The best restaurants in Sandridge St Albans East of England

Our party of nine walkers enjoyed a great lunch,Sandwiches came with a lovely salad.The staff were vey welcoming with great service, We can see why this pub is rated number one.

The beef casserole was superb that was enjoyed in the large and open sunny garden off a very quiet country lane. Food was accompanied by good beer served by an amusing and chatty pub owner. Thoroughly recommended!

Every month, with a group of friends, we have supper here. There's an excellent menu, always cooked perfectly, served without undue delay, by a lovely team. Mine host Ross usually greets all guests as old friends, making our visits most enjoyable. The bar has an excellent range of beers and wines with non alcoholic drinks for those driving. I used their excellent facilities to entertain 40 friends at my recent birthday party.

We should all make more of an effort to eat local and this place really sells that. They had a fabulous range of locally grown/made produce which was great to see. It was lovely to look around, and they had a fantastic refill section. It’s on the upper end of pricing, but I guess you have to pay for the privilege of not having single use plastics, which, if you care about the environment, you are happy to do. We got coffee and cake from the restaurant which were exquisite - a brilliant range of alternative milks, and you can tell the cakes really are homemade (it would of been great to know which local produce was used!) and the brunches around us looked lovely. The staff were incredible - really friendly and upbeat. Sadly, a range of the items in the gift shop look cute, but unfortunately are made in China.

Absolutely love the Potting Shed!! The staff are so friendly and helpful, and the food is always yummy and good value with generous portions. The specials menu changes regularly and often reflects seasonal produce so if you are a regular visitor (like me!) then you have new options to choose from. On this visit, we had a black bean salad with halloumi and a chicken tikka burger. Both were delicious!! I also like to spend some time having a look around the lovely garden centre afterwards too :)

Beautiful little cafe attached to the nursery. The views are beautiful and the food is delicious with great service. I just wish it was a little bit bigger as there’s only a few tables outside.

Best curry I’ve had from you, royal chicken tikka, thank you

I visited this, being my local store, early the other morning and I was shocked to see the owner and his wife not wearing any face coverings what so ever despite there being a sign clearly displayed on the entrance window saying face coverings must be worn by law when entering these premises.. I felt scared and vulnerable , there wasn’t even a Perspex protection shield for me as a customer at the till. How can this be safe ? I find this disgusting that somebody in this position is flaunting the law and potentially being a super spreader.

The first time I have tried take-away from here and it was AMAZING. The best Chinese I’ve had in a long time, I will definitely go there again! The food tasted so fresh and has put a big smile on my face.

If I could give 0 stars I would. Evening was totally ruined. Please see videos included, it literally turned up as shown in the videos - The vast amount of onion and nonexistent rubbery squid was in this “Yummy” disgusting sauce which tasted like watered down store bought sriracha. The duck wasn’t even cooked properly and had raw fat, that was also mostly onion and had no flavour. If you love onions you’ll love this place. Called to complain and all they offered is a 20% discount of my next order. £27 for mostly onions and inedible flavour. Never ever again. No love or care put into the food and zero respect for customers, we won’t be ordering again.

Beautiful setting, terrible service. After waiting for 10 minutes with the waitress walking past us numerous times we assumed that you had to order inside. We were told table service only. Another 10 minutes went by and we flagged the waitress down to order coffees. She kept on serving other tables and came back to us after a little while to take our order, which we had already given her. At that point we got up and left. Very disappointing.