The best restaurants serving British food in Canterbury South East

Booked and paid a £30 deposit for lunch on Easter Sunday only to turn up to find the restaurant closed with a closed until further notice sign on the door. No message from them to inform us. DO Not Book with this restaurant wherever they are now.

I’ve been here a few times and the quality is consistently excellent. They serve the nicest coffees in Canterbury by a long shot and their kimchi toastie is absolutely delicious. In addition I always receive very friendly and cheerful service.

Very good coffee and great sundaes just like the originals, fir those of us old enough to remember that!!

Visited the hotel for a meal, food was excellent, service amazing. The staff were the most politest people we have been served by for a long time.Will definitely be going back

Excellent home cooked Sunday lunch - great service and a lovely atmosphere. The lamb was amazing !! Will be back for more .

I love this bakery - good choice of beautifully baked loaves at reasonable prices. Better choice of cakes would be welcome - but everything is tasty !

Came here for a hot chocolate & it was delicious. Both my husband & I had the Hazelnut flavour. There was plenty of choice & staff were friendly. Will definitely pop in again.

The cooking is top-notch. I wish I could have eaten all my grub! Cauliflower soup with Camembert toasties would have been enough all by itself. But we also had wild mushroom suet pudding with rich gravy, outstanding! Dessert was a chocolate cremeaux (no I don’t know) with dots of a very raspberry purée and hazelnuts. The food here is inventive, even for veggies, but absolutely solid and satisfying.

Great theme and decor along with a great selection of food and drinks, served nicely with a smile!

We go there once a week as a treat always look forward to it great home made food and reasonably price very friendly staff.

Really unique restaurant with a welcoming feel and clearly has lots of exciting events going on throughout the year. We enjoyed our food and drink and the portions were really generous. I only wish we had had room for dessert!

Gingerbreads is the best cafe around. Our business is based round the corner from Gingerbreads and we often visit for lunch/brunch and afternoon snacks! Food is scrumptious. I would personally recommend their chicken caesar salad. The cakes and cookies they have are delcious! High end service the staff always go the extra mile and are super friendly. I have also had their grazing boxes for a girls day out - quality produce and reasonable prices i would never use anywhere else if i needed an event catered for. Thank you Gingerbreads!

I wouldn’t normally write a Google review but the food was so fantastic that I had to. We ordered multiple tapas style dishes and I liked every one so much I wouldn’t have been able to pick a favourite. They flavours are imaginative and the food is well presented. The staff were also very attentive and welcoming. I would definitely recommend Land and sea!

Such a lovely welcome from staff to us and our little dog. Enjoyed the daily special of beef bourginion. Lovely relaxed atmosphere and would return if and when we visit Kent again.

We visited here having seen mixed reviews but wanted to give it a try ourselves. We ordered a non alcoholic margarita cocktail and a regular whiskey sour. I was so impressed to see actual alcohol free cocktails as this is rare, and they were presented beautifully. Top marks- if I was local I’d come back here repeatedly as they were very reasonably priced. We ordered chicken wings to start-lovely and crisp but with just a drizzle of sauce across the top. A little pot to dip would have been even better as it was delicious (chicken fil-a sauce.) For mains we ordered a whole lobster Thermidor. I’ve eaten this many times elsewhere over the years. The sauce was NOT a Thermidor sauce. It was an odd tasting,watery type sauce which took away from the taste of the lobster. Also,the lobster was tiny and there was very little meat at all. Chips lovely and crisp and hot. We also had the baby back ribs. They lacked flavour. If they were seasoned,I couldn’t taste it,and I’d expect some sort of bbq flavour or an accompanying sauce. There was none. Quite bland but very tender meat. Lastly we had the pulled pork mac and cheese. Plenty of cheese and pork on top but the watery sauce used on the lobster appears to be used on the pasta as well. It was not a creamy,gooey,cheesy sauce,as it should, be so disappointing and we didn’t finish it. Nothing was properly seasoned and I can only describe it as insipid. Luckily, we visited at 5pm when it is 20% off so we didn’t feel ripped off. Staff were friendly and helpful. I wouldn’t visit again (apart from for the bar.) There’s a far superior bbq restaurant a few minutes down the road in Whitstable.