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Many Skegness locals can proudly state that they got their first taste of Indian cuisine at The Gandhi. The family-run restaurant was established in 1986, and has since become known for delicious authentic cuisine, elegant surroundings, and courteous service.

By growing his very own Naga chillies, owner Kabir Ullah has given new meaning to the familiar phrase 'fresh produce grown locally'. Other fine exotic spices are used to create the menu's dishes that include some Bangladeshi and Indian regional delicacies.

Starters at The Gandhi could include the familiar tandoori chicken or lesser known creations such as the Nargis kebab. For the main course, you could make a foray towards the house specialities of king prawn achar, where the seafood is slow-cooked in a rich, hot and sour pickle sauce, or the keema matar with minced lamb, fresh peas, and green chillies. Complement these with their tarka dhal and some cheese naan or pilau rice and you'll enjoy a much loved Indian meal.

Traditional curries such as the korma, dopiaza, rogan, vindaloo, balti, and Madras strength are always available.

One of the famous coaching inns on the road from London to Edinburgh, and a haven of all things sound and as near perfect as one is ever likely to get. Nowadays, leave Edinburgh by a comfortable 8.00 am and you can be in the hotel by 12.30, enjoying a preliminary libation to lunch. You can choose between the oak-panelled dining room, the more relaxed garden room or on good days al fresco in the courtyard. All in their own way are excellent. The menus are if anything fairly staid, with more variation in the Garden Room and the classic dishes in the dining room. Service is prompt and genuinely attentive.

In the main dining room the menu choices could include to begin with: salmon and spring onion fish cakes on a red pepper coulis served with herb leaves; chicken liver paté with an orange and redcurrant sauce - with toast; half lobster served cold with a thick mayonnaise; seared sea scallops on a jerusalem artichoke purée or smoked haddock and chive risotto topped with a soft poached egg.

With mains running from the traditional English sirloin of beef, roasted rare to medium, carved off the bone at your table, with Yorkshire pudding and hot horseradish sauce or rack of lamb cooked pink with a garlic and herb crust, served with a redcurrant and rosemary jus to the more inventive calf's liver with braised puy lentils and smoked bacon jus or breast of chicken stuffed with white pudding, wrapped in bacon on a wild mushroom tagliatelle. Desserts are from the trolley, and there is a good selection of cheeses as well.

John Hoskins's wine list is awesome and The George was shortlisted for the AA Wine Award in 2000. Amongst many other delights three old Ports are listed; a 1927 Fonseca, a 1912 Taylor and a 1904 Cockburn. As one would expect many wines can be bought by the glass and house wine starts at a very reasonable £15.95, but they have a good choice at under £20 a bottle; also, as they apply a cash mark-up system rather than a percentage one, it is an excellent place to drink quality wine with their delicious food.

Charlotte House resides directly opposite Lincoln Castle and Cathedral, surrounded by eight acres of landscaped gardens, the complex also houses the Sir Joseph Bank's tropical conservatory with its extensive collection of exotic plants and water features, and the John Dawber walled gardens. Whether travelling on business or leisure, the warm welcome makes it the perfect place for everyone

Asparagus soup with cotehill blue crumbs and soda bread, soft poached eggs with watercress, parmesan cream, and bacon make for great starters. Slow cider roast belly pork, with pan jus, confit garlic and apple puree, and Lincolnshire lamb rack, with braised lentils summer vegetables and thyme are among the crowd pulling mains. To end your meal on a sweet note you could order apple tatin with dark rum, cinnamon ice cream and vanilla syrup, or chocolate tart with coffee cream, orange and pistachio.

This comfortable Georgian house now forms the centrepiece of a thriving health and leisure facility, and that, perhaps surprisingly, revolves round an excellent restaurant which certainly makes more than the odd nod to the good work going on in the gyms and saunas. Mark Vines sources quality ingredients and the results are very good. Try smoked salmon and brie bruschetta, followed by seared noisettes of English lamb with an acacia honey and thyme jus. To round off a meal, which has all the stamp of, the professional go for the brandy snap basket with caramel ice cream and bitter chocolate sauce. House wines start at £10.95.