Food, wine and beer have always been the main focus at The Anchor. They have a unique and rather fabulous menu of well over 50 bottled beers from around the world (Belgium, Germany, USA, etc), a really interesting, quite short, always changing wine list, and an impressive list of gins (not that  unsusual these days, admittedly). The food is uniformly excellent, seasonal and quite inventive, and probably the main reason people come back: good local game, fresh fish and seafood – I had perfectly pitched Cromer crab spring rolls followed by an unctuous venison carbonade – and Sophie’s delicious homemade bread goes down a treat with local cheeses like the brie-like Baron Bigod from Bungay.

The menu has half a dozen starters and three or four mains plus steak, a burger and a fish dish done on their Bertha charcoal grill – along with a few specials which change every day during summer, when they also fire up their pizza oven. Mark is always on hand to advise on the right beer or wine to pair with each course (but is also happy to leave alone those who don’t care about such things).

As for breakfast, this is served in the sunny back room of the pub and consists of a small buffet and a menu of hot options which includes a good full English plus kippers and smoked haddock that make you feel like you're properly by the sea.