The best restaurants serving British food in East Midlands

The fish was fine, though small, but the chips were the most disgusting we have ever tasted anywhere. They had clearly been reheated so were dry and hard and extremely unpleasant in flavour - no hint of having been cooked in beef dripping at all. We specifically went back to this shop/diner because those we enquired within on the seafront don't fry in beef dripping, whereas the Boardwalk advertises that it fries in beef dripping (which makes all the difference in my mind and makes seaside fish and chips something we really look forward to). They don't do large portions so we bought one fish and two portions of chips between two of us. The charge was £12.99. Bearing in mind we had to throw both portions of chips away, this was the most expensive fish I have ever had. I originally thought of complaining to the manager so that they could at least give us fresh cooked chips when we next travel to Skegness, but their phone number doesn't work and they don't offer an email address so clearly don't encourage customer feedback. In hindsight, I'm happy just to leave a bad review because they clearly don't take any pride in their food if they are prepared to serve up such poor quality food.

Avoid. £6.99 and a 20 minute wait for a breakfast wrap that was nuclear hot and inedible for another 20 minutes after finally arriving. A quick stop for breakfast took nearly an hour!

Went to the Boathouse Restaurant at Southview Skegness , 3/08/2024 , My 2nd visit this year for breakfast , it was extremely busy but the service was amazing , we were served by Julie , have to say she never stops , what a credit to Southview , always bubbly and shows she really loves what she does . My breakfast was very enjoyable , I had the traditional breakfast and must commend the chefs it was perfect . The facilities were also very good , I couldn’t fault my visit at all .

Decent coffee for the price, unsure on the food as we didn't try because of so many bad reviews. Staff were friendly and plenty of places to sit and enjoy a drink

Very poor service , when I asked for an English breakfast was told that they had stopped cooking and I would have to have eat what was remaining in the seving pans , and when I asked could they cook my egg hard , a very ignorant and un-helpful person , told me they had stopped cooking at 1-30pm, so would not do it , what was worse than the food was watching it being put on my plate by hand , no gloves or scoops , have put a complaint in.

My god I stood in that queue for 20 mins while the person behind the counter made TWO coffees. There was a queue of people in front of me so I decided to leave as I only wanted to buy a couple of bottles of water after a run and it’d have taken me longer to get the drinks that it did to run the 10k around the reservoir. 😂

Disgusting place orders wrong was complained at when ordering about the orders from the lady that works here she has no customer service manners shouldnt even work in hospitality. Should have stayed at home and cooked for free rather than spend 4.00 on a microwaved n frozen breakfast. The place was heaving with flies never again will i visit this place the high hairs werent even clean they were sticky. I wouldnt feed their food to my worst enemy however the man that works here had better customer services only leaving 1 star because it wont let me leave a 0

Absolutely horrible place. Now I understand that it is a Morrisons cafe so we really were not expecting high quality food and oh my gosh did we get a disappointment and a half. First of all we order on the machine which was fine we sat down with the number and then a staff member came over to us and told us to wait there he will come with our drinks, not even a mintue later another staff member came over and told us a completely different thing they told us to go get any drinks we want and do it our self’s, well we couldn’t do it ourselves because there was no cups. Next problem we ordered a meatball sub and then we were told they had non well first of all why is it still available on the machine if u don’t have it why offer it and then have to change what u want, they basically said you have to choose something from here but we can’t heat it up even tho what’s why we chose the meatball sub because it was a hot option. The food came and pretty much everything was cold except one dish. They forgot things on our order and didn’t even say sorry for not having things that we ordered. The tables were dirty and they just didn’t seem like they cared or knew what they were doing. DO NOT RECOMMEND to anyone even just for a drink !!!!

Yo quería un almuerzo bien, pero por desgracia no fue.

We visited for a belated family birthday celebration and really enjoyed the entertainment before our meal from a fantastic magician who left us all amazed. The food was good, as it always is, and there was something for everyone’s taste. Service was attentive and immaculately dressed staff add to the professionalism.

Stopped off for lunch after visiting ikea. Male member of staff emptied the rubbish bins then picked a plate up with our sandwich on it without even washing his hands in between. We said we had seen him handle the bins and he actually turned round and said 'it's OK because I only touched the plate,not the sandwich!!! Tables and floors are filthy, toilets also unclean...not starbucks usual standard.

Great, well cooked breakfast that arrived promptly. Good service as usual. It was busy as usual but lots of seating and all in an amazing garden centre. Well recommended.

The food and drink were very tasty, but I'd like to praise the staff. We went on a Saturday morning, and there were four young girls working. They were all so friendly, whilst being good at their work, and very efficient. They made the place a really happy place. Well done girls!

Visited on a weekday at 12 noon. Two people sitting in the window. My order was taken by an unsmiling, scruffily dressed girl who didn’t greet me, smile or say Thankyou when she took my order and payment . I would have ordered some cake but what was on display looked dire and unappealing. I waited over 15 mins for a cup coffee which was slammed down on the table! The cup wasn’t full and not very nice and together with the too loud jazz music playing in the background was not an experience I will be repeating. Strays is in a prime position in the square and should be a thriving business. This place needs an overhaul, a manager, and good staff to re- invent it to its full potential.

Brilliant table service, very friendly and polite staff, and lovely drinks and their cakes are really nice it does get busy