The best restaurants serving British food in East of England

Good evening! I’ve been a returning customer of the star for over four years now. I was always impressed by the service and food, hence why I’ve always returned. Last night, I had an unfortunate experience that means I won’t be returning. An employee (with long hair, baggy shorts, nose piercings) was extremely rude towards my friends and I. She first came out with our food and slammed it down on the table. Then she brought my friends food out which had a bug on it. My friend asked for a new dish as obviously it had a fly on it. The girl said “Well, (10 second pause) I’ll see what my manager says” and then continued to huff and sigh very loudly as she walked off. Personally, I’ve never been spoken to like that and I was not impressed by how rude she was. Rolling her eyes at us and just being for all I can describe ‘not a very nice person’

Highly recommend The chequers Inn, as a business user staying away most weeks its extremely refreshing when you have a warm welcome on check-in. All you can wish for when away from home is a clean bedroom with a comfy bed, Nice shower with hot water & a decent bite to eat before getting a good nights sleep. Bonus being a nice breakfast in the morning. The Chequers Inn provided all the above & the rooms have recently been redecorated & refurbished, food was perfect both evening meal & Breakfast. Price was within budget as well, so also ticked that box. All in all a nice stay that sets you up for a good day !! I'll definitely be staying there again when back in the area.

Tonight we went here to watch England and the atmosphere and food (we only ordered nibbles) were great! Thanks for a fab night x

We phoned in advance asking to stay in our campervan. Put us in the paddock. Outside toilet is open 24/7. We came to the beer festival with live music. We ate in the dining room and the food was lovely. It is a very accommodating pub, loved it.

Brilliant value for money and the food is epic. Service flawless. Atmosphere is lovely too. Visited here several times now and have never been disappointed. Happily will recommend and will defo be returning.

Excellent menu and lovely staff who were very welcoming. Great food and lovely choice of deserts Would definitely recommend a visit. We will be going back

Great pub, great atmosphere, local treasure, no cooked food, very well kept beers, free house, owner managed, real fire, traditional village pub.

We had a delicious meal here, food was really tasty and service was great. We had our toddler with us and they had a high chair and small kids menu. We ate inside but the bonus was they have a great beer garden out the back with some play equipment so we had a drink outside after dinner whilst our toddler played. We returned on another occasion for just a drink and again, service really good and friendly locals too! They didn’t serve food every night so worth checking this if like us, you are staying at The Harper and heading there for a meal.

My father passed away yesterday, so I rang the Woolpack to arrange for a funeral tea for fifty people. The initial call with a young lady was pleasant enough, but she wasn’t sure about being able to pay and have the menu upgraded (currently £9.95 per head) She asked us to wait whilst she spoke to the chef - ‘Richard’ - to see if this was possible. We overheard their conversation. The lady told him what we wanted - a funeral tea - and that we’d like to know if we could upgrade. He said to her “You get what you get. That’s it”. She asked if he would talk to us and he said no, but after she pleaded with him, he came to the phone. He was awful. We won’t be having our wake there, nor will EVER use this pub - our local - again.

Owner is quite rude, selection of beer is fairly average. The food is quite obviously defrosted and overall it’s nothing to get excited about.

This place is an absolute joke! The kitchen manager has no idea what he's doing and lying to residents about when they can eat - 1:45pm today we were refused lunch saying they stopped at 2 and only do light bites after but they wouldn't even do that and said sandwiches only! Bear in mind this restaurant is for the elderly that need a nice hot meal - what place stops serving hot food at 1:45 even though all menus were still on table - manager didn't care

Después llegó ayer como residente, me quedé muy impresionado por el memorial de guerra. Es un recordatorio del sacrificio fuerzas conmovedores británico sufrió.

Had dinner with friends. Food was great. Service was great. Served by Danny. Great dude. Great time.

We booked a family lunch to celebrate my husband’s 60th birthday. We were staying nearby in Holt. It’s an attractive pub in a lovely location. The waitresses who served us were very pleasant although a couple of things were forgotten or the wrong thing brought. The food was only average unfortunately. Gnocchi was bland and quite tasteless. Sunday roast was ok but nothing special. This was disappointing as it was a celebration. We probably wouldn’t go there again to eat.

We were seated promptly, ordered our meal at the bar and our starters came out 15 mins later which is about average in most pubs. The main took 1hr 20mins but 10 mins before this turned up we were told there was no veggie strips for the burger and due to the lack of options for vegetarians my wife ended up with just the extra chips she had ordered. When the food arrived it was almost cold and the chips tasted like cardboard, the burger had been massively overcooked. Generally it was very poor food which did not warrant the price we had paid, the manager tried to offer us desserts for free but we had already been in the pub for over 2 hrs we were not going to risk it and the quality so far did not bode well. We have eaten at many Marstons before and always been happy with the service and food quality, this branch needs much improvement!