The Top 13 Places to Eat Near Restaurant Auction House
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Rank 1. Restaurant Auction House
Modern British
Period details fill a former auction house in a quiet Lincolnshire market town, and the room feels like it earned its character rather than hired an interior designer. The Modern British menu runs from snacks and small plates up to a full tasting menu, so you can calibrate to your appetite. The kitchen leans on genuine technique without making a fuss about it, and the focaccia alone tends to start conversations at neighboring tables.
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Rank 2. Hearth
Modern British
A wood-fired hearth anchors the open kitchen at this Modern British restaurant, tucked into the old part of Hull among some handsome Georgian streets. The ground floor doubles as a bar and bakery; head upstairs for the rustic two-room dining room, where small plates and grilled larger dishes share the menu. Check the boards for seasonal specials, and start with the sourdough before anything else.
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Rank 3. Hope & Anchor
British
A glass-fronted dry-aging cabinet sits behind the bar of this nautically themed pub on the Humber estuary, which tells you roughly what kind of night you're in for. The kitchen leans into proper British cooking, with produce from their own smallholding and meats finished in a Josper oven. The cement works next door is not glamorous, but the estuary views go some way toward balancing the ledger.
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Rank 4. Restaurant DOM
Polish Eastern European
Shelves of house-made jams, pickles, and preserves line the wood-clad interior, and in winter some of them find their way onto the plate. Restaurant DOM is a smart modern dining room in central Scunthorpe where the chef's Polish heritage shapes the menu in ways that feel personal rather than performative, grandmother's sauerkraut recipe included. Bedrooms are coming, but the kitchen is already the reason to make the trip.
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A one-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant in a 16th-century farmhouse so deep in North Lincolnshire that the owners run their own smallholding to stock the kitchen. The surprise menu reads like a personal diary, Yorkshire nods sitting beside refined chicken tacos and lamb kebab, which sounds like a strange dinner party but somehow makes the chef's cooking feel more considered, not less. Sumptuous rooms upstairs if the drive back feels unkind.
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A one-Michelin-starred restaurant tucked inside an old coaching inn on the Norfolk coast, where the chef cooks alone and seems largely unbothered by trends. The menu follows the season and the local larder rather than any particular need to impress, and the result is food that tastes exactly like it should. His wife runs the front of house with the kind of quiet ease that makes you feel the place has been doing this forever.
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Rank 7. Pipe and Glass
British Pub
A Michelin-starred gastropub hidden down the country lanes of East Yorkshire, where Barnsley chops and locally shot game arrive in portions that mean business. The kitchen refines pub classics without making them feel precious, and the wine list runs deep enough to keep you at the table longer than planned. Smart rooms converted from old lambing buildings make spending the night a reasonable excuse.
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Rank 8. Westwood
Modern British
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A bright, glassy restaurant inside a converted Victorian farmhouse, where the tables look out onto a walled kitchen garden that the kitchen raids for seasonal produce. The cooking is modern British, unfussy by design, letting Norfolk crab and local game speak without much interference. It's the kind of place where restraint on the plate is actually the point, not an oversight.
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Rank 10. The Ship
Mediterranean
Eggshell blue walls against bright orange upholstery is a bold swing for a pub that's been standing on the Norfolk coast forever, but the Peyton sisters, also behind nearby Sculthorpe Mill, pull it off. The cooking leans Mediterranean, Spain and Italy mostly, with pan-seared hake, butterbeans, chorizo, and saffron the kind of thing that earns the decor its keep. Bedrooms upstairs if the drive home starts to feel ambitious.
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Rank 11. The Old Bank
Modern British
The old banking counter now does duty as the bar, which sets the tone for this intimate tasting menu restaurant in a Norfolk village. A husband-and-wife team runs it, one in the kitchen and one on the floor, with produce pulled from their own allotment. The menu comes in shorter and longer forms, and the wine pairings are described with the kind of enthusiasm that makes you feel rude saying no.
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Rank 12. Socius
Modern British
A barn-like room in Burnham Market with a mezzanine, an open kitchen, and a menu of small plates that changes often enough to make repeat visits feel like a different restaurant each time. Socius leans Modern British with a range of global nudges, and the vegetarian options are treated as full members of the lineup rather than afterthoughts. The name means "sharing" in Latin, so bring people you'll actually share with.
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Rank 13. The Reindeer
British
A village pub down a narrow country lane in Nottinghamshire, with a view over the local cricket pitch that does a lot of the decorating. The cooking is resolutely traditional, bangers and mash and Sunday roasts done with care, plus a weekly pie night whose fillings change to keep regulars guessing. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which feels about right for a place this unfussy and this good at the basics.