The best restaurants serving Other european-cuisines food in South Kesteven East Midlands

We visited today. We usually use Mad Hatters Tea Room but it was full. So we headed across the road to Lillies Lavander Hat and we were super surprised at how great the little place is! The breakfast is epic! The food is very good quality- the sausage in particular was very, very good quality and tasted so good!! Often cafes scrimp on sausage and bacon but that is not the case here! They also do a proper flat white which is great because often I have an issue finding smaller places that actually do proper flat whites so this is another win for this little place! So, if you want a great breakfast and a proper flat white. Make sure you visit this place!! Don’t be a sheep and just go to the other place across the road! Let’s support our other small businesses! If you don’t use them, you’ll lose them!

The King's Head is good at any time of year. The Christmas singalong is just plain stellar. There are always really unusual guest ales, and even beers brewed especially for the pub. Friendly staff complete the offering. Stamford is full of pubs. The King's Head is some thing special, small but perfectly formed.

Sadly The George doesn't live up to it's reputation these days. We recently ate in the Oak Pannelled Dining room, we had to pour our own wine as the waiting staff seemed oblivious to empty glasses. The roast beef was delicious and the accompanying vegetables tasty. Sadly the cherry chocolate roulade tasted as if it had been bought in (mass produced) & lacked the sour cherry tang and the chocolate was disappointingly insipid. The cheese souffle we had to start was ok, rather overpowered by the mustard sauce. We had to request the biscuits to accompany our coffee. The Christmas decorations were not as opulent as previous years. The waiting team were all pleasant but seemed inexperienced and unable to deliver a high quality service. The bill was not insignificant and did not match the experience. Shame really, because the building is impressive and there is a huge opportunity to enhance the ambience and without doubt the service needs to be elevated. This being said we will most probably revisit in the summer as the outside courtyard is lovely.

Superb meal, and excellence service. A massive thank you to the team for a lovely evening and meal. The cod was out of this world, as was the rest of the meal. We could praise the evening enough.

Went in on spec on a busy weekday morning. There were plenty of people in the place but as we approached an empty table to see what the notice on it said, a thoroughly unpleasant and unwelcoming young member of staff snarled 'it's reserved, there's room upstairs'. I commented 'wow, what a welcome'. We duly went upstairs and when mentioned to the same member of staff that we were ready to order she snipped back 'there are two more people to take orders from before you'. We duly left. What an ungracious, unsophisticated young woman. To behave like that at work, presumably with her employer's blessing, beggars belief. No care, no flair, no manners, no panache. There are plenty other wonderful places to have a coffee in Stamford, we will patronise them from now on. In mentioning our experience to a neighbour locally she commented she'd experienced similar. What a shambles Fika, come on managers and get this all changed round.

Didn’t know what to expect but this was a wonderful experience. The staff were lovely and the food even better. Thank you so much we can’t wait to come again.

What a great find. Friendly and helpful staff. Great flat white and a delicious cardamom and cinnamon bun. Took my cash without any problem, which I appreciated as this is becoming increasingly rare. Will definitely be back when I next visit Stamford.

Stayed here last month. Really nice place, lovely location and locely courtyard. Food was very good. Great powerful shower. Only small complaint was the room was extrmely hot (and not even a hot day) but there was a portable fan in the room so wasn’t too bad. Would definitely stay again.

We take turns with some friends of ours to visit each other, and enjoy a new eating venue together. It was our turn last weekend, so we took them to Smith's, confident we'd all love it. We reserved a table, but they gave us the choice of choosing another one, which we did. There were plenty of tasty-looking options, and my friends went for a Sunday roast, while my wife and I chose the burgers. I very carefully pointed out my wife's tomato-allergy, which they took on board. When the food arrived, they explicitly announced my wife's burger, but when she cut it in half (a fortunate habit of hers on this occasion!) she found a tomato!! Not wanting to cause a fuss, we swapped burgers (as they'd given me hers), but mentioned the situation on leaving. The manager couldn't have been any more apologetic/courteous, and he won us all over with his top-level hospitality skills. Overall, therefore, our experience at Smith's was excellent - brilliant food, quick service, superb manager (either Jack, or Callum, we're not sure...) We HIGHLY recommend others to eat here, and my friends have already asked if we'll book in again on their next visit!!