Marias vintage tearoom in Colchester

This real ale bar on outskirts of Colchester is amongst the best real ale pubs in this town very impressed with pub owners and clientele Visited 10th October 2022 Thursday, 11th of january 2024, i again visited this fantastic good beer guide pub in Colchester This pub is a terracd pub proper local with a great husband and wife owners the staff are superb a friendlly bunch of locals Pub is a wooden floored last centuary coronation street like pub The Beers are absolutely great kept and delicious this pub is a must to find and visit when in Collchester The brewer makes the beer and his wife sell it Saturday 15th November 2024 Today, we again visited this fantastic real ale pub. This pub is still as good as previous visits. It is a great choice of local and rare beers that offer drinkers superb choice. Staff fantastic atmosphere is easy going in an old fashioned pub. This pub is an essential visit for drinkers of real when Collchester

Visited the restaurant on Sunday 24/11, a group of 7. First issue was the booking. I understand the restaurant is popular and it's a rarity to find a table so we were looking forward to our reservation. We booked for 7pm and got a confirmation text for 7pm. The day of the booking though, we got a reminder message for a booking at 7:30pm instead. Not a big deal but we never got a call or email to ask or inform us of any changes. Regardless, we waited for an extra 30 mins with nothing to do. We were received with little enthusiasm, but that's okay, we were there to eat, not be celebrated. But when our server came to us, she seemed annoyed to take our order, quite aggressive, and quick to be done. We thought it was weird and felt a bit uncomfortable, but we are not a confrontational group. We just wanted to have a nice steak and a chat between us. When our order arrived, unsurprisingly it was wrong. The server insisted that we ordered what she brought - well we didn't. The worst part was not getting a steak fillet instead of a ribeye, it was the awkward silence and staring of the server when she expected us to just take it and made no offer to fix the situation. One of my friends backed off and accepted the order, but I had to go back and insist as her behaviour and attitude was absolutely unacceptable. At the end, we got offered a free drink and they replaced the wrong order, but we really had to fight for it it seemed. Overall, the food was incredible, someone at the back of the house is doing a great job. So go for the food, but don't expect consistently good service. Final bit, when we got our bill at the end, they had, of course, kept in the wrong order (more expensive) and we had to ask for it to be removed. On top of everything, they don't do customer copies of the receipt, we had to take a photo of the notepad page the order was taken on with little scribbles of what the prices were for each item. A sad service experience and a shameful display.

Lovely farm owners are lovely milk ,cheese,eggs,meat all tastes amazing and love to say hello to all the animals 😊🐐🐑🐖🐕🦃🐓🐎🐹

Beautiful decorated hotel.lovely couple that run it.the breakfast was great..Will be back..beautiful village.

Had a really nice meal here at the weekend, food was great and the service was even better. I think our server's name was Katie, she was excellent.