The best restaurants in East Midlands

Amazing local fish and chips shop. I Regularly eat here with confidence as the foods always fresh. Reasonable prices and great friendly staff.

The waitress was so rude demanding to know what we wanted giving us no time to decide left me feeling uncomfortable drinking my pint

Really nice food, staff friendly and great value buffett

EDIT May 25 The place is under new management, things haven’t improved much. Unfortunately the menu is a bit dated, prawn cocktail, scampi, ham egg chips etc. it’s like a bang average garden centre menu. It’s currently 23 degrees outside and there is soup on the menu, surely this should be seasonal? One thing, the chips are fantastic, chunky & crispy very good! However the burger was overcooked and dry. The staff are all or mostly new, some lack hospitality experience but hopefully just teething problems. The main thing is the menu needs to change with the seasons, I want lighter snacks maybe some bread & olives etc it’s almost summer 2025! I will revisit for drinks, but I’m not spending money on this food. EDIT: This is still a good pub, with a nice atmosphere. Unfortunately the food has been lacking the last few visits. The roast dinner is fairly basic and the Sunday menu really lacks imagination. I recommend for drinks, but there is a lot better food for the same price at other similar locations. FIRST EDIT: Nice country pub with attentive/friendly staff, good range of drinks. The food isn't bad, average to high pricing for the type of venue and location. Overall a nice experience the few times I've visited 👍

Customer service can be better? Food is good. A bit expensive.

Best curry I’ve ever had. Definitely recommend.

Thank you to the staff for helping 3 girls to the the car legless mind you they enjoyed the night all got home across townx

Fantastic place and one of the few pubs that has a no dogs policy inside. Such a breath of fresh air and somewhere that I will continue to visit because of the warm welcome, fabulous food and dog free environment. Bliss! Thank you to all the friendly staff for a delicious lunch.

Just had a lovely meal 10 of us booked for a friends dinner - we pre ordered as we had hungry kids and needed to be back by 9pm - food was amazing and served in a timely manor considering the size of our table Thank you for being so accommodating 😍

I commissioned a cake recently, and I was completely blown away by the appearance. Naaem takes into account everything that you request whilst almost making some helpful suggestions. Thank you for turning my vision into reality. The cake was beautiful and tasted wonderful, thank you to whole team!

My favourite pub to drink and eat whilst in Matlock. Lots of selection of drinks and food is great, sunday roast always nice. Plenty of room to sitincsidr but also bit of seating outside.

It's a great chippy where the food is of a very good standard. Excellent chips, tasty chip shop curry sauce, luminous green mushy peas, and great portion sizes. What more can you ask for!

Amazing food I recommend to this anyone who lives around the area

We had booked a table for dinner at 6p.m. so the service was good, but the atmosphere was flat. I was disappointed that the loos were in darkness because no one had checked that the light had been turned on. Set menu is good value.

Great food. Service let the occasion down . A large table of about 12 were booked in and it seemed they didn't schedule staff for that so the large table got the service whilst our table of 3 and others were put on back burner