Diners' Choice: Best Ambiance restaurants in Norfolk/Suffolk

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Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for restaurants with the best ambiance in Norfolk/Suffolk? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

The Steam Packet

4.9

4.9 (45)

£26 to £40

British

Norwich

About the restaurant

The Steam Packet is a small, cozy pub with an upstairs restaurant serving local, seasonal British food with European influences.

Top review

Alison

Dined on Jun 20, 2025

Delicious food, good wine menu, nice ambiance and lovely staff. Would definitely go again.

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Experience

Vegetable Supper

Michael's Bistro

4.9

4.9 (31)

£26 to £40

Bistro

Holt

About the restaurant

Welcome to Michael's Bistro, in the heart of Holt, our mission is to create a memorable dining experience by combining the finest Norfolk ingredients, Michael's travels, and a warm and inviting ambiance. Whether you're looking for a romantic dinner, a family gathering, or a special celebration, we are here for you.

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Alan

Dined 4 days ago

Great little restaurant family run and well worth a visit.

Bishop's Dining Room & Wine Bar

4.9

4.9 (1386)

£26 to £40

British

Norwich

About the restaurant

A small, intimate restaurant perfectly situated on the oldest lane in Norwich, Bishops Dining Room and Wine Bar is everything you would expect from a fine dining restaurant and more. Our welcoming, relaxed atmosphere will ensure you and your guests have an experience to treasure. Our food is locally sourced, wherever possible, to give you a taste of the real Norfolk. Our Chefs passionately prepare each of our dishes to really make Bishops Dining Room and Wine Bar a unique restaurant, any special requests are happily accommodated. Enticing, seasonal menus will ensure all of our guests leave us wanting more. Originally from Lake Como, Italy, Alex Tranquillo is looking forward to personally welcoming you and your guests to Bishops Dining Room and Wine Bar. His love for catering will ensure you are looked after from the moment you walk in, until the minute you leave.

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MarkVIP

Dined on Jun 15, 2025

I am so delighted to have discovered this restaurant. I made my reservation to try it out for the first time but my experience was so outstanding that it is obviously going to be one of our top favourites. The food is mouth watering with an artistic and stylish presentation. Service is perfect, attentive, unobtrusive and friendly. The ambience is lovely and full of character. Awesome restaurant

Stiffkey Red Lion

4.4

4.4 (287)

£25 and under

Gastro Pub

Wells-next-the-Sea

About the restaurant

Comfortably laid back without being pretentious, The Stiffkey Red Lion offers an eclectic mix of comfortable modern with the classic welcome and honest value of an iconic British Pub

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Ali

Dined 3 days ago

Food was lovely.. pricey so a nice treat.. staff helpful, friendly and welcoming

Tatlers

4.8

4.8 (147)

£26 to £40

British

Norwich

About the restaurant

Tatlers is an elegant fine dining restaurant with an emphasis on natural, sustainable food, sourced from the UK’s most dedicated fishermen, farmers and food producers.
We create beautifully crafted dishes, seeking out the best of British produce, with a passion to delight and share our curiosity and our love of delicious artisan food.

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Tony

Dined on Jun 6, 2025

We had an absolutely delicious meal, every single course was amazing and the service was first class, really cant wait to go back again!

Rocky Bottoms

4.7

4.7 (1730)

£26 to £40

Seafood

Cromer

About the restaurant

Rocky Bottoms started out as an 1800s brick kiln with a purpose to fire bricks. Eventually the brick kiln was unable to compete with larger competitors and closed down after WW2. Since this time the brick kiln has offered itself as agricultural storage until it collapsed and stood derelict.

In 2008 the brick kiln’s potential and need of restoration was spotted by local fishing family; The Matthews. After years of love and attention, Rocky Bottoms, as we know it today was born. Our doors opened in May 2015, just in time for the start of the crab season. We deliver local shellfish from pot to plate in a laid back environment. Rocky Bottoms believes in enjoying the simpler things in life!

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Cathy

Dined 2 days ago

Great place for well prepared & beautifully presented seafood served in pretty garden setting.

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Popular dish

Oysters

Popular dish

Small seafood platter served warm

Popular dish

Fish pie

The Suffolk

4.6

4.6 (234)

£41 and over

British

Aldeburgh

About the restaurant

A restaurant that celebrates the splendour of British seafood and produce from local farms.

We are delighted to use the finest of local producers, farmers, and growers of the region. Seafood will always remain our focus. Oysters from Pinneys of Orford, fresh fish from Wightman based in Lowestoft, as well as meat from Salter & King in Aldeburgh, we are incredibly lucky to work with the best.

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Jon

Dined 5 days ago

Everything about this restaurant is positive. The food is excellent with the new chefs menu a joy. The welcome from all staff is extremely friendly and the service first class.

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Experience

FT Weekend Laurent- Perrier Héritage Tasting Menu

The Ship Inn

4.8

4.8 (1664)

£26 to £40

British

Weybourne

About the restaurant

The Ship Inn really is Weybourne's local, set in the heart of the village. Locally owned and operated, a true freehouse. Offering the best in local food, local beers, ciders and local spirits, working with some of the best local suppliers around. With four bedrooms we offer one of the highest rated bed and breakfast in the area. If you are looking for the best North Norfolk has to offer look no further than Weybourne's Local 'The Ship'

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Roy

Dined 6 days ago

Our waitress Poy was very attentive and nothing was too much trouble, I think a child’s menu would be advantageous. This was our grandsons 18th birthday and he was very pleased to enjoy his first legal drink with you all, and I believe the owner, whose name I didn’t know paid for his first pint, top bloke! So all in all a lovely pub and lovely experience, my wife and I will definitely be revisiting. Well done to all the team.

The Bay Seafood & Wine Bar at Jarrolds

4.8

4.8 (495)

£25 and under

Seafood

Norwich

About the restaurant

Enjoy some of the best seafood in Norwich overlooking the historical and colourful marketplace in The Bay Seafood and Wine Bar. Enjoy seafood, in particular freshly cured salmon, taster boards, main dishes from homemade fish pie to lobster bisque, through to a luxurious caviar menu which features different types of caviar including Oscietra, Sevruga and Beluga.

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Helen

Dined 4 days ago

Always a pleasure to lunch here. The fish is super fresh and the oysters were very good. The staff are very friendly especially the guy (sorry don’t remember names) it’s a lovely store which makes it even more fun.

Worlington Hall

4.6

4.6 (646)

£26 to £40

English

Worlington

About the restaurant

First established in 1570, Worlington Hall has welcomed guests from near and far for over 450 years through the arches of the majestic manor. The Hall is currently undergoing a sympathetic and tasteful restoration to create a serene East Anglian haven that will live on for many more years to come.

The Worlington restaurant is the heart of our hotel - locally reared meats, coastal catches and hand-picked produce take precedence, perfectly paired with our wine list, make for an evening of dining in the Suffolk countryside that's truly memorable.

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Janet

Dined 4 days ago

Beautiful food lovingly prepared. Very friendly staff. We had dinner on both nights of our stay. Spoilt for choice. If was the ist day of menu change. Cooked to perfection

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