Erpingham Restaurant Guide

“Interesting art” (from the likes of Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud and Damian Hirst) is par for the course at art dealer Ivor Braka’s foodie getaway – launched in 2011, and no stranger to ‘Top 50’ UK gastropub lists. The stately home sits on a 1,000-acre deer park, with ex-Hix alumni Stuart & Simone Tattersall overseeing a vigorous menu spanning the Gunton’s own venison plus seafood, mussels and crab caught in nearby Cromer. A few reports of “slightly complacent” service of late, but even cynics “could not fault the food and setting”.

Art dealer Ivor Branka’s spin-off to the nearby Gunton Arms is certainly “doing something slightly different in this part of Norfolk” at this “fun” venture opposite Gunton station, from the boudoir-esque top bar with excellent cocktails (and an MO of “extremely comfortable loucheness”, as an impressed Jay Rayner put it in his March 2024 review) down to the restaurant specialising in Spanish tapas, on which reports range from “reliable but not special” to “faultless”.