The Garnon Bushes in Epping Forest

Nice meal, clean premises, friendly staff, very reasonable prices. Good atmosphere.

Great food at sensible prices.Always 2 real ales on .Timothy Taylor's landlord regularly,with selection of proper still ciders and lagers. Good selection of optics and malt whisky too. Very dog friendly,as are the regulars,staff and landlady.Sky TV for all sports events. Nice beer gardens at front and rear.

Ate here twice over the weekend - both meals were excellent service, delicious home-cooked food & generous portions of it ! Thoroughly recommend for all round service and value, above & beyond. Staff were very friendly & welcoming , made to feel very at home with my dog - a first that we’ve managed an evening without issue together in a pub!! Thank you, I’d love to return & hope to soon 👍👍🙌🙌

This is an excellent pub but it’s spoiled by the toilet cubicles, the ladies have to reverse into their toilet as there is little space to turn round. The gents are even worse you have to creep inside the door and open the door to the right squeezing next to the toilet, which by the way is not connected to the floor. Then do the same when trying to get out. I know you urinal had all been updated but the cubicle should have been done at the same time. Perhaps if the door opened outwards would help. Also there is no rubbish bin. If this was all done I’m sure you would have a lot more happy customers.

Very quiet at lunch time food was ok.

Delicious food and drinks. It was a Saturday evening and pleasantly busy.

Great atmosphere! Very friendly and welcoming. Let us stay at the back with our campervan for a free night. We got a lovely meal and a few beers. Dog friendly. Thanks!

Not a great start with no real welcome - ordered our drinks and main course. Noted on the menu that "last orders must made 15 minutes before the kitchen closes" - no time shown as to what was the closing time. At 1.50 when our plates were collected the server abruptly stated - no deserts as the kitchen is closed! If we had known that we could have placed our desert order earlier. I would suggest the staff definitely need customer service training. It came across as though they were doing us a favour. Its just a pity as it was a rare family get together. We will not be going back.

What a fabulous pub! Stopped over with my camper. Lovely staff, locals and excellent food, even if you have allergies. They love dogs too and there is a fabulous common to walk them within 5 minutes. A little bit of heaven!

Attended for funeral, seemed OK.

Really friendly people they let me park my van up for 2 nights. The food was bang on and a good pint of Guinness.

Typical and still open local pub in Essex village. The landlady is very welcoming and accommodating, ensuring that excellent food is served even to the vegetarians. With our nachos, they found us Tingley Ted's spicy sauce, and my friends from the USA were wowed. Enjoy while it's still there also a venue for Scooter Club

A lovely lunch with family - good home-cooked food, big portions and friendly staff. They're very dog friendly too.

We went to The Garnon Bushes for a Sunday roast. One beef and two lamb dinners. They were delicious, plenty of meat, potatoes and vegetables. Nicely presented and the staff are very friendly. I would definitely recommend a visit

Lovely village pub. Friendly and cosy. Good beer. Welcoming staff

Very friendly staff & regulars, great village pub atmosphere

Food very good ,basic menu reasonable priced, Service questionable.

We stayed in the car park in our motorhome for free if you eat there. The food was basic pub grub but nice, hot and well cooked. My husband had the homemade meat pie and ate all of it which is unusual because he is a very fussy eater.

Local pub with a vegan burger option that was served in a baguette. Great portion of nicely done chips, with a good side salad.

Good food and drink with excellent service. A great country pub, just outside Epping.

We held my dear Mothers wake here yesterday and I can honestly say that they were amazing. The food was top quality and the service was great too. Thank you Highly recommended.

My friends and I use this pub on a regular basis to catch up without the hassle of cooking. What a great place. Polite, friendly and efficient bar staff/waiter/ess service, great grub that veers away from the usual 'pub grub' ( toast the chef), wine at reasonable prices, nice atmosphere and whats even better - you don't twinge or cringe when the bill materialises. Thanks for some great evenings so far and some to come.

So much more friendly nowadays ❤️

What a lovely little Pub in Coopersale, Epping. Enjoy some great food and selection of beers. We had walked around Epping and through the lower forest up into Coopersale and called in for a beer, as food was still being served, ordered a roast dinner and lamb shank. Great service, friendly atmosphere. Recommended if you passing by.

Friendly customers. Miserable lady serving on bar. Food nice. No tea or coffee as lady too busy to make it. Annoying for a non drinker.

Great friendly pub absolutely amazing landlady Had a one night stopover heading home from Spain Fantastic atmosphere and friendly locals food was delicious Will be back 👍

Very lovely country pub, good selection of ales available, garden tidy with pretty flowers benches and umbrellas

Another fantastic pub stopover for us! The staff were wonderful, the landlady was wonderful and the food was wonderful as well! 😃 We'll definitely visit again on the way down to our daughter's in London again! Thanks again, Nigel and Claire 😊

We went for lunch with friends. Service was good but unfortunately the food didn't live up to the same standard. All I can say it was just ok. Nothing special. Our friends who are regulars there said it must have been the chef's day off.

A proper local! We popped in when we were in the area for a running event, and the staff were friendly and welcoming. Nice selection of beers and brilliant locals who are up for a laugh!

Very nice comfortable pub. Nice food.

This was a repeat visit for our walking group. Friendly service and food excellent value for money. We will certainly return.

Had drinks after my dad’s funeral 🍺great little pub 👍 Had a lovely time in memory of my dad. Brilliant atmosphere and very friendly.

Lovely local pub, very welcoming to visitors. Great service, lovely home cooked meals at a reasonable price. Lovely atmosphere and very dog friendly! 🥰🥰🥰

Great traditional village pub with hood beers and service. Fresh fish Fridays

Well kept draught beer and good food. I enjoyed sreak and kidney pudding recently. A proper suet pudding with nice chunks of meat and kidney, and a rich gravy. Delicious!

Excellent value food. Nothing fancy just great pub food with very generous portions. A proper English village pub.

Lovely local pub, greeted with a smile, that always helps. Food was tasty and staff were attentive, parking to the side of the pub but gets busy.

Really lovely old-school pub. Friendly atmosphere and good, unpretentious pub grub.

We can definitely recommend the fish and chips on Fridays. Nice little pub with great people behind the bar. We stopped over in a motorhome. We would love to visit again some day. 🙂👍

Fantastic food at amazing prices and friendly staff x

Looks better outside than in . But great friendly staff . And very good food

Great pub. Good beer. Nice food. Good prices. Very clean and very welcoming.

Great atmosphere and friendly staff

Lovely family run pub! Good honest food, wife has the scampi and chips and they always have a nice vegan offering for me,and even gluten free fresh fish for the outlaw. Very welcoming for dogs. England needs more pubs like this. Regular visits fie the food!

Had a lovely lunch here great food. The Staff very welcoming and friendly fully recommend and visit here I certainly will be back.

Netter Pub, super freundliche Besitzer.

Excellent welcome and fine to park our smallish campervan after prearrangement. Good wholesome food and well kept beer at sensible prices.

Nice pub, nice food, great local pub. Friendly staff, dogs allowed will go again.

Great local pub, always bustling ad friendly folk in staff and regulars

Lovely small pub, friendly staff and not that bad of a price

Lovely little country pub with pretty outside space. Good size menu, lots of pub favourites.

Appetising sticky toffee pudding

Stayed in the car park in our camper. Had a lovely meal and was looked after by Pauline, Kelly and all the very friendly staff. Locals pub, a lot of the customers seemed to know each other and that gave it a very warm atmosphere. Direct access to Epping forest and the town is only 20 mins away. Will be back for sure.

Hello everyone, I highly recommend this wonderful pub. An excellent motorhome stop over off the M11. The staff are superb, locals are fantastic and all very friendly people. Food and drinks prices are reasonable. A safe and friendly place to stay. Please phone ahead for motorhome parking availability and as always should you decide to not tip up ! Then phone to let these lovely host's know. Thank you everyone...

We have visited this pub a few times over the last couple of years. First and foremost this is a local village pub. It can be very very clicky but the one thing that stands out is the lack of warmth or welcome from the landlady. At best she is very very rude to some customers, seemingly the younger ones. Although we have not had this problem ourselves we have noticed that she seems to favor certain people, namely locals and older people. The food is without doubt lovely and well well worth the money. Bear in mind also that this is a dog friendly pub, so be prepared for a lot of them in the bar. On the whole they are well behaved but some are very barky which is annoying when the owners think its funny and encourage them. The younger lady who serves is lovely, (I think she may be related to the landlady). Always smiling, willing to do everything she can to make sure you are happy with your meal etc. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem in the kitchen whereby the chef isn't up to keeping up with the orders. On 1 or two occasions we have had to chase up our food as he seems to forget orders. On this occasions we only had drinks. We popped in here on Saturday night with friends for a drink and were unfortunate enough to witness a full on screaming argument with a completely unstable customer about a young man who had brought in his dog (who had had his ears pinned and had them bandaged up and posts in them ) bear in mind that this is an illegal practice in this country and will obviously offend a lot of people, myself included. However, it is not my place to point this out to him. The young man argued that it was legal and that he had brought the dog over from abroad as a working dog. First and foremost this is a barbaric procedure with no purpose other than to make the dog look scary (proven by vets). As a vets assistant I can assure you that there is no benefit at all to the dog other than pain and stress. If its legal we would do it here, we do not! Buying a dog from abroad with this procedure done really tells you all you need to know. It also speaks volumes about the people who partake in this practice. They can all claim they are working dogs but this is highly unlikely. Looking at this young man it was clear it was a statement dog for him. Nonetheless I felt that the whole debacle went on for far too long, upset a lot of children and she should have been thrown out there and then. Moreso don't allow dogs in who have clearly had operations that may make then even more unpredictable. If someone had touched his ears he could have bitten them. God knows what this idiot was thinking brining him into the pub with bandaged ears! I do like this pub as an occasional stop off but be warned it is full of locals who on the whole are very friendly but some do think that they own certain seats in here. The landlady could simply do with being a bit more polite. In this day and age I am sure hospitality needs as much custom as possible.

My Friend & I had been on a very long ramble. We popped in to The Garnon Bushes. My Friend asked for a Latte Coffee & was told that the milk machine of the maker was broke and could only have Americano and something else in a very blink way by a young fella. We made our mind what we wanted to drink, I rested my bag on the edge of the bar to sort out my purse and was told by a woman not to lean on the bar. If we hadn’t have been so desperate for a drink & rest we would have walked out there and then. Don’t be in the hospitality business if you have not hospitable is my advice!!

It's good to see the Garnon Bushes fully open again. Great welcome from Pauline and her staff. Food is as delicious as ever. Sunday lunches are the best around and the 'Fish Friday' is not to be missed.

Enjoyed our first time here,we sat outside in the sun ,the service was excellent our drinks were brought to us ,very nice young man ,so attentive looked after us so well,makes such a difference,he did deserve a little tip for all his good work

Good spot to stop off for a nice lunch. We got there around 1pm which was a good time as it got quite busy after we arrived. We ordered a couple of pints at the bar before finding a nice table in the corner by the window. After perusing the menu we were back at the bar to place our order, we had cheese and onion omelette with chips and salad and ham, egg and chips with a spotted dick for dessert. The bar man was friendly and polite and brought us over our cutlery and some condiments. The bill came to £27 which was just about reasonable. There is a car park and seats outside for warmer days.

The pub is a quarter of a mile from our office and we've used it since 1986. It's not that the food is bad - it's OK - or that the decor is awful....it's actually a bit better than it was. It's just that we don't feel welcome any more. It's as if they're doing a favour by letting us in. hope others have better luck!

Fui visitar a mis amigos en Epping y fuimos aqui para almuerzo. Buen idea. La comida fue delicioso y el servicio muy bueno y no es caro. Cinco estrellas.

The sausage and mash plus vegetables and onion gravy were ok. My smoked mackerel salad was fine but they didn't have any olive oil for a dressing. If I had known that they didn't have a dressing I would have selected something else. Rather disappointed, but perhaps I should have checked first?

We had a late Sunday lunch, one beef and one vegetarian roast (with delicious cauliflower cheese), it was really good, great roast potatoes. The service was good and the staff friendly. A lovely dog friendly pub too

Met up with my parents for a family lunch. Choices of roasts today were lamb, beef or chicken. The specials were Thia green chicken curry, Mince and onion pie with mash, or scampi and chips. All the meals were very good, hot and served very quickly. Half the table ordered pudding including Sticky Toffee pudding, Chocolate fudge cake and Spotted Dick with a choice of Custard, Ice Cream and squirty cream. Good choice of drinks and the and a good pint of Tribute.

Had lasagne. Tasted strange and felt ill afterwards.Decor very basic. Service poor. Like one large dining room. Will not be going back.

Lovely traditional pub. Fresh fish and chips on a Friday worth a visit. Good beer and staff. Not necessarily in that order!

Lovely pub grub. Especially Friday night fish night. It’s the best well recommend this restaurant. Very pleasant surroundings. Nice staff, delicious food

Meals were good, very reasonably priced. Bar staff friendly - we were served at our table as it was very busy.

This pub is located in the heart of the village and close to the nature reserve. Unlike many such places nowadays, it is a pub first, restaurant second and so the menu is typical pub fare. Having said that, it is very reasonably priced and excellent quality. All food is freshly prepared and cooked. Owner lives onsite and is extremely friendly as are the staff. I like it so much I have decided to move to the village!

We moved to Coopersale in June and had our first meal here, we have returned many times since for dinner and drinks. You can not fault the food, for the price - you get what you expect. Tasty pub grub. Drinks are always tasty and staff are always pleasant. Landlady is delightful and always remembers us (probably because of the dog mainly) :)

Drove past this pub decided to stop for a bite to eat, unfortunately turned out to be an utter disappointment walked in was greeted by miserable staff who quiet frankly didn’t look happy to be there, as we was Hungary thought we would order some food but what a mistake that was what can I say poor food that seemed like it was just pinged in the microwave we will not be going there again not even for a drink

Visited with family. Lovely service, great choice of drinks. Friendly staff would highly recommend. Will be back

Stopped here on our way back to France. Very welcoming people, good selection of beers etc but excellent roast dinner at a very reasonable price.

The pub is dog friendly inside and has a nice garden outside to enjoy the sunshine. Very reasonably priced and great place to stop after a walk through the forest. Food was very traditional pub grub and very tasty.

Not been into this pub for years and years Decided to give it a try and enjoyed it twice Friendly staff and friendly local customers

I dropped in with my very motley family after visiting North Weald Market and ordered 4 different meals and we enjoyed each one. I needed an alternative to the Green Man pub as its recently gone too impersonalably upmarket and this pub is a great replacement. Staff were very friendly, even hand wrote directions for us, and the regulars were chatty too. It's a major bonus that this place has well cooked food at the cheapest prices I've seen for a pub. Definately recommend.

I love this pub. My family and I always come here for any occasion, the food is fantastic and the service is always given with a smile. Dog friendly also which my Butch appreciates!

Popped in on a friday evening as it is a dog friendly pub, ordered the haddock and skate wing as recommended.

Second visit to this pub for lunch. As with the first time, the service was pleasant and fast. The beer very well kept. The pie I had was excellent. Well cooked and a generous size. Veggies were also very good.

The Sunday lunch definitely falls into the category of one of the driest concoctions and a total disgrace to call itself a roast dinner.

This was a lunchtime visit midweek when it was quiet.

Over the last four weeks I have bought 3 very different friends to the Garnon Bushes for lunch. Both of us have enjoyed our meal each time.

We drove past this pub on the way to burying my grandad and I was taken by how pretty it was from the outside and I was happy that we had booked a table there for after.

A nice pub near Part of Epping forest that serves good food at a reasonable price.. a lovely atmosphere and nice friendly staff .

I guess when the owners haven't got a clue and are rude it will rub off on the very few staff they keep. The food is very bland and poor quality and the service is dreadfull.

I have often passed this pub and it looks lovely from the outside so I decided to take my parents for Sunday dinner,we ordered starters ,battered mushrooms - from Iceland most probably ,not the country ! and I suspect the prawns in my prawn cocktail were procured from the same down market supermarket ,I could not eat them ,dreadful ,onto the roast ...potatoes- zero seasoning vegetables- tasteless ,beef again not good ,over cooked ,and not the best quality.......it's such a shame ,it could be a gold mine,get a real chef and decent produce please ,people will pay for a lovely roast in a quaint little country pub,you half way there .....like I say a real shame

Nice enough pub. Busy enough to feel like going out but not to busy so as to retain a homey feel. Staff are friendly. Haven't really eaten here but what I see always looks edible. Certainly a lot of empty plates despite what seem like large portions so must be good. Perhaps the beers are a little stock but the setting is great especially in summer when you can use the fantastic back garden area or the one along the village road. A free parking lot is attached

A traditional friendly village pub serving good beers and tasty food. The homemade steak and Guiness pie was delicious. There is a small sheltered beer garden with lovely plants. The portions are generous and prices very reasonable with some mains at 2 for £12 during weekdays at lunchtime. Service is friendly but a bit amateur

We popped in for a quick drink late Friday afternoon early evening as we were passing and hadn't been in for a while and were welcomed with the warm and friendly reception as usual. Although extremely busy the lady behind the bar was attentive and apologetic for the wait but we were served as soon as possible and with no dramas. We did not eat on is occasion but the fish looked wonderful and plenty of it !! Once again, please do not be put off by other people's opinions as that is all they are. The atmosphere was a very happy one and people were enjoying themselves along with the banter with the staff, this is a lovely place and we will certainly not be put off.

We used to be regulars at the garnon bushes on a Friday eve spending between £60-£70 but after the rotten attitude of the landlady this evening will never step foot in that pub again! We ordered fish and chips to takeaway (as we did every Friday) and they brought it out to eat in on a plate when we explained it was for takeaway the landlady huffed and puffed and gave us attitude.she even had the cheek to complain that we ordered the Guinness AFTER the pint of Stella!! The rest of the staff are very friendly and welcoming but due to the attitude of the grumpy old landlady will never step foot in that pub again! Good luck to those that do!!! Even if If did forget to order takeaway surely it's not too much trouble to box it up for us? Obviously it was! Very unhappy ex local customers,the Theydon Oak seems more appealing now!!!!

I have on many occasions had a very pleasant experience visiting this establishment.Unfortunately my last visit was somewhat tainted, it started off ok I ordered a pint of ale, it was cloudy and it tasted off and the smell clearly indicated to me the beer was off.I told the lady behind the bar, who looked at me rather disparagingly and offered an alternative.Then we tried the food, my order came out wrong, I asked to be served what I had ordered, low and behold that look and the attitude reappeared.Once I received my order it was not brilliant. Rather disappointing to say the least.Possibly an off day as previously stated I have had some pleasant visits.

We go here on a Friday for the fresh Grimsby fish cooked well with a good pint of beer. Friendly staff and nice choice of tables. Very dog friendly too.

My family and I came here this afternoon for a Sunday lunch and were made to feel very welcome alongside our puppy. The Sunday lunch was an option of Lamb, Beef or Pork however one of our party did not eat the meat from this selection but staff were very happy to alter the meal to have extra trimmings instead. Very quick service and delicious roast potatoes - we will definitely be back in the near future!

The Garnon Bushes is a very nice looking pub. It has comfortable seating at the front with colourful hanging baskets in a good sun trap. To the side is a small car-park with parking spaces painted on. The exterior is clean, tidy and very welcoming.Inside the pub has a good atmosphere. We were given a cheery welcome by the young lady behind the bar and a friendly nod from one of the other patrons. A quick glance was all that was necessary to see that the people there were enjoying themselves, though it was not packed, it was relaxed. Attitude free. The pub is nicely decorated and the dining area was quite homely with an airy feel about it. The majority of people were there for lunch, and so there was a wait for food that wasn't overlong in my opinion, but we were there for a leisurely lunch. The location was so pleasant I was more than happily to relax there with a tasty half-pint of Courage. We were delighted that the menu was so good. Plenty there for vegetarians (my friend is one) but there was no indication that any of the dishes contained or were free of gluten. I have to avoid gluten but so few pubs have a gluten free menu that I play it by ear. Beer of course was a naughty indulgence, but I was perfectly safe with the ham, eggs and chips. Now the Monday to Thursday menu appears to have "two meals for £12" menu and they represent very good value. It just goes to show how excessive are the prices of some other restaurant when you get meals as nice as these for such good prices. I was served with two good slices of tasty ham, two perfectly fried eggs and a good portion of chips. Unfortunately the lasagne that was brought up for my friend was not the vegetarian version, so she had to wait whilst I merrily chomped my way through dinner. The young lady couldn't apologise enough for the mistake. The lasagne was pronounced very good by my friend, but to my - and remember I had now eaten - eyes it looks like a huge portion. It came in a white rectangular ceramic dish which I thought was very generously proportioned. Certainly for someone who likes her food my friend could find no room for pudding. But I could! I very much enjoyed the Bushes Sundae.Now on this occasion I didn't pay particular attention to accessibility for wheelchairs users. It may be the case that a wheelchair user could gain access by going through the garden at the back of the pub and in through the French windows in the dining area, but I do not think a wheelchair user would be able to get through the front door. The lavatories were in need of a revamp. There were clean. There was no bad odour at all. There was liquid soap and good properly functioning hand driers. However the toilet cubicle would definitely be a problem for any one with impaired mobility as you have squeeze round the side of the pan to close the door behind you. The young lady that was looking after all the patrons single handedly was very hospitable. She took the cost of our drinks off the bill because of the error with the non-vegetarian lasagne. This was a gesture we appreciated. I have already given though to my next visit and who I will introduce to this delightful pub.

Lovely lunch for the four of us (and our dog)on Mother's Day. It was a bit last minute as our usual haunts were all fully booked and we're really pleased with our "find" and will certainly go back. My wife and I had the roast and the boys had a kids meal deal that included a drink and a huge piece of chocolate cake. The bar staff and the land lady couldn't have been nicer and more helpful and the general atmosphere was welcoming. Four meals (including starters), plus two beers and a bottle of wine came to less than £70 which I thought was great value.As a side note, we then went for a short walk in the forest near the pub and saw a herd of deer walking through. We also then went, briefly, to the Theydon Oak down the road so the kids could play in their play area. Lets just say that we're glad we chose the Garnon Bushes for our Mother's Day lunch.

All our family had an excellent time and enjoyed a superb hot buffet. The staff and Landlady were all very friendly and welcoming.

myself and my daughter just had lunch here ,staff were really friendly and the starters and main meals are really good size .we were made to feel very welcome and enjoyed our lunch ,we will be visiting again with friends .we visited on wednesday 15th feb

Have been to this lovely public house after several recommendations for about eight months now, during the evenings and weekends and have found all the bar staff to be very warm welcoming, attentive and a credit to the pub and landlady. The home cooked meals and Sunday roasts are plentiful and well worth the money. The ales are of a very high standard which is great for my husband. Especially worth a visit in the summer where the garden and hanging baskets are a sight to be seen. We are all human and everyone has an off day or two so please do not be put off by others reviews and comments.

The young bar staff are lovely! Unfortunately the land lady is very rude! There was no drinking up time given (nor was we ever alerted the pub was shutting or last orders) and she was very abrupt to us, she made us feel as if we had to drink up quickly as we could as we was inconveniencing her. Not welcoming at all.