The best restaurants serving British food in Little Eaton and Breadsall Erewash East Midlands

We've been here many times and it's such a shame it's gone down hill. It took the staff 30 mins to take our drink order, and they only came because we had to go and ask them. Another half an hour later we had to ask them again to take our order. Food was average, not as good as it used to be, which is a shame. Prices are quite steep for what you get. I've never had to pay £11 for a child's meal. And child's desserts were £7, which is very dear.

Having seen people eating delicious looking lunches recently when my daughter and I popped in for a drink, we decided to go for lunch. We chose toasties and were disappointed with the quality and quantity (bread from a sliced loaf, not much filling and about 10 chips). We heard the bar staff saying the pub is changing hands and stock is being run down (they kept telling customers that they were out of various food/drink e.g. Guinness and most desserts). Pity nothing was said, or a sign put up, before we ordered.

Went for an evening meal in the restaurant. Ordered a burger, doubled the fries, onion rings and vegetarian bbq cauliflower bites for my partner because she's lactose intolerant. The person behind the bar came back saying they couldn't do the bites because they are cooked in the same fryer as things with milk in there for they aren't vegetarian are they? When the food came I didn't have any onion rings and not many chips at all. Complained at the bar and was told that I apparently never asked to double chips which I clearly remember doing and once the chef was asked about the onions rings I got the excuse that she forgot because she was busy, there was 2 other tables which had 4 people on and they had already been served their food. If you can't get orders right with that many customers then I dread to think what it's like on a weekend. Got the onion rings 5 mins later after id already ate my whole meal. Overall the food was meh, it wasn't anything special at all and you could get tastier for less elsewhere. Person behind the bar was friendly and apologetic so that's a plus I suppose, won't be going again. Youd be better off visiting a spoons.

After having had a lovely roast dinner last time we visited we stopped off here after an afternoon of shopping hungry and full of expectation. We perhaps should’ve taken the empty restaurant as a warning and left to go elsewhere as the roast lamb dinner was one of the worst we’ve ever had….. what on earth was the mush on my plate! No lovely slices of roast lamb just soggy bits swimming in gravy, it looked more like lamb mince but tbh I’m not even sure it was lamb, it certainly didn’t taste like it, more likely to be a mixture of everyone’s leftovers! My husband had asked for lamb and paid for the extra meat supplement of beef but you couldn’t tell the difference…. Again not a slice of anything on his plate either! I’m really struggling to write anything positive, the roasties were obviously microwaved as they were hard and inedible and although probably the nicest thing on the plate the veg was bland with a mixture of greens and just one carrot….no sign of the lovely crisp parsnips we’d had last time. We did complain to the waitress upon clearing our half eaten plates and although she apologised and said she would pass our comments on, she disappeared into the kitchen never to return to us, therefore no attempt to rectify our disappointment. Not sure if this place has changed hands since our last visit or we caught them on a bad day but this visit will definitely be our last!

Disappointing lunch time meal. Very generously sized jacket potato but absolutely minimal “side salad”; not even a whole tomato! At £8:95 not good value. Coleslaw extra. And served from a trolley, reminiscent of school meals! It’s a pleasant environment and staff were good. Perhaps the main meals are better value and breakfast selection sounded more tempting. Coffee was average. So unfortunately we won’t return to the cafe though the actual GC and shops are great.