The best restaurants in Lubenham Harborough East Midlands

Food was amazing. Had cheese and bacon on toast. Clean place. Very welcoming.

Lovely little village pub! We frequent regularly and love their special nights! Steak night is great value. A great Sunday roast too!

We stopped here for a drink and chips, a great little place, a fantastic atmosphere and the staff really friendly. The food caller had a good sense of humour, making people chuckle. It's just a cool place to hang out a bit after a good ride out!

What a difference three years makes. Our previous visit was delightful, with a warm atmosphere and great food. Today, however, was a complete letdown. The pub was filled with extremely offensive language from the bar patrons, making it impossible to enjoy ourselves. The service was equally poor; we were promised menus but were ultimately ignored until we were heading out the door. The bar staff's focus was solely on the noisy group at the bar. This once-loved pub has lost its appeal, and we're unlikely to return."

My family and I came for Mother’s Day and we were all really disappointed by our experience. There were actually too many negative points to mention but I’ll summarise. Our party of eight were separated across two tables. The tables were dirty when seated. Really limited menu for Mother’s Day. Plates weren’t taken away before mains came out. Weren’t offered any more drinks after starters came out. Service became so slow and the food so disappointing we left before desserts. The food itself was really disappointing, lacking any flavour and imagination, the meat was obviously not cooked fresh and I was embarrassed for the chef who made it. I felt incredibly sad and upset for the young lad waiting the tables. He didn’t look flustered at all and did his job incredibly well despite zero support from management. I wish I was that confident and capable at his age. The management should be ashamed of themselves for using him as a front to shield themselves from genuine criticism and appalling management. He barely looked like a teenager and yet waited on at least 8 tables by himself on a busy day. It’s truly shameful from management to put that amount of pressure on someone so young and yet he carried himself so well, a credit to himself. Should be noted that he is at no fault at all for the negative service. I understand that it’s recently been taken on by new management and quite clearly this isn’t the venture for them. Such a shame as we came for Mother’s Day a couple of year ago and were delighted with it. I also suspect that the management’s responses to negative reviews were written with AI so I hope that they take the recent poor reviews more seriously.

This building has such character and we love the open fire and the positioning of it overlooking the village. The Sunday buffet had plenty of choice but the meat was cut wafer thin and seemed a bit mean. Customer service was practically non existent. I can’t comment on the menu as we only had Sunday roast buffet and there was a good choice of meat and veg. Good value for money. A good time was had by all. I hope the new owners can make a success of it.

I seldom bother writing reviews of places that I have been to that have been poor as I prefer to be positive - but we go to Foxton Locks regularly and this place annoyed me. First up, the coffee is poor. They have a push button coffee machine. Really guys? Everywhere on the high street has an expresso machine. All the other local places have one too. So why not you? Better coffee and at £2.50 for an Americano I expect an expresso machine made coffee. They can’t do hot milk with the coffee. What? No microwave, no milk chafing machine, no steam wand, nothing. Cold milk only. Guys, it’s 2020. If we can put man on the moon we can get hot milk in Foxton. “Sorry it’s a busy time”. So put the menus on each table so that customers don’t have to ask for one and it saves staff time. Get the staff to carry a tray when they go into the restaurant so that they can clear crockery from tables before they return to the counter. Pop a small damp cloth on that tray so staff can immediately wipe clean the table that they have just cleared. Get the staff in for 60 mins training very soon so that they have a clue about what they are trying to do. They are lovely, they are willing but they need a small amount of training and shown what “good staff” look like and do.

We have had a few lunches there in the last month or so. We always have the same things, Lasagna and Gammon always piping hot and tasty. Deserts are very tasty. Prices are very reasonable. Lovely quite village , easy to park and a good spot to have a tour of the Welland valley

Went for a long dog walk along the canal and up the locks and stopped at the cafe (as we often do) for lunch. The menu is basic but the food is superb along with a piping heat cuppa. Great service and always worth a visit

We ordered the beef filled yorkshire pudding, the beef was so over cooked. The whole meal was very bland. The pub is in a beautiful location but had an unpleasant smell when you arrived.