The family-run Browns Restaurant and Pie Shop pleases numerous customers each day with its good food and wine. The well-established Browns is a friendly and welcoming place to be, thanks to the efforts of owners Allan Gill, wife Chris, and their family.

For the devout, the cathedral buffs and other parties there could be few better stops as they leave Lincoln Cathedral than Browns.

Spend time in the airy restaurant or head to the rustic and romantic cellar and feast on a range of tasty dishes. Two and three-course specials as well as a choice of main courses and desserts are offered at lunchtime and early in the evening.

Needless to say pies such as the steak and kidney are the speciality and they are very, very good. Other choices include Yorkshire pudding stuffed with prawns; Glasgow haggis, and pies of local wild rabbit, lamb, cheese, fish, and tenderloin of pork with local honey, steaks, and chefs' specials of roast sweet pepper and rocket risotto, and seared venison loin on sweet potato puree with redcurrant jus.