The best restaurants serving French food in East Midlands

The menu may not look exciting, but the service is superb, and the quiche, calamari, toasties are all truly excllent, served with a wonderful salad with watercress, courgette silices, tomato and avocado. The pâtisserie is worth driving hours for, I have rarely encountered such fine lemon tarts, just bitter enough, but with citron written on the top in dark chocolate to enhance the lemon. There are many lunch options in Southwell, but this is memorable.

We're visiting from Leigh-on-Sea and staying in a local airbnb. Our host recommended this restaurant, and she wasn't wrong. We were welcomed by I presume the owner, and he was fun from the start. The food was delicious and served by 2 lovely girls. I can't fault this restaurant it's a proper old-fashioned Indian restaurant as we used to get down South with a free drink after the meal and a cobra with a takeaway. Just lovely! Don't stop what you're doing it works ....thankyou 🙏

First come last served, unless you’re a regular and you get your drinks before anyone else didn’t even have to order was brought to straight to their table. Not how a restaurant should be ran, first come first served that’s how it’s meant to work.

This was the first time I visited this place. On arrival, we found out you could only order from the Christmas menu, which is very limited. The quality of the food was very poor, and what you would expect from a budget cafe and the serving sizes were small. No matter what main course you ordered, you got the same roast potatoes and veg to share !!! Even a choice of new potatoes would have been better. If you just want a low end meal then this is for you.

7 of us arrived for a lunch at 12.00pm. At 1.15 we were still waiting for our first course The soup arrived but was cold . The main course chips were also cold and the fish could best be described as fish flavoured bread crumbs. The young waiting staff were polite and helpful which could not be said for the lady supervisor who was rude and unhelpful not the example one would expect from quoting from the site’s web “careful supervision of students by our professional chef-lecturers and technicians” . We left at 3pm!!!! Just over 3 hours!!! This was not of our doing but the lateness of being served our meal. This is not the first time we had eaten at 'The Lane' and on all other occasions we have enjoyed the food and the service. This time it was terrible, we will NOT be booking again which is a shame.

Once again had eggs Benedict and the eggs themselves were perfect. Absolutely amazing. I think the hens that lay them must be the happiest on the planet 😁 Had the same dish at the Wolseley recently and the eggs weren’t a patch on these.

Food always good. Nice ambiance, I had the sea bass which was very good perfectly cooked. Can't wait to go back again soon. Thanks to all the staff for making it so enjoyable.

Steak very tasty, the staff is ok, maybe short, at the entrance there were people waiting for a table from time to time, otherwise, the treatment was appropriate. I asked to pay by cash and the staff told me that they don't have any change,that's sad, the company decided this which is against law by the way.

Me and my friend went to this restaurant to try something new as we always go to one place. We were pleasantly surprised how cozy it was! The food was brilliant and the service that was provided by Yana was amazing. Definitely would return again. Also, we went on a Sunday and had a table booked at 15:00, but the restaurant was closing at 16:00, but the staff Yana & Gitana served us anyway and worked longer to ensure we have great experience.

Really mediocre, food was bland boring and all in all just bad. Service was the bare minimum and clunky at the best of times, sorbet was just ice cream, mousse was over whipped and ruined. Raspberry mojito was absolutely disgusting, mint was dead, brown and muddled so bits of mint kept seeping through the straw, cubed ice not crushed ice. Then the calamari came out, 5 pieces of calamari as a starter is very poor, and was served with a lime??? Garlic butter didn't taste of anything except herbs, no garlic whatsoever. No atmosphere at all, the playlist of music was so random and more like what you would expect in a bar or nightclub. How is this place still open?!? There wasn't a single good thing about it and it was expensive. Really poor and puts French food to shame, won't be returning that's for sure, so disappointed 😞

I recommend it to anyone, as it is a fantastic place where you can find luxury and comfort in a countryside location. I loved it.

Me and my family have been enjoying the best tasting Indian cuisine from this establishment for over 20 years they are masters of what they do

Top notch authentic Indian cuisine. Our table of 11 were all happy from start to finish. Our food was delicious, the service was impeccable and the atmosphere was so relaxed . Not the first time I’ve been and it most definitely won’t be the last!

The drinks menu is great, loads of tasty options. I enjoyed the chocolate frappé.

We had lunch here at Gunthorpe and was very disappointed. My mother and my wife had steak pie with a sauce that tasted like disinfectant. I had the fish and chips. The fish looked grey and also tasted funny. We mentioned this to our waitress and she apologised and offered us a free dessert or drinks. We ordered coffees. Not the waitresses fault she was very nice and did her best. This was the last meal I had with my mother before she passed and thank the chef for making it memorable for the wrong reason. Dont think I will go back.