t wait long for anything. Slightly high on prices but definitely worth it.

Went here this evening for the second time this week as previous experience was good. However this visit wasn’t the same at all. I ordered Spaghetti Carbonara, to my surprise it came covered with onions (which I have an allergy to), I have NEVER been...

Just came back from Arches. Lovely food and friendly staff.. I have homemade steak pie. Homemade it was and fresh veg. Partner had Lasagne with lovely homemade chips and fresh salad. The portion of Lasagne was big. We will revisit Arches on the basis of...

Lovely food. Service was good but however unable to enjoy our evening as too many screaming kids and felt very cramped in this restaurant as lots of pushchairs everywhere.