The Swan in Maldon

Lovely old country pub with welcoming friendly staff. Typical pub menu, but desserts only at the weekends. Usually a couple of guest beers available..

We stayed over in our campervan on Saturday night. Great pub, huge garden in the front and rear. No food in the evenings. Very friendly staff/owner. Dog friendly.

What a gem! This is how pub’s should be, friendly, great beer & good home cooked meals. Just try it you won’t be disappointed.

Just a brief visit on a Wednesday lunchtime en route but didn't stop to eat though the plates looked good and customers seemed to be enjoying it! Mighty Oak cask beers on tap with various bottled beers and ciders available.

Sausage sandwich excellent and the Tia Maria coffee x 2 rounded the day off!

First time I had visited The Swan. Couldn't fault any of it. The food was absolutely outstanding and we will definitely return. The staff went above and beyond, especially when I called as I thought I had lost a card that was sentimental to me. They searched and returned my call. Thank you so much and btw, I found it 😄

Small village pub. Landlady very friendly, food good pub grub.

Traditional country pub with a good selection of drinks, including non alcoholics, such as coffee & hot chocolate, perfect way the end an evening. Super friendly and helpful team behind the bar. Comfortable seating and well furnished.

Great old school pub, great staff, had the fish & chips, very good.

Excellent old fashioned sort of pub with welcoming staff and a friendly atmosphere, well frequented by locals who are happy to chat to each other and anybody new. Good beers at competitive prices. Still has two bars. A lovely local amenity. Long may it continue.

Lovely little pub with garden. Very friendly chatty staff who know all the locals and regular people. Great atmosphere. Lovely food and drink too Diffently recommended this place.

Delightful atmosphere Friendly staff and customers alike Food is good tasting

Booked a table for Sunday lunch but made a mistake of leaving it late and they could only squeeze us in at 3pm because they are so busy on Sundays. We skipped the starters and went straight to the main dishes, Roast pork with all the trimmings and Beetroot and Butternut wellington also with vegetables and vegetable gravy, nicely presented and very tasty. The only disappointment was because we were one of the last sittings they had run out of the home made apple crumble so we both went for the waffles with ice cream and sauce. Well worth a visit for a very filling Sunday lunch.

Had Sunday lunch there today , great bit of grub, it’s been a while since I had a Sunday lunch this good, my advice ; go there hungry if you want to eat the three courses . It’s got my vote and will be back again !!!

very old pub and restaurant with a lot of historical details. low ceilings and wooden based walls keep the the original feeling. The service was friendly and helpful, the portions were good for hungry guys and well tasting.

We stayed over in Doris our motorhome and what a fabulous reception we got. Staff extremely friendly and food was superb. The choice on the menu was good and portions are huge 👌

Lovely little pub, set in a lovely little village.

Nice pub, good beer, excellent service

Great rural pub with fantastic ambience.

Great food and very good service. Blonde lady behind the bar was so friendly and helpful.

Went to this pub for lunch at about 2 pm and enjoyed the atmosphere, food, and service so much. we ended up staying for a quiz in the evening and got home at midnight! We've been back a few times since with friends, etc, and still get a warm reception and 5* service.

Great place for a curry and a beer.

Great Sunday roast lunch. The food was amazing. Best service I have received in a long while staff are incredible ,nothing was too much trouble. Definatly recommend this quaint pub. Make sure you book early very popular.

We are staying in Tollesbury and stumbled across great reviews for The Swan, so booked a table for Sunday lunch. Honestly, it's the best roast I've ever paid for. Back at our holiday cottage, we are feeling very content!

Had a Sunday roast here today, it was so good! Lovely beef and I loved that it came with pigs in blankets and cauliflower cheese. The staff were friendly and the atmosphere was great. I thought desserts at £5 were a bargain - the apple crumble was well worth it!

We had a wonderful roast dinner here yesterday. They were generous portion sizes but with excellent food to match. Presentation was amazing and all of the party commented on how good the meal was. Save room for dessert, I can highly recommend the crumble and the Belgium waffle. We will definitely return but make sure you book as its a very small pub. The staff were exceptionally friendly and helpful.

Little country pub about 500 years old. Made to feel very welcome. Food freshly cooked and well presented. Very friendly staff. Reasonable prices. Well worth seeking out.

Good place to visit for a few good beers

Cracking little Essex pub. Good beer festival. Will be returning, again & again.

Visited the recent Beer Festival on Fathers Day with live music on during the afternoon, so very busy and probably not fair basing the review on this visit. The staff were very helpful and friendly and all working very hard to keep the long queues for drinks to a minimum. Being the final day of the festival there was only a handful of beers available which was disappointing, also the advertised bbq, pizza and hog roast was misleading, because only pizza available on our visit, apparently one of the advertised style of food was available on separate days, which wasn’t clear on the flyers. Despite the above, everyone had an enjoyable visit, with nice vibe and great band. Looking forward to returning to try out the Sunday Roast in the future.

Always a warm welcome from Phil and his team. We enjoyed the homemade vegetarian pie with veg and yorky puds. Another excellent meal in a friendly atmosphere. A varied food menu with award winning real ales(camra) and plenty of choice behind the bar. Currently a beer and music festival with 80+ beers,ales,cider and wines to try out along side live music .

Proper old pub with oak beams and low ceilings. Enjoyed reasonably priced food and nice staff.

Great pub, always welcoming and great beers

Phil and his team work tirelessly to provide good food & a great atmosphere, phil is a fantastic host, phil always has a smile even though he is cream crackered. Events are always great & for a very small village pub there is always lots going on. Sunday roasts are the best, very generous and so tasty. Well done.Recommended 5 star

Prima Britstop, eten en blijven slapen in onze camper op de parking.

Visited here on Sunday 2 April 2023 for Sunday lunch. Had the breaded mushrooms to start, then the roast beef for main. Was stuffed by the end. Not quite enough gravy for me and I’m not sure that pigs in blankets and stuffing goes with beef, but I still ate them! Friendly staff and clientele.

Amazing friendly staff and landlord does THE most amazing Sunday roast. Never disappointed

First meal there, great food,great old fashioned English pub atmosphere 👌 we plan to return my wife informs me.

Really lovely country pub, friendly staff, and open fire perfect for a cold afternoon

7 of us enjoyed a fantastic Sunday lunch today. We had 1 vegan and 2 vegetarians in our party, the chef came to our table and explained how he was preparing the vegan food. My roast beef was perfectly cooked and the vegetables were delicious. The staff were brilliant, very polite and courteous. Thoroughly recommended it.

Lovely beer, lovely staff, a lovely beer garden

Lovely roast dinner. Great service

Very busy on a Saturday quiz night but pleasant staff and decent beer.

Great village pub which is a must for walking in the area.

Good beer, good food, great service, but blink and you could miss it

Limited menu but good value and tasty. Friendly service.

The Swan is such a lovely old fashion pub with an open fire, You get a warm welcome from the staff and owner and nothing is too much trouble, The food is amazing you won't go home hungry

Lovely atmosphere and friendly staff. Food was amazing too 🙂

Sunday roast was lovely! Will definitely be back!

Great pub to catchup with friends.

One of my favourite places. Great beers, great food and always a warm welcome!

I can't speak highly enough about the friendly service an warm welcome we received when visiting The Swan on a lovely sunny afternoon. The plan for the day was to find a Sunday roast and boy did they deliver! Not only was the food served with a smile it was cooked to perfection with generous portions. I would highly recommend a visit to this country dog friendly pub.

A lovely old pub, dog friendly and has excellent service. I had a fish finger sarnie and my friend had whitebait, with half of their guest beer. There is a large garden out front for the warmer days. Recommend a visit

Just a lovely old pub....perfect

Cracking pub, fantastically well kept ales and you can rely on the Captain Bob to always be in perfect condition. Warm and friendly staff. Lovely cozy pub with lots of room to sit outside in the summer. Always try to fit in a visit when I'm in the area

Lovely village pub with nice friendly staff, great beer festival over 30 beers and ciders to try.

Lovely little village pub. Good beer. Very personable publican. Would recommend a visit if you are in the area.

Really friendly landlord and staff, great place for a stopover for Motorhomes in a lovely part of Essex with good food available. If wanting to stop over in a Motorhome phone ahead.

Great Pub, Good Food, Excellent Ales. Great Staff and Landlord.

We had a really lovely time on Friday night, took our motorhome and three dogs. We were made very welcome and the Swan was warm and cosy with a real beautiful fire glowing. Dogs were very welcomed too. Lovely fish and chips too thank you very Greatt stay thank you so much and the fish and chips

Had an incredible roast dinner here last week. The food was so delicious, all of us there finished every last scrap on our plates. The Belgian waffle for desert was also very good. The lady who served us was lovely and attentive, and the chef popped out to ask us how the food had been which we appreciated. We'll definitely be back, even though it's quite a drive from home.

Love this friendly pub lovely staff and it's dog friendly!

Nice old and traditional pub. Good selection of fine beers on offer.

Couldn't fault it. Staff were welcoming. Sunday lunch was really good and the cheese board to share was amazing

Excellent quality of food and atmosphere. 👌

We came across The Swan by chance whilst looking for somewhere to eat that was also dog friendly and the staff there where all so friendly and made us felt so welcome. We discovered it was only pizza available that night but we went for it anyway. I am so glad we did. Pizza was just awesome. The lady's at the pub kept coming by to check on us to see that all was ok. They made a fuss of my dog every time they went passed. We will definitely be back when we are in the area again.

First time of visiting this pub today and it's a good one. A fine day so could sit outside in the garden which was great. Food good, drink good and service good. The only downside was you layout of the gents toilet. Drying your hands while someone is using the right-hand urinal isn't easy

Lovely friendly atmosphere. Nice beer garden. Great menu food choice. Delicious food. Yummy deserts 😋 Wide range off soft & Alcoholic drinks. Snacks behind bar. Dog and child friendly. Phil landlord is great and Bar staff

Friendly, proper pub with great food and drink. Dog friendly, child friendly...totally recommend.

Loved it. Phil is a great landlord

Very welcoming as soon as we arrived. Informed all the time regarding meals etc and waitress was knowledgeable regarding beers/ales

Really enjoyed our lunch at The Swan, good portions and beer was spot on

Excellent pub. Landlord Phil very friendly and Mel and other staff were very attentive. We visited as part of the Britstops scheme and were made most welcome. BBQ and live music over the bank holiday were perfect...Many thanks. What a pub should be.

Plenty of covered seating in garden,but open to the air ase required. Sign into NHS app and sanitise hands on arrival. Table service only. Entrances and exits clearly marked. Good beers but sadly Oscar Wilde mild now only in bottles. Only went inside for the loo so didn't see inside seating arrangement. Also plenty of parking places

The owner is really friendly and very accommodating. The staff are all happy and couldn't be more helpful.

Great service lovely place to relax and chat

Quintessential Essex country boozer with excellent ale. May it never close.

Lovely visit. Great staff and service. Great good too. Will definitely make a return visit.

Amazing roast dinner, great portion size

Very welcoming friendly atmosphere staff and regulars brilliant doing a good job and service during testing times with covid. Excellent all round 5 stars

Wanted a light lunch. Fish Finger sandwich was perfect. Great Covid precautions. Can't fault the place.

The sunday lunch was incredible and the staff were attentive without being ' in your face '( or space)

Friendly rural pub,nice beer garden front and rear.very good food and plenty of choice for drinks, multi award winning 'camra' pub

Lovely place to eat, food great and the staff was excellent

It's our local, lovely friendly place & somewhere you can take your dog too.

Great pub. Felt safe as Phill the landlord has REALLY got it sorted

Very nice, lovely food and friendly helpful staff.

Great classic county local pub, lives up to its CAMRA Good beer guide accolades over the years, great ale

Lovely food, friendly staff, traditional English country pub.

Loved it great landlord .Fantastic food lovely and quiet night sleep come on you brittstops support the smaller pubs xxx

Sat at a table outside, under a marquee type roof with open sides, kept social distance. The staff wore masks, hand sanitizers were provided, all covid security measures in place.The bar food was good. Had a lovely couple of hours.

I have been popping in over the last 30plus years occasionally. My first visit since the previous landlord sadly passed. So glad to see it is little changed. Food was fantastic and the range of beers and ciders still wide ranging. A most relaxing lunch time. Highly recommended.

Lovely country pub. Visited for Sunday Roast. We had the roast beef and it was excellent. The staff were very friendly and helpful especially as one of our party was vegetarian and didn't fancy what was on offer on the main menu and she had a very tasty alternative. The only thing we felt let the pub down was that the toilet in the restaurant area could do with a bit of a spruce up. Otherwise would recommend for a leisurely Sunday Roast.

A little known hidden gem. Good food, good beer, good service. Was made to feel welcome.

This pub/restaurant has a very friendly atmosphere, my dad introduced me to The Swan in the beginning of last year's summer and we visit the pub/restaurant nearly every Saturday. The staff are great especially the the bar maid she gets 10 out of 10.

What a great place. Parked here for an overnight stay in my motor home. Phil (the landlord) was extremely welcoming. Unfortunately we chose quiz night to stay, so no food available. Made to feel very welcome by the other quizzers, and was last out of pub spending ages chatting with Phil. Decided to stay for Sunday lunch - a variety of options, and very full and hearty; it's set us up for the rest of the day. Would love to return for their beer festival in June.

Lovely pub lovely staff and landlord Will be back !!!!

Great little pub with beer served direct from the barrel. Traditional music session every 2nd Friday of the month.

Great food, great real ale and great atmosphere 👍

It's a lovely cozy local pub , lovely atmosphere with an open fire . Staff are very cheerful and welcoming