Harvester Stanway in Colchester

Nice service. Good job samir, thanks for the Barbacoa 👏🏻😬

Really good food, quick service and Laura was so friendly and accommodating!

Great experience as always. Served by Laura, as we often are here and she is one of the reasons we keep coming back. No task is too big and even offered to refill our refillable drinks for us throughout the evening. Excellent service

Lovely place Thank you Samir! We have observed other customers appreciation towards you too!

Samir was lovely, super quick service. Thank you.

Food was very nice, me and my girlfriend really enjoyed a steak, and our sever Samir was amazing, very prompt and put us in really good seating. Great service

Amazing meal, fantastic service from Laura

Laura excellent - very helpful and pleasant

Laura was and always is amazing!! So welcoming and joyful! Thank you.

Laura served us today and was absolutely amazing, she thoroughly looked after us and nothing was of any bother. A real asset to the team.

Laura served us. Couldn’t fault her. Polite, attentive but not too much. Fantastic all round! Thanks Laura! Good was good too.

Laura was our waitress and she was very helpful and efficient. She did everything with a smile on her face!

Reasonably priced food with a large selection plus free salad bar with a meal.

Great staff, atmosphere and food

We went to the Stanway in Colchester twice in 2 weeks, and both times we had the server Michelle , very help and polite. We ordered the ultimate mixed grill. Everything was cooked perfectly.

Great family lunch, Laura our hostess went above and beyond to make our children have a great time, also helped our fussy daughter with her choice of dessert

Laira was an unbelievable waitress. Was funny cheerful and all round good person. Great food and quality dessert. Defo recommend for anyone with any doubts.

Wonderful menu choice and always have Laura serving us who is super friendly and always makes sure we're happy! Never had any complaints with food or service.

Great food fantastic service and good value for money

Excellent service from Samir. Quick service clean tables hot and well cooked food. Steak outstanding. Well done all round!

Great food, cooked to perfection and superb service from our waitress Mina. Always happy to help. Will visit soon and would recommend to others

had a lovely night here again, the food was great and our waiter Samir delivered outstanding service thank you very much!!

Spent a great Saturday night with friends at Stanway Harvester. Food was delivered promptly and was delicious. Thank you our server, Kate who looked after us very well.

Samir was very helpful and polite , amazing rotisserie chicken.

About 20 pounds pp including drink. Big menu, big portions, probably a bit too much tbh, though if you don't like grill or burgers do not come here. Would like to see maybe an enchilada or fajita option for a bit more variety as most stuff was meat and chips. I had half chicken which was well cooked and the chips were great. Peri peri sauce quite spicy. Salad bar is very good as expected, and I was surprised at the amount of different sauces. For service we sat in the bar section so we did not have waiter service but there was nothing to complain about. They managed to get us a table when it was busy. Strongly recommend if you like grill foods. A few vegetarian options but not the best. Wheelchair access.

Thank you Gill for looking after us :)

Had a lovely lunch here with family.. service was amazing by Laura and definitely recommend coming here.

Other than a polite waitress there was nothing positive about the visit. Food, very poor quality. A simple dish that wasn’t cooked to a normal edible standard. Chicken breast overcooked and dry. Gravy very watery, kids pasta sauce also very watery. Would never order a steak as they can’t get that right. Food quality has gone down hill lately. I am not sure why, maybe because it’s always overcrowded and the chefs might not be able to handle the amount of dishes they have to cook. Salad bar is a joke. Very messy and not much choice. Looks like kids help themselves and touch everything. Pasta salad tasteless. Food looks certainly like it stood out for hours. The best part must be the bread rolls with the lurpark butter. Such a shame because it is a great venue, the food is the only let down. Especially when such simple dishes like the “simply chicken” isn’t cooked to a tasty meal. Like how can you get that wrong. Much nicer to home cook. Especially with them prices.

Always a great experience. Laura is amazing and can't do enough for you.

Enjoyed my food and great service and atmosphere

Laura was brilliant food was great

A real shame, came away extremely disappointed, 3 steaks, not one cooked correctly. Poor choice of veg, only chips, bullet peas...spoilt what should of been a nice evening for my young daughter, who after waiting whilst others ate had to have hers as a takeaway...a proper shambles all round, the one saving grace would be the fantastic waitress, this lady would get 5stars...

wouldn’t recommend coming here, food was awful, gammon was like leather, my brother and i ordered the same food both asked for the meat to be medium rare, i got rare and he got medium my stake wasn’t rested either. they gave my partner the wrong meal to begin with, then made her wait 10 minutes for her actual order to come out, the chicken was oily and just not nice. the nicest thing about the entire experience was the salad bar, which i could easily recreate with my eyes closed. considering we spent £152 for the five of us guess it’s not ridiculous to want our food somewhat nice.

Food was excellent, the Haloumi skewers with sweet and sour sauce was delicious, my husband had a steak which he said was great , Samir was our server and was very attentive .

Always good food and friendly service

18 of us enjoyed a lovely family meal together. Food and service was excellent

Food was cooked nicely and tasted great but chips could have been hotter and my burger bun was all soggy on the bottom. Choux bun was a bit flat on my dessert and not much like choux pastry at all. Would have been better filled with a creme patisserie and then cream on top rather than white choc mousse and ice cream

Most pleasant atmosphere and terrific staff especially Samir who served us really nicely. Thank you Harvester!

Great venue and great value food ☺️ Staff are friendly and helpful.

Excellent visit to the harvester stanway tonight served by the lovely Michelle she was just simply brilliant nothing was to much trouble . Food was great , salad cart always topped up and was delicious .Fantastic value for money . Really enjoyed are visit.

Great place to eat, well run and lovely staff. Food was great and great value.

Great place for a weekend lunch with family. Great ambience, smiling and warm attending staff, great food. It's a 9/10 (sneaking 1 away because it's just a tad bit expensive when you compare portion sizes).

I had previously rated this 5 stars, however over the years the quality seems to have gone downhill. Visited as a group of 4 who were all very disappointed in both the quality and size of our meals. Prices have gone up and sizes have come down. Unfortunately I probably won't go back moving forward.

First visit here.. Service was very good, considering the place was absolutely packed out. Food brought out promptly, salad bar well stocked and replenished. Server actually taking time to promote the deals too! Will be back, a new favourite harvester that's worth travelling to get to.

Food was plentiful and good. Nice salad bar that's complimentary when dining. Great place for family gatherings and for kids. We had a lovely time

Great place to pop in for a bite

It was okay - service was the best bit. Prices are crazy on par with independents where the food is much better. Chicken was tough. Steak was touch. My pitta bread tasted of dough and didn’t eat any of it. Could have paid £15 somewhere else and got better quality food.

Lovely place to eat, staff very attentive and polite nice warm welcoming feeling food was lovely generous portion sizes all in all 5*****

The atmosphere in the restaurant was lovely, the staff were very friendly and attentive, and the food was cooked perfectly! Very good value for what we paid. We will definitely be returning!

The whole atmosphere is great, food is always on point even though we wanted some bits changed on our meals, it was no hassle for our waitress. Will definitely be back. Thank you for a great time

Food and atmosphere were excellent as always. My only adverse comment would b e that I had the Original Combo which arrived with cornbread which I specifically said I did not want (so I did not eat it) and the chicken portion was not as well cooked as it usually is so I was careful about which parts of the portion I actually ate. It looked ok from the outside but not inside.

Lovely evening, good food and fantastic service

Visited for a family breakfast, 12 of us in total. Food arrived quickly and hot considering there was a lot of us. Our server Laura was very attentive and nothing was too much trouble. Great family atmosphere and a very happy visit from us all. Would definitely recommend

Was very disappointed and normal when I’ve been before it’s been really good but we didn’t even end up having food because we had to Waite so long and people who came in after us got served before us so not impressed

Arrived at 12, nobody came over for at least 20 minutes until we got asked if we wanted drinks. Then we sat till 1.35 watching other people get served before us, before we decided to leave because nobody came to serve us...

Good value for money and service for our table of 12 was excellent

The food was very good value for money and having the unlimited salad bar is a real bonus. My wife and I tend to use the salad bar as a starter as the variety, quality and flavour on offer are very good. I had the gammon and my wife the scampi. Both were well cooked. What stood out for me was when I declined the pineapple and the peas the waitress Mina immediately offered alternate items at no extra cost, so I ended up with two eggs and baked beans. That response demonstrated the courtesy, friendliness and professionalism of the waitress Mina, complimented by her colleague who brought the drinks. All together a nice lunch stop at a good price

Nice clean restaurant with great food.

The lovely Laura served us our lunch today and I would recommend her to anyone who loves the harvester. She is always happy and very helpful.

Great place and amazing service from the lovely Laura. She’s amazing with my little boy and his allergies.

If you have vouchers for money off then its worth a visit. The ladies who served us were always happy to help and worked with a smile..

I meal the meat was so tough the person couldn’t chew it. Then they tried to overcharge me by £14

Good food, the ribs were fantastic Michelle the server was very sweet and helpful

The atmosphere was lovely. The service you couldn't fault. The steak had to be cooked again as it was too raw but it was done without fuss. Desserts were a bit expensive.

Our Server was great ! The variety and quality of the food were excellent, we all enjoyed ourselves. Only downside - parking the the car park was a tad difficult - most parking spaces are quite narrow and getting in/out of the car quite difficult

Laura was attentive, happy and friendly.. Thank you Laura Fabulous food too!

Not as good as its been in the past

Lovely rack of ribs and scampi mains went down well, great service from Ayu.

Waited 25 mins to be asked if i would like a drink Ordered food and chips cold replaced with hot over cooked ones ribs warm Galic bread well more like pitta bread swiming in galic butter

Always a decent meal. Bit chilly in the building tonight but excellent service from a lovely chap called Ralph.

Nice food good price good service table for ten all went well will be going back

Waitress very rude unhelpful, almost threw the plates onto our table

Harvesters are great. Decent food at decent prices and lots of it! Never had anything but the full rack of ribs here so can't really comment on the food. Ribs are tip top though 👍

Gentleman greeting us went above and beyond, especially regarding allergen advice which never happens eating out. nothing was too much, thank you for making us feel so welcomed with two little children

Good place for dinner with a family or just as a couple, food is reliable and tasty. The salad bar is lacking compared to what it used to be but the updated menu is a good and well needed change. The staff are lovely and welcoming. Cant go wrong for the price.

Came in for a meal with a friend as we hadn’t been there for a long time. The salad bar didn’t have much in the choice to have. All the bacon toppers, croutons etc were all gone and was quite messy in there. 2 bread rolls left in there and the rolls were hard so only had one. I ordered a new plate with the three different sausages on. I was severely disappointed. My first bite from each one had fatty gristley bits in. I had to send it back, the waitress was more than happy to help and done so with a huge smile on her face. She replaced my food and apologised again. Quite frankly the restaurant would be silly to ever lose her, she was a great waitress and just about saved the experience in there. Thank you Stacey for being so happy and cheerful!

Lovely staff and a good breakfast!

Was celebrating my 7th Year wedding anniversary. With my wife. Meal was delicious and very tasty. Waitress's was very

Everything was perfect as already stated in Harvester review

Great location, took my family for lunch on Saturday. The waitress was lovely but the food was very poor quality. Salad bar wasn’t good it look like it was sitting out for sometime so I didn’t attempt to eat it. Won’t be returning.

Very busy and very loud when we went, good service and good quality food at reasonable prices.

Food used to be better. Mine wasn't even hot when served. Tipping...totally devious! The payment device gives you the option of % 5, 10, 15 or other but does not make it obvious how you bypass this and just pay what you owe. I feel no discomfort asking the staff how to select no tip but I am 100% certain that many tip because they feel uncomfortable about asking not to. Deliberate & devious!

As always a great place for food and service Laura is amazing!

Nice start but you will need to formally tip. Food is fairly good. Shame the free salad bar is not maintained so we couldn't use it apart from a sauce. Nothing left. Meals were decent. All in all ok. We only use as we can get a small discount.

Food was lovely and service was even more lovely! We had Laura serve us who couldn't have been more helpful given my partner had allergies. 5 ⭐️ service! Definitely recommend 👌🏻

Food was good and we had Laura as our server. She was very polite and served us whilst we waited for our table and then once we sat down. We have been numerous times and Laura has been our server and she is constantly good and helpful. Always making the effort with her tables and working hard :). Thank you Laura.

Laura was amazing!!!! Attentive and responsive. Food delicious… restaurant clean and welcoming. Lovely new years day out

Another good visitFood and service really good. You could do with more vegetarian options

Really enjoy the meal . Staff very friendly.

Very nice experience and great service.

Very Disappointed with the Christmas lunch not cattering for vegetarians Only Meat or vegan My partner Matthew is vegetarian and didn't have a good meal today Aĺl the vegetables were hard and no vegetarian gravy?? Dessert of Christmas pudding no brandy sauce as advertised got custard?? Not A Good Experience at all. A lot of complaints today Paying £140

Laura was our waitress, had amazing service, great food, had an amazing Christmas lunch. Lovely restaraunt. X thank you.

Such a great place for brunch, we feel very lucky to live so close. The vegan breakfast is delicious and everything is really reasonably priced and great value for money. The service is always fantastic and very quick.

The salad bar had been refreshed and looked clean. We all enjoyed our meal. Excellent service.

Fantastic food,good atmosphere and lovely staff .

The harvester was very busy. When we arrived we were greeted by a gentleman who advised us that our table would be ready soon. It was ready within a few minutes, he then showed us to our table. It was awhile before we were served but we had been given our salad bowls so we proceeded to get our salad. (We were surprised that the salad bowls were hot for a cold salad). The salad cart was very well stocked. Soon after we got our salad the server arrived, she was very friendly and helpful. She took our drinks order. It wasn’t too long before she arrived with our drinks and took our meal order. The meal took awhile to arrive, but we expected this because the place was so busy. (Everyone was working really hard). When the meals arrived they had all been cooked nicely. The plates were very hot, which wasn’t a problem with the adults. We had to stop the server giving my autistic granddaughter a piping hot plate. (She would have been burnt badly). The server changed the plate for a cold one immediately. The server came over a number of times to check that everything was okay. We had a really good experience and a lovely meal.

Came for my birthday meal had the rotisserie chicken and turkey Christmas burger the food was lovely and the waitress we had was very welcoming will be coming back again

Very nice visit. Food was better than the average Harvester, and the service spot on.

Superb festive meal could not beat value or meal 5 stars at least, again fantastic staff. Leaving Colchester soon but this place is a gem.

Friendly service but my steak was over cooked and chicken very very dry