Restaurants in Eastern England
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Stokes High Bridge Café
A delightfully precarious-looking 16th-century half-timbered teashop.
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Pulse Cafe
This funky lounge-bar in the old fire station stables serves a bumper crop of hearty vegetarian dishes. There's also a great choice of sandwiches, organic ciders and beers and scrummy deserts.
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Jew's House
Pass through the ancient round-arched doorway of this 12th-century stone house and you'll immediately know you're in for a treat. This ancient house, an attraction in its own right, is flush with antiques and oil paintings, and its award-winning Anglo-French cuisine will not disappoint. Dress smart and book ahead.
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Almonry
Vying for the best-setting award, this traditional teashop cosies up to the cathedral, spilling into attractive gardens left of the Lady Chapel. Alternatively, you can shelter in its atmospheric 12th-century vaulted undercroft. Meals here are simple, but there's a also a wide range of caffeinated pick-me-ups.
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Caley's Cocoa Cafe
Local chocolate-maker's cafe serving light meals and luscious sweets in the confection-like Guildhall's old Court of Record.
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Wig & Mitre
Civilised pub-restaurant the Wig has been steadily upgrading its menu for three decades and now considers itself an upscale eatery despite retaining the mellow cosiness of an old-world watering hole. No music will disturb your meal here, and the candle-lit evening meals are good for romantic liaisons.
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Victoria
A serious beer-drinker's pub with a pleasant patio looking up at the castle's western walls, Victoria has a huge selection of guest brews, cask ales, thick stouts and superb ciders and preserves a mellow historic ambience undisturbed by sports or flashy lights. The pub runs two beer festivals a year.
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Briton Arms Coffee House & Restaurant
Romantics and traditionalists should make a beeline to this darling little 15th-century thatched cottage tearoom, overhanging cobbled Elm Hill and snug with wooden beams, rustic wooden benches and a little terraced garden. It serves classic English comfort food as well as good coffee and cakes.
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Rainbow Vegetarian
First-rate vegetarian food and a pious glow emanate from this snug subterranean gem, accessed down a narrow passageway off King's Pde. It's decorated in funky colours and serves up organic dishes with a hint of the exotic, such as scrumptious Indonesian gado gado and Cuban peccadillo pie.
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Old Fire Engine House
Backed by beautiful gardens and showcasing a variety of artwork, this delightfully homey place serves classic English food and excellent afternoon teas. Expect the likes of steak-and-kidney pie or rabbit with prunes and bacon washed down with a carefully chosen wine. Book in advance.
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Cupola House
This grand 17th-century apothecary's home topped by a baroque-style octagonal cupola and rich with historic features. It was recently rescued from a severe state of disrepair and now houses a stylish contemporary restaurant with a meaty menu and relaxed atmosphere.
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Adlard's Restaurant
This elegant and airy Michelin-starred eatery is the place to splurge on both food and excellent wines. It specialises in modern British cuisine with a French accent and keeps the décor simple and pleasing with wooden floors, large canvases and large windows.
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Waffle House
Pop in for a crisp and light Belgian waffle with sweet or savoury toppings at this down-to-earth and friendly cafe beloved by Norwich families, students and professionals.
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Riverside Rooms
Lynn's classiest restaurant overlooks the water from a converted 15th-century warehouse, with crisscrossing beams overhead and elegant white-linen tables below. It serves upscale cuisine from crab omelette to lovely beef and Boddingtons (bitter ale) pie.
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Boathouse
This sleek riverside restaurant dishes up excellent modern English food at very reasonable prices. It has wonderful patio dining overlooking the water, while the stylish interior is lined with oars. Book ahead.
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Crofters Coffee House
This long brick-vaulted undercroft, once used as a civil-war gunpowder store and now a low-lit café, scores top marks for atmosphere and serves light lunches, sandwiches, soups, salads, hot drinks and cakes. It's in the guildhall arts centre.
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Midsummer House
In a wonderful Victorian villa backing onto the river, but simple and modern inside, this sophisticated place is sheer gastronomic delight. It serves what is probably the best food in East Anglia, has a host of rave reviews from famous foodies and two Michelin stars, but none of the pretension you'd expect of a restaurant of its calibre. Book ahead.
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St Benedict's Restaurant
A bubbly little brasserie with excellent husband-and-wife chefs at the helm, St Benedict's has an Edwardian frontage and cheerful modern interior and an original modern British menu that includes such quirky desserts as Horlicks ice cream.
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Tatties
Fast-in, fast-out fish-tank-style café and budget favourite that whips out baked and stuffed potatoes with innumerable fillings at lightening pace, as well as breakfasts, baguettes, salads and cakes. It gets very busy over lunch.
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Twenty-Two
Hidden away amid a row of Victorian terraced housing is this slightly odd, yet outstanding restaurant. It's an intimate kind of place, with a hushed atmosphere and old-school decor, where diners chose from a delicate set menu. Dishes are of the highest standard and the wine list is impressive. Book ahead.
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Brown's Pie Shop
Forget Mrs Miggins and Sweeny Tod; this long- established pie shop is one of Lincoln's top restaurants, spread over a smart upstairs dining room and a cosy brick-lined basement. Come for hearty pies stuffed with locally-sourced beef, rabbit and game.
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Clowns
Decorated with children's daubings of clowns, this is a thoroughly laid-back and charmingly personal spot for reading the newspaper, chatting over cappuccino, reasonably priced pasta or gelato, and relaxing on the roof terrace.
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Bradley's
Eat in the elegant Georgian dining room at this riverside restaurant, or relax in the popular wine bar with some lighter meals (£8 to £10); either way you're bound to be pleased as this is probably the finest food the city has to offer.
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Bay Tree
A cosy and reliable modern café popular with everyone from grannies to suits to young families and serving a varied menu of delicious soups, salads, meat dishes and pies even a fair Belgian beers selection.
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Meadow
This lovely semiformal restaurant in a 17th-century stone building serves traditional English dishes from sea bass to good ol' Lincolnshire sausages. It has a terrace at the back overlooking the meadows.
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