The Queens Head in St Edmundsbury

Great local pub with excellent food

Best local ever and we're not even local. Beautiful spot, great building, fabulous staff, made me want to move here. Please don't tell anyone

Always a great out in the countryside place to visit for a drink, lunch or dinner. Sit by the beautiful fireside in a comfy chair, dogs welcome on leads so your furry friend can accompany you too, or eat in the dining room or garden. Large garden for kids to run around and have fun. Friendly staff. Excellent food. Only question is why haven't you been yet and secondly, can you keep it a secret so there's a table free for me when I visit? 😜😁🥂

A hidden jem. Never had a visit to it that wasn't memorable.

Very picturesque village pub with gorgeous views over the valley at the back. Landlord and bar staff were super friendly, and the beer and food were delicious. We will be back for sure!

To celebrate our eldest daughter's 50th. birthday we went to the Queen's Head for dinner. Unfortunately we were very disappointed. Service was extremely slow and we were overwhelmed by the size of portions of the battered haddock which was very oily so a lot was wasted. The chairs were very hard and uncomfortable.

Stayed here for 2 nights.. Had a meal on the 1st night which was excellent. The rooms were beautifully furnished and the breakfast that is in the room on arriving was great. Nothing was too much for the staff.

This is one of the best English pubs I’ve ever been to. My partner and I went on Easter Sunday and they had live music. Gorgeous location, nice building, fantastic live music. Good people too. Cannot wait to come back in Summer with friends.

One of the best eating out experiences for a while. Service was super friendly and the food was lovely, lots of great local choices. Portions were enormous.

A warm welcome always awaits you every time you visit the QH a surviving old fasioned drinking and eating establishment with a comprehensive range of beers and larger to satisfy most pallets.

we went for News year day VSCC CAR MEET

Possibly the best pub in the world

Without doubt, the best pub in Hawkedon, and probably the best pub I've visited in Suffolk.

We had a lovely evening at The Hawkedon Queens Head. On arrival we found the carpark full & the pub full of happy people. We all had lovely meals ( which were large & very tasty).A good choice of beers 🍻 & cider for every one. A remote pub but well worth a visit. Will definitely go there again.

Well worth the drive out. Check the opening times before you go.

Great food ,real country decor,fantastic staff. I would visit again.

We enjoyed the wonderful company, beautiful views, and fantastic service at this cosy pub for drinks . Food looked delicious. Visor from Dorset .

Ate on on a Friday night and a Sunday lunchtime while staying nearby. Both meals were absolutely delicious and staff were very friendly and welcoming. One of the best pubs we’ve eaten in for a long time!

Super location, lovely atmosphere and the food was delicious. I will be returning. The hand cut chips were the best I've ever tasted!

A beautiful old dog friendly country pub complete with low beams and open fires. Although it is August it was a cool day and a fire was lit while we were there. Set in the lovely Suffolk countryside. We were made welcome on our arrival and shown our table. A good menu with vegetarian option. For starters my daughter and mysel had pea, bean and herb soup wit croutons and blue cheese, Unusual but very nice. my husband had Duck spring rolls. My husband and myself ordered the double roast (pok and beef) for the main course and our daughter had the fish pie. Served with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and a selection of vegetables. Both meats were cooked to perfection the beef was medium rare and the pork cooked just right, both were very tender. Half the plate was meat lovely thick slices, in fact so much that we asked if we could take what we couldn't eat home with us, it was packed up in a takeaway box for us. The fish pie was full of chunks of fish in a lovely thick sauce with a puff pastry top. We were so full that we couldn't eat a dessert of what looked like a delicious menu. We would definitely recommend the Queens Haead and will be going back. Well done team.

Fantastic pub with very large suites. Bedroom has gorgeous views of fields behind. Kitchen comes with continental breakfast. Staff here are lovely.

Everything was perfect 👌 can't remember when I enjoyed a lunch more. We'll be back!

Great food well worth our 120 mile round trip

Pub with loads of atmosphere serving an excellent of wherry. Also leffe on draught

Lovely lunch. Highly recommended the roast. Do be aware - its popular. So service time can reflect that. But it's popular for a reason. Good food! So chill out, and go with the flow. The food is worth the wait.

Annual visit to take part in the Summer Solstice burning of the Straw man event organised by Little Egypt Morris. Great free beer for us Morris persons which is always appreciated. As ever a good evening - lots of Morris sides and a huge audience. Roll on 2024

Fantastic find, recommended to us by a couple who live locally. Characterful building inside and out, much smaller than it appears but it is home to the most welcoming host and friendly group of local patrons. Fine selection of drinks and the food is really lovely. Wanted to eat there again during our week's stay in the area but it was fully booked. Lost a piece of jewellery at some point and, quite literally, everyone there set about looking for it, it was amazing how helpful they were. Totally blown away by their concern and kindness. (It turned up, so all good!).

We enjoyed a lovely meal at the Queens Head. The pub had a lovely atmosphere and the staff were really friendly. The steak was lovely!

As others have said, this really is the perfect English village pub. Great beer selection, cosy beamed interior and delightful garden with superb views. Just as importantly, the management and staff are all very friendly. And did I mention the beer?

Came here for the pizza following a recommendation. Was not disappointed! Probably the best pizzas you’ll find in the Bury area. The pub itself is also a beautiful place and the beer garden is perfect on summers evenings with great views of the rolling countryside.

Extremely friendly and welcoming staff They absolutely made the pub worth visiting Food was very ordinary, well presented ,but nothing to write home about

Possibly my favourite pub of all time. Great food, excellent wine menu, amazing location

This is the perfect English pub. Amazing location, great clientele, superb landlords. We staying in the great room above the pub (see Perfect Stay below….as good as they said two years later) and had a jolly supper with friends. This is a pub so you will get pub food (NB reviewer below). You will also get a terrific old school log fire atmosphere. It was my local friends favourite pub….

This has been my favourite 'local' pub for years despite being some 30+ minutes drive from our home. We had dinner there on 6th April to celebrate my wife's 60th birthday (low key event). My wife and I both had the battered haddock which was a good size although when cutting into the batter we noticed oil oozed out. So I'm not sure whether it was removed from the hot oil too quickly and not left to drip dry or something else. So we were somewhat disappointed. Our friends had the beef en croute and burger which they said were good. The food over many years has been excellent. We hadn't been there for lunch/dinner for over a year. We also noticed the menu appeared shorter than we recalled which is not always an issue. I do recall some years ago there used to be an outstanding fish pie, but I know menus change although I'd like such a meal to be available all the time.

Sunday Roast Delicious 😋 Party of 6 had a mixture of Sunday roasts. Very generous portions, excellent crackling and authentic hot horseradish. Lots of fresh veg and gravy, staff are all friendly and welcoming. Fantastic wine list, only shame was my husband was looking forward to drinking some of their own microbrewery beers which weren’t available. We will definitely be going back. The pub always has a nice country, dog friendly vibe. Beautiful roaring open fire. It’s one of the best pubs in the area. Also stunning views over rolling Suffolk countryside.

Lovely country pub in a picturesque setting, with some of the best views in Suffolk. Beamed, cosy and warm. Very pleasant & friendly landlord and staff. Home made & delicious cider made from their own apples. Lovely atmosphere & great homemade, good quality pub food. Delicious and excellent quality. Good menu. Relaxed and dog friendly and really pleasant and friendly customers. Just felt so relaxed. Even the ice team is homemade and the coffee is a generous size. This is the perfect local.

This was our first visit to the pub for a Roast Beef Sunday lunch, it was delicious. Large portions with a variety of vegetables , served by friendly helpful staff. I also tried the real ale on offer and it was good. All in all a good experience at a reasonable cost and will definitely recommend/return!

A real hidden gem. food, atmosphere, and service were top-notch. garden is massive and there is plenty of free parking. takeaway beers available as well!

Lovely pub, in the classic sense (not a "done-up", gastropub), great food. Staff/owners very friendly and pub frequented by many locals/regulars, yet the atmosphere is welcoming and cosy. Decent, safe outside/garden space with lovely views in a pretty village.

Fantastic venue for the Classic car meet New Years day, Thoroughly Enjoyable, What a great turn out by all Exhibitors

4.5 stars actually. Only a little taken off because of the lack of attention paid to my friend’s pre-arrangements for gluten and dairy free items for a few guests. Otherwise, we had a family style roast dinner, which was quite frankly amazing. One of our party of 25 had to carve the beef, but that meant it was quite generous! Greens (cabbage, green beans and pea pods), carrots and parsnips, cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes (stellar), Yorkshire puddings (amazing) including gluten free ones, and gravy. And apple crumble that was out of this world.

As always....the best pub in Suffolk... Great ales, superb home cooked food from best ingredients and super friendly staff and atmosphere. Dogs and people rub along together in front of the log fires.

Very nice little pub. Homely feel inside. Food is great, and lots of ales on tap. The owners are very friendly. Always get a warm welcome here. Another lovely meal at this friendly and cosy country pub.

both times i have been the food has been excellent. Proper grub served in a wonderful restaurant ....i hope they never change anything here it's perfect...Great hosts ...good vibes venue

Lovely setting, great traditional food, we had Sunday Lunch, staff were very helpful, great food and log fire, views outside were great so will return to the gardens next summer

Lovely old original pub in beautiful countryside. Good local food their own beer brewed on the premises. It has rooms and a real fire. Friendly welcoming owners. Can't wait to go back.

Aggressive locals ruined a perfectly pleasant evening with my parents who I haven’t seen for a year. I was very, very sad to be verbally abused by a loud person outside the establishment. While the food and drinks were absolutely fantastic, I did not expect to be made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Me and my boyfriend were really excited to visit the restaurant as we are visiting from Canada to see my family in suffolk. Sadly, this verbal abuse encounter and prior to that, loud political discussions, mean that I would NOT recommend this place to friends and family. Until the pub deals with aggressive, rowdy patrons who abuse other patrons please avoid this place. Awful experience - booked for Tuesday evening at 7pm but now regret turning up and spending a lot of money on a lovely meal. Remove your bigoted patrons.

Planning a 6 mile walk around Hawkedon I booked a table for 8 at The Queen's Head. We arrived with hearty appetites. Food was excellent and plentiful with friendly professional service. Beer good too!

Lovely pub in a beautiful setting.

A realy fantasic pub excellent beers (also brew their own) food excellent topped off with friendly owners and staff

Very friendly place to stop. Pretty outside and in. I'll be going back.

Nice country pub, staff are helpful and the food was good.

A wonderful place to visit, great beer and food Or even like me stay. Fabulous rooms. With panoramic country views.

The Queens Head is a wonderful countryside pub in heart of Suffolk. It’s food is lovely and the staff and customers are really friendly. It is a hidden gem.

Great pub frenly staff Great food 👌

Great place atmosphere is good and food is great

Nice pub. It have a good beer and a beautiful view on the country side.

Pleasant pub with hall hire next door and suitable parking.

Beautiful rural pub , great accommodation, wonderful food with magnificent hosts..... what more could you want....thanks for a nice 5 days in Hawkeden

Great beer, superb food, the potted crab was one of the best starters that I have had for ages, ample portions in a great atmosphere

My brother took me here on a recent visit to the Uk, and it was a real pleasure. It was busy and warm with a roaring fire, and the food and service were excellent. The pub is situated in beautiful rolling countryside so would be a pleasure on a summery day or a chilly wet one as we had.

A real find, grateful location, superb food !

A great country pub, with delicious food

Nice garden. Too late for lunch.

Good Wherry, cracking pizza, open fire and friendly hosts. What's not to like?

Great location and friendly staff

Lovely little village pub. Great food, good beer and ale selection. What more could you ask for?

Best village pub in Suffolk. Great food excellent choice of beer and lovely welcoming patrons!

Disappointing. We were really looking forward to visiting The Queens Head as we had so enjoyed it last time. But the food was disappointing this time. Thank goodness for the weather that meant we could enjoy sitting in the garden.

Brilliant, quaint Suffolk pub. Fantastic food of the highest quality. Great ambiance.

Served very quickly by friendly staff. Delicious fish and chips. Recommended, very happy

Decided to have dinner here following recommendation and reading the reviews. Not sure what went wrong but clearly didn’t get the experience others have had. Whilst the service was good and welcoming the food was anything but. The buffalo wings were plain with an unpleasant sauce that tasted like it came from a packet. The margarita pizza was clearly over-cooked and shouldn’t have left the kitchen except in the bin. My wife had the risotto which didn’t look appetising and she told me it was too rich and didn’t finish it. Whilst my nephew had a calzone which was the most ok of all the dishes but still not anything worth repeating

Trying to get a drink like pulling teeth when busy, other than that lovely pub...

If you ever think you want a nice country walk followed by a roast by a roaring fire on a Sunday, this is the exact pub you want to come to. Excellent food, service quick and friendly, and they seem to keep the front bit of the pub free for drinking rather than eating, so the pubby atmosphere is kept. Dogs, wax jackets, and off road vehicles aplenty.

I had the mushroom risotto and hubby had the fish and chips. Gorgeous food and generous portions

A wonderful old welcoming pub that served the most excellent Sunday Lunch. I can't fault anything (not that I want to) from the friendly, helpful staff to the perfectly cooked and presented meal (the ale is good too), it was most excellent and I highly recommend it.

Country pub with good atmosphere, range of beers, food was good with generous portions

What an atmosphere, coupled with superb food and wonderful hospitality. Went here with friends. All 4 of us ordered the roast beef. Enormous and delicious.

A well-patronised, well-appointed traditional.country pub in a wonderful location. Haven't tried the food lately, but was always quite decent. Disappointed only with the prices of drinks - almost a tenner for 1 pint of beer and two soft drinks - and the beer was a short measure. Can/should do better than that Scott! ☹️

Lovely old pub. Happy to have pooches. Warm log burner to be cosy next too. Mx

Just. Yum. Warm cosy atmosphere, friendly staff and delicious food. Cannot fault it!

One of the best pubs in England

This is a great pub. Excellent atmosphere, superb food and good service. We had a very good Sunday afternoon post hiking lunch.

Dinner on Friday night. The bar was heaving at 18.30 hrs but the eating area was relaxed and welcoming. The staff were lovely. Friendly and tried hard. The food was piping hot and the service speedy. The cod featured on the fish and chips was slightly greasy, but offered a huge portion. The Green Thai curry was flavoursome and tasty, but the portion was just too big, even for a big appetite. The “lobster “ was in fact a crayfish. It was tasty , but the portion resulted in two small mouthfuls.Disappointing and over priced. I asked for a coke with a dash of Angostura bitters. No bitters available.

Sunday roast was over priced for what you got

We had a delicious Sunday lunch here today and couldn’t have asked for better quality food or service. The atmosphere in the pub is very relaxed and everything you’d hope for from a Suffolk country pub. Probably my new favourite!

We stopped to grab something to eat and wasn't not disappointed. Food is amazing and the atmosphere was just how a pub should be. The staff and locals are super welcoming and friendly. One of the best pubs I have been in. Keep up the good work

Third visit in as many years, arrived unannounced at seven on a Sunday evening in August. "Table for 3, certainly sir" from the very helpful front of house. The bars were full and the place was hopping....not many places serving food on a Sunday evening, not many places this good; not your usual pub grub with choice of 3 ghastly new world wines. Food was top notch as good as I've eaten anywhere, but the wine list is truly excellent by UK pub standards. Shhhh! don't tell everyone.

Great pub for a drink as well as for food. Extensive wine list (especially for a pub) which does not disappoint. Solid Sunday lunch offering and very generous portions. Owners friendly and welcoming and often put on excellent fun events such as wine tastings and for the summer solstice (at least before Covid). Dogs are welcomed in the bar and good space outside as well.

We visited late Friday afternoon on a cycling tour. We'd been searching for a pub for several miles when The Queens Head appeared like a mirage. Luckily they were still serving, we had a fantastic fish & chips and a few beers, the Belgian Leffe went down particularly well in the garden in the sun... it was perfect.

Great views, and windswept on a sunny day. Super quiet and filled with friendly locals. Highly recommended on a tour of the Suffolk countryside.

Another great visit to an awesome pub! Usual good, well cooked and reasonably priced food together with fresh beer brewed on the premises. Lovely terrace to watch the sun go down.

Gr8 Country pub, friendly attentive landlady/ staff & delicious home cooked food !

Food was fantastic and the staff all really friendly. Portions, quality and location are all exceptional. Thanks again and we'll be back at some point soon.

Very nice, good food and very good drink selection. Quite busy, which is always a good sign especially if get drinks served quickly, which we did. Different vegetarian options (not just nut roast or risotto). Unfortunately got orders muddled, incorrect (but chose to eat it) and missed one main out completely otherwise a 5 star rating.

Top quality ingredients and excellent service.We ate here on several occasions and the food was consistently very good.

Absolutely beautiful, food and accommodation amazing, management and staft very friendly we would love to stay there again if visiting Suffolk , Definitely recommend

Ansolutely wonderful. Superb meal, lovely relaxed atmosphere in beautiful surroundings.

Excellent lunch one of the best pub steaks I've ever eaten, very enjoyable. The staff were great.

Very nice pub and nice garden to eat out. Friendly staff.