Name: The Neptune
Item: The Neptune
Rating: 5
Author: Harden's editor

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Summary

Price*

£87

££££

Food

Exceptional

Service

Exceptional

Ambience

Very Good

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Stunning food, and a true personal touch from owners Jacqui and Kevin Mangeolle” inspires nothing but rapturous reviews for their restaurant-with-rooms occupying a former eighteenth-century coaching inn. “Husband and wife are both still on top of their game”: service is “relaxed” and “friendly” and Kevin’s cuisine (incorporating locally landed fish and lobster, plus game from local estates) is “understated but just lovely”: “a gastronomic delight!”

Summary

Price*

£87

££££

Food

Exceptional

Service

Exceptional

Ambience

Very Good

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“We go once or twice a year and it never disappoints” – Kevin Mangeolle’s “smart” and “characterful” converted coaching inn (which he runs with wife Jacki) delivers “heaven on a plate” for the good number who report on it. It’s a “tiny”, “very intimate” dining room, and the cuisine – be it from the prix fixe menus or tasting option – “continues to grow in quality, providing real food to taste and savour”. “You are looked after in a really friendly informed way too, which allows everyone to thoroughly enjoy the experience in their own way”.

Summary

Price*

£83

££££

Food

Exceptional

Service

Exceptional

Ambience

Very Good

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Kevin Mangeolles’s “exceptional and memorable” cuisine – some of “the best in Norfolk” – is matched with “perfectly pitched” service at this “very friendly and approachable” old coaching inn, on the edge of town, which he runs with wife Jacki. “We stayed the night and the head chef doubled as a bellboy!”

Summary

Price*

£79

££££

Food

Exceptional

Service

Exceptional

Ambience

Very Good

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Always a wonderful all-round experience” – “this family-run, old coaching inn, on the edge of town, is in the perfect location”, “the ambience is friendly and intimate”, “staff are welcoming and attentive without being intrusive”, and chef-owner Kevin Mangeolles provides “fantastic cuisine to savour” (including the option of a 9-course tasting menu). “Comfortable rooms” if you stay too.

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