The George Inn in Braintree

We chose this Pub for sentimental reasons for a family gathering and we weren’t disappointed. It’s like going back in time but in good way as this is how good local Pubs used to be. We weren’t disappointed and were able to commandeer a large area to accommodate our gathering which gave us a degree of seclusion. The food is different with baked Essex Huffers (which I didn’t know existed!) filled with a choice of home smoked meats such as brisket, pork or turkey, chicken parmigiana, Shrimp po-boy Spicy Mexican beans (vegetarian). Plus the loaded fried are scrumptious. The Staff were very accommodating and helped create a really chilled out family gathering plus it didn’t break the Bank! Would highly recommended.

How lovely to go to a pub that has got everything right. The staff were so welcoming and it had a such a cosy feel to the place. This place is perfect for a pint and great for food too. They seem to have done the impossible and are running a proper independent country pub. It’s so refreshing to go to somewhere where the food is brilliant and all freshly cooked and the service is fantastic. The chefs own sauce was amazing we wanted to steal the bottle! In the era of big faceless chains it’s so lovely to find proper pubs still exist. We can’t wait to go back.

went to the bikers night tonight 12/08/2024. was a good turnout and some nice bikes on display, excellent beer, great food and good company, the beef brisket was spot on with the best chips ever, many thanks nick,

I think I’m in love. It almost makes me want to divorce my husband that I left 10 years ago and get rid of the father of my child… THIS is exactly how pubs used to be… but with a massive twist: the food. The menu is small and if smoked meats is what you want, here is the place for you. I insist, really, you must go. It’s clean, welcoming and has a fire going next to the bar to heat the beautiful historic building. There’s a pool table and plenty of seating inside and out. The toilets are modern. The decor eclectic and inviting. Now, the most important bit: food. Heaven in my mouth. Smoked brisket, pulled pork, chicken, shrimp, bbq pork… none of this bought in rubbish. The chips are to die for and I don’t even like chips. The hot sauce flavourful and gives a big middle finger to ‘Frank’s’. Coleslaw… well, forget soggy commercial stuff - we all have one person in our life who makes great slaw (Aunty Jean), they can retire now. As you enter through the car park, you see a gargantuan smoke pit to your left. Here is where the magic happens…. Whilst we all sleep safely in our beds each night, the moon aligns with the stars and your meat slowly smokes away for you to enjoy the next day. Ready to pull you from whatever troubles you have in your life, ready to put a smile on your face. Forget ‘hug in a mug’, this is food to embrace your face. Delicious. Moist. Smokey. Melty. Flavourful. Support this type of business. You must. It’s not a chain. There’s no corporate here. It’s amazingly different and quite frankly, I’m in love.

Found this place by chance with friends and had a lovely lunch. I can highly recommend, small focused menu but very good food and fabulous chips. Very friendly service too.

what a fantastic pup, good beer, fantastic food, i had the smoked pork ribs that are smoked outside along with chicken and brisket, great condiments, honest the ribs were fantastic, but the chips were even better, good salad, nice beer, and live music being played,a really good pub, i am taking my back next week thanks nick

Great food with delicious smoked meats served in wraps and sandwiches from the onsite smoker!! The chips alone are worth another visit. A real old historic pub with a huge central fire place and proper cask ales. Friendly service, great food, great beer in a beautiful old building - the perfect village pub!

Superb smoked meats and lovely chips, will definitely be back, a welcome difference from usual pub grub. Reasonable prices, friendly welcome.

We have been to this pub a few times and can’t rate it highly enough. Staff are friendly and welcoming, the food is amazing, the beer choice excellent and the whole environment is warm and cosy. They have recently started doing breakfast aswell and I have to say it is one of the best, if not THE breakfast I’ve ever had. Highly recommend the local homemade BBQ aswell, it’s awesome.

Focused menu, simple and excellent! The locally smoked meats are outstanding with best chips ever! Great selection of ales and a lovely, friendly local environment, which our dog loves! You must try it!

You must try the Huffers. A sour dough type baked roll stuffed with either, beef brisket, shrimp po-boy, chicken parmigiana, and more besides. Excellent chips and quite possibly the best homemade BBQ sauce ever. The menu maybe small but it is absolutely worth stopping off for a great lunch, in this cozy little pub. Plus there's a lovely big open fire. Definately one to remember when passing though this part of Essex in future. Oh and the landlord and staff were extremely friendly and welcoming. Plus Boydells farm is just around the corner.

Lovely friendly traditional village pub, we were made to feel welcome, our meal was delicious and the log fire very homely.

The guys running this are doing a fab job, we've been in and back several times now. Amazing smoked meats in proper Essex huffers. Really friendly people, lovely lit fires and a pool table too! Definitely feels like a hub for the community again.

The best bbq sauce and lovely smoked meats are the first thing you should order. It's a lovely old pub with a roaring fire and welcoming staff.

We popped into the pub after a 5 mile walk around Shalford on a very cold day. A lovely warm fire and a cosy atmosphere greeted us and we immediately felt welcome.. we enjoyed well kept pints of Colchester Metropolis and Greenjack Nightingale. The highlight was the food though. Huffers with beef brisket and chips. Chicken Caesar wraps with Chips. I had what I had only read about in the books of James Lee Burke - a Shrimp Po’ Boy - it was excellent. And did I mention the chips?up there with the best we’ve ever had. A visit to this pub might actually make you move to Shalford.

We really wanted to enjoy this meal, being local and not tried the pub with the new owners. It is the worst meal I’ve ever eaten out!I have never sent food back but my main of chicken tikka masala was so obviously over cooked in the microwave it was chewy and burnt. My husband ordered the Donna kebab and he couldn’t even get a fork into some of the pieces they were so rubbery. Add to that, the 50 minute wait in a quiet pub with two small children, I am embarrassed that we paid the full bill.Will never go back and I suggest you don’t bother!

Absolutely excellent service, staff, drink and the food is amazing! Definitely recommend coming here, lovely local family pub, great entertainment on some days too!

A lovely little pub, amazing food and helpings for the Sunday roast, attentive service & great beers

Visited on a Sunday for a roast, would not recommended. There was a friendly atmosphere from the waitress but when we arrived there was no menu to choose from and was served a very minimal roast dinner. Roast was cold and potato’s and Yorkshire’s were clearly packet frozen and still cold: Veg was very watery and 2 small slices of meat. No children’s options.

go down in week for lunch and weekends staff always polite and friendly food with good and roast and burgars good pints good for the prices and good timing when you phone to order and have a pint while waiting keep it up see you asp

Just been in for their burger night. Lovely to walk in to a log fire burning and great burgers. Will be visiting again!!!

I'm a local and appreciate how important it is to have a pub open in rural villages.our experiences last night wasn't very good we went out for a family meal but wished we had gone to McDonalds or KFC insteadwe waited 1 hr 45 mins for food to turn up, our 3 yrs was so tired he was falling asleep on my lap and once his food finally arrived he was to tired to eat it (that was a waste of money)I ordered rump steak Medium-rare but it came well over done, dry and tasteless the pulled pork burger was very dry pork in a bum, the chicken burger wasn't much better either.i have no idea what oil is used in the deep fat fryer but it isn't very nice, my partner and myself where up gone 3 am with stomachache from the chips and chicken burger, My daughter had ham, eggs, chips this looked like the best meal to have and she enjoyed it (wish i had had it)The Manager did offer another meal at %50 but i'm afraid i don't think we will be eating here again for a while sorry!

The George is our local, and closest pub. We missed it when it was closed until earlier this year, and welcomed it being open again.It was a bit hit & miss back in early 2020, with no chef one night, broken down oven the next, which put us off to be honest.Then COVID hit, and everything shut.In June or July it opened again, and we visited hoping for the best. We met the new owner, who apparently runs a large pub/restaurant in Clacton, and he was really nice and friendly. He was also a really good chef, and the food we had on two occasions was really good, with generous portions and reasonable prices. And the service was great.Unfortunately, it appears standards have dropped.....We visited this evening, and were greeted by a friendly bar man who was there last time.It transpired that the owner from Clacton had put a manager in the pub, and was not there tonight.We each ordered rump steak at approx. £15 each along with 2 x starters (which were the best part!)My wife asked for her steak medium rare and I requested mine to be medium.We were told that they had no chips, only fries, which was ok, but I would have preferred thick cut chips.We asked if the steaks came with a sauce, or if sauce could be purchased, but after the bar man popped off to the kitchen, he returned and said no.We had noticed that we could add stilton to a burger for £1.50, so we asked if we could have stilton on our steaks.The steaks arrived with minimal salad, and both steaks were over cooked, and well done. The steaks were chewy, and dry.When the young lady behind the bar (who we thought was a bar maid, but was actually the new manager parachuted in), came over to check if all was well, I mentioned that the steaks were not cooked as ordered, and over cooked.The female said she would mention it to the kitchen, and promptly disappeared, never to return.There was very little stilton sprinkled onto either steak. Certainly not £1.50 each worth, unless it was vintage cheese?!!We ate and chewed our way through the steaks, and finally finished. The bar man came to clear our table, and asked if everything was ok, and I again mentioned that our steaks were over cooked. He apologised, and disappeared.We also mentioned that the mayonnaise sachets were all out of date, and had expired on 17/08/2020, 4 days ago. I know its not massively out of date, but its not great.Nobody came back to our table to offer us a dessert menu, so we finished our drinks and went to the bar to pay.We asked the female manager for the bill, and she disappeared, and sent the bar man over in her place, just as he was tucking into his pint behind the bar.The bill came to approx. £61. I paid this, and after doing so (as I am not in the habit of complaining to get money off the bill), I again mentioned to the bar man that we were disappointed with this visit, compared to the previous ones. I again stated that our steaks were overcooked, and that we weren't offered dessert, or the bill at our table.I also queried the £3 charge on the bill marked MISC FOOD, which I was informed was the charge for the stilton on the steaks. I mentioned that it was expensive for the minimal amount of stilton we got, but no response was forthcoming.The bar man just looked at me, and said sorry, and appeared very awkward, and unsure what to say or do.The manager never came near.I said to the bar man that we were disappointed, and that this visit was not as good as previous visits, and hoped for better next time. The bar man just replied "OK, Sorry about that." It is a real shame that tonight was a let down. We like the George, and we try to support our local pub.I think that the staff in there currently do not have the same enthusiasm and customer care as the owner, and let the place down, when he is not around.I want the George to succeed, and remain open. I will return, but if the service and food continues to be poor, then I will not be quite so keen to attend.Maybe tonight was a one off, but next time I will order something more simple like scampi or gammon.Fingers crossed its better next time!

We parked at the George for Saturday lunch with friends. We had a great walk with the dogs. They were allowed in to the bar area where we ate. The food was excellent, the service was very good and it had a good choice of beers or wine. It's a lovely atmosphere in the bar. The open fire was very warming. It's really pleasing to see the pub open again and the new owners are putting in a lot of effort. If you like a proper old world pub it ticks the boxes.

Was it open mike night or karaoke for one person? Quite well attended for a January although is was difficult to work out whether most of the customers were putting a brick wall between them and the music or they'd had a meal and not moved. What was obvious was that most of the prime seating in the pub 'area' had been taken over for entertainment leaving the largely separate restaurant area. A questionable decision... just saying.The George used to pride itself on having a good range of beers and was well attended when that was the case. Now the limited selection 2 or 3 beers at best from 2 breweries likely reduces customer footfall as does not being clear when the pub is open or closed and the lack of a clear and welcoming road front presence to attract opportunity passers by, as it did so well in previous years.Fingers crossed that the pub is or soon becomes viable.

Had a nice meal and pint there 17th Jan. I want to correct some misleading stuff I've read - at the moment it's open Wed- Sun (not as posted on thie site) but it's hoped to increase this. 12.00 - closing time.It is NOT cold.Service is excellent!

Good to see the George back open and Steve and Anna are making a great start!Had a family lunch before Christmas and food really tasty - watch the portion sizes! Good local ales and reasonable wines, plus dog friendly! Looking forward to a busy and successful 2020 . Support your local!

Visited with friends from Yorkshire and my son and baby daughter.Pub had just reopened and they were waiting on a chef to start imminently.Food was cooked by the new landlady,Anna, and was superb.All adults had different mains and everyone was full of praise for the quality.

Open again after closing for some months Very nice food friendly staff Lovely log fire a d dog friendly

Hooray! The George Inn at Shalford has reopened. We went last night based recommendation (I didn't know it had reopened). Lovely welcoming Landlord and Landlady. It has a cosy country pub atmosphere. Excellent beers (Shalford Brewery), my wife didn't need ice in her Pinot as shock and suprise, their wine is cold enough not to need it. The menu is quite extensive. Our friends had fish and chips which they enjoyed and my wife and I had the sweet potato curry with chicken which was excellent. The George is an old pub and the heating in the restaurant area is limited. It's not cold but don't go in just a slinky little number, you might get a bit nippy.

Just had a lovely breakfast at the George. The new owners were very welcoming, the Pub feels brighter and was spotlessly clean. The breakfast was made from locally produced ingredients and was perfectly cooked and of a very generous size.The new owners have gone back to a traditional countryside pub, the large screen TV has thankfully gone, we were welcomed by a lovely inglenook fire. The staff are very friendly and attentive.The meal was cooked fresh and came piping hot and on hot plates.There is also a new menu that looks good and reasonably priced, we will be going back to try some of this over the Christmas period. Highly recommended.

A nicely served pint for a Sunday lunchtime. Luckily the weather was warm so we could sit outside because inside it was so smokey from the open, wood burning, fire. The chimney needs a good sweep.

Visited on a Sunday with a group of friends, the restaurant was packed, the food was excellent,the best roast around the area. Service was great, the chef came out to see us at the table. What an absolute shame he is leaving, he was a credit to the place never seen it so busy.

Popped into The George for a delicious roast lunch - if you’ve not visited before, it’s a lovely cosy pub with a roaring log fire, serving local beer and a really good menu very well presented and cooked by chef Neil. We shared a mussels starter and had chicken and beef roasts - both really good with a large selection of sides including a fab cauliflower and broccoli cheese. Would thoroughly recommend.

We dined on a Friday evening. Our starters were extremely well cooked, presented and flavoursome. Or mains of Ribeye steak from the specials board exceeded our expectations. It was the nicest steak I've eaten for some time. It was beautifully presented, hot and the accompanying sauce was full of flavor. The chips were also very, very good 10/10.

It was good to see this pub, once again, packed out with villagers after the Christmas carol service in the village church. Good service, as usual, with a fantastic range of ales from local breweries. That, to me, is always a nice touch. Then, being winter, steaming mulled wine. They ran out of glasses and had to use mugs. Actually they were easier to drink from. I hope this pub goes from strength to strength. Have a good New Year!!!!

Popped in for a business lunch. Initially told kitchen shut but owner very kindly knocked up some dinner at short notice. Very friendly team and great to serve food , which was very tasty. Great ambiance with roaring fire. Very nice

Very nice Christmas lunch, food was good, served quickly, nice and hot and plenty of veg. Christmas pudding very nice. Ten of us and we all enjoyed. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The place was clean and a lovely warm open fire. Well done.

Friendly and efficient service, lovely food and a good selection to choose from, Friendly staff and great selection of ales

We visited here for a random Sunday lunch and I must say, it was the best Sunday roast I have had in the area, the hospitality and food was 5*

Visited here recently with family for a birthday meal, 5 of us on a Thursday evening. On arrival the barmaid was very helpful, seeing to us quickly. The waitress (who I presume is new or just inexperienced) was clueless about our reservation so we had to wait 15 minutes for a table to be laid.

Popped in for a drink with the dog after a walk and decided to have something to eat. Fish and chips was recommended and I was not disappointed! Large piece of fresh, skinned fish, superbly cooked in a light batter with delicious chips and mushy peas. Like having fish and chips in Aldeburgh but less greasy!

Over the last couple of months the new chef has transformed the George's menu. We used to have to 'umm and arrr' about whether we wanted to go there to eat but now there's no question.

I went to the george on Friday for my birthday meal food was lovely I had steak pie it was so good the waitress was very nice and helpful to l had a nice evening thankyou

The George is quite local to us and we have visited from time to time but not eaten. This time we met with some friends and decided to eat. It was thoroughly enjoyable and considering 3 of the 4 were vegetarian (eat fish though) they all found something to like on the menu. The food was delicious. The staff are quite junior but very eager to please, polite and attentive. The cost was reasonable. The choice of beers is very good. The wine my wife had was very good. The pub has a lovely traditional and very friendly atmosphere. I can definitely recommend it.

Can't rate this pub/restaurant highly enough. Amazing food with a great choice of menu and great value for money. The chef Neil has transformed this pub. Great atmosphere in the bar tonight and def coming back.

This place has such a lovely atmosphere. The manager Jackie is amazing, with reasonably priced drinks and great food you can't go wrong. The beer garden is an added bonus! Love this place

New owners have brought this pub back to its former great english pub. Select beers, great choice of gin. Good food with theme days. Best of all great team behind the bar, friendly and fun.

After a string of owners, with varying degrees of competence and enthusiasm, this wonderful country pub is finally being run by professionals who really seem to care. Karen and her staff are friendly, welcoming, efficient, cheeky and charming and have reintroduced the classic ingredients that make a quintessential English pub.

First visit to this newly refurbished venue. Staff extremely attentive but not overpowering. Food better than pub grub to be honest and pretty good value for money. They had a "pint" gift for all Dad's who were eating that day which was a nice touch. I will defo be going again and it's well worth a try Guys!

Great to see the village pub back with good food, friendly staff, great selection of ales in a lovely environment. The team running the George really know what they are doing and it shows by the number of people now going! Fantastic to see!

At Christmas I asked ‘what was happening to this great village pub?’ Well now I know, it has transformed into the great pub it always has been. Great landlord and landlady and extremely hard working and professional staff. Nice to be served, once again, with a smile.

Lovely lunch at The George Inn today. Went for the George Burger, the black burger bun is different to the norm but very, very tasty non the less. Would highly recommend and portions are very generous!

Lovely friendly pub, not sure I would order food again. The burger was in a strange black bun which some may find off putting, although it was a very tasty burger. You don’t get very many chips with the fish. Also ordered an extra portion of chunky chips which arrived in a tiny pie dish with 9 chips in it and for £3.50! I would come for a drink but skip the food.

After reading reviews I decided to book a table for my daughter's birthday. Monday menu was simple- pies or burgers. Our order was taken before the only other diners, a table of 2 behind us; their order came and they finished their main course and were offered desserts. It was quite clear there was no cooking going on in the kitchen- our order had been forgotten!!! What a let down and the waitress seemed disinterested. This used to be such a friendly pub with great service!

This was the first time we had been to The George, although passed it many times. Decided to call in for lunch, what a little gem. Food was freshly made and served hot. Meals were very generous in portion size & excellent value for money. Staff are friendly and attentive & good service. Will definitely go back.

A nice friendly local with good beer. Beautiful roast beef, thick cut like a sirloin steak, vegetables cooked lightly to perfection, this was a very impressive roast! Good desserts too and it was all proper home cooked.

Have not been in The George since it had been taken over. Friendly staff, great service and delicious food. It was great to see a little village pub busy and look forward to my next visit

Found this place by accident while driving home from the garden centre. Decided to get lunch, got a nice table straight away and binged on 3 courses of lovely grub!

I knew there was a new chef, was expecting the best, and that's exactly what we got! 5* pub cuisine!! The pub was full but the service was still superb too. Can't wait to go back!

Fish nite tonight haddock was very tasty , hat off to the chef.would definitely go back.very friendly great service.

Went to The George for Mother’s Day lunch and it was brilliant. As soon as we walked in we were welcomed in to an inviting and friendly atmosphere. The pub has a huge inglenook fireplace and some lovely old features but interestingly it is light and roomy with clean and modern facilities – always a good sign. The restaurant was full which was testament in itself and the service both at the bar and table were spot on even though they were busy. The food of course was delicious . Thank you all for a lovely experience.

Really friendly and helpful staff and a decent choice on a Sunday afternoon. Busy (a good sign!) but not overly. Fantastic choice of interesting ales. Rare roast beef. Yum. Average Yorkshire pudding, but excellent veg more than made up!

Blown away by today’s Gorgeous Sunday lunch.

First meal back at our local after Dry January and the new management team. Much smaller menu, which is a good thing, improved ambience and good local beers.

Popped into The George for lunch on a rainy Saturday - warmly welcomed by staff into this lovely cosy pub with a fab log fire, serving local craft beers and really tasty reasonably priced lunch. The icing on the cake was the 80’s playlist. All in all a great experience - we’ll be back!

Still trying to work out what is happening to this wonderful village pub. It is open then it is closed again. We went for a few pints on Christmas Eve and the place was jam packed. Christmas lunchtime was the same but, I was informed, it wouldn’t be open for New Year. Weird. The clients are there, therefore the money would flow in. The pub has had some refurbishment, to the better.

We visit this pub every time we visit my mother-in-law as she lives nearby. After a very unsettled period the George is under new management and has had a total refurbishment. The atmosphere is warm and cosy: typical old pub with beams, roaring fire and stylish decoration. The staff is extremely friendly, professional and efficient. The food when we visited twice last week was good, and I imagine will get better as the chef settles in and develop the menu. I totally recommend a visit!

After a few false starts The George has finally reopened and with a new chef and bar staff. We both went for the Roast Beef. The order was taken promptly and even though this was the first day for the server all parts of the order were correct, including drinks. The food was excellent. The meat and vegetables were perfectly cooked and the Yorkshire puddings were very good. (This is high praise from a northerner). The service was great and all in all a wonderful afternoon.

Went to the pub on the second night. Had a warm welcome. Looks very smart and everyone was very pleasant. We decided to have a pudding each which were very nice. Looking forward to going again.

Attended after a funeral (for a local lady) waited outside from 11.50am until 12.50 when a member of staff got dropped off and unlocked. A group of around twenty of us had then decided not to wait even though the family had pre-booked the wake at the pub including refreshments.....After years of not returning due to previous bad issues, this didn't install any confidence that the pub had turned the corner. The coffee should have been ready, extra staff employed and a warm welcome ready for us after a solemn affair....I live 50 miles away and would have welcomed a cuppa ! All the signs indicated that service was from 12 - 14, some web sites say from 10am whilst others say its open all day...........No notices to say they were opening late, no contact details if you needed to check, someone could have at least phoned the family to say they were delayed. You don't need to ask me if I'd recommend the pub as I was stuck outsdie, in any case......Yours totally disgruntled

Visited The George as we were visiting Shalford and thought we would try it as Now under New Management. I was Disappointed it was Cold in the Pub the only Heat was from an Open Fire which I must say was Nice but only for the half dozen Regulars that were in Front of it on the Bar side.All the other Radiators were cold. Our table was in the Area set aside for Meals I ate my Lunch with my Coat on .Roast Lamb was Cold and I sent it back for them to heat in Microwave . Sunday Lunchtime and only 5 People eating meals plus the Half Dozen Drinkers.I will not be returning .

Prebooked Christmas dinner. Food was fine although the room was chilly. Service ok. Please warm the plates and serving dishes!

Visited here today for Sunday lunch, first of all the telephone number given on this site and via the Internet is not recognised! Had to go through the parish council to get it! Secondly the length of waiting times for our starter and main meal was too long, 2hrs! My mother's meal was far the most expensive but was visibly burnt, but the landlady was quite happy to serve it!. The roast was ok. But the amount of veg served for three people was poor, the only good thing was the young man who mostly looked after us 10 out of 10. Will not be returning, which is a shame cause it seems like a lovely place but the food and the price for it definitely let it down.....

Managed to book for Sunday lunch today, not that busy, just the one young lad behind the bar who although trying his best seemed to be the only person working. Eventually got a drink and we sat down at the table, disappointed that there was only beef or lamb for the roast both of which I don't eat so I went for the pork escalope and the others the roast. They also had starters, we waited quite some time before the starters were served. They were ok we then had another long wait before the roast meat and potatoes were served then shortly after my escalope, we then had another wait before a small dish of vegatables came up in fact we wondered if we were going to get any veg at all! My pork escalope was quite small and bit tough and the breadcrumbs were burnt in fact overall a quite disappointing meal onsidering it was on of the more expensive items on the menu. The roast was the better option. The young lad was doing his best and seemed to barman, waiter and general factotum, it was all a bit unprofessional apart from the young lad we weren't sure who was staff or customers. We are local and had great hopes when the pub was taken over again but although nice decor inside there is a lot of competition around and judging by our experience today they've got a long way to go to compete. We won't be rushing back any time soon. Such a shame as it's a lost opportunity.

Recently taken over by new landlord and landlady. Still needs a little tender loving care after bad previous management but on its way to being the village pub. Nice ales on tap, friendly service. May try the food next time as it looked good. Also, I noticed, a good range of wines on offer.

Visited this pub 3 evenings in a row as staying in local b&b.; All three evenings we had a different meal and all three evenings it was really good. Staff were very friendly and although it seem to take a while for the food to come out, it was cooked freshly and tasted good. We were informed it had been taken over recently, so who ever is in charge they are doing a good job. Very pleasant evenings. Would recommend and definitely go back if in that area.

Came here with my husband for dinner on a Friday night. It's a lovely pub, really cosy and friendly people. Food was excellent value and lovely home cooked style. My fajitas would have been enough to feed 2! Mini bottles of Prosecco too which I loved. Would definitely come back here again. The menu choice is also excellent, lots of choice.

A good village pub grub establishment with real ales but be aware that they open at 6 but don't start serving food until 6:30 and then it's a wait whilst the chef gets going. We ordered the seafood tower but there was no crayfish or salmon so prawn cocktail was the only option. Tasty but no brown bread and butter with is the usual accompaniment and needed because the sauce was tasty. The slow roasted pork was hot and tasty but don't expect crackling. It's not cheap, but it is sufficiently good enough to warrant the cost. We would go again but we would make sure that we were not ravenous and set to be there for at least a couple of hours as we had a wait for it all to be sorted.

I have been meaning to visit this place for a long time but unfortunately I had previously turned up on a Monday when, annoyingly, the place is closed. Anyway, there the negatives come to an end.

I've been to this pub on several occasions and have always had a good meal, good lager and good service. Always value for money too.

We came on a Thursday on the off chance. Our meal was well cooked and hot. The staff were very friendly. Good value for money.

Went to the beer festival last night, had a fantastic time. Jamie's burgers and butterfly chicken were second to none and the live music was brilliant, a must for all.

This is a beautiful pub with a relaxed atmosphere and very tasty, good quality food. Staff are friendly and prices are very reasonable. Definite recommendation.

I visited this inn yesterday with five other family members. The menu suits all tastes and offers great value for money. My meal was delicious and the service was attentive and friendly. There is ample parking.

We've eaten here many times, both as a couple and with family, but this is my first review.

Incredibly warm and welcoming pub, staff are very friendly and it's a great place to just relax and enjoy an excellent home cooked meal. Would highly recommend popping in and trying the fish and chips!

My friend took me here on the weekend and really enjoyed my afternoon there. The staff are friendly and attentive and the food is excellent, charming pub all round and would recommend the George Inn to anyone!

Welcoming, friendly village pub. Good quality food with homemade deserts. I love their Roast dinners, well worth a try, I rarely recommend anything but the George is a must.

It's our local pub and a lovely authentic old setting. Went for a meal after a tough work week and not disappointed. Jenny recommended the fish and chips special and it was fantastic. Great fish, light crispy batter, mushy peas and home cooked chips. Delicious and so hot and freshly cooked.

The George Inn is a typical, slightly old fashioned, British pub. That's meant as a compliment because this type of pub is fast disappearing from our culture and judging by the number of people in on a Saturday night the George must be in danger of going the same way. That would be a shame. It has a friendly staff, well stocked and tended bar, a wonderful open fire and great pub grub.

We booked into the george for Sunday lunch just after Christmas, we had seafood towers followed by roast lamb, delicious. My wife commented that "this is the best roast dinner I have had outside of home" which is something, she has also praised the chef to friends and family which is unusual.

Party of 10 on Saturday 25 October 21014 night with michel buble Was brilliant great food and good stuff

Tuesday night steak nights, 2 for £15.00 Some of the best steaks I have had anywhere. Need to book as getting to be known

We were in a big party (a walking group which pre- ordered before setting off) and the pub did really well to serve us all at once with food universally liked. What more need be said.

My wife and I visited this pub on Monday 7th July 2014, the day the Tour de France passed by the pub. It was our first ever visit. The welcome we received from Landlady Jennie and her team could not be faulted - it was as if we were old lost friends.

Such a great pub!!! Definitely worth dropping in to see them. The food is exceptional, people fantastic and atmosphere brilliant. Dropped in for the beer festival and thought it was great. The bands are well worth seeing. We popped in for one evening and went back the next day as we'd had such a good time. Can't recommend it highly enough - definitely a pub worth visiting!!!

Been meaning to try the pub for some time and went past hand saw Tuesdays was steak night.

I hate going out on a week night but we saw the board outside this pub offering two steaks for £15.00 Tuesday night steak night. the service was excellent the steaks were fantastic I don't really eat chips so they made me a salad. I would defiantly recommend you try it

I have been going to this pub for a number of years. The food is great and the staff are exceptionally friendly and welcoming. Jen & Steve are marvelous hosts and they put on great entertainment evenings and a superb Beer festival in the summer. You really should give this place a call.