Housed in an historic inn that dates back to 1420, The Angel Hotel on the Marketplace in Lavenham boasts beautifully maintained interiors with beamed ceilings and wood paneling. The exterior is equally striking with many original Tudor features still clearly visible, while sympathetic restoration in the 1950s secured the medieval gable ends and brick chimneys. Converted into a hotel in the 1990s, the Angel is the perfect spot for a leisurely dinner after a day of sight-seeing or could make the ideal base for a longer stay in this beautiful Suffolk town.

Taken over by the renowned Michelin star-winning chef, Marco Pierre White in 2011, the AA Rossette awarded inn's à la carte showcases freshly prepared food created with local ingredients wherever possible and includes a range of mouth watering steaks, braised roasts, fish and seafood dishes and vegetarian options. Guests can relish starters of potted duck with prunes d'Agen served with toasted sourdough, finest quality smoked eel with Wheeler's potato and egg salad or cream of cauliflower soup with smoked salmon.

Follow with delicious mains of roast rump of lamb à la Dijonnaise with gratin dauphinoise and roasting juices; honey roast belly pork Marco Polo with butter beans or fine quality Scottish rib eye steak à la Boston with oysters and jus à la Parisienne. If you prefer fish, there's Wheeler's classic fish pie with buttered garden peas, smoked haddock with Welsh rarebit and tomato salad and grilled Dover sole à la salamander with sauce tartare and creamed potatoes. Set menus are also available for lunch and dinner.

Traditional Sunday specials include roast rib of Aberdeen Angus with Yorkshire pudding, creamed horseradish and traditional gravy; roast chicken with all the trimmings, stuffing, bread sauce, chipolatas and roasting juices; and roast suckling pig with stuffing, apple sauce and gravy.

To finish, consider Cambridge burnt cream with English raspberries, King's fruit cake with Colston Bassett Stilton or Mr White's rice pudding with prunes d'Agen á l'Armagnac.

The bar offers locally brewed ales such as Adnams, Greenking and Nethergate, over 40 carefully selected wines, 25 malt whiskies and a variety of liqueurs.

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