Birch Vale, British, Traditional Restaurant Guide

Open in 2023 in the former premises of a pre-Victorian bank, this local two-year-old received a boost in July 2025 from The Times’s Giles Coren, who was strong-armed into a visit by former Tory minister Edwina Currie, now a colleague of his at Times Radio, to test her insistence that Derbyshire is “the fine dining capital of the civilised world”. The review detailed some “well-balanced and tasty” dishes all at “single digit price[s not seen] on a menu since before lockdown”. Our feedback is too thin for a rating but backs up Edwina’s enthusiasm.