Harvester in Chelmsford

We arrived after 6.45 and The Plough was still very popular. A friendly greeting on arrival and we were shown to our table (reserved) immediately. We were served by Kelly who was friendly, welcoming and very efficient. Excellent meals (cooked by Dave we believe) at very reasonable prices. When we left (after 8.00 pm) the restaurant was still busy which is indicative of how popular it is.

Great place for family meal out. Especially when the sun is out- you can seat in the garden. Tasty, well presented food ; polite, helpful staff

Good food, quick service and the friendliest staff. A big thanks to Kelly who always seems to be our waitress and is amazing - thank you.

Great meal, amazing food and service at a great price. Thanks to Amy and Sam. Good atmosphere, even better as we had a discount voucher via the app

Table was ready on time and food came out hot and everyone enjoyed what they had. Dee was really lovely and attentive xx great food and service!

Good family meal, excellent service.

Great place to eat, lovely staff, good atmosphere

Excellent service, amazing food!

Reasonably priced food that tastes lovely for family days out. Would highly recommend.

Very nice perfect steak 👌 will most definitely will return if in the area

Good family restaurant and try the salmon for once the food was great

We regularly pop in no matter what time of day as we love everything about Havesters. If we've been out shopping and we're starving.of for a romantic dinner! Close to home, secure parking and lovely ambience 11/10

New menu is appalling. Put off and won't return until the food is improved. Old menu was great... Change has lost my custom. Respect to the staff but food was bland, tasteless and I would be doing a disservice to not mention. Not to mention the apparent price left me feeling rear ended by a snow plow...

This was a lovely place to visit. Food was lovely apart from the corn bread . Deep fried and full of oil. It came with the full rack of ribs...these were amazing and fell off the bone. Would recommend this place.

We took my dad for his 80th and the service was excellent the lovely waitress brought the cake out with the candles whilst singing happy birthday 🎂😀

Always a nice meal and service.

Second time of visiting the plough, food is good and staff are friendly

Lovely big and warm pub, perfect for families and young children. Service was quick and the food was nice

I normally highly rate harvester but we came here for the breakfast. Unfortunately didn’t realise they don’t do the make your own. The breakfast you can’t swap the veg for much else so the worth of the breakfast hugely decreased. Losing 6 items for 1hash brown. Definitely worth going Toby carvery Instead

Very impressed . I worked as Head Chef here about 35 years ago so lots of memories as visiting for first time since then Lots of changes of course, and for the better . Food is amazing, and what a friendly team Many thanks for a lovely visit

First time booking for Christmas Day and it didn’t disappoint!! The price was reasonable compared to others locally. The food was lovely, the service was fantastic, everyone was working so hard and a really good vibe. Will definitely book again for next Christmas! Thanks for making our Christmas just perfect.

Food quality is poor definitely gone down hill since I was last there. Best part was the salad and cob rolls. Even on a 50% of mains I expect good quality food. Won't be back till you sort it.

Popped in for lunch, food was prompt and really tasty. Joelly was a great waitress, attentive but not intrusive. The corn bread is AMAZING!

Food was great! Tasty, well presented, decent portion. Salad bar clean, fresh with range of salad to choose from. Considering there was very busy, service was quick. Staff well presented, polite and helpful. We had a good meal in nice atmosphere. Thank you

Lovely food, Patsy was our waitress, great customer service and I love that they fill up your first soft drink for you. Would reccomend a visit.

Had a lovely lunch here today with my wife and son. Ribs were tasty, pulled barbacoa burger was good and my son loved his fish fingers and chips... And halloumi fries as well. Kim was a great server, food came quickly and salad bar was well stocked.

Food was tasteless seems like it’s cheap ingredients staff was very pleasant unfortunately the manager was walking around with his jeans halfway down his arse how the teenagers wear them not what you would expect from a manger

Fantastic food and service as always. Special thanks to Jas and Sam. 🥂 recommend and worth stopping by. 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

The food quality has gone down massively and portion sizes are much smaller as well. A lot of our personal favourite meals have had drastic changes and just don't seem appetising anymore. All the staff seemed rushed off there feet and not very happy and felt like they were rushing some tables to finish. The most disappointing is every time I order a rocky horror the cake is never warm anymore which makes the dessert taste worst without it being heated up.

I had a fantastic meal at Harvester Plough recently! The service was friendly and attentive, and the food was delicious. I especially enjoyed the salad by Magda – it was so fresh and flavorful. For dessert, I tried Nikki's creation, and it was simply divine. I highly recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for a casual and enjoyable dining experience."

Food was amazing great service tonight from Dee and the manger very friendly and helpful will be returning soon

A good value meal. Fresh tasty salad and wide variety of main meals to chose from including a festive menu.

Food was what you would expect from. Harvester and the service was excellent!

Returned for a nostalgic meal after quite a few years and Dee who served us was extremely friendly and helpful. Food was just how I remembered tasty and great value!

Dee was really awesome. The meal prepared by Chicco was also amazing.

Food was fine, service from Dee was great.

We had a fantastic meal at The Plough tonight. Service was spot on and they accommodated the allergy in our group. Food was brilliant

Food was okay, but not great. Service was odd, and felt a bit rushed. We'd booked a table 2 hours before closing time, yet they were literally hoovering up around us. *Other vacuum cleaner brands are available.

Excellent value for money and food very good

Staff are friendly and very professional. Couldn’t help you enough and food was fantastic. Waiting times for food is very reasonable. Definitely will be returning

As usual great value...i always look forward to a Harvester..i really cant find fault. A great all round experience .. great food , great atmosphere, and great service. Would recommend to anyone

Brilliant service, excellent food

If you have allergies, do not visit this restaurant they can't follow a simple food order and cross contaminate

Joely is lovely and always makes us feel welcome. Nothing is too much trouble for her

Our server was Joely who helped us out with all of our requests. We asked for adaptations to the food and festive menu and she kindly obliged. We were a large table and quite chaotic at times, we didn't feel that we were an imposition and we were all happy with our food and service. Many thanks to Sam the chef for accepting the changes we wanted to our order. We were all stuffed afterwards. Huge thanks to the team.

Food was cooked terrible. I had a roast and i wouldnt give it to my dogs

Excellent meal very gd service by dee

We popped here for lunch before soft play. We had a LOVELY server named Joely who made our visit so relaxed and very special as it was our daughter’s birthday. She looked after us so well, was kind and considerate and really helped us celebrate. A huge thank you! 🤩

Pasty was our server this evening and she was amazing! Fun, attentive and funny service! Poppy who delivered our drinks was very polite and courteous. food was great thanks Bob and Alan.

Food and atmosphere were really good. Staff were efficient and made us feel really comfortable and welcome

Food was nice. Waitress/assistant manager was really lovely. Bad points: We had our booking at 6.30 and we didn't sit down until 6.45 and because of the delay we were contemplating eating somewhere else. Car parking doesn't really handle the capacity for the restaurant. Where the bar is situated was quite small, as there was tables right there, more people were coming in and they had to stand around people eating.

Friendly greeting, efficient friendly service, well stocked salad bar, sauces and rolls etc, well presented hot tasty food

Always very friendly staff here and a nice venue too. Always a hit with the kids so will be returning.

Had a lovely meal,service was great by Michaela would recommend you come for a meal here

Amy is excellent! Fantastic service made us feel very welcome and looked after . Thank you !

Had a very enjoyable lunch here today with 5 friends. The food was very good, and the service was amazing. Good prices and we used a discount code. Very nice experience, which we all hope to do again, soon.

Andy helped us out and was great. Really friendly guy without being OTT. Really nice easy experience. Food was decent enough and you know what you're getting here. Salad bar always a win 🏆

Nice new menu. Clean and family friendly restaurant

Very poor service from Kim the food was really poor from the starter to the main and we did complain,on the other hand the restaurant was clean and the parking was okay but I will definitely not be returning.

Popped in during the week for some early dinner with my mum. Kelly who served us was so polite, friendly and lovely. The food came so quickly and was delicious so credit to the chef also. Great value for money too!

Faye is an absolutely great server. Always serving with a smile and goes the extra mile. An absolute credit to the team xx

Great selection of breakfast items, good service and tasty food. Service was quick and friendly, tea & coffee was unlimited.

Was amazing birthday meal came for my 21st and patsy (aka Whitney Houston) served us she was so lovely and pretty and helpful and attentive x she brought lots of hot honey which made my 21st unreal and also brought a little bit of ice cream and a candle which made me feel so happy 😁😁😁 will definitely be back for more yummy!!!

Had a lovely meal for my daughters birthday. Server Patsy .. (celine deon) was fantastic and made my daughters birthday. So Special .. Thank you Patsy is a real asset to your restaurant ..

Our server was chris/andy the service was excellent Chef was sam breakfast was outstanding only problem we had was the tomatoes was a bit soggy

Excellent service by Kim and Nova. Good atmosphere. Enjoyed the breakfast.

Excellent food from Chef Bob and service by Andy - thankyou

We came here and sat here with 3 dogs in the garden had some really lovely food and they was great at responding with questions about allergies. The dogs also enjoyed their food that they had too.

Came here for breakfast the service and food was really good. Thank you Chris and Sam

Server today was Chris and Joley, fabulous breakfast and excellent service 👌

Great food and friendly waitress.

Chris is just fabulous. We come every Monday just to be served by Chris who is just amazing

Patsy was really lovely and helpful

More variety on the salad cart would be good but what was there was fresh and the main meals were good. Service was excellent.

It was busy when we got there and was disappointed to dowcovwr that you couldn’t mix and match on the skewers anymore (used to be able to add a different one ie chicken and hallomi together) but that’s just little preference. Our server Aymon (sorry if spelt wrong) spent the time to ensure our experience felt personal and special as three out the five of us were celebrating our birthdays (1 days between them all!) and took the time to make sure my 9 year old felt special as he filled up her new birthday present (Stanley cup) with water for her so she could have it during her meal (alongside her bottle of purchased coke of course!) Small talk about football and our birthdays made us feel special. I personally have worked in hospitality and I saw how he spoke to other members of staff and diners and felt it important to take the time to ensure he was recognised. The only reason I haven’t mentioned anyone else is because we didn’t need to speak to anyone else as our table was served attentively. Thank you.

Chelmsford Harvester today, Chris was wonderful fantastic service Lovely food breakfast was amazing with amazing service.

Met a friend here for breakfast, I had the vegetarian sausage bap with hash browns & a cappuccino. No mocha option on the menu so that was disappointing! Food was very nice & it was busy in there .

Great food, service. Good value for money.

Fab service by Chris and Joley and good food.

Can't fault it service was quick food hot and good

Good food,friendly staff. Prices seem to be rising here, but till good value look at app for offers would be my advice

I had the 1983 combo, (no idea what the relevance of the 1983 is). It cost £19.99 and it was awful, stupid little pot of fries which was half empty, 4 ribs with hardly any meat on, what little flavour they had wasn't like any ribs I've ever tasted before and NOT in a good way. The piece of chicken was bland at best and quite what the other little square items on my plate were, I have no idea, sweet and tasteless. I haven't been to a Harvester in a very long time and I doubt I'll ever go back to one. A thoroughly disappointing meal, save your money and get a takeaway from anywhere !

Had breakfast today and Chris, jolly & kim very good service and chef sam & Paula well cooked thankyou all

Great service from Chris, Sam and Paula.

+ Food was lovely, staff polite and helpful, restaurant was clean. - staff confused about discounts and how to process them. Waited long time to pay.

Came In For Breakfast For My Wife's Birthday, We Were Hesitant On Coming Due To Having Walked Out Many Times Due To Be Ignored By Previous Staff, The New Team Chris, Kim And The Other Amazing Humans Here, Perfect Visit, Lovely Food And Even Better Service Thank You Ladies We'll Be Back Soon!!

I ordered the single chicken burger and I couldn’t bite into it without the skin from the chicken breast coming along with it, really chewy and not nice to bite into! I thought it was the bacon fat that was stringy but it was the chicken skin. The chicken itself tasted cheap and was not enjoyable at all. However, my sister had the chicken skewers and said it was really good. The chips weren’t the best either. But our waitress was really lovely and couldn’t fault her. Shame about the food tho!

Joely, our waitress was excellent, very friendly, efficient, understanding of my daughter's needs (autism and anxiety) and was not phased by her undecisivise at all.

We had a great meal here and the service e was brilliant. Excellent value for money.

Great food great service had a great time thank you to all the staff even on a really busy night we were looked after really well

Chris served us. They were lovely, attentive and kept us informed with wait times and gave us all the coffee we needed! Food was lovely and went down a treat.

This is a large and welcoming restaurant, which was spotlessly clean and came with notably friendly, chatty service. It’s just a shame that the food, in this case 2 of the main course vegetarian dishes, was pretty poor. The pasta shells and what was supposed to be a tart but resembled more of a floppy, greasy pizza were pretty much indistinguishable and not in a good way. We enjoyed the salad bar (but suggest you steer well clear of the small dry rolls). If the food was as good as the building and the staff it would merit a much higher score.

lovely meal, hot and fresh, toilets clean and place was overall nice server Faye was good and gave just the right amount of service.

Haven't been here in ages! Gotta get that salad! £7 for a bottomless salad. 😀

Good customer service and very helpful. Good food . Nice harvester in Chelmsford 👍

Faye looked after us brilliantly - great service and good advice. Parking appeared to be a bit tight, but that's only because the restaurant is so popular, and with good reason! Good portions, cooked as requested. Complimentary salads and sauces, including my favourite - a hot Naga Chilli. Thoroughly enjoyed our first visit to this Harvester. Would definitely return on our next visit to the UK.

My wife and I stopped off for an English breakfast, it was excellent. The food was cooked really nice. The waitress (Chris) was very pleasant, attentive and efficient. Good value for money. We'll definitely be visiting again.

Great food great service Faye was brilliant Tonight

We had a lovely meal with friends, and the staff really looked after us. 👍👍

Great food as usual Chris and joley were very friendly and attentive