The best restaurants serving British food in East of England

Great pub with fine choice of ales and good veggie / vegan menu. We sat in the extension with great views over the river and port activity. Excellent service too.

Christmas set meal for myself and 3 friends, excellent food and a perfect atmosphere with open fire a idiotic great pub. I would recommend this for your Christmas or any meal.

Privileged that we have this amazing pub in our village. We made our first visit tonight with the new owners and what a lovely experience we’ve had. The staff were attentive and welcoming, super friendly and very accommodating. We tried a few items from the menu and each was simply delicious, both the Kichiya Chundo and the Chicken Tikka were our favourites. Pleased we can also order a take away now - will most definitely be back and would highly recommend to others.

I have been going to Eric’s at Thornham since they first opened, it was excellent , but gradually going downhill The batter and chips have changed so much the batter is hard and horrid whereas it used to be so crispy and the fish was so thick and tasty the chips used to be so good Went today was a small piece of fish cooked in hard batter and the chips were white and so soggy I was so dissapointed in today The fish and chips have slowly going downhill I used to love and look forward to going to Eric’s but not anymore I paid for a medium but got a small hard battered piece of fish Sorry but you need to improve your service, it’s not good anymore

This establishment is currently CLOSED. No sign yet of new owners: nothing but rumours! Hopefully a new venture can bring it back to what it was 20 years ago.

Ismail was a fantastic host as soon as we walked into the restaurant. The attention to detail and high quality service was second to none! Thank you.

Friendly service, great for my daughter who is celiac so we were all able to have the delicious fish and chips.

Meant to visit long ago to see what it was like, we weren't disappointed. We had booked to go to another Suffolk pub where we were regulars but after reading several recent reviews on Tripadvisor decided against it at the last minute. Needing a dog friendly pub for Sunday lunch to meet friends limits things but we managed to get in at The Dog at the time we wanted. Service was maybe a little on the slow side but as we were catching up with friends that we hadn't seen for a year we didn't really notice. Nice atmosphere in the bar are where we were seated and staff were very helpful as I was the designated driver and needed low alcohol beer, given a reasonable choice by the young man taking the order. The white wine apparently was very good too. We all ended up having Sunday roasts, 2 pork and 2 beef and both were spot on. Decent size portions and not overloaded and piled high on the plate (one of my pet hates) One of us asked for only one potato and more vegetables and that was no bother at all. One potato arrived with a nice portion of green beans. Value wise - no complaints at all. We've had much worse Sunday roasts and paid a lot more for them. A pity it's so far away for us as we would happily be regulars.

Such a shame as it feels you are still operating a limited menu like we are still in lock down (main course all with chips) ) A locals opinion, it feels both the Lion and White Horse are targeting only transient clientele through holiday season and why maybe, they are quieter out of season where public houses with good old ‘English food’ for the local community are a busier. Both great pubs, staff lovely, but the food really needs some attention and love and updating!

We have eaten a number of times at The Dog and Duck and it is always reliable and welcoming. The service is always helpful and efficient and the food is excellent: delicious goat's cheese salad, gorgeous roast beef and fantastic burger. All this and a great atmosphere in a proper pub.

We stayed for two nights to visit nearby Thursford, where we were booked to see the Christmas show. Initial impressions weren’t great. The room was monastic, with only the bed, a rickety cupboard and two hard chairs doubling as bedside tables. The curtains looked like they had been made of monks’ habits. This might be a deliberate design vibe chosen by the hotel, given its proximity to the shrine. The bathroom was very small and a bit tired. Having said that, everything was clean and functional and the bed was comfortable. We had a very nice meal in the restaurant. The staff and locals were friendly. Breakfast was good, included in the price. We went out for the day and left our key at reception. We returned after the show at about 22.10 to find the place closed and no one on duty. We were locked out. Our key on the hook behind reception or our belongings in the room hadn’t suggested that someone ought to wait for all registered guests to be accounted for. We called an out of hours number and the manager did return to let us in. She said they ‘didn’t take any notice of the keys’ which seems like a cavalier attitude to residents’ comfort or wellbeing. I was also surprised and a bit shocked that there was no staff on site overnight in case of emergency. However, the manageress was friendly and didn’t seem to mind having been called out. Maybe it happens quite a lot. When we returned to our room we found it had not been made up for us. The tea tray had not been replenished so we couldn’t make ourselves a hot drink. We paid £225 for our two night stay, so it wasn’t a ‘budget’ price, but I feel we got budget treatment.

Around 18 of us had the Anchor booked for lunch and it was very very good. Welcoming friendly staff and an obviously excellent chef. Eighteen orders served at the same time, all hot and superbly cooked. If you are looking for a good lunch in Woodbridge then this is the place to go.

We booked one of the garden domes to make it a special Christmas lunch get together for our friends and their daughters. The girls loved the cosy dome where we could play music and they could go outside and use the play equipment. The food was exceptional! How did we not know about this before? The service was super-fast and Lauren looked after us so well. She was very knowledgeable about the dishes and answered all our questions. Very impressed with her customer service skills. The girls had burgers and the adults opted for the Greek dishes and they were superb. All in all, a very relaxed, enjoyable Sunday lunch. We heard that the pub is closing briefly for work to enlarge the kitchen. Once it’s back open, we will come again and bring friends. Food and service like that is worth waiting for.

Food presentation is abysmal; every course is served in bowls. Starter Fenland Chicken served in small desert bowl, on top of a very small salad (a garnish), not at all easy to manage to cut etc really needed to be on a small plate, I just gave up trying and my husband managed to eat most of mine as well as his. The mains then arrived in bowls too...Mine had sloppy mashed potato, topped with a small lamb shank then covered with red cabbage, not an appetising sight. I scrapped the cabbage to one side and removed the bone which I had to put on a napkin as there was no space for it, and once again cutting was very awkward at an angle and I had to move the meat off the potato, not an enjoyable meal... My husband’s meal of Porchetta (Stuffed Belly Pork) also arrived in a bowl stacked on one half of sloppy mashed potato and the other half red cabbage which looked very messy and not at all appetising. The pork was tough and hard to cut made even worse by being served in a bowl, and was very bland tasting. We ordered desert, a couple of scoops of ice cream for my husband which my husband said was the best part of the meal as it came as expected and had not been messed about with. I ordered Treacle Sponge with ice cream which arrived in a deep sided soup bowl (about 5 inches deep) with the ice cream on top of hot sponge, Although the angle of maneuver was awkward I had to agree with my husband that the sponge was the best part of my meal too.

bacon bap was hard and cold. Chicken and chorizo panini was cold 2 small pieces of chorizo and no chicken. Hot choc wasnt hot and as we are only a short distance away i can only assume they were produced like that.