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Superb food and service, easily coped with a very large phone order on a busy Saturday evening. Many thanks 👍

The first I must say is, that the food was top notch. I had the most amazing time at the eagle and hind. The owner Charlie and her partner in crime Tom are the best people you could wish to run in to. If you’re lucky enough to have a drink at this pub, please please toast to the eagle and to the hind.

Have breakfast here most days, Wendy,Steve, and the rest of the staff are friendly and helpful and promote the cafe well. Clean and tidy with a good selection of food and drink, good place to have a break.

Fantastic food, love all the little extra touches and the staff were excellent. However, I felt we were left a long time without our drinks order being taken and drinks arriving. We’d read the whole menu several times and discussed it at length whilst supping on water, personally I like to sup on a glass of wine whilst deciding on what to eat and my husband would have liked to have had time to drink more than a few mouthfuls of his pint before his food arrived.

A lovely tearoom. Our first choice to visit for breakfast when we go to Lavenham . The staff are friendly, always a warm welcome . Good choice of food, freshly prepared . Good coffee and delicious hot chocolate . Highly recommended!

The food was fresh and the service was good

Working away from home and needed some where to eat Googled this place and found it was not far from the travel lodge. Lovely place Good atmosphere Food was excellent. Mixed menu. My husband went for the burger and chips and I tried the curry. Worth having Very reasonable prices. All home made. Very well done. Thankyou. We all need patronise this pub and like wise others. Because if the new government get their way and ban smoking. This will be the end of the pubs

Lovely pub, friendly service, reasonably priced beer and a great village feel.

This is now actually called the Alde Cafe. I’ve been twice in the last three days. There are fancier places along the High Street, but you will not get a better meal there than you will find at the Alde. Sean is a brilliant cook who prepares every dish with both flare and a respect for tradition. It was the best fry up I have had in the last twenty years, and a welcomed alternative to the recent tendency of serving them up in thali dishes, with about a tablespoon of beans in one and a cubic centimeter of toast in another. I just had the kedgeree, which was magnificently prepared with haddock from the smokehouses along the Shingle. There are many reasons to come to ever-beautiful Aldeburgh. But I’d rank breakfast or lunch at the Alde Cafe at the very top of my list.

Visit the pub for a band night recently and very disappointed in our experience. Band were fantastic but service from pub was appalling. The pub had advertised the evening as a live band and pizza night so would have surely staffed the pub appropriately but very much not the case-queues of people at the bar every time we went to get another drink and waiting nearly an HOUR AND A HALF for a pizza!!! If we had come out to the pub for a proper meal this would still be unacceptable but this was just for 2 pizzas of all things?!?! Really need to work on staffing as this is poor service by anyone’s standards. The worst part was that whilst we were in the long queue to place our order, a regular walked to the front of the queue and handed the barman his pizza order which was put through as a priority above those who had been waiting in line! Definitely in two minds now as to whether to return for the Beer Festival in August.

So gutted to hear this lovely place has closed down. How sad. They were so popular too! The best scotch eggs around & apple strudel as well as the baklava! Where shall we go now?! Thanks for all the happy memories there and the great service too!

Visited recently, adequate menu, order food at the bar. We had Scampi & Chips, prawn salad with chips and Pizza. Nice food served fairly quickly and the young staff were very friendly and efficient. We will revisit when in the area.

Little gem of a find today. 9 of us had a lovely breakfast. Nothing was greasy, all cooked perfectly and good value for money. Staff really lovely, place spotlessly clean and if I was local I would definitely be back. Later in the day we went back for drinks and ice cream. Thanks ladies for a lovely day and for you being so caring knowing the reason we were in the area. 💚

bit surprised they use metal staples in the packaging , thought this would be an absolute no for a food prep area - accident waiting to happen

Since we moved to Mattishall in Feb 2018, we have used the Swan for family and friends visits. The food is to die for and, the menu is always changing so, no getting the same boring stuff week after week. Sunday in autumn, winter is carvery and, what a carvery. One price gets you a large plate plus, a sweet of your choice. One thing i like is, being a vegetarian, there are always several meals to choose from including a massive quorn veggie burger. The portions are way above normal as my Dad can vouch for and all freshly cooked. Their speciality pies are much sought after and, if you don't get in quick, they're gone. Sonia and Peter run an excellent pub restaurant with a cheerful, friendly and helpful staff for which nothing is too much trouble. If you're passing through, I recommend stopping at this friendly eatery.