The best restaurants in Litton and Longstone Derbyshire Dales East Midlands

If you need to look at Google reviews then you're the wrong customer for this near cult classic ex-spit and sawdust venue. Leave your shotgun at the door. :)

With a glorious open fire, delicious freshly cooked food and beautifully chosen romantic playlist, we couldn’t have found a better spot in the world for our date. It was perfect. Thank you Vicky for being so warm and welcoming. Liam, keep on with that Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter brownie with Blood Orange Sorbie. Quite possibly the best desert I’ve ever had, Truth x See you real soon Packhorse x

Booked for Saturday night. Warm welcome, great menu choice and specials. Food was wonderful, more than ample portion sizes, delicious and lovely presentation. Atmosphere of pub is really relaxed and friendly. Would strongly recommend, we hope to be back soon, thank you very much ☺️

We come to Tideswell several times in a year and always book a table at The Anchor inn. Lots of choice where to eat here, but the Anchor never disappoints. I'm a bit of a soup connoisseur, so decided to try Steph's Vegetable soup and it was so tasty and chucky. Loved it! Had the mussels next which were cooked delightfully in a creamy sauce. All the staff work hard to make it feel like home from home and totally succeed. Thank you again for such and enjoyable meal, made more perfect by celebrating with friends, who were equally impressed. See you soon guys. Thanks Saul

Arrived around 10:45 am on 10/11/24 only to be informed that there was no hot food being served until 11:15 due to a take away order. Others in front of us left and we reluctantly ordered two coffees, a flapjack and a Pork Pie instead of the full cooked breakfasts we’d hoped for. We were charged twice for the Pork Pie, which we pointed out and were subsequently refunded for. We sat at a table that had the previous occupants breakfast plate on it (which was never cleared, considering the waiting on staff weren’t serving any food at the time) and waited for our coffee which did not arrive. We fetched it ourselves from the counter, at which point around 11:05, they started taking breakfast orders again. The place seemed poorly managed and why you’d turn away valued customers for a take away order is beyond me.

Very good indeed. Eat here four times in a week. Great food and good service. Good to see a busy and vibrant pub. Planning next visit.

Called in here for coffee and cake whilst some members of our party hired bikes to ride the Monsal trail. Lovely cafe with very friendly staff. We ended up staying for lunch when the rest of the family returned from their bike ride. Lovely area selling gifts, books etc. A section of the car park is free for 2 hours if using the cafe or shop and pay and display elsewhere for bike hire etc. Would call again if in the area.

Disappointed Sunday dinner today and it’s usually so good. It looked amazing. The roast pork was tough, the beef good. My roast potatoes were hard to cut up, they were too overdone. The vegetables were odd too, no red cabbage but over cooked ordinary cabbage, two sugar snap peas, one carrot and one bit of swede . There was one floret of cauliflower cheese and mine was stone cold. Everything else was lukewarm and topped with dressed rocket. I would have commented but wasn’t asked how the meal was. Hopefully it was just a one off as it’s a lovely pub and the staff have been great in the past.

Good meal but could have been cooked a little longer to be perfect.

Good meal for family of 10 - very good value. The lovely dark haired lady who works there made us so welcome. We had a great evening and would really like to return when we are next in the area. Thank you Mary

This pub was really good the food was beautiful, and the staff especially shaz was perfect really helpful and polite, my wife and I took some American fiends with us and they loved the food and the hospitality , Can’t wait for our next visit / Paul & Dawn

We was on a 3 day walking stopping off at campsits on the way. This looked the perfect place to stop for food and drinks. Walked in and 4 other customers told me knowbody was here. I waited about 20 minutes shouting behind the bar. Walk around the back of the place to the back door knowbody there ever. I eventually left with 8 others customers empty handed. I've had bad service before now but NO service at all is shocking. We walked all day with intentions of eating here and camping just around the corner. Also noted card only no cash. Its time to WAKE UP. Also based of your own posts. The Covid virus is an agenda to stop from running your own businesses and force you in to a cashless society taking total control of everybody. There is no virus .