2 Best Restaurants in East Anglia, England

Beside the River Cam on the edge of Midsummer Common, this gray-brick 19th-century villa holds a two–Michelin star restaurant set in a comfortable conservatory. Fixed-price menus for lunch and dinner (with five to eight courses) present innovative dishes that place a focus on seasonal, often local, ingredients. Choices might include freshwater prawn with gazpacho mousse or sautéed duck liver and conte cheese. Service is both informal and informative. If you don't want to pay the eye-watering cost of dinner here, come for lunch, which is around half the price at £150 per person.

This friendly, 300-year-old pub across from Constable's school in Dedham serves traditional English pub food. Dishes such as Ploughman's lunch (cheese, bread, salad, and pickles) and steak and chips share the menu with classics like shrimp scampi. The pub also hosts five elegant guest rooms.