East Anglia Restaurant Guide

'An excellent example of a real country pub,' noted one UK Restaurant Guide reporter about this revitalised hostelry, The Thatchers Arms on the Essex/Suffolk border overlooking the glorious Stour Valley at Mount Bures.

Hall Road, Mount Bures, Essex

The Sandbar & Seafood Co is one of the chic frontrunners on Leigh on Sea's Broadway drag, this family-owned restaurant is a great local favourite, offering a zesty menu of seafood dishes in unfussy contemporary surroundings.

71 Broadway, Leigh on Sea, Essex

Opened as a coaching inn in 1679, the George of Spaldwick is still a quintessential English country hostelry situated beside the local manor house and overlooking the village green.

5-7 High Street, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire

Situated midway between East Dereham and Swaffham, Greenbanks Hotel nestles sweetly amid eight acres of fabulous wild-flower meadows, native trees, walks, private fishing lakes and lovely gardens to explore at your leisure.

Swaffham Road, East Dereham, Norfolk

Norwich City Football Club are known affectionately as the Canaries, so it's no surprise that Delia Smith's latest culinary venture at Carrow Road should called Yellows.

Norwich City Football Club, Norwich, Norfolk

An exciting new arrival on King's Lynn waterfront, Bradley's occupies a Georgian merchant's house - complete with an old 'Belvedere' lookout position on the top floor.

10 South Quay, King's Lynn, Norfolk

Dating back to 1490, the Froize Inn (a few miles from Woodbridge) has seen many changes over the centuries, and re-opened in 1981 after many years as a private residence.

The Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk

A handy fixture of the Cambridge scene, just off the main drag, Backstreet Bistro wins friends with its relaxed, convivial mood and colourful eclectic cooking.

2 Sturton Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

For hundreds of years, the George was a stopping-off point for travellers on the old Great North Road between London and York.

High Street, Buckden, Cambridgeshire

Head chef and proprietor of The Magic Mushroom, Billericay, Darren Bennet has created a menu featuring down-to-earth traditional food, skilfully and individually prepared, which draws on the past while also offering the new and novel with ingredients, sourced locally and organic where possible.

Barleylands Road, Billericay, Essex