The best restaurants in Orford and Tunstall Suffolk Coastal East of England

It's not often a pub chef takes the time to create tasty vegetarian dishes but here's one who does. Coupled with a friendly front of house team, here you have the perfect menu for success. It's great value, too, as it's no more pricey than many grim chain pubs. But here even the bill won't give you indigestion!

As always John and his team are impeccable in every way. They achieve a warm memorable dining experience

This was such an enjoyable treat. Unfortunately they had sold out of most pastries except for croissants and a pecan brownie by the time I got there. We opted for hot chocolate: so rich and lovely, not too sweet, which I like. The croissants are perfectly light and flakey. I highly recommend this tucked away bakery. The Pump Street Chocolate Shop across the road is connected to the bakery and rovides the basis of the hot chocolate. This is certainly worth a return trip but get there early before everything is sold out (just, not before us).

This was our third trip on the Lady Florence. This time for breakfast. The food is prepared and cooked on board whilst we motor along the river. The dining room is comact - if there are 12 people on board, then it does get a little 'cosy'. However, on this occassion we chartered the boat for just the four of us, so it was very roomy. There is a wood burning stove on board that keeps the dining room very warm. Breakfast was rounded off with homemade apple pie and muffins!

What a find. Real locals pub. Great for kids and dogs too. Excellent fish and chips. Great service when my toung granddaughter locked herself in the loo! Would definitely go here again

Disappointing, the Saturday lunchtime wall menu showed a choice of Jacket Potatoes but none were available, so we ordered sausage rolls with salad but after waiting towards thirty minutes, a waitress returned our money informing us that they had sold out of them as well. We left.

Over-priced food - an unbelievable £4.75 for a stodgy, tasteless cheese scone with one pat of hard, cold butter. Only managed to eat half of it, really unpleasant, threw the rest away. The cakes were not covered and crawling with flies. Sandwiches even more over-priced at £8.25 for a small cheese sandwich with white bread. This cafe used to be so much better. Will drive past in future and not stop here.

Not sure if I will be going back, once my favourite. Prices seem to have increased, £26 for sea bass main course with 4 small potatoes!, £36 for Dover sole which was over cooked and served cold. Very disappointing, seems more like London prices, for what was previously good value, quality simple food. Prices for starters also very high for small portions. Won’t go any further as once my favourite restaurant, sadly everything seems to change

My parents have been here multiple times and recommended it as a great place for my 30th birthday meal! The food is incredible! Firstly, the menu is so varied and I wanted SO many things on there, it was hard to choose. I settled for the starter of Beef Croquettes with Wasabi Mayo and my main was beef rendang with rice. Both were delicious and full of flavour. I also tried the Bang Bang Cauliflower which was SO tasty! The highlight of the meal was the apple crumble though .. beautifully sweet and sugary. It is expensive here but so worth it for the quality! Thank you for making my birthday so special!

We attended for dinner as we are staying close by for a little break away with family. Once seated It took a while for someone to take our order, when ordering the menu options were very limited as they had run out of a lot of things at 7pm on a Thursday evening. We placed our order for starters and main. While waiting for our starters (some of them) which took around an hour to come out we noticed other tables complaining and refusing to pay for their meals as they weren’t getting what they asked for and we’re walking out. An hour passes and we have already asked where our starters are being told they will be coming out soon. 10mins later some bread and oil come out which is missing butter and olives. Also, Fried pickles come out missing dipping sauce. Then we are waiting on two scampi dippers which at this point we are told they don’t have anymore of and are then told we will be having calamari which we say no too. We then wait for a further 10 mins and give up after another table walks out not paying. And we go and speak to the manager and tell him we don’t want our main meals and aren’t eating our starters. Which we are then told he full understands they have a cover Chef in and it’s not working out at all.

We had a lovely impromptu lunch here. The burgers were huge and the chicken pie divine. The pub is lovely inside, quaint and welcoming. Staff were lovely too.

Very disappointed with the sandwiches, bread was very dry and the smoked salmon bagel was frozen! BLT contains cold bacon rashers. All in all - an expensive, disappointing lunch. Will not frequent the cafe again .

For any music-lovers, and particularly folk music lovers, The Ship is a fascinating destination. With hundreds of years of history of hosting gigs (ongoing!) and open mics, and great photo collection on the walls of gigs gone by, it is well worth a visit. Drinks are reasonably-priced and the staff very friendly. We will be back!

We were upstairs in the "expensive" riverview restaurant for a pre-booked pre-concert dinner. Two courses £35, 3 courses £45. Beautful views across the river and reed-beds at sunset. Arriving at the designated time it took 20 minutes before our order was taken. After the first course we were getting concerned that as the concert began at 7pm, we would run out of time. We didn't, but it was a close thing. We ordered a glass of white wine each, but the wine was only just below room temperature and should have been much colder to be enjoyable. Our starters were just about OK, although my Beef Bresaola was somewhat substandard - the beef was fine but the rest of the stated ingredients were pretty much tasteless. My wife's main was the Confit Duck leg that she has described to me as being unexciting - there was a sauce and supposed to be blackberry jus (or something similar) that she was unable to identify and the potato was just a large shaped chunk of potato, possibly roasted! My main (Confit Pork Belly) was "interesting" - the crackling was rock hard - I couldn't cut it with my knife and when I tried to bite into it, I still couldn't break it, so I abandoned that. When I mentioned this to the server, I was told that it would be reported to the kitchen - maybe it was, but no-one apologised or responded in any way to my complaint. In addition the accompanying "sauce" was like a green porridge in consistency and was barely lukewarm - overall what should have been the most interesting dish proved to be the most disappointing one. Our desserts were reasonably good, but not worth the extra £10 for the 3rd course. So, I would not recommend the restaurant and felt that it was very much over-priced and understaffed, as the service was friendly but incredibly slow. Total cost for the two of us £120, including 12.5% "gratuity". As fairly frequent visitors to the Concert Hall , we will not be returning this restaurant.