The best restaurants serving British food in East Midlands

Order a Mexican Loaded hot dog £7.50, absolutely dire. Can't remember the last time I'd wasted so much on terrible food. It was basically a tray of sloppy crap over a white sub roll and a hot dog sausage. Made all the bread soggy, couldn't pick it up to eat and struggled to eat it with the available wooden fork, ended up just eating the sausage Totally waste of money and unfulfilled

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!

Overpriced, but aside from that the staff were all rude children - they didn't smile, didn't say hello or anything and just ignored us when we were waiting to be seen. These kids need some adult supervision and some training.

Upon arriving there weren’t many people in the restaurant. We ordered 2 portions of mac and cheese, a child’s chicken nuggets and chips and a cold sandwich. All the hot food was stone cold. I spent 10 minutes searching through the utensils pot to try and find a clean set. The hot drinks from the hot machine were cold and the mugs were dirty. The staff were rude and when giving them our dirty plates he slammed them down on the table and walked away. Overall, not worth it, never coming back

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. 😂

Where do I start? Dirty cutlery, cheap ingredients used for breakfast , beans and tinned tomatoes served cold, 1 mushroom on my plate, and to top it off we had flys all over the place, disgusting! Furniture & floor falling apart, tables looked like they hadn’t been wiped for weeks just awful. My first breakfast I hadn’t finished this week, only good thing about this place is the price. Not friendly service and had front seats to a heated conversation between a member of staff and another person in the back.

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.

Had a great meal for my nephew's birthday. The staff are always lovely. It's a great atmosphere. We will be returning soon.

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.

Booked and paid in August for a baby shower in November. THREE days before the baby shower the owner contacted us to say he’d double booked us and although WE booked first he was honouring the other booking and could no longer accommodate us. AVOID.

Visitó el Parque Natural Whisby como dueño de un perro solo para un paseo el sábado por la mañana. Sin embargo, el parque natural encantador fue tristemente hecho sentir muy desagradable en el Lakeside Café. Llevé a mi pequeño perro de raza juguete para pedir una bebida (antes de pasar a sentarme en la zona apta para perros) , y después de pedir y haber tomado mi dinero, uno de los empleados procedió a decirme mientras esperaba mi bebida que necesitaba salir ya que a los perros «no se les permitía entrar aquí». Habiendo preguntado educadamente después con la recepción qué disposición hay para que los propietarios de perros solos puedan ordenar, me dijeron que tendría que dejar a mi perro fuera de la cafetería mientras ordenaba dentro. Como mi perro sufre de ansiedad por separación, esta no es una opción así que no volveré a visitar el café. Respeto completamente la separación entre las áreas aptas para perros y las áreas libres de perros, sin embargo, por favor, tome una disposición para que los propietarios de perros individuales puedan ordenar en su mesa. Ser discriminado de esta manera como una sola persona fue muy molesto, especialmente porque Whisby se supone que es un parque amigo de los perros. ¡Nunca me han hecho sentir tan desagradable en un café!