The best restaurants serving British food in Northampton East Midlands

Never go anywhere else to eat when visiting town, in fact we make a special trip just for our lunch. All the food is homemade and the specials are top notch. If the Corned beef pie is on the specials then that is a must!! The atmosphere is welcoming, friendly and that goes for the customers and the staff and the owner/chef is a great guy!

Very very BEAUTIFUL! Such a wonderful place and exceptional scenery! Would definitely be visiting this again!!

Beautiful surrounds excellent service , friendly professional and fresh made food . Warm welcome every time love the whole menu selection and the Young Students who serve and help to make it a brilliant place to be .

This small out-of-the-way cafe is run by the 6th form students from Billing Brook School, Northampton. The menu offered is light meals, e.g. jacket potatoes, sandwiches, baguettes etc. with a good variety of fillings including vegetarian options. The coffee is delicious and the home-made cakes looked good, but I resisted. The atmosphere is inviting, with a lovely outdoor area, and the whole place is spotlessly clean, The staff and their tutors are really nice, and very attentive. Would definitely recommend if you are local or visiting Northampton and would like a quiet out of the town centre (Eastern District) bite to eat. I look forward to my next visit. Open Mon-Thurs 9.30-14.30.

Absolutely loved my experience! I ordered chicken salad, chicken and mushroom panini, and they were both amazing. The flavors were spot on. The staff were incredibly friendly and attentive, making the whole experience even better. Had to go back to my restaurant in a hurry, and they were kind enough to bring my order there. That guy was amazing. I can't recommend this place enough—10/10! I'll definitely be coming back for more.

Delicious food at a very good price cooked by Chris the chef. Lovely atmosphere and welcome with Jess. Highly recommend

Well what can I say...the overwhelming stench of blocked toilets put us all off our food. We were deciding on what to eat and just couldn't get the smell out of our minds so just left....how this place is still open is beyond me....

Have eaten here many times and it remains one of my favourite restaurants in Northampton. Staff are always very friendly and attentive. Love the range and quality of food. Their onion bhaji scotch egg is a stand-out dish!

When I booked for our annual visit I was a little concerned as to whether the experience would be as good under the new owner. I needn't have worried. It was magnificent!! This thought was echoed by my party of 8. Plenty of food (we all took a box home) and pots of hot beverages. Great experience all round to the point that I have booked a return visit at Christmas for a party of 20.

Popped in for some food after a good walk around the racecourse. The music was on, sport was showing but volume down… we immediately got served by a very friendly bartender and she informed us on where we could sit and that food was available all day. Great chilled atmosphere, friendly staff. We ordered the cheese and bacon burgers, delicious. Would definitely come back!! Thank you 🤩

Popped into the cafe with my husband today. Both of us asked for sandwiches not on the menu - the waitress was so lovely, as was the chef, totally accommodated us. Sandwiches were delicious, generous portion and lovely ingredients. Sadly we had to rush off due to an appointment but will definitely be back!

Lovely cafe with the best food and sweetest staff, my favourite place to come with my kids on the wellingborough road. I have been here 4 times since moving to this part of northampton, each time with my young children and we were always well looked after.

Visited for lunch after seeing good reviews online. Looks cute but left rather disappointed. No proper food available, just a few pastrys, ordered two & was given an incorrect order. Hot chocolate just tasted like warm milk. :(

My wife and I, both of us in our late sixties, were driving back from Milton Keynes and decided to pop into Northampton to wander around the shops. We were getting a bit peckish, so not knowing the town we began to look for somewhere to eat, and happened across this fish bar. There were a lot of people sitting inside, and a queue for take-out (nothing advertises a place better than this scenario), so we decided that this was the place for our lunch. We got a table straight away and sat down to look at the menu. We noticed that they did a seniors’ special (fish, chips, mushy peas, bread & butter and a hot drink for £10.75 each), so we plumped for that. It took a while for someone to serve us at the table, but we weren’t in a rush so it wasn’t a problem. Now we had already been told that there was around a fifteen minute wait for food, so we were well aware of that. It appears that this is not the normal situation, but there was some problem that was unusual to the running of the establishment (they tried to explain it to us, but the reason went totally over our heads, although it didn’t matter anyway, as we were fully prepared to wait for the meal to be freshly cooked and brought to the table). In slightly less than the time we were given the meal arrived and looked good, and as it had just been cooked and brought immediately to the table, was piping hot. It also tasted great, and the tea was good quality. Now onto a few negatives, for which I’m going to drop this eatery down one point in the overall score. Back in our home town the same meal in our local café is similarly priced, but this is the cost to everyone, and not a special price for seniors, so we really didn’t think that the cost of the meal was that pensioner friendly. Also the fish here was much smaller than in our local eatery. Saying that the meal we had here tasted great and we did enjoy it. The staff are also some of the politest and friendliest people we have met running an eatery. We would eat here again if we were in town, and would recommend it as the meal was good, but consideration maybe need to be given to dropping the price a little bit more for it truly to be good value for senior citizens.

Actually a lot better than just alright. Very good food indeed and pleasant service in relaxing suroundings. Varied menu, something for all tastes I should think and reasonable prices. Highly recommended. This won't be the "last" time we shall be visiting. (Sorry for the puns!)