The best restaurants serving British food in South Forest Heath East of England

Review of Christmas Club Meal. Arrived very busy ordered drinks from bar nice gin a bit slow with only one serving. Seated in the main restaurant where the carvery is situated. We had 4 large tables. Place settings nice and Christmas themed. The starters very nice liked the mini Camembert cheese the cranberry sauce a bit runny. Mains from are served from the carvery, meats were either beef, turkey. A fish and what looked like a vegetarian nut roast. Had Turkey it was nice and moist and tasty. Pigs in blanket good, roasted potatoes these were very over cooked dry and hardly edible, carrot and parsnips good, broccoli very hard nearly raw. Other vegetables very good. The contentious do or do you not have Yorkshire with Turkey, well I did again over cooked and kept warm also tasted very oily. Deserts I had the cheese and crackers, very good selection of cheeses, like the warm bread but the crackers were soft as having being left out to long or old stale. The other selections not to my taste as with most restaurants now consist of salted caramel or a variety of chocolate dish’s, cheese cake offered not my taste. Finished with very good mince pies and tea or coffee. Service good throughout. Overall worth the money best better if they sort the carvery over or undercooked items out.

We had a party of 13 eat here, the food was amazing, the restaurant and bar are decorated beautifully it’s comfortable, clean and warm. Great food, service and value. Lovely family run business. We all loved it .

We went for New Year's Eve dinner and will not be returning. Unfortunately, the quality of cooking since being taken over by The Chestnut Group has let this place down. So here is the list of the problems we encountered- The nibbles did not arrive before the starters. There was a 10 inch long blond hair in the ham hock starter that my friend had to extract from his mouth . He did not eat the rest of the plateful. The scallop starter when I did finally receive it as they did not bring it to the table with all the other starters, was not cooked properly and the seaweed base was inedible. The waiters were hard working and I cannot fault them. When we broached the hair in food situation with the manager on paying the bill there was no apology whatsoever. Don't waste your hard earned money eating there.