The best restaurants serving British food in East Midlands

Always something missing from the order. They can’t even pick up the phone

Do a really good carvery lots of choice good prices and really good food

Not been in years but new owners doing a great job, friendly and efficient. The food was excellent(fish n chips, Hunter's chicken and kids fish n chips) reasonable price and huge portions.

Brilliant value for money taste out of this world

Love Chip Stop! Love the staff. Love the food. Fried chicken and a Tyskie whilst I wait. Thank you.

I think the franchisee has decided to ignore this restaurant and never consult weekly checks on the business. It's lacking leadership and standards. All of the problems that were listed on this review thread for over a year is what I experienced. The place is also filthy. The toilets are disgusting. There was 1 customer sitting in the restaurant and 2 staff sitting outside yet the place is overflowing with rubbish and filth. The food also took over 20 minutes to arrive. The staff looked downbeat and unmotivated. Lack of leadership and ignorance of product leads to unmotivated staff and no repeat customers.

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!

have been loads of times its always fab , service/price etc , and the food omg the roast deefdripping spus are stunning , and the staff are great

Tuve cucharas de agua hoy por segunda vez este año. No es un lugar que frecuentamos mucho. Nos encanta el menú festivo y por la relación calidad-precio no decepcionó. Tenía la hamburguesa de pollo y relleno de Navidad con salsa de arándanos, cerdos en manta y patatas fritas. Estaba delicioso.

Following a meal with friends in town we went in for late drinks on Saturday night. It was very busy but we managed to find a table for 4. I'm sure they were all old enough, but there was a lot of young people in there, it's probably us just getting old! My husband and I returned for breakfast. Can't beat a wetherspoons breakfast to sort out a hangover! Food was excellent. They ran out of milk but the guy at the bar quickly filled up the jug when I asked, even if he couldn't figure out how to shut it!

Absolutely outstanding service. Booked a table of 21. Seated in their stunning area upstairs. Very busy downstairs. It was a full house but the service from three excellent friendly team members was stunning. Every wish catered for. Perfect and beautifully presented food. Locally sourced cooked to perfection and for a larger party delivered with immaculate timing. Incredibly professional from booking to the day of the meal. Highly, highly recommended Thank you all.

Recuerdo cuando esto era un cine. La decoración interior es fiel al original, y es agradable. Hay diferentes niveles de asientos, así que aunque es enorme, también puede sentirse bastante acogedor, especialmente en el lado de la carretera, donde puede sentarse y ver el mundo pasar. Fui a almorzar con un amigo. Pedido bebidas en el bar y comida en la aplicación. No hay problemas con ninguno. Los servidores eran educados y la comida estaba bien para lo que es. Es una comida barata y adecuada.

I’m writing this review based on two stays I had here in December. I stayed here for one night after a visit to Chatsworth at the beginning of December. Then again over this New Year weekend for 3 nights. Ironically we were given the same room 107. The second visit we spent 2 nights in 203, after problems on our first night in 107. LOCATION- the location of this hotel is perfect it is 5 minutes drive from the M1 close to the village of Clowne with shops and some take aways. It’s a good base to explore clumber park, Derbyshire dales and chesterfield. CHECK IN - the first time we checked in there was a big Christmas party going on & a band playing in reception. It was extremely busy, but we were checked in quickly. The second time we arrived at 7pm to find nobody at reception. We waited 5 minutes and still nobody turned up. So we went looking for staff in the bar! We eventually located the receptionist. The hotel reception smells very fresh, is modern and clean. ROOM - the room was large with a big bed, huge TV, tea/coffee, biscuits, bottles of water & black out curtains. Room 107 was on the first floor and room 203 on the second. The bed in 107 was two singles pushed together, not great for couples with a big gap down the middle of the bed. The bed in 203 was an actual double. 203 was an attic room and had some slanting ceilings, there were no blackout curtains just a Roman blind that let lots of light in. Both rooms were very modern, exceptionally clean and we loved them. The rooms were very hot, despite setting heating to the lowest setting. There was a fan in the wardrobe, but no air con. We loved the lighting and decor in the rooms. BATHROOM- the bathroom was large, modern and clean. It has a walk in shower and very fluffy towels. There was also some nice toiletries provided. FOOD - the restaurant looks lovely, modern quirky and bright. The bar is next to the restaurant, with a court yard for warmer days. Breakfast was included and was lovely. The first time we stayed the hotel was busy with party guests and we had to stand waiting for breakfast food because it had ran out. This time was different and all food was replenished before it ran out, despite the hotel being busy again. We also ordered room service on both visits. We found the food to be really nice. But the guy bringing it brought one tray, then had to run back to the kitchen to get the other tray. Surely a trolley would be a better idea?? The staff in the restaurant all seemed like they needed training. We were taken to our table New Year’s Day morning and the young waitress just stood staring at us. The food had been moved in to the snug room, but we weren’t told this. We had to ask and also had to ask twice to get a cup of tea, as nobody offered. The only decent waiter we met on both occasions was a lad with glasses and ginger hair. He was very attentive and asking people if everything was okay. NEGATIVES - the only negatives of our first stay was waiting for breakfast items, which is why we chose to come back. This time there was some sort of loud extractor fan going on in the ceiling of our room 107 & the heating wouldn’t seem to go lower than 24 degrees. It started in the middle of the night, so we hardly slept on our first night. We reported it to reception in the morning and a guy with a walkie talkie told us he’d switch it off. We got back 6 hours later from a day out, only to find it was still on. I went down to report to reception again and was told ‘Craig’ who deals with it was out. So she’d send him up when he got back. We decided to turn the tv on the drowned out the noise only to realise that no plug sockets were working either, so we couldn’t even have a cuppa. I went back to reception after an hour of waiting for ‘Craig’. Before I even got chance to say about the plug sockets, I was told by the receptionist that I had to appreciate she was on her own! When I did get chance to politely tell her about the sockets she offered to move us to room 203. The next morning we decided not to go to breakfast and instead have a lie in to catch up on the lack of sleep. But at 11am the cleaner knocked on the door and walked straight in, not even giving us chance to answer. The do not disturb sign was also on the door, but she’d not seen it. When she realised we were in bed, she shouted from the door ‘are you going out today or not?’ Not really very good practice in my opinion & I’ve stayed in a lot of hotels. Other negatives were having to supply a £50 holding fee on your card for each night you are there. Also long queues at reception at certain times. OVERALL- If I was rating this hotel on cleanliness, decor, location and food, I would definitely give it 5 stars. It’s a beautiful new, bright, vibrant and quirky hotel, which is why we booked to go back so soon. But it seems that a lot of the staff let this hotel down. It seems that some of the reception staff need to learn to ‘listen’. The young lad on reception new years morning was very professional & seemed good at his job. But some of the restaurant staff really need training on how to actually interact with people, which should be a minimum requirement. It seems that also a ‘lack’ of staff lets this hotel down. If there was a maintenance problem surely there should be someone on call who can look at the problem sooner than an hour. Reception can get very busy and have long queues, due to lack of staff. New Year’s Eve was the only time i saw two staff. It’s a real shame that our experience wasn’t great this time. Which is why I have only rated it 3 stars. Maybe if things improve I may return, because it is a really nice hotel that could be great.

Couldn’t fault the 2 for £12 meals. 2 of us eat & with drinks it came to £25. Friendly staff & they food was really nice, chips were home cooked & the burger was really well cooked. Would 100% recommend.

Es una pena que haya que emitir una crítica negativa, pero desafortunadamente la visita fue solo eso aparte de la empresa. Después de caminar en el pub en sí parecía estar cansado mirando, pero se puede apreciar que el propietario era nuevo en el pub, con suerte esto mejorará las bebidas fue agradable, aunque un poco lento en el servicio, esto resultó en una mejor parte de la noche. Nosotros como grupo pedimos una variedad de comidas y esperábamos un poco de retraso en el servicio, ya que el pub estaba ocupado, pero después de más de una hora tuvimos que preguntar sobre nuestras comidas algo de la fiesta se estaba poniendo hambriento, nos dieron una actualización que se cumplió, pero la comida era simplemente no era agradable de la mala calidad de la falta de sabor, solo era una pérdida de tiempo (debería haber tenido una bolsa de rasguños de cerdo) la parrilla de mezcla resultó ser salchicha y patatas fritas, ya que el resto no era adecuado para el perro otro plato estaba más seco que un par de sandalias en España y el curry era solo especias. Espero que el restaurante pueda cambiar las cosas.