Barley + Graze Restaurant in Colchester

Lovely staff, very polite and helpful, but wrong meal arrived, my husband had finished his by the time the correct meal arrived. The hot meal was served on a cold plate and the food was not thoroughly heated. Not an enjoyable meal or experience. We were offered 1 x complimentary drink to compensate. :(

Most plates on the menu were not available. Food was eatable not more. This is pitty because te restaurant is quite nice. We went to The Crown for dessert.

I stay at the hotel frequently but never ate here because they had no vegan food. New menu has 2 hot vegan mains, a salad and a burger. The vegan starters are hummus or falafel so I didn’t bother. Neither of the hot mains were available so I went with the burger. The meat burger came with a free beer, but not the vegan one. So in effect it’s £4 more. When it finally arrived after quite a long wait it was truly uninspired. It was small pathetic looking sat on a plate with just a small basket of fries. The slaw mentioned on the menu was no where to be seen. The bun was hard, there was no sauce (meant to have red onion chutney) the square slice of vegan cheese hung over the burger it was that so small. The burger was a fried bean burger of the type you’d get four for a pound at the frozen section of a supermarket. The fries were ok, they were skin, well seasoned on but not crisp. No vegan mayonnaise, no BBQ sauce (or they forgot to bring it). For £10.50 I expect in 2019 to have a decent vegan burger, with some sauce and some fries. Not what appears to be a cheap frozen bean burger with a slice of cheese from a packet in a hard bun with no sauce. Luckily I wasn’t in the mood for a desert, as they don’t have any vegan desserts. Really disappointed