The best restaurants serving British food in South East

We've been here several times for lunch and we will not be coming again. Expensive food that's not that good. It does look much better than the old cafe that was there before but that is all I can say about it.

This is the main restaurant for the Spa Hotel - a lovely hotel in Tunbridge Wells. We expected it therefore to be at least good and cancelled a restaurant booking in town to try it. There were very few customers when we went at 6.00pm on a Saturday evening. The restaurant itself is lovely inside and has great views and friendly, helpful and good humoured waiting staff who were brilliant with our 4 year old daughter. The problem is the food. It is expensive but hardly even mediocre. Our bread platter had bread that was so dry our daughter couldn’t eat it and we returned it. My starter was a meat terrine that was frankly a dull slab and rather tasteless. My wife had salmon mosaic starter that again was bland. Our main courses were pork belly - with mashed potato that tasted like Smash - and a vegetable petit pain concoction that was small and tasteless. My daughter had ‘fish and chips’ where the fish pieces were mainly a very dry batter like substance. Again she left most of it: I ate some to see why and regretted it. Dessert for her was fine but it was just fruit and ice cream. So the meal was expensive, very disappointing and very slow indeed to be served - amazingly so when at first we were the only diners. This is such a shame as breakfast in the morning is fine and again the serving staff are excellent. We will definitely stay at the hotel again but next time we won’t be having an evening meal in the restaurant!

I read the review of the golf course below from 2017 but nonetheless looked forward to my visit. I have too say that whoever designed the golf course did a great job and the layout is impressive. There were also a few greenkeepers out on the course keeping the bunkers raked etc. Overall though the condition of the course was disappointing with a capital D. The tees and fairways were scruffy and the first cut of rough poorly kept. The greens however were decent with few pitch marks thereon. The trouble with Merrist Wood is that it lies in the heart of rich golf territory but has clearly made a conscious effort not to compete with the better courses nearby and alas it shows. In the clubhouse the lights didn't work in the toilets and still didn't work four and a half hours later with calls into question the quality of the facilities management. Food and drink was competitively priced and of acceptable quality. Having played over 300 courses in the UK the big question is would I return? Despite the great layout the answer is very unlikely. Very nearly rated poor.

Viernes por la noche pescado, patatas fritas y guisantes con los niños. La masa estaba súper crujiente, el bacalao encantador y fresco y las porciones eran muy generosas, es decir, dos comidas suficientes para 3 de nosotros.

We had some small plates for dinner as we had a large lunch. We had squid, some mushroom arancini and bruschetta. All were good size for starters and very tasty, especially the arancini. Service was excellent and staff are very friendly. Fairly small menu but what they had on offer looked good and our food was good value.

Decidí reservar una merienda por la tarde en el hotel, con mi amigo como regalo de cumpleaños. Realmente me hubiese gustado no haber elegido este hotel. A su llegada, había confusión sobre mi reserva, mi nombre, y si tuviera un vale o no. No tenía ni idea de qué se refería, pero luego nos sentimos decepcionados de que quizás había una oferta especial que tenía perdimos. Los bocadillos eran todas las tartas eran rancios y hard rock, no fue sin duda recién preparados. Los bollos, que llegó más tarde y la taza de té eran tanto agradable. No nos dieron servilletas/servilletas y tuve que usar el mantel para limpiar nuestras manos, hasta que pudimos encontrar a alguien para pedir algo. Me parecio muy corto de personal. Pedimos un vaso de agua fría, pero nos dieron agua caliente en teteras en vez, tardó media hora para finalmente conseguir el agua fría. Fuimos a pagar, pero no había personal por un buen 15 minutos a preguntar. Ciertamente no es el de alta calidad que cabe esperar de un lugar elegante como este. Es una pena que fue tan decepcionante y mi día especial fue arruinado! Estoy seguro de que hay restaurantes mucho mejor calidad!

Me encanta el náutico. Un lugar tan agradable en medio de Southampton, en el parque, en un día soleado. Tengo un pan tostado y papas fritas cargadas. Gracias al equipo. Absolutamente en el lugar.

Very poor food cold smelly staff did not care waited a long time they did not want us there the table cloths were not clean there was food on the floor

Food was delivered. My son found a long grey hair in his battered sausage underneath the batter. The food was awful normally ok. We phoned the take away to speak to someone they didn't care less about it. Just said ok bye. NEVER use them again...now both kids are complaining of stomach pains and visited toilet..

Went here for the first time last week and the food quality was amazing. Fast service and lovely polite staff! You can tell that they really care about their customers, would definitely come back here.

I’ve often driven passed The Sandwich Board but never used them until yesterday. I was very pleasantly surprised to find they offer a very good selection of fresh food, made to order, reasonably priced and friendly staff. So pleased I decided to stop for my lunch!! I’ll definitely be using them again. Good to see an independent nailing it!

Staff we pleasant, food was perfect, was a pleasure to be in a country pub, nice setting nothing was any trouble

It's an average Starbucks with average service. You have probably been to one before and know what you are getting. Glad to see they have ethical coffee.

Only allowed 2 vegetables with your dinner, you have to choose between red cabbage, cauliflower, carrots or pancetta. I like a selection of veg as you get on most roasts. The Lamb was excellent as was the braised red cabbage. The cauliflower had barely seen hot water and was still very crunchy and the roast potatoes had been kept warm a little to long to make the skins a bit chewy. The venue is very cold feeling with none of the ambience of a restaurant. It’s clearly a young persons bar. There’s better out there at better prices.

Intentamos pedir un fish and chips en este sitio y, después de 40 minutos, nos fuimos cansados de esperar. Mal organizado, clientes muy maleducados que se colaban todo el rato y olor a fritanga.