The best restaurants serving Mediterranean food in Suffolk Coastal East of England

I have been wanting to go here for a couple of months so when it was chosen as a venue for our monthly dinner club, I was delighted to be able to attend. It was just as well that there were fourteen of us because, apart from us there were only a couple of other tables in use and a few takeaways. First impressions are always important and mine were not good. The two waiting staff were chatting away behind the bar and made no attempt to make me feel welcome. Nor did they offer a drink until the rest of the table arrived some fifteen minutes later. We'd been asked to pre-order to aid the kitchen. My choice was a Sigara Borek, filo pastry filled with feta cheese. Disappointingly bland really and, at £6.95, pricey I felt. The main course - Incik - was a lamb shank and, at £19.95, it was tasty enough with the plentiful meat falling off the bone, but it really wasn't very hot. The very small portion of chips were overcooked and also lukewarm. The best bit of the meal was the very nice Turkish bread and Cacik, the Turkish equivalent of Tzatziki. Other folk have raved about the Anatolia, but I'm afraid I left feeling distinctly underwhelmed.

Really nice tasty food, well presented, friendly professional waitress. Lovely decor, good atmosphere, reasonably priced. Would have been a five star, but at 8.05 pm on a Sunday, asked for coffee to finish off the three course meal, to be told, coffee machine had been switched off. There were still other people enjoying their meals in the restaurant. A little disappointing.

Weekend visit, quiet pub, chosen because reviews spoke of good wholesome food backed up with photos of cod and chips Burgers, Only to find the options were breakfast only. Landlord/ barman seemed less than enthusiastic about the prospect of serving food as the kitchen was closing in “half an hour” but we were reluctantly served a breakfast. We noted other meals carried past contained black pudding while ours did not and noted other tables were served chips while we were told “we only do Breakfast’s!” In all it was ok but not a welcoming establishment and nothing particularly special. Wouldn’t return or recommend it but if it’s raining at least it’s dry inside.

Went to Istanbul got there and saw this guy smashing his meat stick over the lamb donner and proceeded to then ask me to wait until the final climax before serving my food