The best restaurants in Old Town Stevenage East of England

Lovely venue, great food, our waiter was fantastic thank you Oz.. Would highly recommend this nicely presented restaurant. Thank you

Best coffee in Stevenage Old town (serve Camden coffee) very friendly personal service from the lovely owner Chan and staff. Lovely Home made breakfast lunch& snacks too. Highly recommended, streets above the faceless global coffee house brands..

Lovely cafe in Stevenage Old Town amazing food that is very fresh and very friendly staff I would highly recommend a visit there.

It’s Bikestop, nothing but 5 stars. The guys are helpful & knowledgeable. Surprisingly larger than originally expected.

Another update with a new visit - 03/12/24. All members of staff- extremely friendly. Dishes - sooo tasty and full of flavour. We tried some of the Christmas specials. Highly recommend and can't wait to go back. Great atmosphere. This restaurant is amazing, the support they offer the local community is also fantastic and I'm proud to visit and support them.. Updated update 🤣 12/06/24 We went last night and we tried 3 new dishes on the menu, tiger prawns, salmon and chicken, chorizo and halloumi skewers, along with our normal faves here. The food is extremely tasty, packs a punch with flavours. Cannot wait to head back and add a couple of cocktails to the mix. Xx Update - 30th June 2023. Revisited this evening. Tried new dishes on the menu. Extremely tasty and can't wait to go back again. Staff as always are fantastic. Xx A firm favourite of ours. A true little gem of a place, either visiting with friends or my husband. Staff are always amazingly friendly and knowledgeable. Food... as always... DELICIOUS.. as are the cocktails.. Thanks Carlos 🍹 We will be back again soon. 💖

Stopped in for lunch. Amazing vegetarian options and huge portions. Quick service and friendly staff. The vegetable kebab is full of flavour and texture, with generous helpings of yogurt and chilli sauce which the staff will happily top up if needed. Flat bread is amazing.

Lovely service and great food. I had the mixed lamb dish and salad which was very tasty and filling. I will definitely visit here again when I’m back in Stevenage!

I highly recommend the Sunday roasts: both half chicken and the nut roasts were delicious and huge. The service was excellent and the staff really friendly. We will definitely go back.

My friend both had the Salmon Risotto which was dreadful. There was a piece of tasteless salmon sitting on top of the rice which was sludgy and equally tasteless, really disgusting. We were offered a free dessert as compensation but the choice was pretty poor so we didn't bother. They knocked a few pounds off the bill. The waiter was very pleasant but I won't be going there again.

Ordered cod roe chips and a battered sausage which was enemic batter was under cooked. Cod Roe was soggy under cooked and an inedible mess. Chips were obviously pre cooked and reheated . Won't be visiting this chippy again . Poplars is much better quality all round. (Picture proof attached)

Rice very dry bhaji very hard Sag paneer nice small portions would normally be enough for 2 the following day Have used Surma for many years and Got extremely expensive nearly £40 Not value for money disappointed

As a Previously happy customer. who brings people to, and recommends this place, frequently, I am so very Disappointed with the last few visits.... - Price increases: I understood and accepted. Expenses increase we know that. - Portion reduction... This should be instead of price increases, not as awell as, but, OK - 1 visit we were brought wrong food & server told us its what they wrote down so we are both wrong not them!!!.... Not impressed, but we had cinema booked so ate it anyway. Another Tiime: - we booked a table and manager just gestured vaguely towards some empty tables at far end of room. "There are some empty tables over there"... Poor Service. - My Female guest was then handed menu and told "take this" with her to the table. Unacceptable! .... he then turned away and started talking to next customers. I really hope this was just a few "off days", and this kind of poor service doesnt spread to the rest of the staff, who have always been happy, attentive and fgiven great service with a smile even on the busiest nights. Good service is important when you are paying to eat out! There are many options for quality food now, so good service is ESSENTIAL if you want to keep customers coming back.

This was a very enjoyable find. Went there for the first time last week with my daughter and husband. The coffee was excellent and well priced. The food was very good and tasty. Service quick and it was busy. Obviously popular with locals, always a good sign. Going back again soon.

We come to Stevenage a few times a year for an event and always eat here or get a takeaway. Can't recommend highly enough tasty food and good portions Jerk Chicken has the right heat and the boneless curry goat is really tender. We don't eat before we get to Stevenage now just save ourselves up! Had a takeaway delivered to our hotel today and it was awesome 👌

Ok, i was being lazy and thought i'd skip cooking and head to Fishermans Wharf Chippy and have a hostage in batter and chips. Errrr no.. sorry i mean "sausage in batter" ! (Kier Starmer would understand. easy mistake to make). The time was around 5:30pm and relevant. Firstly, the young fair haired lad serving was friendly, polite and keen to take my order. The sausage in batter was really nice, mainly due to the batter. It was crisp and tasty and not chewy and greasy tatsting as they often can be in any chippy, we all know and accept that about them. This really was a nice surprise, 4 Stars for the sausage ! The chips though.. They were withered, dry, chewy, overdone and tasted old, I am not saying they were but they tasted AS IF they were left over from lunch time and then re-fried for early evening customers. That was my impression and my first thought. The owner states otherwise and blamed it on seasonal potatoe availability and that he doesn't open lunchtime mon-fri so how... My thoughts on this given i was there 5.30pm that perhaps they were left over from the night before heaven fobid !! Just my opinion, just rubbish.