The best restaurants serving British food in England

Absolutely love this spot, great food grown really well, never too complex but the favours are bold!

Great for my autistic kids, little park at the beer garden enclosed and no where for my kids to be able to escape 😀

Lovely cafe and staff. Food is topp notch too. A real gem.

We didn't order food, just drinks

It’s so rare to have such high expectations and then have them exceeded. The food was extraordinary, the flavours and complexity of every single dish outstanding. Great service and staff to top it off. Should have 3 stars in my opinion.

Lovely pub very nice location. Relaxed atmosphere and good prices. The red lion burger was fantastic and the chips are the best

Stopped here for lunch and I had the hunters chicken ciabatta with sweet potato fries. It was very nice indeed. My only complaint was that I got a bone in the chicken which I was going to point out but no-one came to us to ask how our meal was or to take our dishes away, the staff were upstairs as it was closing time and they were clearing up (I assume). When we went to pay for it the girl didn't ask if everthing was ok or how our meal was so I didn't bother saying anything. It didn't stop me from enjoying my meal or my time spent here.

Another fantastic visit to The Blacksmiths Arms. Enjoyed a great Sunday Lunch. The team are great, always attentive and made sure our visit was superb. Been a few times and have never been disappointed. Keep up the great work and we look forward to coming back again.

Stumbled upon this place on a Sunday noon and we enjoyed a very warm welcome, they could still offer us a place in the beer garden, inside was fully booked. The food (Sunday roast of course) was magnificent, nice atmosphere, prices were good, service impeccable. Recommend this place!

Best pasties pies sandwiches cakes etc in Bolton and elsewhere. Everything is really tasty. We don't live in Bolton anymore but we still travel there.

I'll start by saying that we opted for the midweek, reduced price set menu. If we were to have paid full price, I would have been more disappointed and scored lower. The food overall was mixed, but overall of fairly good quality. Only 2 courses did I actively enjoy (hake and venison). The risotto was over cooked, to me. The others had some good elements but didn't really work (salted caramel butter was delicious, but was quite strange with the soup. Basil was very distracting to the lemon dish in my opinion). Again, perhaps due to the "using up ingredients" idea of the menu, 2 citrus desserts seemed too much. It was also frustrating not to know what the courses were, even after we'd arrived. If we'd seen the menu beforehand, maybe we would have reconsidered - but maybe this is the idea? Captive audience? It is also impossible to pick a wine because you don't know what you are getting. Effort had gone into the food though, it just felt like some of the ingredients were quite bluntly put together. The majority of the reduced score was because of service, though. We tried to book via phone over the course of 2 days, and had no answer. We then booked online. When calling to confirm our booking on the night, the lady who answered was a touch rude. When arriving, the same lady didn't make any effort to welcome us at all, and said she'd get someone (front of house manager). I'd also advise you make the front door/entrance clearer and more inviting. We were seated, drinks order taken, and then didn't have our existence acknowledged for 30 minutes. No bread etc. The first course was very small (no problem with that) but it was then a further 35 minutes until the next course. At an hour and 5 minutes in, we'd had just an amuse-bouche. At this point we were getting very hungry, and there was no apology or recognition of the delay. Is this the norm? The whole thing took 3.5 hours with about 30 minutes between each course. Courses would quite often come with almost no word said by the waiting staff - the youngest waitress was most friendly. The food was quite good though, and perhaps if we'd have seen the menu beforehand or decided to go for a la carte, we'd have been happier with it. Then again, we would have been expected to pay double - at which point, I think the quality falls well short of the Elephant Restaurant in Torquay for example, which would be the same price. I left feeling quite annoyed, which is unfortunate, given it was meant to be a midweek treat. Would we return? Maybe for a reduced price midweek a la carte. March 2023

Definitely the best fish and chips I’ve ever had.

Although a little on the pricey side, the food is delicious and the atmosphere is great. We recommend sitting in the outside area where on a sunny day they retract the roof. We've visited on a few occasions and always had a lovely experience.

In regard to the food and presentation this restaurant takes pride of place for us in the Worthing area. I had the fillet of beef, absolutely delicious, cooked to perfection. The service and genial banter with our hosts added to the charm of this delightful restaurant. We were lucky to get the window seat too. If there is a negative we would suggest there is a lack of "romantic" ambience, with quite bright lighting but if "fine dining" is the object of your desire, well look no further.

We booked a table for Sunday dinner, and knowing we were booking a later slot (due to toddler nap time) I specifically left a note regarding our party, and then confirmed our booking. On arrival it felt slightly chaotic and we were shown to an unset table (admittedly we were 10mins early) it took a while for our orders to be taken (we were never brought a menu and there wasn’t one on the table, so I took one from a neighbouring table) and it also took a long time for a highchair to arrive (again specified in the booking). I would happily have overlooked all of this - however, once our dinners arrived, it became obvious that they had pretty much run out of food. There was no cauliflower cheese, and no roast potatoes. We had to ask why these were missing to be told they’d run out. If we had been told when ordering I’d have understood. But to just hope we didn’t notice isn’t appropriate, especially when they’re a key part of a Sunday roast. We asked if we could have extra yorkshires instead but they didn’t have any of those either. They brought out some fried rosti as a way of excusing the lack, but only after we had asked why we were missing items and they came as we were all finishing. I could maybe understand this if we were walk in customers - but we had prebooked so surely weren’t a surprise… The roast here isn’t cheap and for significant parts to be missing, without explanation or any attempt to replace them left us all feeling deflated (and a little hungry…) there was no sincere apology, and nothing knocked of the bill (again not necessarily something I would expect but when you’re only served half of your dinner why should you pay full price?) Overall a very underwhelming experience and the only thing the waiting staff could say was ‘hopefully we will have it next time’ unfortunately I very much doubt there will be a next time.