The Angel at Watlington wins prestigious fine dining award

The Angel at Watlington has scooped up a prestigious award for its fine dining experience.

The pub has been awarded the title of Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year in 2020/21 in the London and South East England Prestige series.

This is not the first time the popular eatery has snatched a gong for its culinary success.

In 2019, The Angel won Best Fine Dining Pub in Norfolk and also the Lux Culinary Excellence Award 2019 in the magazine’s Food and Drink Awards.

The Angel’s Emily Phipps said: “We use a lot of local suppliers to provide us the raw ingredients to create the food we now produce. This includes our amazing fishmongers Donaldson’s who allow us to create our dishes.

“We pride ourselves on our fresh produce from as many local suppliers as possible fully allowing us to showcase some of the great produce Norfolk has to offer such as Assiette of tomatoes.”

The Angel has recently undergone a full refurbishment.

It is now run by the award winning chef Richard Crouch, who trained at Stamford, and Ms Phipps.

The mouth-watering menu caters for a range of tastes with a selection of quiches (Lorraine, vegetarian or vegan), home-made sausage rolls, steak bakes, selection of salads, the Angel brownie and other cakes.

There’s a wide selection of locally sourced fish lovers’ dishes to try, local tipples such as Norfolk Gin and Nelson’s Gold Vodka and a kid’s menu.