Walberswick, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

“Fish is the speciality at this historic house hotel” – “we love the food here and we’re always made to feel very welcome” by proprietors Andy & Kinga Rudd, who have run it for 16 years. The building itself is one of the oldest in Southwold, dating from 1455.

This attractive Georgian high street inn, long of note among London daytrippers, is part of the Adnams stable, so “exemplary beer” is a given. While it’s “had its wobbles over the years” (decades, really) and there was the odd “average” report again this year, a number of reports claim it’s “finally improving again” and its biggest fans say it’s “everything that you’d want a seaside hotel restaurant to be”.