The best restaurants serving American food in Newark and Sherwood East Midlands

Visited Lockdown for the first time and we were both very impressed! Great service, fantastic burgers and a wide selection of drinks. Very reasonably priced. We will definitely be back!

This has turned into my 'go to' place for lunch in Newark. The welcome is always genuine, the food & service are good, and I'm pleased to see that it is usually busy on a lunchtime. Have to admit, I regularly go past on my daily walk and the smells coming from the restaurant are always amazing, one of these days I'll go in for breakfast or Sunday lunch. I started to go back to the Swan and Salmon first after Covid, and then after the devastating floods we've had here in recent years, feeling like I wanted to support them. Now I just go back because everything about the place is good. One of the better lunch spots in Newark, and given how many people were in there today, I'm not the only person who thinks that.

Seems you get charged a Parking Fine when driving into car park on a Sunday early morning and finding that the Diner is closed and driving away all within 6 minutes No visible sign showing that just for serving in the car park and leaving in 6 minutes you have to pay for parking ! Even after submitting an appeal and explaining that I didn’t turn my engine off and photo evidence showed that my friends and I left after 6 minutes to find somewhere else open on a Sunday morning , the parking fine still stands apparently !! Have been using this location with my friends and family over 10 years or more - will not be going here again Day light robbery and a joke is the politest thing I will say

We ate here for the last night of our honeymoon and despite some quite bad reviews we thought we’d give it a try. When we sat down, we ordered drinks and asked for some water and were given glasses with dirt crusted on them. We thought that’s a simple mistake and asked for new ones — still dirty. My starter was burned at the edges and somehow cold in the middle, I couldn’t finish it but didn’t say anything and just ate the good parts which were okay and then my main came and tasted like uncooked flour - it was vile. I couldn’t get anyone’s attention so when someone came over they asked if it was good and I said I couldn’t eat this, they took it and said they’d bring me over something - I just ordered an extra starter as my party had eaten some of their food and didnt want to stay any longer than needed. I appreciate they were rushing but it was clearly rushed when the replacement “starter” arrived so I just gave up. In the end I did get my meals taken off, but then still had to pay for the other meals and then lost time on the last day of my trip because I had to then cancel an activity to go and find another dinner reservation which was practically impossible as everywhere was busy. The worst part is I tried to get the manager to actually look at the fact we kept getting brought dirty items and they just said sorry and got them taken away without even looking so I’m a little concerned. The servers themselves were great but they seemed stressed and stretched a little thin. Not 100% blaming hucks as I can’t prove anything but funnily enough we both started feeling unwell that evening.

Coffee was so bad we tipped it out. Which considering they cost $8AUD each is nuts. Most cafes in Newark were this bad actually it was not just Starbucks but Starbucks was the worst.

Dropped in for lunch and to use the facilities. Found staff at the Starbucks considerate and welcoming, things clean and the seasonal drink I tried very nice! Also surprised to see dogs are allowed inside 🐶 so will probably return with my pup

Very disappointed ordered from there for them to miss things and hair found within the food sky the team leader on shift had very bad attitude. Went up to complain for andy the cook to come out and have ago no apology no hair nets which is a requirement staff needs to be re trained