The best restaurants in East of England

No food, but a friendly local proper pub.Music a few times a month and a vinyl night.Beer(ale) always in good condition.

The food at Purfleet is superb. We had a wonderful Christmas menu of turkey, pork or salmon followed by some seriously sweet dessert treats, so huge props to the chef. Delicious! The atmosphere could've been a little more festive, however we were the after work crowd so am sure it livened up later on.

Not sure if it was just an off day but our party of 4 found our experience akin to that of visiting Fawlty Towers! We arrived to be greeted with surprise, as if they hadn't been expecting us despite our booking made 2 weeks previously. Despite our waitress being charming, she was obviously just helping out as a favour to the owner. We had to ask for cutlery, our order was taken in dribs and drabs, no serviettes and she was running round trying extremely hard to deal with all the other diners and multitude of delivery drivers constantly turning up to collect their orders. The main door was more open then closed for an hour and it felt very much like their orders were taken as priority over those of customers actually in the restaurant. Our starter took an hour to arrive and was really poor, portion wise as well as presentation and preparation. The main courses came out quicker and were ok apart from the one pizza of our order, who's base was so hard, it was as if the cardboard had been left on and that's what was being eaten! We declined dessert and coffee as, to be honest, we couldn't wait to get out of there. We stayed longer than we needed due to the one saving grace of an extremely well filled carafe of very tasty house wine! Will definitely not be going back or recommending Don Amici's to anyone else. Sorry.

I have only been in a handful of times to buy a gift or a bottle for a dinner. Each time I had the best help, always nice. I would love to go for an evening sometime.

I’m grateful I made the mental note to try this place while I’m still in Bury and the women who work there were so so so chatty and genuine nice people. I went in with no idea what to have, I’m often very picky but today I told them I was leaning towards their cajun chicken and that they could choose the rest! They offered up the best additions, even suggested I get it in a wrap and I was all for it. Totally inexpensive as well, so affordable and I think this is the true selling point for Hatters Sandwich Bar, other than their delicious fresh ingredients of course. Pop in for breakfast or lunch and you’ll be sorted right out :)) I WILL be back to try more variations!!!

Busy with children doing crafts with their parents. Very good mixed roll with bacon plus sausage, very tasty. Cosy atmosphere, popular with the locals.

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First and last time trying this Chinese unfortunately, lady was lovely on the phone and service was nice but the food was just so bland. Very wet soggy bland noodles that lacked even basic seasoning. Pork was fatty and chewy. Chicken balls were so over battered to hide the small pieces of chicken instead so were very greasy, soggy and raw by the chicken due to so much batter. (Chicken wasn’t raw the batter was)

We will be back!! I approached Pottergate Pantry as our usual provider couldn’t fit us in this week. Given the short notice Karl was very accommodating! We had lunch over 3 days, first day we had the sandwich, cake and fruit platter for 9ppl, the other two days we had just sandwiches for 14-16ppl. Everything was well presented on sandwich trays (that we wash and return to reuse), and labelled with allergy information. A lovely and wide variety of fillings from your classic hams, cheese, egg to a mix of chicken and seafood options. Some of the guys present on the first day were disappointed not to have cakes the following days… very reasonable price and kindly delivered as we are city centre based. Would highly recommend!

We have been eating from Platters since the doors opened many years ago, always fresh and tasty Sandwiches, Baguettes, Soups and Jacket Potatoes made to order not pre-packed. Never had a bad one and always good value for the quality you get. The Chicken Bushfire Baguette is my favourite and is out of this world! Just the best. Even if you just nip in for a cup of tea or coffee and a slice of cake you will not be disappointed!

Great little cafe and kiosk. Fab coffee, great selection of ice creams. Staff were lovely. Perfect place to pop too if using harbour end of Southwold beach / car park.

Great first time experience food was delicious, we normally use another take away but they closed while on holiday. I highly recommend and they have a 5⭐ hygiene rating which is important to me.

Very clean and tidy cafe. Friendly staff. good food at reasonable prices.

Lovely little cafe, really welcoming and such a lovely service and also lovely people running it

Highly recommend this coffee shop, lovely place and great service . Love how you can bring dogs in makes it family and pet friendly !