Lavenham Restaurant Guide

“A smartly refurbished inn with dependable, if pricey food and delightful, welcoming staff” – a representative review of this updated pub-with-rooms on the village green: part of the East Anglia-based Chestnut Group.

2023 Review: This half-timbered fifteenth-century former coaching inn is a “reliable venue for good food”, with a menu that ticks boxes all the way from basic cheeseburger or beer-battered hake ’n’ chips to more original offerings such as goat cheese doughnut with beetroot sugar and a flexible selection of dishes available in two sizes – as either starters or mains. Top Tip – “the great lobster Caesar salad”.

“A gem of a pub/restaurant in a pretty Suffolk village” – this 14th-century inn serves some “absolutely delicious” dishes on menus that range from a £25 set lunch, via à la carte, to a £90 per person tasting menu – and is “always very busy at weekends” (“excellent Sunday lunch”). In his March 2025 Telegraph review, William Sitwell was bowled over by a “staggeringly good” Herefordshire beef pie – “literally the finest I can remember eating” – while others rate the “fantastic Scotch eggs”.