East Anglia Restaurant Guide

The name is apt, since the Boat Race crews launched from this building in 1944 when the event was staged outside London during the war years.

5 - 5a Annesdale, Ely, Cambridgeshire

'A dining experience for fish lovers not to be missed,' enthused one UK Restaurant Guide user. Opened in the mid-60s, the Pinney family's vintage seafood café still stakes its reputation on locally bred oysters and incomparable smoked fish (cured in the smokehouse next to the beds at Butley Creek).

Market Hill, Orford, Suffolk

The nation's best known cook turned sporting supremo is now as likely to be seen wearing her Norwich City football scarf as her kitchen apron, and she set up Delia's Canary Catering as a sign of her allegiance to the club.

Norwich City Football Ground, Norwich, Norfolk

Founded in 1985, Curry Special is a vast, glass-fronted space with a devotion to entertainment and good food. An abstract design runs throughout the entire place, with beautiful canvas paintings, a glass spiral staircase linking the two colourful dining rooms, plasma screens and a state-of-the-art lighting system.

Horns Road, Ilford, Essex

Opened in 1987 and still on song, David Warne's smart Georgian residence in a Fenland village north of Ely is only open for dinner two nights a week, but it's well worth making the effort.

2 Lynn Road, Littleport, Cambridgeshire

Since 1979, the Kikis family has been dispensing their own version of old-school fish cookery in a converted pub on Yarmouth quay.

85 North Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

An unusual three-tiered garden overlooking Bramfield's equally distinctive thatched church is part of the attraction of Amanda and Marc Corcoran's forward-looking Suffolk gastro pub.

The Street, Halesworth, Suffolk

Andrew Lister and Garry Cook worked their way through some of East Anglia's top restaurants before taking over this bright-and-breezy seaside bolthole.

152 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

In the heart of Norwich's upwardly mobile 'Golden Triangle' not far from the University, the Mad Moose is related to The Wildebeest Arms at Stoke Holy Cross.

2 Warwick Street, Norwich, Norfolk

Nigel and Carol Ramsbottom run this village pub as a double act: he cooks while she works behind the bar and runs the show out front.

The Street, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk