Ely, British, Traditional Restaurant Guide

“Lovely home-cooked food without any frills” ensures a continued army of supporters for this “quaint” restaurant and art gallery in a Georgian house just west of the cathedral. Ann Jarman launched the venture in 1968 and it was doing the local, seasonal thing (venison comes from the Denham Estate and dishes feature Norfolk samphire) decades before it was hip; in keeping with her winning ethos, it retains the feel of a family home, being “old-fashioned but in a great way”.