The Olive Tree Restaurant, North Walsham

Monday: 09:00 - 15:00
Tuesday: 09:00 - 15:00
Wednesday: 09:00 - 15:00
Thursday: 09:00 - 15:00
Friday: 09:00 - 15:00
Saturday: 09:00 - 15:00
Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00

About The Olive Tree Restaurant, North Walsham

Casual fine dining with a twist - the twist is that we use top quality, fresh, locally grown produce and fish landed on the nearby Norfolk coast

The Olive Tree Restaurant, North Walsham Description

North Norfolk's "Hidden Gem"

The best kept secret and most exclusive restaurant.

Set in delightful North Norfolk countryside, our stylish new restaurant features a fashionable modern interior complete with a sumptuous lounge and spectacular bar. The relaxed and welcoming atmosphere helps you to unwind as you choose from an inspired ‘bistro-gastro’ menu of contemporary English and international cuisine, served by enthusiastic, sociable staff.

As you’d expect, olive trees are a key visual element, with around 50 on display throughout the restaurant and grounds, plus many exotic plants. The light and airy interior opens onto a spacious, Mediterranean-style patio terrace surrounded by box hedges.

The terrace is perfect for alfresco drinks or meals, with extensive timber decking plus 1, 000 square metres of gorgeous Indian sandstone paving. Its focal point is a timber bridge over a beautiful Japanese Koi carp water feature. Beyond is the summer bar area and open-air swimming pool – the finishing touch that makes the Olive Tree a wonderful venue for events and special occasions.

The Olive Tree Restaurant is part of a £5 million development programme and no expense has been spared to make it a memorable destination for the local region and beyond. The open-fronted kitchen is an exciting feature, enabling diners to enjoy the frenetic activity as the Head Chef and his team prepare and cook the wide variety of food on offer. Of course, the food is the most important element, but a committed restaurant team is also vital for a great dining experience and that starts with the Head Chef. In the restaurant, our Manager ensures that the front of house team provide skilled, attentive and friendly service at all times.

This is casual fine dining with a twist, and the twist is that we use top quality, fresh, locally grown produce, and fish landed on the nearby Norfolk coast. Our Head Chef knows that it’s impossible to make mouth-wateringly memorable meals without the best ingredients, seasoned with years of experience.

Some excellent wines and premium quality beers are available to accompany your meal, and youngsters are well catered for with half portions at half price, or traditional favourites from the children’s menu. Fresh and innovative cocktails are also available from our drinks menu and are a perfect kick start to an evening.

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🚨 LAST CHANCE TO ENTER!!!! 🚨

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Amazing preserves 🌶🥕🥒

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Luxury Handmade Preserves Using Old Norfolk Recipes 😋
Share and Like these Tasty Condiments

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🚨 UPDATE 🚨
To all those enquiring about our New Years Eve Party we are now at full capacity and all tickets have been sold!
All those who managed to get their hands on tickets, please make sure you bring tickets with you on the night so you are not refused entry!!!
... Remember to join us from 7.30pm onwards with a light buffet served at 8.30pm and DJ Saturn Sounds playing us into the new year!!
Don’t forget we will be serving fresh bacon rolls just after midnight to keep you going untill the early hours. 😋
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AVAILABILITY CHRISTMAS DAY
Due to cancellations we have a few available tables for Christmas Day lunch.
Available slots are at:
... 12.30pm 12.45pm 1.45pm
Please contact us if you would like to book a table.
Merry Christmas to you all 🎅
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Christmas Party Night...
Thank you everyone who come to our dinner and dance, was an enjoyable night and amazing atmosphere.

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Thank you to our lovely customers.
We have been busy busy busy for our Sunday Roasts at The Olive Tree.
Please remember to call 01692 404900 and pre-book in order to benefit from our 241 offer.

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Happy Halloween Everyone! 🎃
This week at The Olive Tree we are still taking dinner bookings Wednesday through til Sunday.
Wednesday is burger and beer night... Thursday is steak night Sunday is our 2 for the price of 1 roast dinners.
Please book in advance for the Sunday offer.
Don't forget we are also hosting Christmas parties on 15th and 22nd December and our New Years Eve tickets are now on sale and available from The Olive Tree or Norfolk Park office.
😁
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We still have availability for this Sunday! BUY ONE GET ONE FREE on roast dinners. This offer is subject to pre booking so please call us before you arrive. 😊

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Our colleagues at Norfolk Spa are running a fantastic competition, head over to like their Facebook page and enter 😊

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Come and join us to say goodbye to 2018 in style.
With saturn sounds playing us into the new year from 7.30pm, we have 2-4-1 cocktails and half price beer until 9pm and a delicious buffet by our head chef served at 8.30pm.
Ticket prices are £10 per person and you can purchase these from The Olive Tree or Norfolk Park office.
... We hope to see you there!
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Good Morning!
We hope you enjoyed the weekend!
If you are looking for somewhere to eat this weekend, don't forget we now do the offer of 2-4-1 on our Sunday Roasts.
... Pre-booking is essential for this offer so please give us a call to reserve your table. 🍽️
We are closed today and tomorrow but messages on here are being picked up.
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S U N D A Y R O A S T S !
From now on at The Olive Tree if you pre-book your Sunday roasts with us we will be doing buy one get one free at just £11.95 per roast!
We serve every Sunday 12pm til 4pm.
... Please call 01692 404900 to reserve your table. We still have some availibity for tomorrow 🍽
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Thank you to Dale Bullimore for a spectacular performance last night as always 😊 we hope you will come back soon

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If you're looking for something to do tonight look no further!
We have the fantastic Michael Buble tribute act Dale Bullimore performing at The Olive Tree tonight at 9pm!
We also have HALF PRICE on ALL DRINKS from 8pm til 9pm.
... Dinner is fully booked but it's £10pp to book a table to watch his performance and enjoy some drinks.
We look forward to seeing you all there 😊
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Went yesterday for a late lunch with friends we had never been before, really friendly staff looked after us so well they even cooked us all fish and chips as that's what we all fancied but it wasn't on the menu ! Lovely haddock and fab tartar sauce 😘Great meal and fantastic staff thanks guys we will definately eat here again 👍😆

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We came here for our xmas meal yesterday me my wife and all our family the food was superb staff were great lovely place to come i will be coming again and will be recommending to all my freinds ... thanks to all the staff happy xmas

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Visited the olive tree at the weekend & had a lovely meal, very good variety on the menu, fantastic service & food!

Only moan is that I wished they'd told me on booking that there was a function being held as it was very noisy with the disco.... not that it bothered us but I know if I'd taken my parents with us they wouldn't have wanted to stay.

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Super food great entertainment and nice staff

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On Saturday I had my wedding reception at The Olive Tree and what can I say....Food was absolutely amazing, a sit down meal for 90 people and it was beautiful! Credit to the chefs, I had guests saying to me that they had eaten in some top London hotels and the food wasn’t no where near as nice as Saturdays! Evening buffet, delightful. The staff were all absolutely amazing, this place is a complete hidden gem and does not get the credit it deserves. Well done all! Thank you for an amazing day �

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My Husband and I had a lovely meal last night, food was amazing, service was exceptional, and it was a lovely touch that they acknowledged it was our wedding anniversary. We will definitely be coming back.

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I visited the Olive Tree Saturday 28th January 2017 with my husband and two friends for an evening meal. It was my birthday and we wanted somewhere local to celebrate. We have visited many times and have always been impressed by the superb contemporary smart decor and the quality of food available. There was a good choice of dishes with a good selection of wines. The presentation was as consistent as ever and we thoroughly enjoyed the evening. We are lucky to have a high quality restaurant virtually on our doorstep and will be returning.

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Handy to have onsite whilst staying in a Dream Lodge, staff were attentive but not intrusive, chicken dish had a little too much sauce but better than not enough...thanks to all! 😊

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Had my sons 18th birthday here on Sunday, the staff decorated with banners and set out tables for us. The buffet was amazing and so much of it.

My son and my family were very impressed. The staff are very friendly and helpful.

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Brilliant day and lovely lunch

Great staff and the pool was lovely

Thankyou olive tree

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Positive: Mother's Day lunch was excellent! The food was hot and delicious and we had everything that we ordered including extra roast potatoes and gravy. A glass of wine was also included in the menu price. I also liked the idea of receiving the menu via Email about a week or so beforehand.

Negative: As it was Mother's Day a little thought could have gone into table presentation. It didn't need to cost much, a simple vase with bunches of yellow daffodils and accompanying yellow serviettes for instance would have made the room less cold looking and more like a Mother's Day "event".

A couple more on Service, would have shortened waiting. The two service staff were run off their feet and signs were beginning to show. But they remained very courteous and I guess it can't be easy to get people to work on Mother's Day...

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My husband and I went to the restaurant on Sunday for our wedding anniversary. As he had told them on making the reservation it was our anniversary, they chose a very nice table and decorated it with sprinklings of red hearts! Very nice touch. The food was very good, pricing good and the drinks were very large. I overheard that the restaurant was fully booked for lunch.

The location is quite unique as it sits among a holiday park, but is individual. There is a pool and comfortable outside sitting and dining. Some niggling aspects:

We came dressed in smart casual, but Some came in shorts and flipflops (quite too casual for a bit upscale restaurant). The black and white decor is relaxing, with b&w 1950/60 movie star photos. The 'front of house' waitress told us they are upscaling their look and menu (£20 for 3-course lunch of choices or a la carte.) so we would have preferred a smart casual dress code. She did not know what the soup of the day was so had to go check in the kitchen.

There is no direct access from bar to kitchen, so clean glasses are hauled across wood floor, dripping of water between the tables. No one came to wipe the floor.

The wait staff seemed to be more pub staff, as 'yeah' was heard often, and no one came around to see if we needed anything, water would have been good, another drink, etc. it was having to eye the waitress when she was around. Their chatting at the bar should not be heard. A bit more formal training for a restaurant that wants to upgrade itself would be helpful.

We would recommend this restaurant as the food was very good, portions good, Norfolk beef was medium and tender, and the Rioja wine vg.

Just a more upscale clientele and wait staff would make this a treat.

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Inside not as nice as the outside would suggest . Service excellent - my friend not happy with her meal so with absolutely no fuss it was replaced with an apology and she paid nothing ! That's what I call service - well done

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Had a very good night last night for new years eve! A couple of the dishes would have been nicer warm but other than that couldn't fault the food or service! All staff were friendly and smiling all night and let's be honest who really wants to work new years eve!

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We live local and used to eat here but had a couple of disappointing meals so Saturday we thought we would try again after reading the online menu. We arrived for what was probably the first cover of the evening and found that the menu was very different. However we could see some possible dishes that sounded good. Started with ham hock terrine with toasted foccocia, or what was actually presented, 3 tiny round slices of ham hock and gristle and toasted (burnt in places) white bloomer. We asked the waitress if this should've been foccocia to be told sorry yes but they had run out!!! We then had our mains, battered haddock chips & peas which was ok and sea bass with celeriac mash, cabbage, lardons and red wine jus which as individual items was okay, but in any way together it only tasted of celeriac. It doesn't bode well when your order is given to the kitchen that as a diner you hear comments and jokes about the sea bass. The management kindly removed the starters from our bill but when your only real positive was how good the wine was, it is not ideal when North Walsham has very few places to eat. The waitress was the only other plus for this resturant.

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Very poor , food was cold , could not get the order right . Group of people left without paying ,well that says it all. Took 30mins to microwave a Xmas pudding . I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone . Definitely would not pay £25.95 .

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Very disappointed went for Christmas Party night, seemed no thought had gone into presentation etc let alone taste or quantity! Dry Turkey ( 1 slice) 2 potatoes 3 slices of carrot , a cabbage leaf and 1/2 dozen inedible parsnips. No sprouts, pigs in blankets not even cranberry sauce. Even ran out of popular brand lager on Tap!!

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Terrible food.. was given anchovies in a salad when asked not to have them and the main was swimming in some kind of creamy bitter sauce. All I can say is kitchen nightmares uk..

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I came to the olive tree restaurant last night for a meal the night before my sisters wedding it was the most unorganised restaurant I've ever been to. There was 25 of us we all pre-ordered our meals the day before, there was at least a 5-10 minute gap inbetween meals being served and they forgot someone meal. The food tasted awful and the staff where unprofessional. I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone it seems even with new management it's still last on my list for places to eat.

More about The Olive Tree Restaurant, North Walsham

The Olive Tree Restaurant, North Walsham is located at Bacton Road, NR28 0RA North Walsham
01692404900
Monday: 09:00 - 15:00
Tuesday: 09:00 - 15:00
Wednesday: 09:00 - 15:00
Thursday: 09:00 - 15:00
Friday: 09:00 - 15:00
Saturday: 09:00 - 15:00
Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00
http://www.theolivetreenorfolk.com