I wandered in as the place felt like Wonderland. I had some amazing cocktails, stellar service,…read moreand delightful food. I can't wait until my next trip back to Derby to do back!

The Wonky Table is quirky, cute and charming and I just love it! Everything I have tried from…read morethe menu is delicious and well presented, it is lovely rustic wholesome food with a chic twist! I would particularly recommend ladies night on a Thursday 2 for 1 cocktails (also delicious!) and great value food! I also love their vegetarian evening too, first Wednesday of every month, five courses for £22.95! If you live near Derby or are just visiting for the day don't go to the Intu centre, go to the other end of town and you'll find plenty of gorgeous shops and fab independent businesses like this one which we should all be supporting.

Wow. Spectacular. The setting on the river is a true GEM. The service and personality is adorable…read more I felt at home-a single traveling guy with no distractions, I was paying attention to every little nuance. Beginning with a glass of wine outside overlooking the river, the evening started out brilliantly (the English term, I think, for INCREDIBLE). Corinne was warm, welcoming, and hospitable The Scallops dish, as a starter, was creatively designed, and - while not overly complex and varied - SPECTACULARLY executed. The crispy smokey outside with soft and juicy interior of the scallops couldn't have been better. Oh. Then the Veal Main. HOLY WOW... Nuanced yet rich. Perfectly cooked mid rare loin, dressed with a complex yet subtle combination of Braised cherry tomatoes, Broad Beans, Broccoli Rabe is perfected by the rich and flavorful jus touched with an essence of mint. The perfectly crispy fried, lightly curried onion Bahji adds a perfectly complementary crispy texture and subtle onion sweetness that would be greatly missed in its absence. I am embarrassed to admit, that the Hazelnut herb crumb lightly dusted over the top - while a brilliant design addition - was too subtle for MY palate. Those of you with a more refined palate will be fortunate to enjoy more than I this finer nuanced component. This dish might be the very best designed veal dish I have ever experienced... and... executed BRILLIANTLY. IF You're staying at the Marriott Breadsall... or ANYWHERE in the vicinity... you MUST go to Darley's Make a reservation... if you don't... then don't be surprised if you don't get In. It's THAT good. [OK... I'm done now. I don't know what else to say... other than "I DON'T WANNA LEAVE." ] WAIT... The dessert ("pudding, as they say... I went for the "sampler...INEXPLICABLE. All I can say at this point is... Just TRY IT! OVERALL, in all my decades of travel and seeking out the very best restaurants in the world ... THIS one - almost by accident - rises almost to the top. WEIRD... but awesome.

Set on the weir in Darley Abbey, it is a picturest spot to have dinner. Along with a great location…read morecomes great tasting food and with that good service making this a great all rounder! A little pricey but you are always guarenteed a good meal and the atmosphere always provides for a nice relaxing evening. I know people who will travel miles to visit here and never grumble they have travelled so far so must be worth the trip. A god place to go for intimacy!

The Brick & Tile pub is a little outside of Derby city centre, close to a local favorite micro pub,…read moreThe Last Post. It's a typical, average traditional establishment that has a nice, rustic atmosphere. It's not, however, otherwise remarkable. The ale selection is certainly underwhelming: Three hand pumps, two of which featured the undistinguished Pedigree and Hobgoblin Gold, the third was vacant upon my visit. Rather loud place, too, but the British seem to have a much higher tolerance of noise than us continental Europeans. If you're on a Derby pub crawl, you might just skip this one.

Lunch on a Saturday. Great room for a restaurant, properly trained staff and all our food was…read morereally good with a wide menu choice. Will definitely be going back. A really nice visit.

So Expensive , but so tasty…read more Huge , very posh and definitely cosy. I would bring my family here for Halloween or Christmas. Keep up the outstanding work Cosy Club! I would work so hard to get a great dinner with My family , and out of all places this would be , the first one that comes to mind. It's not to far away anyway so I could save enough money to have a dinner with my friends. All the workers work really hard and I really appreciate that they are so nice and so kind. Do except the really expensive amount of money spent , cosy club would get 4/5 because everything else is so perfect. And it's not just me , a lot of my great friends , Come here often Too.

This is a place that never changes, although I do believe on our last visit the food was even…read morebetter than before! The food is classic British which is something of an oxymoron with the family who owns, cooks and serves being Spanish! Some might class the dishes as being old fashioned but I would like to think of them as more 'retro' :-) The dining room is also old fashioned but that's some of the charm of the thatched building with it's quaint bar and quainter staff. Think Prawn Cocktails, Garlic Mushrooms, Deep Fried Fish, Chateux Briand, etc. A three course banquet on a Sunday runs at a fixed price of £14 per person with some specials carrying a slight price addition. I say banquet because it is a humongous meal - don't eat the day before - you have been warned! P.S. The chips are AWESOME! If you visit twice or more you are sure to be remembered by the owner and her family, give them your name and you will find yourself being hounded to stay 'after hours' for a glass or six of their homemade sangria which, along with the owner's accent, is probably the only nod to their national heritage in the place. Definitely worth a visit and make sure you take your granny with you - she'll LOVE it!

The Windmill is another traditional pub that has changed hands several times over the past decade…read morethough I must say with the latest management and redecoration's the interior and the outside seating have been spruced up significantly. Staff are friendly and service is satisfactory. Food was delivered quickly and with little to no faults. Having the Steak Pie myself I would say it was good value for pub food and the quality was exemplary for the genre. Nice selection of real ales and stouts or lagers for whatever takes your fancy additionally. I will say though after finishing said pie I really didn't need the Black Forest Brownie Cheesecake! Great offers and great value for money, massive improvement over the past 5 years.

We've been wanting to try Masa for some time, after good reports from friends, so a spare Friday…read morenight and armed with a voucher (£40 worth of food for £20), it seemed an appropriate time to give it a try. Set in a Wesleyan Chapel, Masa makes good use of space afforded to its by its former use. Downstairs is a copious area of comfortable seating, were you can sit and have a drink from the well stocked bar, whilst perusing over the varied menu. Not a cheap venue, so we were glad of the voucher; the menu had a sufficiently varied selection of starters and mains, from a tempting duck starter to fish of the day, Sea Bass on the day we visited. We plumped for the chicken wrapped in pancetta and the blade of beef. As our mains were being prepared we were shown to the main eating area upstairs. Initially we were the only diners, but as the night wore on, the restaurant gradually filled, which added greatly to the ambiance. After an aperitif of warm broccoli soup served in a tea cup, and some fresh bread with chilli flakes, the mains soon arrived. The chicken wrapped in pancetta was accompanied with dauphinoise potatoes and creamed leeks; the chicken was moist and tender, and a lovely rich flavour. The blade of beef sat on savoy cabbage, bacon and sweet red onions, with a fondant potato, all in a red wine jus. Again packed with flavour, the beef melted in the mouth. We also shared a side order of cauliflower, mange tout and carrots, a very healthy portion, to accompany my meagre single carrot I got with my meal. Side orders really do irritate me, if you going to sell an expensive main course, give me something to go with it, I don't want to always pay extra for something that really should come with the meal. Rant over! Fantastic main courses, packed with flavour, hopes were high for the desserts. The chocolate and orange crème brûlée sounded perfect, accompanied by shortcake biscuit and a chocolate twirl, with fresh mint ice cream. The Crème brûlée was lovely, a fantastically smooth chocolate taste, but try as I might, the orange flavour wasn't there. The fresh mint ice cream whilst nice, overpowered the rest of the dish too, a shame. My wife's lemon and lime cheesecake, with raspberry sorbet, also lacked flavour in the cheesecake. All in all a good meal, but both desserts didn't quite hit the mark, shame really, as the mains were really rather good!

The restaurant was quiet for a Thursday night, which is a surprise as the food was fantastic!…read more Good service, lovely complimentary "amuse bouche" and very tasty food. Highly recommend this restaurant.

Excellent real ale pub on Friar Gate: Fine selection of non-standard hand pumped ales, all well…read morekept. Recommended: Dashingly Dark from the Derby Brewing Company. Friendly staff, great community atmosphere, not too loud. Quite comfy, too. Kept in great shape. Definitely worth a look for a Derby pub crawl, even if it's a short walk from the city centre.

One person is really not enough to serve a Sunday evening…read morecrowd, especially when that person has no concept of who is next and serves people who arrived more than 5 minutes after you! Only when there was no-one else she could possibly find to serve did we finally get our hands on a beverage and it was a good one, Hop till you drop. A second beer was acquired much quicker but was the not quite so good Triple Hop. I know I prefer their other pub, though this one is quite nice so maybe the dreadful service has just irked me too much.

The Nottingham Road branch is a hit and miss affair; when it's great you want to recommend, at…read moreother times it leaves an awful lot to be desired. I guess it depends when you call in... The food is either piping hot, well-cooked and edible or stone cold and not worth the £5.99. The staff are usually pleasant, one or two times they have been less than satisfactory. But you would get that anywhere in a retail environment so perhaps that's a little unfair. Car park is also on the small side and incredibly tight... If you live nearby I recommend walking, a lift or public transport. 7/10.

At best very poor on my recent visit which confirmed a previous visit was not a one off…read more Poor quality warm food and very small portion of meat being one small slice of turkey and one of gammon which would have been better used as a shoe sole. A very poor example of a Toby Carvery having visited others which are more than acceptable. £5.99 not worth the 99p, would not ever go there again if they gave me £50 to sit at a table.

Love this place. I went home to see my family a few days ago and ended up going to this lovely cafe…read morefor lunch with my stepmum. Absolutely nothing to fault with this place. Comfortable seating, wide choice of food and drinks. Mostly healthy and inventive food choices which impressed me and plenty of vegetarian and pescetarian items, which meant i could eat the majority of the menu, which is always a bonus. I settled on the vegetarian burger which the served suggest and it was insane. Halloumi, portobello mushroom in a nice brioche with home cooked Rosemary fries, simply wonderful and for less than 8 pounds. My stepmum went for the pasta with added chicken and I definitely had food envy, it had such a nice spicy kick to it! Lovely! Rating wise gotta be a 5, will be there when I'm next home again.