The best restaurants serving British food in Rutland East Midlands

Visited 3 years ago, it was excellent. December 2024:- Some friends live in Northampton, I live In Lincolnshire so this seemed a good mid-way place to meet up. Started badly when my friends arrived to be told the restaurant was shut. That resolved we entered to a strong smell of dog and a hound roaming the restaurant. Service was poor, food mediocre, there’s been a change of management apparently and boy did it show. 110 mile round trip for poor food and an embarrassing meet up (it was my suggestion!!) an experience NEVER to be repeated, as for my earlier recommendation, strike it through.

Visited with my husband, 2 children (8&5yrs) and small elderly dog. I had looked ahead to check it was dog-friendly and was pleased when we arrived that yes, well behaved dogs are welcomed. The service was polite and prompt for the most part. The food was very nice and reasonable on price. I was pleasantly surprised that the chicken nuggets were proper chicken breast. My hubby was very happy with his burger. My fish was nice, the batter was quite oily rather than crisp as I prefer but not something to complain about. Had there been less of a delay in taking our clear plates we may have stated for desert but paid & left before anyone came to ask about desert. Normally wouldn't mention this but they weren't especially busy so this stood out in an otherwise very good visit, hence 4 instead of 5 rating. Overall we enjoyed it and would return, and indeed have already recommended to a friend.

The Jackson Stops has been a wonderful, reliable place to eat ,the news it has closed is very sad. Thank you to the Owners,chefs and Staff who will all be sadly missed.

Great Sunday lunch. A little bit of a wait for food but piping hot when it arrived. A busy Sunday for them. Lovely tasty generous portions. Does not disappoint. Thank you to a lovely team.

I was staying here for work and it was a lovely place to stay. Fantastic staff and the food was very good.

Booked it due to travelling to a family funeral nearby. Our stay hear made our 350 mile journey a lot easier due to the experience.

We had a beautiful meal sat next to a lovely fire . The staff were excellent . It’s refreshing to be served a freshly cooked tasty meal these day . The pie of the day and steak where delicious. Would highly recommend

We have just had a Sunday roast and it was fantastic.. we have been all over locally for a good Sunday roast and always seem disappointed. Lovely staff, amazing food! Really couldn’t recommend more highly. Friends have eaten in the week and the lunch time menu is also very good. We will be back next weekend!

To make it clear this pub has been taken over by new management since November 2024 so some of the reviews are old and no reflective of the new management. We stayed here for one night whilst visiting Stamford/Rutland. On arrival we were given our key to room 7 a twin bedded room. The lights in the bathroom were flickering and one bulb gad gone. In the bedroom there was two blinds one that was a blackout blind was broken no chain to pull it up. We returned to the reception to let them know and they kindly moved us to another room. The room was clean however it was extremely hot and we had no way of regulating the temperature. The radiator was actually on! The walls are very thin you could literally hear everything from the next room. The chair in our room was falling to bits. The carpet was stained and look like it had seen better days. Needs a revamp. We ate at the pub and unfortunately our food was not good. The onion bhajis were dry, over cooked and no flavour. The vegetable samosa had nothing inside it just pastry and tasteless. The chilli chicken pieces were so small that they were over cooked and chicken was hard and dry. A very disappointing meal. Had a reasonable selection of beers, lager and wines. Met a few of the locals from the village who were very friendly. Breakfast was a complete shambles. Breakfast is from 8am to 9.30am (Sunday) we arrived just before 9am and it was not very busy around 6 other guests seated. Have to help yourself to tea, coffee and juice. Only one type of milk full fat no other choices. Coffee was filtered and was very weak and not pleasant. You had to have a cheap white mug no choice of a cup & saucer (they had cup & saucer in the rooms). We ordered our full English breakfast and waited an hour! When it eventually arrived mine was cold and my Husband’s was like warm. The quality of the produce was poor. Sausage was a cheap catering sausage the scrambled egg was not cooked through. The baked beans were inedible due to being cold. All in all a bad experience and very disappointed. They were either struggling with staff in the kitchen or just not able to cope. The staff we engaged with were polite but feel their hospitality skills need to be reviewed.

Excellent pub and Inn, owner Bernard and his staff were incredibly welcoming, rooms were lovely, food was outstanding - highly recommend this Inn.

For service very well done. The waitress (sorry I did not get her name!) Noticed that my steak was not done as I requested (rare) she waited while I checked, and then she replaced the whole dinner. Wonderful service and attitude, thank you.