The best restaurants in South Kesteven East Midlands

This community owned and run shop and café is a rural gem. Friendly and helpful staff, it was more like visiting family than a café, with everything freshly made to order. The shop itself had a wide range of excellent quality groceries and a very tempting range of locally provisioned fancy good. An amazing find in this small village.

Naga Tandoori make unbelievably fantastic food, from Indian to Pizza and other fast foods such as Burgers & Kebabs. My Wife has certain food allergies that are hard to cater for, however Naga found this no issue at all and went above and beyond to make her a bespoke meal that was out of this world! They have recently changed to a Collection/Drive Through service that's so quick and easy to use and serves many of the small villages in the area far more conveniently than restaurants from Grantham and Sleaford. There are many varied dishes, ranging from mild to very spicy, and all taste phenomenal (I prefer the hot stuff and they can certainly cater for that!)

This deli shop sells local farm produce and snacks to take away. Got our lunch and meal deal here with the hot item being a cheese and onion pasty. It was delicious and how a pasty should be. The filling is a lovely mix of mashed potato, onions and cheese. Even from the first bite, you can tell quality ingredients when into the pasty. The pastry was crisp and dry, the cheese and onion made their presence felt. The pasty has been properly filled out with mashed potato and doesn’t feel oily like cheaper pasties. A great lunch stop if you’re in Bourne.

This is such great food. I have never had anything like it. It’s brilliant value for money as it really does fill you up and the flavours are beautiful. I think my favourite is the pickle but I do like the sweet chilli too. It’s a great idea for lunch on the go but doesn’t have the “fatty” feel that you get with fast food takeaways. Five stars from me.

I regularly go to The Little Teapot - it's a lovely little teashop, with homemade scones, cakes, and brownies, as well as a selection of savoury food. They also do a delightful afternoon tea, and have started doing freshly made soup. There's many types of tea available, and the coffee is really nice as well. At my most recent visit, I tried their new Hot Chocolate Bomb - the hot chocolate powder is chilled in a ball with mini marshmallows and covered in chocolate. When you pour the steamed milk on it, the ball opens and the contents start mixing - kids will love it.

We visit Belton every year, and last year, discovered this wonderful place! Tucked away in the hamlet of Welby - off the beaten track [use a Sat Nav!] is the fabulous Crown and Anchor. This is a proper country pub with the addition of it's own Smokehouse - and what and amazing addition! We visited twice this week, it was so good... The menu is extensive and varied, with a combination of tradition British pub food and their smokehouse specialities. All extremely well served, presented and tasty, not to mention the generous portions. You do not want to miss the rack of ribs [full or half - although the half is what most places call a full rack ] - be prepared to be full! And the amazing Smoking Board, consisting of Ribs, Pulled Pork and Korean Chicken - all from the smokehouse, accompanied by their hand cut chips - hot and crispy and soft inside, coleslaw, extra BBQ sauce and dressed salad. Finger bowls and extra napkins are provided and needed! Also available are a fabulous range of very different burgers - including the triple - beef, pork and chicken - oh my! Starters are available in abundance, as are desserts - but we have never had room for either - but they look fab Beers and wine selections are plentiful and varied as well as reasonably priced. Service was attentive and excellent - couldn't fault it. As I said - you do not want to miss this place - just north of Grantham. Enjoy!!

Fantastic breakfast, excellent quality ingredients especially the sausage which is a deal breaker for me. Tidy presentation served hot, tea in a teapot and free top ups! Also very helpful and polite staff. Thank you, I’ll definitely be back for more.

Called in for a sandwich and they were just closing up, said no problem and they allowed Millie our little Westie in too. Brought her some water and chicken which was very kind and served us our baguettes and drinks, which were delicious. No rush to close up, really good service, thank you.

We've stopped here a couple of times for a quick breakfast. Thoroughly recommended. Coffee is really good and love their sausage baps

Had a great meal here, the ribs are divine

Spent New Year's Eve 2024 here, friendly, descent prices and food was lovely, definitely coming back. Very friendly chef and staff.

Foods good, service is fadt and good. Place is clean and friendly.

We had supper here on a Saturday night while staying at a local Hotel & Spa round the corner. The atmosphere was really warm and friendly, staff were polite, knowledgeable and friendly. The place was clean, good selection of drinks behind the bar. We went for a bottle of prosecco which was very drinkable! Menu was small but food was a real treat. We started off with the soup of the day — sweet potato & coconut which was one of the nicest soups I’ve ever had! Served with a delicious homemade bread roll with poppyseed. For mains I had the wild mushroom linguine which was really delicious and well cooked. A light, creamy sauce and you could taste the different mushrooms. My partner enjoyed the steak and ale pie and everything was cooked to perfection. The pie is apparently made by a local butcher and had one of the mixes steak fillings and light, crispy crumbly pastry. We shared a pudding - pear and winter spiced berry crumble with custard. Again, very tasty! Would recommend and wish we could had booked a Sunday roast the following day but sadly already had plans!