The Waterway

A lovely place with excellent food and service, even better if you can book next to the canal on a sunny day under the lovely flower-decked awning (OK not real flowers but charming nevertheless) which they can heat it on those soon to chill evenings. Always popular so best to book. Not cheap but you can eat economically - just too tempting to overdo it (and those cocktails...)! A great, atmospheric spot we happily return to.

The atmosphere of the place was nice, definitely sit outside where the flower decors are if possible. We had the calamari and grilled garlic shrimp (MUST TRY) and a jug of premium Pimm’s. They were all delicious!! I am still dreaming of the shrimp and would go back just to have it again. We also got the bread and olives - bread was nice but the olives weren’t good. Next time I’ll also try the sea bream - the table next to us got it and if I wasn’t already full, I would have ordered it (on top of another order of the garlic shrimp).

Attentive service, at booking table was reserved for 2 hours, before sitting down advised we'd need to leave after 1 hour and 45 minutes and reminded several times, it was fine and enough time for a lovely lunch, especially having booked a table on the terrace on a sunny day, but annoying that our departure time was their priority. Great cocktails, worth a visit... but maybe for a lazier lunch book twice, cocktails, starters, and mains at your first table and stay put or move to a clean table for dessert... more cocktails or coffee!