Norfolk Coast Pubs & Restaurants Guide 2025
The Independent Guide to the Best Pubs, Gastro-Pubs and Restaurants on the Norfolk Coast.
All the favourite places to eat-out and enjoy the best local food on the North Norfolk coast. We have incorporated recent diners’ “comments” as a useful guide and also give a review summary of establishments.
The LoveNorfolk review score is mainly drawn from local feedback so can be a little more prudent in it’s praise than places like TripAdvisor. Follow us on Instagram @lovenorfolk to find out about all the best places to go and BIG events on the Norfolk coast.
For 2025 we are also including details of pubs and restaurant with rooms with links to their preferred booking site.
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We are always hungry for recommendations! We do try and include as much variety as possible so some places that may be popular but don’t go much beyond the standard oysters, burger, fish and chips, steaks, mussels, estate venison, Norfolk cheese format may not be duplicated here.
The White Horse
40 Kirkgate, Hunstanton PE36 6LH
From the same stable as the White Horse in Brancaster but a quite different format. The restaurant pub offers a delightful dining experience with its friendly staff, excellent service, and a wide range of menu options. The lovely garden area features a play area for children and is dog-friendly, making it a great spot for families. Outdoor seating and a large open terrace. The meals are reasonably priced, and the atmosphere is welcoming.View More
The Crown Inn
The Green, East Rudham, King's Lynn PE31 8RD
The Crown Inn offers a special dining experience with quality food and good service, making it a great choice for a night out. This pub really has that happy mix of regular locals and people travelling for a good meal. Starters may include scallops with black pudding and chicken & liver parfait. For mains, the twice-cooked shoulder of lamb was named as a highlight. and the burger ticks all the boxes. Desserts winning praise included the sticky date pudding and chocolate mousse. Guests have described the service as attentive and the atmosphere balances the charm of a traditional pub with a more refined dining experience.View More
Warehouse, Tap Room & Restaurant 
Garage Ln, Setchey, King's Lynn PE33 0BE
Not so much a meal out but a day out! The Warehouse Restaurant offers tasty no-nonsense food, great Sunday lunches, a Taproom for local ales and a cool bar with a good selection of hot and cold drinks. Just next door you will find an Antiques and collectables showroom spanning 15,000 square feet, with room to display up to 100 dealers’ collections through a combination of floor and cabinet space. This is also home to Britain’s biggest beer shop with more than 150,000 bottles and over 5,000 different UK ales, world beers, ciders, whiskies, spirits, wines and more! Not Forgetting a lovely pre-loved bookshop with a large selection of rare and antiquarian to non-fiction, fiction and children's books. Open until 3pm weekdays and through the evening on weekends. Events including beer festivals.View More
Gunton Arms
The Gunton Arms, Norwich NR11 8TZ
This charming inn overlooks the 1,000 acre Gunton Estate deer park. The Gunton Arms was originally a shooting lodge, which served as a second house to Gunton Hall and was notorious for hanky-panky weekends (Lillie Langtry, the famous mistress of the Prince of Wales, was a frequent guest in the 1890s). Nowadays you can enjoy a tasty homemade snack over a game of pool or darts in the bar or make for a gnarled wood table by the fireplace in the flag-floored Elk Room. Dishes are fiercely seasonal and Stuart Tattersall cooks from local ingredients and seasonal produce. Venison from the deer park and beef from the local herd at Blickling are cooked over a large open fire in the Elk Room. The Gunton Arms also has its own seafood, mussels and Cromer crab are caught by local fishermen.View More
Cookie's Crab Shed
Salthouse Holt NR25 7AJ
Stephen Fry described this part of our coast, and Cookie's in particular as his favourite place in the British Isles. A bit of a shame as some think it may have become a victim of its own success. Still worth a stop if you are in the area. Open 9-7, Thurs-Mon for most of the year. Great fresh seafood including salads, sandwiches plus hot+cold drinks (It's a BYO for beer/wine) - all to take away or eat inside what is practically a shed or the garden overlooking the salt marshes. Do reserve a table or you might find it more hectic than relaxing!"View More
Dun Cow
Salthouse, Holt NR25 7XA
Upbeat and welcoming pub with uninterrupted views over the salt marshes, the Dun Cow holds an impressive position on the North Norfolk Coast. The menu is bold with bags of freshness and flavour. In winter the wood burner gives a lovely cosy ambiance and the staff are friendly and attentive.View More
Morston Hall M
The Street, Morston, Holt NR25 7AA
Culinary accolades including a long-standing and well-deserved Michelin star abound for this country house restaurant directly on the coast . Proprietor Galton Blackiston pops up on the telly from time-to-time. Large conservatory dining rooms, cosy lounges overlook well-tended lawns. Top notch cooking which comprises a seven-course taster menu (dietary requirements are accommodated). Dinner is served at a single sitting at 7.00pm, lunch is served on Saturday and Sunday only.View More
The Parlour
The Parlour, Warham Road, Binham, NR21 0DQ
Set in a beautiful 17th century converted barn made of stone from the ruins of the adjacent Priory. The Parlour at Binham serves delicious breakfasts, lunches and afternoon tea. Open six days a week, Tuesday to Friday 10am - 4pm. Weekends 9am - 4pm. All the food is freshly made on-site every day, with many ingredients sourced from local suppliers. The milk is fresh from their our own dairy.View More
Rocky Bottoms
Cromer Rd, West Runton, Cromer NR27 9QA
Rocky Bottoms is a delightfully quirky restaurant, complete with crab hut lovingly restored by a local fishing family. Great views and many outside tables. You will find everything from Brancaster oysters, mussels, popcorn cockles, lobster, crab, fish and chips and surf and turf. They also have a deli style shop that does great hampers. Walk ins only.View More
The Moorings
High Street, Blakeney NR25 7NA
This lovely family-run restaurant prides itself on delivering fresh simple honest food - "fantastic local fish", shellfish, game in season, delicious meat and vegetarian dishes, dreamy puddings, and a well chosen wine list. A Strong local following ensures that booking is essential especially at weekends.View More
