The best restaurants in High Peak East Midlands

We have been regular visitors to Hargreaves prior to Covid, it's our favourite eatery in Buxton and always look forward to our visit. We visited yesterday and what a disappointment. What was once an " Edwardian " tea room , now looks more like a works canteen. My favourite colour is green, but the plain painted walls in a drab olive colour just doesn't work especially with no prints to break it up. Tableclothes seem to have disappeared and the lighting looks awful. Oh and they have fallen into the trap of PC "Unisex" loos. Having said all that, the food was very good and the staff/service efficient and friendly. Sorry, these, I know, are difficult times and it is all a matter of personal taste, just not to ours. I wish them well but we will now have to seek out pasture new.

Excellent customer service, excellent food. We were a large party, all the meals came out together absolutely piping hot and very tasty

OMG, I have never been around New Mills, it's sooo lovely. A must try is The pride of the peaks. The food is lovely, reasonably priced. Try the Minted Lamb Wrap with Chips n Gravy, you wont regret it.

Overpriced, underwhelming food. Portion sizes were appealing for the price. I won't eat here again. The quality was poor too.

Visited here on 'Christmas lights switch on' afternoon/evening, and what a lovely cafe. We both had a panini and a milkshake. The staff were very friendly, the coleslaw was amazing and the milkshake were one of the best either of us have had for a very long time.

Wanted to try here for lunch on Sunday. Beer was the best thing, unhurried service. Pretty mean veg portions, not very tasty. Good location but the room was cold and no-one seemed to know how to light the fire. There are better places to eat in the area.

Waited over an hour for food, when it eventually arrived it was over cooked and tasteless. Not a friendly atmosphere for a Country Pub.

Such a lovely array of vegetarian options, fantastic food and the quickest delivery I have ever known!

Great tasting food, good guys on the phone, food came quickly, 5 stars!

Found this place by chance on a day out to Buxton. What a lovely little place. The service was great and the food was lovely. It’s a quirky little place with a shop at the front, and where you eat is tucked away to the side and you’re surrounded by antiques for sale. The menu is quite limited, but plenty for a lunch stop. We both had homemade soups, two different flavours and both were lovely. The coffee was seriously good, and I tried a Buxton Pudding with homemade custard - yummy!!! Lovely music playing and the ladies who served us were really friendly, feels like a special little place. Highly recommended.

Lovely food, hot when arrived and full of flavour.

This place is now called Bar Wan I would give ***** for food and *** for service On this occasion, when we arrived it was quiet, the staff were lovely, food ordered and arrived quickly, steaming hot and fresh. Food is amazing! Then. It got very busy with some large groups and the staff became way out of their depth! Couldn’t cope! Called for more staff to help. Eventually asked if we would like to order desserts (when we stood to pay) and thanked us when we said no. We got some gu puddings from Sainsbury’s (at £2.50 for 2) and ate them back at our hotel. I would visit again.

We’d just had a doctor’s appointment and were looking for some late lunch at around 3pm on a weekday (Thursday). The staff were not actively unpleasant, but they surely were not friendly either- the level of service and welcome is much less than the other coffee shops in Glossop. We had the potato hash, which was very, very fatty - the hash is made of mince and usually ok, but this was very meat-heavy with very few veg, and it tasted overwhelmingly of liquid fat in the gravy. Having enjoyed it before, several times, this was diabolical - we’ll not be back. Especially as the food hygiene score has now fallen (currently a ‘4’). The service now became quite surly. By 4pm the staff lined up, clearly ready to go home. When asked, very nicely ‘are we keeping you from going home?’, they actually just said ‘yes’. No smile, no mitigation, no explanation, just ‘yes’. We drank our tea, paid, and left. There once was no competition in Glossop. Now there’s a lot, and that competition is friendlier, more welcoming, and- to be honest - seems cleaner also. And their food is now better also. We shan’t be back. This cafe does not deserve our business. I work really hard for that money and it can be better spent elsewhere.

55 mins to get food , which was almost double the price you get the same elsewhere and it wasn't even busy. Would not recommend.

PLEASE AVOID!!! Appalling to say the least… chicken in the chicken burger was undercooked, pink and cold and the batter on it was soggy like it had been sat in their store all evening.. we ordered 9 doughnuts to which only 4 arrived on first delivery and were cold and greasy then we called up for the five missing doughnuts which had toppings of 2x crunchie, 1x Oreo, 1x Nutella and 1x bueno they came back 30 minutes later for there to be only 4 plain sugar doughnuts with no toppings what so ever, not what we had asked for and these were also cold and greasy, tried calling them 4/5 times and got no response baring in mind they were still open for a further 20 minutes before closing. I work in food industry but it’s baffled me how they have got everything so wrong after 2 attempts at trying to get it right. It wasn’t as if we ordered our food in busy hours either… shocking