The best restaurants serving British food in South East

Awful food, it was cold and swimming in fat. Service was very slow. Informed the manager who simply said 'yes its fatty' and that was it. Really do not recommend at all.

My friend and I came here today, we walked in and got a table straight away without booking. We ordered from the valentines menu. We ordered our meals at the same time (table service) and my friends meal turned up but not mine. So we left it for a while, then about 5 minutes later mine still wasn’t out so my friend started to eat as she didn’t want hers to go cold. I got the attention of a staff member and she had said she noticed it looked strange so checked and my starter had gone on the mains side. So it would be 1 minute and they are sorting it… unfortunately it was 12 minutes later my food had come out, so nearly 20 minutes after my friend had hers, and had finished. The staff was apologetic about it. For mains I had risotto, and my friend had the Sea bass. My risotto was okay, could have done with a bit of cheese and I think the mushrooms cut instead of whole mushrooms?? They were only buttons but think they would be better in slices or different. The food wasn’t hot, it was just warm but after the whole starters, we just wanted out. For desert, we went for the cheesecake as the lemon tart was out, but we took it home as we had had enough at that point. Drinks were okay, quickly done. The staff were all very polite and kind, just a shame a few bits let them down. I enjoy the menu at the Vintage Inn group so I would return, the setting is lovely, but I’m not sure if I would eat here again or not. Everything tasted great, just a shame about the timings!

Popped in today on the off chance for a light lunch was intending to have mushrooms on toast but it was not on the menu so I opted for the houmous and was pleasantly surprised,lovely staff I was served by Mary .and shown to the table by a pleasant young man.

Lovely Sunday roast for Mother’s Day. Great service from Jo. Best dog treats ever were kindly brought to the table too.

We hadn't visited the Derby arms for some time and decided to try out this iconic pub/restaurant . The welcome was warm and very friendly we were shown to our table and given the menus by Matt. He took our drink order and returned shortly to take our food requests. Matt has got to be the most courteous friendly and most efficient young man I've ever had the pleasure to be served by. The food arrived and it was absolutely delicious. The whole experience was lovely,so much so we've booked again for next week! Well done Matt.

Very friendly pub, lovely food, service was very good, would highly recommend

Arrived on a lovely sunny day and so the pub was very busy. A waitress saw us waiting and checked us in and showed us to our table. We had a 6 month old with us and needed hot water to warm his bottle up and this was no problem, the water was replaced 3 times. Food was good, not too much of a wait. Waitress was attentive and looked after us well - thank you Chloe, you were great!

Amazing service, and great food.

I like all Wetherspoons. Red wine needs a rethink, so I switch to white.

Great find beautiful views excellent food and service

We decided last minute to go out for Sunday lunch. We were made to feel very welcome food was lovely and staff were very nice and friendly. We will be back

An absolute disgrace. After returning the first meal as the beef was not pink as advised and all the vegetables were cold and soft not to mention a Yorkshire pudding that was flat as a pancake and the stuffing was solid and cold. They then send me a dish that was even worse. The YP was frozen inside. All I got was sorry we will refund the meal. No free drink no real acknowledgement of the trash they served.

Came here for lunch. Have to say the food we had was very good with pretty generous portions and very tasty. Service was friendly and good as well, would certainly come back. The only downside is that access can be a little tricky at the moment, with the local authority digging up several of the roads locally, at least one direction was blocked, ut was well worth the effort.

As a fairly regular visitor I have to say I’ve never experienced any problems. And today was no different. We were advised there was a bit of a delay with food orders, but quite honestly it was only the normal 15/20 minute wait from ordering to when our food arrived. The quality was good, it was hot, well presented, and the staff serving it were very pleasant. Same with the deserts, although I could have eaten a larger portion, even though I probably shouldn’t! & a pint was less than a fiver. You don’t get that in many places generally.

Arrived for a meal to be asked have you booked a table (we hadn’t) to be told we don’t accept walk in customers ( the restaurant was virtually empty)? But could sit in the bar side area and order from the same restaurant menu. I ordered a mixed grill with steak medium rare, and my partner ordered a bacon burger after approximately 40 minutes later the food arrived, my steak was so overcooked it was borderline black and bone dry, the triple cooked chips were barely cooked once never mind triple cooked, my partner’s burger was also burnt to a crisp it looked like a carpet tile and the bacon shattered into pieces when trying to cut it. I wouldn’t trust the chef (using that title very loosely) to make toast. Worse experience ever I wouldn’t return even if the food was free and I was starving! Avoid… top prices for extremely substandard food.