After having a great day with my boy friend, we decided to go for a drink and I left disappointed…read more Every time I went to the toilet there was a question for the cubical with numerous people sniffing cocaine. This is not a pub this a drug fest I nearly called the police !!!

This is probably the best gastropub in this part of Suffolk - more of a restaurant than a pub - and…read moreour 'go to' default for date nights, visiting friends and special occasions. Excellent food, a good wine cellar, great atmosphere and excellent service - they have won plenty of awards for both food and service. We are lucky indeed to have the Unruly Pig on our doorstep.

The food is amazing and the staff are always helpful and go above and beyond. I highly recommend…read moretheir Sunday roast especially with the unlimited potatoes and gravy! I love coming here the pub itself is so lovely too with such a welcoming atmosphere. My family and I often come at least once or twice a month.

This is my favourite spot! Food is amazing and the staff treats you like family! I've never had a…read morebad meal even when it's been 11 of us!

The food is delicious and the ambiance is great too. I always really enjoy coming here. I usually…read moreget the fish and chips (both regular and gluten free are great!) and my husband always gets something different and is always very pleased. Love this place!

This is a little gem in the middle of the fens. Service is great and we've enjoyed everything we've…read morehad on the menu. It's a great place for lunch, or a relaxing dinner. Very family friendly as well. The pie of the day is always delicious. Also, check out the day's specials. They've had some very unique offerings. Yummy desserts too!

Excellent food and terrific service! More so for being a village pub that is nearly in the middle…read moreof nowhere. Me and two colleagues took a local's recommendation on excellent restaurants in the area and took a taxi out to the Recruiting Sergeant. Standard beers on offer, but the dinner menu was a very wide variety of local foods and interesting mains. If the waitress hadn't come, we'd probably still be trying to decide on meals. In the end, a cajun-marinated ribeye steak with ceasar salad, the seafood tapas (as a main) and baked fish of some sort. Check the pictures. It's a good thing we were warned to avoid starters unless we were really hungry, because there was a lot of food on these plates and we ate ALL of it. My steak was cooked perfectly and the nice tapas platter looked heavenly while my friend with the fish nearly liked the plate clean. We chose to skip desserts and finished off our beers. Which is not to say that the desserts didn't look tempting, we just didn't have room. Fabulous service, really good food, a decent price. What more can you ask for? We'll be back! Notes. No wi-fi. Really large beer garden in the back looked comfy for a sunny day.

Amazing pub food!!!…read more Sunday roasts were absolutely amazing - some of the best I've ever had. Thick moist tasty lamb and pork roast slices, great Yorkshire puddings and really generous portions! Puddings were great too - especially the cheesecakes! Nice beer garden at the back too

Smallish cozy pub. Owner / bar tender has around 100 different gins behind the bar and beers to…read morepull and on tap. I'm not a huge fan of gin but if you like it at all, this clearly is the place to have a gin cocktail. The bar tender asked what I liked in terms of sweet, floral or savory and then she surprised me with the best gin cocktail I ever had.

This pub/restaurant seems to be trading on its past glories. The quality of the fish was very good…read morealthough the chef would seem to be less commited to detail than the person who selected the fish. The decor was 'fisherman' inspired which may not appeal to all - although we do like it. However, it seems best to avoid anything that is not fish or vegeterian as the other dishes can be of variable quality. The price of the food is expensive for Lowestoft but reasonable for those used to paying City prices. We will go back, but will stick to the fish.

This gastropub has recently won the National Award of the Sea Fish Assoc for excellence of its…read moremarine cuisine. I visited on a lunchtime with my wife and two friends, and certainly the quality of the food was first class, we all had a different fish (salmon, sea bream, sea bass and cod). However on arrival we were standing around for some minutes before any attention was paid to us. We hadn't prebooked, yet there were plenty of tables available. We were made to go back into the bar area to be allocated a table number. There as a feeling of general 'surliness' and 'coudn't care less' attitude from several of the staff, making us feel we didnt really want to return, despite the excellent food. What a pity ! Come on - get your act together.

As you leave Norwich into the wilderness there emerged the Wildebeest. Good car parking but looks…read morelike need to book for a meal. Great choice of food on fixed day menu plus good beer and wine. My ribeye perfect and plenty of mussels as starter. Filled up quite quickly and served from 6-8 but we stayed till after 9 as did plenty of others. 3AA rosette so top restaurant and moderately high prices.

I absolutely love when staying with family and/or friends when travelling and they take you for…read moremeals at the local hot spots in their hometown. Ever the open minded traveller (and food lover) when I found out that I would be visiting the Wildebeest Arms a local popular gastropub run by a top local chef, I was excited! My excitement extended to elation when I learned that instead of Sunday brunch, Britts tend to enjoy something called Sunday Lunch, which is served in the early afternoon and most typically involves you consuming the traditional meal of roast beef with Yorkshire pudding - OMG! So take it from this Canadian, back home - in Toronto, there are a lot of places that offer a Roast Beef dinner, specifically Irish/English pubs, and you know what - they do alright by the tradition, but, more often than not, you're getting something overcooked and just missing a soul. I've never had authentic British cuisine before, and say what you want about it... but it's hearty, it's seasonal, it's delicious and just feels good! The Roast dinner/lunch special was about 20GBP if memory serves so in CAD $ that's about $35. Everything was incredibly tasty and cooked perfectly, however, some members of our party noted that sections of their beef was a touch over cooked. On the other hand, my order was perfection, my only complaint - and maybe it's the glutton in me, but the serving I received was much smaller than that of others at the table. I was a tad disappointed about this since it was the part of the meal I enjoyed the most. The size of my meat (pause for a laugh) aside, the entire meal including the YSP (Yorkshire puds), the potatoes and root veggies were all on point and cooked masterfully! I was feeling peckish still at the conclusion of my meal and somehow got talked into ordering another UK seasonal favourite for dessert - Sticky Toffee Pudding. OMG x2, this cake is basically like a piece of dessert concrete and if I had about 25% room left before, I was properly 45% over capacity following my consumption if it. But so worth every sinful bite, especially the to die for caramel sauce the whole dish sat in.. nom nom nom nom. I can't say I'll be back in Norwich in the near future again, but if you're traveling out this way and happen upon the Wildebeest Arms on a Sunday, add it to your travel plans Eatcrest Out

We visited twice during our one week stay. The menu had slight changes in that time and we all…read moretried different things. I had steak on my first visit which was tasty (and not chewy!). Second trip I tried the gin cured trout followed by brisket burger. Burger was a bit dry but good meal overall. Prices are very reasonable. The butterflied mackerel was great, and kedgeree scotch eggs were well received Decent drinks menu (with well priced wine) and the staff are friendly. Various different areas of the restaurant to eat, a pub area, restaurant space and also garden area.

Friendly, clean, and amazing food. Most relaxing vacation I've been on in a long time! They do get…read morebusy around dinner time so if you can't get a table in the back, you can order food from the bar and wait for a table in the front to open, which in my opinion has a better atmosphere. The rooms are beautiful and the residential roof terrace is so peaceful. Thank you again for such a great and relaxing trip!!

Fantastic food and service. Staff welcoming and a great pub atmosphere, a rarity now most pubs are…read morebasically restaurants. It's obviously popular and I'm not surprised we had a good time catching up with friends over lunch, then hung out by the fire whilst making good use of their bar. I imagine it would be great in the summer too with such a fantastic beer garden.

This was a traditional Norfolk country pub which closed in the early eighties and was reopened and…read morerefurbished in the early nineties. The building has its origins in the 16th century and according to local repute, William Tyndale (he of Bible translation fame) lived there for a while. The pub is a nice comfortable village pub with excellent beer and food from bar snacks to a full restaurant menu. It also offers bed and breakfast and Brisley is centrally located in Norfolk making it an ideal base from which to explore the county.

My wife and I have made this our new regular go to spot! We are in love with the atmosphere…read moreprovided, the staff's generosity and knowledge/confidence in the menus, and most of all we are tremendously impressed with the superb taste and over all elegance, structure and presentation of the food! The serving sizes are more than enough for the price you are paying! I would venture to say that this is the best restaurant I have ever eaten at in the country of England, and I do not forecast that decision changing! Weather you want a beautiful dinner for two, breakfast in the morning with a great cup of coffee or tea, or you want to bring a massive party in for catering, the Merry Monk is sure to make you leave feeling full, happy, and satisfied. If you are like myself you will leave thinking and planning about your next visit and how fast you hope it happens!

This is just a superb little pub that has the ability to cater for lots of people should the need…read morearise. We have been there several times now and have never been anything but impressed and satisfied when we came away. Food, staff, atmosphere is all terrific as you would expect. We are going to have our after wedding celebration here in June this year as we liked it so much. Adrian the chef / owner is a great down to earth guy who will do anything for you so you get exactly what you expect from the day. As for kids meals, we did ask, and yes it's the usual chicken goujons or fish fingers, but these are made with chicken breast and fillets of cod, not reconstituted cr*p. The food here is without doubt about quality, that is not to say that presentation and portion size has been compromised in any way.