The best restaurants in Darley Dale Derbyshire Dales East Midlands

Well what a surprise, called in here for an impromptu bite to eat and drink.... the food was delicious and the staff very friendly. Atmosphere was different... it is a leisure center after all but enjoyable none the less. Well recommended.

Had Sunday lunch best for a long time excellent John and Jackki will definitely return 😁

Very disappointed this time around as the person preparing the order got is so wrong that it was almost laughable as was missing almost half of the ingredients, no apologies no explanation-had zero customer service skills with ‘i really dont care attitude’.

Wow, what a find! Unable to eat at the pub we originally went to due to problem with their kitchen, so we headed off not knowing where we were headed and found Barringtons. Extremely friendly, food was delicious and beer and wine great. Returned two days later and will not hesitate again. Thank you.

We went there on our two days off while being on tour in the uk. The place is just brilliant. The food and drinks are delicious, everything is new, modern and clean. Especially the two hosts Susanne and Alan give the Square and Compass the right spirit and a feeling like being home. We booked via booking.com but i’d recommend booking it directly (and enjoy a free breakfast). if you happen to be there on a monday night, you should join the open mic night and listen to local musicians while having a few draft beers.

Fantastic fish & chip shop. If you're ever in Darley Dale, Matlock, travelling through, I highly recommend stopping here on the way past and picking up some cheeky chips on the way :)

Really enjoyable dinner last night! Great steak and ale pie, good service, good decor, good atmosphere etc etc

Was ok. Fairly quiet despite Google saying it was busy. Pint of beer and cider were good enough.

I came with my parents for lunch, we weren't after anything fancy and we are local so thought we would try here. I asked for 3 ham toasties and was told they were short staffed and weren't doing hot food. I had just seen a sandwich and bowl of chips come out so I changed my order to three ham sandwiches, (nice and easy). I could see a box of "made up cobs" in clingfilm, which the staff member ferreted through and handed over the counter to me. When I said I really wanted a sandwich, she said " so you want me to make a sandwich up for you", she then said she could make me a NUTELLA sandwich!. Basil Fawlty did spring to mind at this point and we soon left and went to forest nurseries cafe down the road which was a much better experience. I did later explain to my dad that nutella was very different to ham! On a positive note the cafe is in a good location.

Lovely restaurant decor very nice very comfortable , lovely food staff very friendly nice for Sunday lunch a choice of 3, starters , carvery of 2 meats or chicken , or fish from the kitchen , very nice list of deserts we had blackberry, Apple crumble and custard delicious 😋 really recommend this place for some thing to eat

We love this place the decor is amazing and so relaxing that matches the whole feel of darwin forest weve been here a few times it started in 2022 when we stayed after our wedding and the food was delicious a year later we stayed again and came a few times as everything is perfect its like eating at a michilin star restraunt the way the food tastes and is presented it amazing the staff are so friendly and helpful its always a massive treat coming here. We came again today for our 2 year wedding anniversary and was once again not disapointed it was the sunday roadt but they had every type of meat to make it your own sunday roast everything was cooked to perfection the starters were incredable it was like watching a proffesional cooking show the desserts were great too and everything had such big portions everything was like the other times weve come ....perfect thank you for another fantastic meal at foresters restaurant we look forward to eating here again foresters really adds to what makes darwin forest special for us All our thanks The whitehead family

We recently stayed locally for two nights and ate at the Miner’s Arms both nights. Nic was so friendly and helpful. The food was delicious on the first night but on bonfire night, we ordered the greedy Greek platter on Nic’s recommendation and it was excellent! Delicious food, really dog friendly and very welcoming. We’ll be back!

Great setting. Elegant dining room. But let down by slow service - one hour wait for food to be served - menu inaccurate, food appeared to have been kept warm in kitchen for too long, not good quality ingredients. For that quality overpriced.

Another great 2nd Saturday afternoon of the month at the Plough. The Panther Owners Club section meeting. We even had several Panthers today. Very friendly staff look after an unruly bunch of bikers with beer or coffee for those riding plus chip butties. Always a great day, thanks go to all concerned. Lesser makes of bike accepted.