Kings Head in Babergh

Lovely meal sadly my partners plate was so full she couldn’t eat it all! Excellent service.

Food as always amazing, the chicken burger was exceptional and the duck salad was the best salad I have had. Also our favourite pub, brilliant staff and service

Everyone was amazing very quick to bring out food

Brilliant food! Brillant service! Highly recommend!

Delicious food and great service

Can recommend soft crab burger, thoroughly enjoyed, great flavour and light. Staff always welcoming

Phenomenal food. An amazing table of food. From steak to fish to lamb to the amazing grilled chicken trillions pasta. All was amazing. Thank you

Amazing food. So impressed a table of different food requirements and all the meals were amazing. We had steak (sirloin), duo of lamb, trout with the biggest prawns ever and 2 of the chicken pasta dishes which were a lovely touch of a Mediterranean inspiration. Deserts to follow - thanks you to the guys at the Kings Head - we shall be back x

Nice enough, but only realised later that they’d overcharged us. Check your bill!

Lovely pub, great food, great service

Excellent staff, excellent food and a great experience, very happy to recommend this wonderful pub and will be back. As we have just moved to the area this pub will be our local

Wow wonderful friendly professional charming staff. Food amazing. taste & presentation price good value I travelled from herts and will definitely be back Thank you for a wonderful Sunday evening

Great staff. Good beers. Nice environment. Mediocre food that didn't seem freshly prepared on site.

Lovely meal with family for dad's birthday. Food was delicious. Chicken garlic schnitzel was tasty and my hard to please husband really enjoyed the slow cooked pork belly. Service friendly, lots of drinks to choose from (beers on tap). Really nice setting in cute town. Being locals we hadn't been for food for a while but was pleasantly surprised and will be back for food again soon. Tara and team run a really lovely restaurant/ friendly high end pub. Would highly recommend

Food was 👌, I had the burger and felt I couldn't finish it but had to because how good it was. Staff are all friendly and welcome and helpful. The atmosphere was great so many people in that all spoke to us and made us feel welcome.

A fantastic evening, staff, food and atmosphere superb as usual, well worth the visit they will always try to accommodate you no matter how busy they are

Wonderful meal. Chicken schnitzel and pork belly highly recommend. Good choice menu , wines and beer. Warm welcome and really nice service.

We eat out around Suffolk and Essex on a regular basis and on this occasion extremely disappointed. We had three homemade (doubtful) venison pies as a main course. The whole meal was dried up having been reheated under a grill or lamp to serve hot. The vegetables were almost raw,looked a mess and inedible. My wife had a salmon main course which had suffered the same fate being dried up, even the slice of lemon on top was burnt. The baked alaska sweets were nice, probably bought in from the like of Brake Bros. Nothing home made here ! Young lady serving was good. Needless to say this venue will not be visited again.

It's ok. Never been the same since it had it's refit a few years back. Poor selection of beers, really, but what do you expect from a Greene King pub?

We ate from the lunch menu, which had a very good choice, and we all enjoyed the tasty food, which was very reasonably priced. Great service, and the pub has a lovely atmosphere. Will definitely return.

We had our meal from the valentines menu and EVER part of the meal was outstanding, couldn't fault the service and we will definitely be returning.

Thanks to Tara and team for our lovely pre-Valentines meal last night. The food was amazing and the service great. The 5 course Valentines menu had so much choice. Delicious. See you again soon.

We had a lovely meal for valentine’s. We chose from the set menu, lots of lovely choices & it was great value. Would definitely recommend it.

A great meal! Staff were very accommodating as we didn’t book in advance and service was great. Will be back again

Bar staff and waitresses super attentive and welcoming 👌

We had a meal here tonight very underwhelming. First of all they run out of Calamari at 7pm. The burger tastes very cheap, the sauce tasted like McDonald's and doesn't warrant a £20 price tag, no salad or coleslaw very mediocre. When we asked for onions rings they don't serve them and run out of mustard. Steak come with chips, mushrooms and tomato again no veg or onion rings. At £90 been to a lot better places to eat and standards higher.

We spent another New Year's Eve with our friends and it didn't disappoint. We had a meal first, which was delicious, then we waited for the band called Evolution. They performed last year as well, they were fantastic interacting with you and were brilliant. Thank you, the King's Head and Evolution, for making seeing in the New Year with our friends such a great night.

Nice pub and staff friendly, food was not up to the cost per dish. Over priced for what was received, small portions and very bland. I had the fish and chips and more batter than fish with small portion of chips, home made tartar sauce was mayo with few herbs! Shame as this is a nice pub with good feel but unfortunately let down by over priced food which was bland and lacking taste. Won’t be returning for food again.

Nice location, attentive staff and warm atmosphere. Prices and menu promise fine dining but the food is very basic in terms of flavours, textures, presentation and ingredients. We were quite unhappy at paying so much for food and wine that was average at best and as a result I don't see us going back there.

An absolutely fantastic pub with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The staff went above and beyond to accommodate our party of 9, including two large dogs, making us feel truly valued. The food was exceptional, and the entire experience was relaxing and memorable. Highly recommended for anyone looking for genuine hospitality and great food!

Just had an amazing Christmas dinner, service was excellent, food was out standing 💯 recommend will be booking again .

Loved it,staff were friendly, professional,

A warm welcome for our family Christmas dinner for 13. All the food was fresh, tasty and hot. Fantastic staff and service. Will definitely return. Highly recommend

Never been to this pub/restaurant before and will not be coming back! A group of us booked in for various selections of food some was good and some very poor. Beef roast was ok with plenty of veg but the beef was tough enough to wear, the fish and chips small portions 20% Fish and 80% greasy batter small portion of chips and peas. (Not recommended) Waitress staff were friendly Expensive food for small portions not my cup of tea,

Sunday lunch was awesome. Nothing too much trouble for the team. Good veggie option for Sunday lunch. Good service even though it’s was busy tentive to all guests.

Fantastic food and a wonderful friendly environment. Even better that it is dog friendly as well. A welcome smile as soon as you walk

Another great night at the King's Head always looked after by the lovely friendly staff accompanied by great food as always. Highly recommend this place now the cold nights are upon us always a warm welcome

Lovely atmosphere and really attentive. Highly recommend

I recently dined at the kings head in Hadleigh, and it was a fantastic experience! The cozy ambiance created the perfect setting for a lovely evening. The staff were incredibly attentive and friendly, making us feel welcomed from the moment we arrived. The food was exceptional: I highly recommend the British Aberdeen Angus sirloin.

Came here again today amazing hospitality and warm welcome from Jordon Throughout my visit.. Place looks stunning... And warm cosy fire really made the place feel very homely Previous feedback........ Superb hospitality from Tara and the staff. This place looks fantastic... Really clean and inviting. The king's head serves a huge selection of wines and bottled beers aswell as the usual tipples. A live fire really brings the warm cosy feel to the whole pub. This is a great pub with great people. Very tasty coffee 😋

Wow, not enough stars..... specially for the food. Out of this world beautiful and so tasty. Friendly staff, lovely inclosed garden, decor lovely and clean. Super dog friendly as well.

Didn't eat so can't comment on the food. Friendly, well-kept pub

French onion soup for starters was good. Main course was roast chicken Sunday lunch which was barely average. Chicken needed longer. Parsnips were grossly undercooked and hard. Beef gravy with chicken served! Roast potatoes were cheap frozen packet ones. Grossly over priced. The dessert of sticky toffee pudding was nice. Service quick. Pub interior nice. The staff were nice. Bill was horrendously expensive. A one off visit!

Delicious food, great service. Highly recommend

Starting with the positives, lovely staff, very friendly and attentive, the pub / restaurant is pleasant, well laid out and it was busy both times we had lunch in there, Saturday and Sunday. On the Saturday we ordered from the lunchtime menu, food was nice but portions very small, in fairness it does state on the menu that they are lunchtime portions however can’t consider the food value for money due to the amount of food served, on the Sunday portions much better but number of roast potatoes with the Sunday roast was disappointing, we also had a problem with the beef dishes, the meat was shocking , we did complain straight away and staff dealt with it very well and replaced with alternative, probably did enough to make us try it again.

I thought long and hard before writing this review as I will always write a good review or a thank someone and I always hesitate to leave a poor review. This Sunday lunch was just so appalling that I felt I had no choice. My friend had the bunnernut squash wellington and said it was "OK" but was surprised it was served with gravy, yorks pud and vegs. I elected to have the roast chicken which was said to some with vegs, Yorks pud, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, lemon & tarragon stuffing, bread sauce. The plate arrived and the gloopy, set at the edges (!), plastic gravy tasted only of salt. Green beans OK, carrot (just one slice) was the only nice thing on the plate. Chicken was dry when the slimy skin was removed; the parsnip was too hard to even get a fork or knife in to try and cut it; the school-dinner-cabbage was overcooked and drowned in said gloopy gravy and the slab of stuffing was simply a piece of sausage-meat with not a hint of lemon or tarragon. Oh, and the pig(s) in (a) blanket(s) was a nub-end of (probably the same) pork sausage with a sliver of partially cooked bacon half wrapped around it. The Yorks pud was slimy in the centre. And then I noticed ..... there was no bread sauce and there were no roast potatoes on my plate. Our waitress (who was a very pleasant young girl) happened to pass at this point so I mentioned that I was missing potatoes and bread sauce (I didn't mention anything else) and asked for the bread sauce and not to worry about the potatoes. She apologised and went to the kitchen. Some ten minutes (!) later when I had finished just about anything that was vaguely edible, she arrived with a pot of white lumps. Now I love packet bread sauce and fresh bread sauce and I am really not a fussy eater but this was a new one on me. I managed some of it to show willing. When we used to eat at the Kings Head Tara masterminded things and her son was the chef and he was a great chef. I don't know who is in the kitchen now but he/she most certainly should be nowhere near a kitchen. There was no goodwill gesture of apology (or any verbal apology) on paying the bill. Am sorry Tara but , certainly until you get back and change your chef, we will not be dining at the Kings Head again.

Well what can I say. First time I've been here Bearing in mind I only live a few miles away from the King's head. We came here lunchtime we chose the lunchtime meal deal menu for that you get a drink and a main meal for £12. We chose Ham egg & chips, absolutely fantastic two large slices of Gammon ham one fried egg and a nice size portion of chips. Unbelievable value for the money and really good as well . I would highly recommend you coming here. This is our first time but certainly won't be our last.

Have had a couple of very good meals here, including a Sunday lunch, and it's generally friendly and decent. Bit variable, though. Quick lunch deal today saw good food and friendly service at a reasonable price. Lunch some time ago was a bit of a miss, though - fish and chips was all greasy batter and not much fish, with the fish all very overcooked (we had both an adult and a children's portion, and the child in question loves fish and chips, but declared this one inedible). Chicken burger was better, but was also rather overcooked and dry, and would have benefitted from half the amount of coleslaw and the addition of some other green salad or similar. Also had to wait an awfully long time for food (well over an hour after we walked in, despite two young children in tow). Maybe they were having an off day in the kitchen.

Wonderful beer, friendly staff and good service. Perfect pub for a night out with friends or family in Hadleigh!

The best pub in hadleigh , fantastic staff , food and drinks . So good to have tara back she is the best landlady ever met

Fantastic! The steak was one of the best I’ve had in years and the peppercorn sauce is delicious! Beautiful building and service, girls behind the bar were very friendly and helpful! Would recommend to anyone looking for somewhere to eat in hadleigh

Lovely pub with a nice selection of food and drinks. They were also really understanding of my elderly family member being a bit demanding.

Have had a couple of meals here now and have come away happy, and full. Around Christmas time, I had one of the best mushrooms dishes I’ve ever tried - I think it was a suet pudding, and to my heartbreak I was told I can’t buy it anywhere else because it’s homemade. We live 3 hours away 🥲 Recently we had a family lunch and tried a few smaller dishes, all of which were good though it started to get quite salty towards the end of the meal. French Onion Soup, yum! Tempura Veg, very nice and tasty but a bit salty. Tater Tots, great. The young people had Chicken Strips, Pork Belly, Hummus - all happy with that. My partner had the Ploughman’s and we were disappointed with this due to the lack of cheese variety (just cheddar) and generally it was ok, but nothing special and it easily could be. Would happily come again.

There's not loads of choice in Hadleigh but we won't be returning here. Service with a smile so no complaints there, but the food was pretty poor. Pie was just very thick pie crust with hardly any filling, was served two whole halves of carrot either cooked in vinegar or maybe it was just sour so had gone off! Fish was completely tasteless with thick bland oily batter. Chips were absolutely horrid, dry and burnt and no one on the table liked their chips. Don't charge reasonable to high-ish prices if the quality of your food doesn't match it!

First time here and throughly enjoyed it. Food and service were excellent

The food was wonderful. They were very attentive and was so welcoming to children.

Food was great, amazing pork belly for starter, great steak and lovely apple and blackberry. Kelsey serving us did a great job making sure everything was perfect.

Great food and great service from Kelsey

The food was excellent and the service was great. A big thank you to Kelsey for all her hard work.

Good food, great service from Kelsey. Very accommodating.

We stayed in Hadleigh for 1 night and had dinner at the king’s head pub. What a very pleasant surprise as the food was way beyond what we would normally expect from a village pub. Absolutely excellent produce, cooked to perfection! Service was the icing on the cake from the wonderful Abi 🤗

Excellent Adnam's beers with my favourite brew of Ghost Ship on tap. The food is good too with generous servings at good prices. I can certainly recommend the fish finger sandwich which comes with a generous-sized crispy fish finger in a baguette.

Good food, nice selections of beer and wines, large beer garden, friendly helpful staff.

We visited with neighbours, a local venue for us but sadly we wouldn’t rush back. The food, when it arrived was good but the service was very slow. We booked and arrived for 1 pm, eventually our order was taken and we waited 50 mins for our meals. We had to ask for the desert menu, my husband ordered the cheese and at £10.50 it was 3 very small pieces of cheese and a few crackers!! We did give it back to the waitress and said that no way was this a £10.50 cheeseboard. They did take it away, add more cheese and some pickle. One of our group requested cream for her coffee….. sorry we have no cream. The waiting staff were helpful but apparently understaffed for the amount of diners.

Very well maintained and run. Delightful family run pub, great food and menu in the Heart of Hadleigh. Spacious both inside and outside. Thank you for a great meal. 5*

A very pleasant experience was had on the last day of our holiday when we visited the Kings Head for an early evening meal. The quality of food was very good and it rounded off a lovely week in Suffolk. The staff were very friendly (albeit that I do wish we weren't continually addressed as 'guys'......my wife and I are over 60; I'm sure that they could come up with something different). Nevertheless, it didn't detract from enjoying a 3 course meal. Thank you all at the King's Head.

The sunday lunch was mediocre. it reminded me of a poor school dinner. The chicken was dry everything was covered in gravy which tasted of little but salt. The roast potatoes were not crispy just swimming in the brown glup. The pictures on their website look great but the food is nothing like you see. My sticky toffee pudding was over microwaved so the bowl it came in was red hot the the pudding sat in a bubbling lava of sauce too hot to eat and by the time it had cooled enough the icecream had melted. The teenage staff were nice and friendly but lacked experience so everything ran very slow. We arrived at 1pm and finally were served our meal at 2.30. Having run and cooked in a restaurant for many years I'm not inexperienced in this trade. serving good tasy food is not hard.When many pubs now produce great food it was very disappointing to be let down by this one

Really good service and food. Friendly staff, would definitely come again!

Outstanding food and service. Highly recommended 5*

Out of 10 I’d scored the following: Georgia - 10 Kelsey- 10 Tara - 9.7 but with a whoop whoop. Food great. Defo recommended.

Lovely surroundings. Good food - we had the lunch special which was good value. Service was very very friendly. Would return for sure.

Very friendly and welcoming, I had the roast pork, absolutely delicious, and plenty of it. Will definitely visit again.

Lovely, looks so good after refurbishment and food was lovely. Staff friendly, a real gem.

Went for Sunday Lunch and it was exceptional. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for. Quality & service was spot on

Didn't eat here but had a lovely couple of drinks in the beer garden, first time here. Would happily return and eat here next time, it all looked and smelt nice. Great atmosphere, dogs allowed, water bowls provided etc, relaxed and friendly place.

Polite staff. Nice outside space for sunny days. Tasty food.

Really lovely beer garden and staff were great. Only thing was that it's fairly expensive in there but it is in the classy village of hadleigh.

The worst Sunday roast I have ever had. Whilst eating out I'm used to the roast beef being pink, however here it was over cooked and very dry, thankfully there was gravy to make it more bearable. Although they ate ok the parsnips were hard to cut. The rest of my group were polite and said they didn't have an issue, however afterwards they did make comments that the quality was poor. We also had a long wait for the main and dessert courses, but this can be excused as it was Father's Day. The staff were very friendly, polite and pleasant.

Lovely place to visit for a lunch. We took advantage of a deal for £12, this included a drink and light bite. I had fish and chips. Wow just lovely! A good plate including mushy peas, homemade tartare sauce. My other half enjoyed a fish finger sandwich in a baguette. Actually it was a large piece of fish! We finished off with the morello cherry sundae with coconut icecream! Divine! All in all a great place to eat, was busy with customers, great service, beautiful old interior with beams, lovely bar and the toilets were clean, with sanitary items available, hand wash and hand cream along with baby changing facilities. Super place, I’ll definitely return again. Many thanks. A pleasure to visit.

Really delicious meal with excellent friendly service. I'd definitely go again. On the more expensive side but at least it felt worth it.

Amazing service, delicious food and Rioja rosé

Four of us went for dinner. We decided to have the four sharing starters and a main. The sharing starters were very substandard - sechuan chicken wings were only just cooked chicken wings that someone had literally thrown a bit of bbq sauce and some uncooked sesame seeds on. Houmous and flatbread - the flatbread was a shop bought tortilla wrap that someone had put in a frying pan. Chicken and ham hock pie, anemic and barely cooked, that actually had no ham in it. Parsnips so hard you couldn’t get a knife through them - literally inedible. Sirloin steaks horrible texture. The service was attentive and we made them aware of the poor food, but all we got was “I’m sorry, the chef is really disappointed. Anyway, here’s the full bill” Expensive. Price not justified. Food objectively not nice. Recommend for drink's only!

Avoid at all costs. We visited on a Sunday, so ordered the Sunday roast, comprising roast chicken, stuffing, bread sauce & veg for £18. It was disgusting. Barely warm, chicken was breastless - we got four legs. Veg in particular the parsnips were like leather, gravy lumpy, no bread sauce despite being on the menu as part of the meal, I could go on. During the meal, the waitress came and asked if all was OK. We said no and highlighting the issues. She just nodded and walked away. Did not see anyone else. Came to pay expecting my complaint to be taken seriously, no they just wanted paying in full and blaming me for not letting them know of my dissatisfaction!!!! You can see by my review history, dating back to 2012 that I have eaten in quite a few places and in my worldly travels I would rate this as one on the worst.

Disappointing experience today, what was meant to be a light bite (nibbles and sharing platter) ended up costing over £90 for 3 people , which was very expensive for what we received. Unfortunately elements of dishes were sold out and we were only informed when the dish was served up, bread was stale, hummus was sold out and the replacement vegetarian option for the sharing platter that was suggested to us ended up costing us an additional £10 which was not made clear beforehand. Wine options are also very expensive with a basic pinot being charged at £30. The staff were very nice but I think they are much nicer and better value places to eat locally.

Very nice. Table service: excellent - there was no fuss. Food: great - portion size was spot on. Prices: fair; the menu was refreshingly written in round pounds. I'd visit again.

Amazing pub. Very good quality food and service. Excellent all round. Highly recommended

Superb Sunday lunch. We had the roast beef and the chicken and both were excellent. We are looking forward to our next visit already! Thank you Tara and your excellent staff.

We've visited the King's Head several times and our experiences have ranged from very good to distinctly underwhelming. We went again yesterday evening and were looking forward to a good meal in pleasant surroundings. We were seated and served drinks efficiently... the staff are great! Sadly, there was a group of very loud people next to us... which we accept the venue couldn't really do anything about... nothing outrageous or rude just disturbing. So much so that when that group left, ourselves and four of the remaining tables all commented with wry smiles what a relief that was and how much quieter it had suddenly become! Anyway, on to the food, we had starters which were fine, mains of trout and Aberdeen Angus Sirloin steak. The trout came without sauté potatoes, boiled being substituted without telling us. The 'buttered greens' consisted of three small sprigs of tenderstem brocoli. My steak, whilst well cooked as I ordered to medium-rare, was thin, underseasoned and lacking in flavour. I was expecting rather more from a dish costing £31! As mentioned before, this does fit with a pattern of some inconsistency in the food quality. We do so want to love and support the King's Head, it isn't easy to run a good local restaurant these days, but we do hope that all the food could be elevated to the standard that we know the kitchen can produce at times. We will be back but this can't be our 'go to' place, as we would like it to be, until the consistency improves. We really hope it will.

Had a great meal, and played scrabble with daughter and grandson, The staff are very friendly and did not rush us

Pricey but has a good atmosphere

Tried the supper club menu last night. Awesome experience from start to finish and would fully recommend it.

The whole experience was faultless. Easy booking made on the phone the week before; polite and efficient communication. Superb menu and the food quality, presentation and taste was excellent. Service was kind, attentive and non-intrusive. All brilliant and would highly recommend. Thank you Kings Head Hadleigh.

Just popped in for a drink. Lovely atmosphere. Friendly landlady.

We had a fantastic meal in the pub, the staff were so lovely & helpful. They had a very friendly pub dog called Timmy in the bar area. We will definitely be visiting again soon.

I have been many times to the Kings Head and every time I do it’s like a brand new experience for my taste buds yet familiar at the same time. The place over the past 5years has been on a constant up in food, service and atmosphere. Recently had lunch with a friend and exchanged stories with an old gentleman who sat and ate next to us and while we were enjoying our meals, the Waitress was very polite to us and welcoming, even had a bit of a laugh with us which shows the moral that is within the building is high. Couldn’t recommend a better place to dine in the area!

I was so looking forward to this, my colleague’s 50th, they all said it was the best pub in Hadleigh. The service was excellent and the atmosphere pleasant. The menu looked good and I ordered a large fish and chips with minted garden peas. My colleague’s orders came out and they looked great, then mine came. If this was large I dread to think what small is. The batter was over cooked, it was chestnut brown colour, the fish was a mackerel colour and it wasn’t much bigger than a fish finger. The chips, all twelve of them were hidden underneath it, with a tablespoon of mushy peas. Why didn’t I complain then? Well I hate complaining and it would have spoilt my colleagues birthday. So disappointing and I had been considering returning for Mother’s Day. Perhaps it was a one off, I’ll try them again when I’m in the area.

Enjoyed my first Sunday roast here—delicious food, excellent service, and a delightful atmosphere. The staff even crafted a special dessert for my girlfriend's 50th birthday. Kudos to the chef and the attentive team. We had a wonderful evening.

Friendly staff. Food was disappointing

I went here with a friend on friday for the first time and we were both so impressed. My friend had the fish and chips and I had the aged angus steak cooked medium rare. The service was prompt, the waitress was attentive and friendly, and the food was so great. The steak was cooked to perfection, a good sized portion and so tasty. My friend said her food was great as well. Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to eat in Hadleigh.

A big thanks to Tara and her team for looking after us on New Year's eve.