Lord Nelson - Newark and Sherwood

The Lord Nelson is our local village pub, and this is no ordinary village pub. For the first time, we used the gorgeous private dining room for our early Mother’s Day celebrations on Saturday lunch time. My Husband was the advance party and was waiting for us at the bar, the rest of us wandered into the pub and immediately got a hello, how are you, what can we get you welcome. We moved to Winthorpe last year and checked out the pub, we were greeted in the same way on our first visit as we did today superb customer service.The private dining room (no charge) was a great place for us to be as we are a rowdy family and only find ourselves all together half a dozen times of year, so laughing and gossiping privately didn’t bother anyone else.For starters we ordered double baked cheeses soufflés; ham hock with scallops and black pudding and spring rolls.Each one of us thought the standard of food was exceptional, for main courses we ordered breast of chicken, parmentier potatoes, roast shallot, savoy cabbage and smoked bacon sauce, Nelson beef burger topped with red leicester cheese and smoked bacon in a toasted brioche; 12oz Rib eye steaks; Lobster and king prawn tagliatelle in garlic and tomato sauce served with dough balls and garlic dipping butter (and it wasn’t over powering). The most amazing Shepherds Pie which was a duo of Lamb rumpled and braised meat served with greens, broccoli and rosemary jus.There is a wonderful wine list to choose from, we ordered Baglio Gibellina. Our expectations continued to be exceeded when we all ordered puddings try the Nelson rhubarb trifle, vanilla panna cotta, rhubarb jelly, rhubarb compote and a shortbread crumb; flourless chocolate brownie served with chocolate sauce and chantilly cream and Sticky toffee pudding served with toffee sauce and vanilla ice cream.We were so busy eating we forgot to take any photos of our food, which was exceptional.

It makes such a difference to a meal when the surroundings are nice and the staff are friendly and pleasant! This exactly what we found just a few nights ago when we went to the Lord Nelson at Winthorpe for the first time ever!Living in Newark for less than a year, we are still ticking off places that we have on our to visit list but eventually the opportunity to eat here came along so off we went along. Entering the lovely little pub/restaurant we approached the counter to be greeted by, as we found, a smiling Michelle. A friendly and warm greeting! We were so pleased. Then a nice young girl server, Rachel, led us to our table. Again, another friendly, pleasant face! An excellent start to a very good meal, as it turned out. Given the menu, we perused it to discover some interesting and enticing dishes but we eventually plumped on the lamb medallions/ and also a chicken dish. These came fairly quickly, accompanied by broccoli, new potatoes, baby carrots, parsnip purée, creamed spinach and what appeared to be shredded stir-fry cabbage. These choices proved to be good ones, not perfect but good enough to want them again. My lamb was excellent and the shredded cabbage it was sat on was really tasty. A generous portion but I had to pinch my wife 's gravy as it needed fluid to get the most out of the mouth-watering flavour of the lamb! Her chicken was a bit dry but still nice and appetising. No sticky toffee pudding and the other desserts did not entice us that night so maybe next time for afters.We were very pleased by our first ever meals there and they seemed to tick all the boxes at the Lord Nelson, good menu, lovely staff, fair sized portions of tasty food and pleasant surroundings. Be most assured that we will be back and walking there on a sunny evening! A recommended place to eat for you all!

We had heard this pub was dog friendly so arrived without booking. The friendly young staff gave us a very warm welcome and we had choices of sitting in the bar area or outside with our two dogs. The lunch menu was varied and delicious. We both had sandwiches the fish finger ciabbata and pork, apple and cider gravy roll. They were served with triple cooked chips gorgeous! We were very impressed and will be back! The doggies enjoyed their treats and the sweets in the jar on the bar were a nice touch.

Met friends who had booked a table for Sunday lunch.They had booked it because they had two small dogs, and was advertised as dog friendly as long you ate in the bar area and not restaurant,which is fairWe all had a threes course lunch, with most of us having different food on all courses.Every meal was excellent. The the staff were helpful and attentive. Would highly recommend this pub/ restaurant and will definitely being going back.The pub has real ales as well, wish was well keptOn leaving ,being it was Easter Sunday we were all given a little chocolate egg, really nice touch I thought.

Waitresses were pleasant , however, the quality of food and the price did not match.We had Sunday Lunch, roast beef. The beef was tough, even the Broccoli was tough !! The Yorkshire pudding was more like a crispy dumpling. Did explain all this to the waitress when she asked was everything all right ? No response !Now I don 't mind paying for good food but on this occasion I did not receive it. We also had to ask for every thing, condiments , horseradish, water. For £13.95 per.head I would expect the meal to have been at the very least to be acceptable this one was definitely not.