Best Restaurants for Outdoor Dining in Hillington

Food was very good served in a timely manner especially as it was valentines day and very busy. Staff were very pleasant any helpful, would eat there again.

This was our first visit to the lodge. We were really impressed. A lovely big restaurant. The service was friendly and efficient. There seemed to be a lot of staff about. The food was excellent. Everything we ordered was very well cooked and they had good sized portions. A really nice place I am sure we will be back.

We enjoyed a beautiful Valentine’s Day dinner at NEST Farmhouse — oysters with sparkling rose wine, Chalkstream smoked trout with homemade pumpernickel bread, whole brill with charred kale, a side order of sweetheart cabbage and apple rhubarb crumble for dessert. It was all beautifully prepared and presented and completely delicious. Our only gripe is that the local rose wine, Cobble Hill, is no longer available by the glass and price has skyrocketed to £66 a bottle! That’s really quite steep, though we understand this is the producer’s price increase rather than NEST’s.

A lovely Valentines Day lunch. Very,very good service as always. Table with a great view over the marshes. No Bacardi stocked so my wife chose water. The Brancaster Brewery Oystercatcher was a lovely brew! We had oysters first then mussels then a pud. Oysters good but not as big or well presented as previous visits to be rated excellent. Mussels were also good but not excellent. Good quantity and fries kindly substituted for focaccia but size and cookedness (?) of the mussels varied. Excellent effort for a busy Valentines Day lunch service!!! Local real ale at £5/pint and a service charge of 10% seemed very reasonable indeed.

Fabulous place to have lunch and I’ll definitely come back for dinner. Caitlin and Bradley were excellent, friendly and fun members of staff. Made you feel very welcome. Very dog friendly. Would highly recommend.