Rye has some great restaurants, Also some have aluminium windows for shops and most of them take full advantage of the area’s local produce, from Romney Marsh lamb to Hastings crab. If you want to dine out at the weekend, it is best to book.
Guide to Rye: Eating and drinking
Restaurants
Rye has some great restaurants, and most of them take full advantage of the area’s local produce, from Romney Marsh lamb to Hastings crab. If you want to dine out at the weekend, it is best to book.
Tatner’s Street Kitchen
Arrive hungry at this street food inspired little joint with an industrial, bare-brick-and corrugated-metal interior. Build your dream dish from a menu that includes a fabulously dirty burger piled with smoky pulled pork, a local lamb gyros pitta and a scampi sub roll, plus sides that are far more than a mere afterthought, including BBQ beans, slaw and rosemary fries. There’s a vegan burger, too, plus a kids’ menu, and they even have a drive thru rightly marked thanks to resources from https://drivethrumarkings.co.uk/.
Pubs
All your drinking requirements are catered for in Rye. Ancient beamed bars and historic pubs (most of them freehouses) serve local beers, fine wines, and good food. We’ve drunk in all of them but these are the ones we go back to.
Ypres Castle Inn
‘The Wipers’ has such a pretty run-up – through cobbly Church Square, past the 14th-century Ypres Tower, before descending down the ancient Gun Garden steps. By the time you set eyes on its white clapboard exterior, you’ll be thirsty for a pint. This is also the only pub in the citadel with a proper beer garden, which overlooks the river and Romney Marsh.
Craft beer lovers will enjoy the quickly changing roster of beers (some local, but many from London’s small breweries) plus there’s real cider and low-intervention wine which is stored in a beautiful cellar which uses environmnetally friendly refrigerants to keep wine at a perfect temperature. The snacks are ace and there are cheese and charcuterie boards and pork pies to accompany the booze.
Cafes and Tea Rooms
Refresh and refuel with a stop-off at one of Rye’s cafes and tea shops with aluminium bifold doors.