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Friendly family run hotel right on the fropnt, with many rooms offering seaviews.

Popular with anglers and gofers, resident chef Michelle Spain will even prepare guests catch for dinner in the hotel's Waterside restaurant.

Fantastic location bang on the beach in Minnis Bay in Birchington.

One a 1930s cafe, the buidkling has been much extended and modernised, due in large aprt to a fire a few years ago.

There's a chocce of dining areas: bar, restaurant and first floor private dinning room and large oal fresco terace. They also have their own ice craem kiosk and a a takeaway serviice for people who want to picnic on the beach.

There's a variety of menus to chose from and reflect the afct patron-chef Jason Freeman has worked with the best.

Recently, the kitchen has stared curing, smoking and pickling their own meats and fish, taking lessons from the Roman invaders who settlred here 2,000 years ago when the "Isle" of Thanet lay a mile off the Kent coast.

There's hiome-made Salt Beef, Corned Beef with Dripping, Smoked Pancetta, Home Cured Streaky Bacon, Sweet Cured Air Dried Pork Loin, and Pastrami and Smoked Pastrami, Spicy & Sweet Chorizo, Wild Venison & Merguez and also their Salami Milano, Salami Parmarello and Cured Slicing Chorizo.

There's plenty of fresh seafood, a proper vegetarian menu and an interesting take on "sushi" desserts.

Children are welcome with their own annual; drawing competition and have access to a large stock of beach toys, inflatables and boats and an ice cream kiosk in the summer months.

13th Century Inn opposite the church in the picturescue village of Wingham near Canterbury.

Long awaited return to Tonbridge High Street, albeit in a new guise as a gastro pub.

Visited for a Sunday lunch. It was a miserable, wet day and the restaurant was packed with families of varying sizes, with lots of (well-behaved) kids.

Son no.1 had the home made steak burger, which came with a decent salad. Excellent and very herby.

No 2 loaded on the carb, opting for the bread basket and enormous chips, the size of Jenga pieces.

My belly of pork ws succulent with a crisp crackling served with black pudding wrapped in mash.

The other half went for the two meat roast and was demolished with a very decent Rioja.

The boys were defeated by the enormous slabs of gooey chocholate brownie cake.

Well worth a visit and am looking forward to paying a return visit when the weather improves and we can enjoy the large pretty garden.

A la carte, bar and kids’ menus. Food served Mon – Sat 12-3pm 6 - 9pm,Sunday 12.00 - 4.00pm

Spacious, mature garden, complete with discrete children’s play area and Pétanque pit is a family-orientated food-led pub offering Diners can also eat in the airy conservatory, cosy ’Nook’ or patio areas. Disabled facilities and private parking

Reopened after major building works and a complete refurb. Gone is the dated decor and furnishings. The new flack floorboards and whtre walls have replaced the blue wllas and naff carpet.

Starters include lightly spice scallops and Bengal fired fish. Chef's specialisties mains feature Manchurian lamb - a tiika dish cooked bhuna style with green perper, green chill, onion, corriander, tomatoe and ginfer. Excellent.

rom the same stable as the raja of Kent, also in Tenterden with another in Maidstone