Best Restaurants for Outdoor Dining in Thornham

Excellent food and service. Our server Jodie was very attentive. Space for young ones to play. Great selection of drinks especially rum. There are a few Norfolk gin and rum on offer too! Excellent Sunday roast. Would definitely recommend anyone to go to Jolly Sailor! We are planning to go 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.