survey result

Summary

£75
 ££££
3
Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Now a restaurant with rooms, thanks to two bedrooms added during the covid-enforced closure, this former village forge has offered “consistently good, high-quality” cuisine for more than 20 years under the ownership of former Savoy chef Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra. It’s a “relaxed, really enjoyable” venue, with a range of menus from two to seven courses.

Summary

£74
  £££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“High standards and consistently delicious, creative food” have been the hallmarks of Savoy-trained chef-patron Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra’s former village forge for two decades. With its ambitious 8-course tasting menus, it is very much a “gastropub pressing towards purely restaurant status” and provided some local reporters’ best meal of the year.

Summary

£74
  £££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Exceptional food in a relaxed and down-to-earth setting” has established chef-patron Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra’s beamed gastropub as a foodie destination for almost two decades. The “innovative and very well executed” menu runs to an eight-course ‘grazing’ option.

Summary

£46
   ££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“The food is sublime and the presentation exemplary” at this “exquisite” beamed gastropub, whose considerable charms have, over the past decade and a half, established it as a real foodie haunt. Menu options are numerous: from Sunday lunch to a ten-course grazing option. A collaboration with ‘galerie gARTenhaus’ means there is regularly changing art on display.

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Restaurant details

Highchair,Menu,Portions
Yes
10
No dress code
35

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Always   £45.00

Traditional European menu

Pudding
£0.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £35.00
Filter Coffee £4.00
Extras  
Bread £0.00
Service 12.50%
5 East Rd, Loughborough, LE12 6ST
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday12 pm‑2 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑2 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Thursday12 pm‑2 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Friday12 pm‑2 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Saturday12 pm‑2 pm, 6 pm‑9:30 pm
Sunday12 pm‑4 pm

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