3 Best Restaurants in Lincoln, East Anglia

In one of Lincoln's oldest buildings, a rare extant example of 12th-century Norman domestic architecture, this restaurant is worth a visit for more than just its outstanding cosmopolitan menu. Typical main dishes include roasted rack of lamb with rosemary confit carrots or wild turbot with caviar hollandaise. For dessert, you might be offered pistachio sponge with mixed berries. The restaurant is a much more sedate place than its colorful and sometimes dark history suggests (the name is medieval—check out the story while you're here).

This restaurant close to the cathedral serves the best of old-school British food, including freshly made savory pies and succulent beef, as well as pork belly, sausage and mash, and exotic pie specials. Its early evening menu is notably affordable.

This pub-café-restaurant serves everything from breakfast (on weekends) to full evening meals in its old-fashioned dining room. The produce comes from the local markets, and you can expect dishes such as rib eye with triple-cooked chips (thick-cut fries) or sea bass and crab risotto.