The best restaurants in United Kingdom serving British food

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Nice food amazing atmosphere love it

We live locally and have visited from time to time since this bistro opened. It’s been a while but what a disappointment today! Great location on the edge of town, next to the canal with countryside views. That, unfortunately, is where for me the positives end. Beautiful day today and so there was lots of outdoor seating. We sat outdoors. Outdoor seating is basic, to say the least. Lacking imagination and uncomfortable. What’s not made clear by staff is the indoor and outdoor service and, I assume, menus are different. We were asked to order online, using the QR code on the menu. The food was delivered to our table in sealed tubs in a brown paper carry out bag. Nothing was reusable. Wooden cutlery, plastic lids and plastic-lined cardboard boxes (hence, not practical to recycle). The food - sandwiches and fries - was very mediocre and not helped by being delivered in sealed containers or by the presentation. This felt like an office carry out, not a bistro experience in the countryside on a fine day. What were they thinking when they introduced this? It’s not cool and it’s not enjoyable. It’ll be a long time before we return. (I provided polite, discrete verbal feedback to staff about our experience).

We travelled from the Midlands on Sunday 13 April and arriving early evening, found nowhere to have a hot meal. It was suggested by a pub in Hatfield Broad Oak to try the Axe and Compasses. An excellent choice! We managed to get in and order half an hour before the end and received a very generous meal, succulent beef, lovely roast veg and greens, a hot drink and a beer, then desserts. Very filling and tasty meal, thanks to the staff for accomodating us so late in the day, it made a fantastic difference.

Very disappointed, we knew it closed at 4 pm we were held up in traffic also three way traffic lights outside the restaurant but arrived at 3.45, then just to be told they had closed, we asked if they could possibly make us tea the young girl was gone for a good while then came back and said no, why does it say 4 pm close ? She said we could get a takeaway in the shop perfect we thought again just to be told they had turned and cleaned the machine, most unfriendly unhelpful staff, we will not make the trip out again. Can’t comment on the food as we couldn’t get any. Bring back some proper old fashion service please.

A jumping place with a friendly atmosphere. A good demographic mix too. We just went for drink. We're not fans of very loud music, but if you are – you'll love it.

A lovely room in beautiful surroundings, we called in for coffee and ended up having lunch, what we had was very nice but the service wasn’t good, it seemed a little disorganised no serviettes were brought to the table and no cutlery it’s hard to decide whether it’s self service or waitress service, the girl behind the bar seemed stressed and not overly friendly, could be teething problems but customer service definitely needs working on

Good pub, good beer,nice atmosphere,good DJ, Friday and Saturday night.

A pleasant place. The vegetarian lasagna was a generous portion.

A great spot, nice bar area with friendly barman/owner. Food good and hearty. Rooms very good size and newly modernised. A great find

I have never disappointed when I have visited the lovely White Hart Pub. Such nice country venue with great views over the river Seven into Wales, coupled with a old school building where sitting inside is just as good as sitting out. The Sunday lunches are a huge favourite of mine and since the new owners Darren & Rachel have taken over they have got even better. The food portions are big and so very flavoursome coupled with some very decent red wine made our latest lunch memorable indeed. I will be back again shortly and look forward to eating in the garden when a little warmer. By the sounds of it plans for some music are on the cards for the summer too.

I've been out to this place a few times with family and the food is delicious as well as the hospitality being really good. I also used to work at this place and wouldn't work there again as the management team didn't pay me my weekly tips number of times for some reason, very unprofessional in my opinion. But apart from that everything ealse was fine.

Great food with very reasonable prices. Lovely service from Paul. Recommend for a quick bite to eat. Good atmosphere and very accommodating

What as shame the chips are cooked in rancid fat. I called this evening for a snack thinking the fat might have been changed since my last disappointing visit but no just an awfull lot worse never ate the chips slung them in the bin . Wont be calling again.

The atmosphere was good and the staff friendly and attentive. We had the Sunday roast and the food was good. The only thing that we would say is that though the Sunday roast was nice and exactly what we would expect, we did feel the price was higher than expected compared to similar Sunday roasts we've had in the past. Though we liked the place and food we would be reluctant to return for food with the prices being charged as there are many other places that are better value for money