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Nº 150 in 199 in Rochford

Nº 27 of 40 British in Rochford

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Came down for a meal with family was very happy with the service and especially the quality off beers and the variety of choice they had. Food was spot on my son loved his pasta and his strawberry ice cream definitely will go back as staff where friendly

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Stephen Winchester . 2024-11-29

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Hungry Horse/Green King pub. Big menu with lots of special offers.

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Paul Whalley . 2024-11-05

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Friendly and welcoming atmosphere

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Jackie Wellard . 2024-11-05

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Great pub with good food at really decent pub prices. Very friendly staff and a good atmosphere all round!

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Alexander Laurie . 2024-10-26

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A great pub, food and service was excellent.

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Duncan Miller . 2024-10-26

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Great pub good food great staff all round perfect and its got the best landlord in RAYLEIGH ( would just like to say needs a bit of a refurb to enhance the pub)

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Rory Stone . 2024-10-25

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Great value for money and really welcoming staff. Really great venue to watch all of the football too! Will definitely be back.

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Ian L . 2024-10-25

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Had a lovely meal with a friend tonight. We both did the curry wednesday. I had keema lamb & friend had chic pea & sweet potatoe. If i'm honest, it was luke warm but the flavours were intense, so we were both happy. The staff ŵere lovely and we also had the wine wednesday deal so all in all, a great night. Ty to all the staff including kitchen staff.

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Jane Ross . 2024-10-23

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Food selection was good and when the football was on the atmosphere was buzzing. Nice friendly crowd all having a laugh. The staff Adam the manager is a decent guy runs the pub like it should be. The bar staff were quick and poured a good pint. Will return

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Aaron smith . 2024-10-22

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After visiting this establishment a few times now I thought it's time for a review. The menu has a wide selection of dishes available to suit everyone's needs. The staff especially Adam the manage he makes our visit very nice. Friendly good conversation and keep the pub in tip top condition green king should realise the hard work he puts in. The younger staff are good at there job and they all work as a team. Definitely be returning

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Aaron elliott . 2024-10-20

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Been plenty of times ,always good food .

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Danny Surridge . 2024-10-18

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Great food, lovely service by our waitress Trish and excellent value for money (we had the Thursday special with £1 desserts 😋)

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Lee C . 2024-10-17

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I thoroughly enjoyed my meal at Travellers Joy. The food was good and very reasonably priced.

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Alison Crane . 2024-10-16

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Good morning I am sorry to bother you but I am looking to cone to your pub for breakfast .on Saturday could you let me know what time you do them from .as had a lovely meal on Monday this week .

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Margaret Mclean . 2024-10-11

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Superb pub, great staff and made to feel very welcome. Will definitely be coming back when I’m next visiting friends who live nearby!

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Nick F . 2024-10-10

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Was at the pub for the weekly quiz and to celebrate a birthday. A few more people than originally planned were able to attend that meant we needed another table to fit everyone. Ruby and her team couldn't do more to fir us all onto 2 tables (pushed together) so we could all enjoy the evening together. Service throughout the night was excellent. We used the Greene King APP to order food and drinks. The food arrived promptly and piping hot. Drinks were brought to our table within minutes of ordering on the APP. Everything delivered with a smile in a friendly manner. Food was tasty and decent value (imho). There was a quiz on the night we were there (8 of us) which the majority of the customers took part in. Great quiz suitable for all ages. Had a fantastic evening. Friends, good food, great beers, quiz, European Footy on the TV and awesome staff. What's there not to like!!!! Great evening celebrating a birthday.

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Mark . 2024-10-06

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It's the nuts punters are magic

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Douglas Greig . 2024-10-06

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Fabulous food, with great service and very friendly staff, will be back again soon

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Jessica Foreman . 2024-09-28

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Good food at a great price. Nice Temparanillo for £5 a bottle on Wednesdays. Prosecco reasonably priced too.

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Sue Bedford . 2024-09-27

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The landlord is a titan of the hospitality industry 👏

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tony jamnitzky . 2024-09-21

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Came to watch the football on Sunday with my kids and friends. What a great atmosphere and great time had by all. Massive shout out to all the staff who all worked so incredibly hard. Well done an thank you

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Rich Foreman . 2024-09-21

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Food was lovely service was very good good range of drinks staff was very friendly

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Roy Padgett . 2024-09-19

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Good food good drinks and good service

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Elizabeth MacLean . 2024-09-17

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Food was awful. Had a so called Sunday roast beef. Three tiny roast potatoes rubberised yorkshire pudding inedible beef and stringy beans. Tasted like it had been cooked in morning and microwaved a few times. Staff were indifferent and woman who greeted us just told us how much time we had to eat!! I understand they were busy, but have been to hungry horse pubs before and have to say this one was the worst I have visited. Won't be going back anytime soon.

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Anthony Richards . 2024-09-15

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I’ve been a couple of times, and it’s been so good but today it was just so terrible. The service was extremely slow, and none of the staff were helpful at all. The fryer had broken, so most of the food wasn’t available. The food I ordered was disgusting, the chicken was hard and I couldn’t even chew it. My friend sent hers back, and I didn’t eat mine. My partners roast dinner was cold in places, but piping hot in others (clearly been warmed up in the microwave) and the dessert we had ordered (apple crumble) and waited ages and ages for, came out and how they even served it up like that was beyond me. I only got half a refund, when I should have got a full refund. I will never ever go back, it was terrible. The pub wasn’t full as most people left due to the fact the fryer wasn’t working and they didn’t have anything really on the menu, so they had no excuse for terrible food. It was worst food I’ve ever ate.

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lauren sophia . 2024-09-08

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Wasn't too busy, midweek visit, which was nice so we could have a family catch up. Unfortunately I ordered the mushroom and ale pie and received steak and ale, the pastry was lovely, but not alot of meat inside and couldn't find any staff at time to challenge. I push the couple of pieces to the side and ate on. Others had chinese banquet (banquet is over describing it though), new yorker chicken breast (yum), child's chicken nuggets. Strange that the child's meal had steak chips but the adult meals had fries, all got eaten so not a problem at all.

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Sam Greener . 2024-09-07

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Nice pub with a good selection of beers and wine, excellent food also, custom car night is on every Wednesday evening 🚗

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Paul Harvey . 2024-09-04

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After a previous visit we were passing again yesterday and decided to pop in. We had another lovely afternoon. It was a different menu from last time but you know what you are going to get from Hungry Horse. Saying that the food couldn’t have been any better. All 4 of us really enjoyed the food served up. The staff were as friendly and welcoming as before and it was great to see Adam is still running the show. I will definitely be returning.

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Tim . 2024-09-03

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Always lovely friendly staff, food is great and very reasonably priced

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Aleisha Trevillion . 2024-09-03

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We had a lovely dinner and our waitress, Trish, was amazing. She couldn’t do enough for us and even arranged for us to move table when we requested it. We will definitely be returning.

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sean v . 2024-08-29

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Great venue for reasonably priced food and excellent service whether for large groups or just a couple of you. We visit regularly with family, friends and the neighbours

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GERALYN . 2024-08-28

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Food was good. Service was fairly quick. There was a group sat behind us in the eating area that were absolutely more suited to the bar area and were very loud. Was hard to hear people sat opposite. Not moaning just maybe could have been placed better. Staff as always were very friendly and quick to tidy away etc.

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Kayleigh Ryan . 2024-08-28

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Excellent customer service and very friendly staff and excellent price range for food and drink.

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Kevin Watts . 2024-08-27

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A fantastic place to eat with good atmosphere friendly staff and tasty food everything we ordered came out in good time. the portion sizes are pretty large apart from the chips that come with the burger, however the burger more than made up for it and everything tasted fresh, also a good selection of sauces and clean cutlery

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Karl Tissen . 2024-08-27

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Fantastic food With good service. Thank you to Owen for going out of his way for us. We will definitely be back again soon.

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935nicola . 2024-08-25

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Great food and fantastic atmosphere always welcomed with a big smile from Wendy , love the banter . Great to see the decking full of customers after it being shut for so long . Can’t wait for another sunny evening for a nice drink and food out there .

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Skye . 2024-08-24

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Had a great get together with family in July. Food and drinks were excellent and the prices are very good. Had a great waitress Lucy. She was very helpful. Would highly recommend

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Laura K . 2024-08-21

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Some of our food was poor we had 2 portions of the impossible nuggets and what arrived was nothing like the picture on the menu, we had hot sauce and we was lucky if there was a drip of sauce on each nugget and 3 had no sauce at all, when we asked the staff if we could possibly have some extra sauce as food was dry and the food looked nothing Like the menu we was told we can pay extra for more sauce. Sold as chicken deal waste of money.

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Michael Towler . 2024-08-20

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Very busy on a Friday, food is OK. Plenty of parking but nowhere to sit unless you've booked in advance.

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Simas Andrulis . 2024-08-18

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Only downside is the lack of signage for the parking how it reads is you pay for parking before you go in but you can register your reg number as a paying customer and not pay the car parking charge

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mick caswell . 2024-08-17

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Group of ten friends meeting up for fortnightly get together. Staff are always there to help with a smile on their faces. Trish is there to see if we need anything is always polite and happy. We had a good evening and will be back in two weeks. I might even pop in just for a beer or two.

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Chris Avery . 2024-08-15

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A bit disappointed that they don't have a waitress service any more.

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Roger Heathfield . 2024-08-14

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Brilliant pub, tasty food !! Really good food menu for the children also ! Dog friendly on the decking aswell !! 😊😊

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Charlotte Sheppard . 2024-08-11

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Stopped for food and drinks. Staff amazing and very helpful from arrival! Quick service, great food and value for money! 10/10 I keep going back.

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Sarah Grainger . 2024-08-07

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its worth to visit and value of money

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Uditanshu Upreti . 2024-07-29

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Ruby got us a nice table on my birthday, very pleased

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Natasha Schwaben . 2024-07-26

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Been here a few times with friends really nice place for a lunch and beer and chat. Nice friendly staff

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John Harding . 2024-07-19

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Enjoy Thursday nights at the Travs. Good, reasonably priced, food and drink. Friendly atmosphere on Quiz night.

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sue wood . 2024-07-19

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Had a couple of beers n sat in the garden

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Patrick price . 2024-07-19

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Normally have breakfast here but today bacon very fatty, sausages were not hot, mushrooms were like bullets and hash browns were very greasy, people sitting on nearby table complained too and left most of theirs too, had upset stomach as soon as got home and my partner felt very sick so very disappointing. It wasn’t good and normally is so not sure as to why it was awful today and has put us off going back.

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Jane Barnett . 2024-07-07

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Great pub for watching all sports! Been amazing for the euros. Staff are spot on #table59

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David Matthews . 2024-07-05

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My server Wendy was brilliant and happy to help with any issues, making my little boy laugh

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Heather Jerman . 2024-06-26

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Visited to have some food and drinks after a charity run. Was rudely greeted by a staff member unimpressed the 8 of us were at two unreserved tables of 4 and told we must stay seated at all times very sternly. If anyone dared to stand up we was told off (quite literally yelled at) Honestly never seen anything like it. I wish I could say a single staff member was polite but the lady who banned us from getting up with young kids, the gentleman who let go of the door infront of me struggling with a buggy and the other who said I’m a bit busy when I politely requested a spoon for my child’s beans made this a awful experience. Seems to be fine if you are a regular but not if you are from out of area.

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Chloe Rachael . 2024-06-26

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Nice, lgbtq friendly atmosphere. Thank you, guys.

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Zoe Moses . 2024-06-23

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We only went for drinks as a catch up, but service was good & everyone was very professional.

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Lynne Law . 2024-06-22

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Such a friendly pub the staff go above and beyond to help, food is great value for money thoroughly recommend

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Melanie . 2024-06-21

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Good prices. Food can be overcooked.

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Helen Fenn . 2024-06-19

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Popped in with a friend and everyone was so welcoming. Ruby happily served our drinks. Adam came and checked that we had everything we needed and kai brought us our food. The food was hot and came out with not much of a wait. Stephen and Mark did a great job and we will definitely be returning.

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Steph Warren . 2024-06-18

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The Travellers Joy is easily my favourite pub in Essex, always got the best vibes, great food, and the team are lovely. Lucy is often my waitress, and she’s an absolute diamond! Pub is spotless too x

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Madeline Lallaway . 2024-06-18

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Went there Sunday for lunch must be the worst one came out of the microwave gravy all congealed on top of meat veg it nice Yorkshire all soggy never go there again asked gin with no ice and a dash of lemonade got large glass full of ice and lemonade could not even taste the gin and I had a large one to top it off the football was not great as well

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Lucy Knight . 2024-06-17

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Good meal and great service by the staff, especially Trish who was very helpful.

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Emma Acton . 2024-06-17

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Had a great meal and service was fantastic, parking easy just register at the bar . Can’t wait to go back Thankyou Wendy for your help this evening

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Sonia Travails . 2024-06-17

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We came again today for father's day and had yet again another faultless meal and experience! Massive thanks to Ruby who was so helpful and so welcoming as were all the staff! Made you feel right at home! Will definitely be back! Thank you again travelllers joy xx Fast service, fab hot food, great value for money, the app works amazing even for changing things on a meal. Staff were very friendly and the place had a lovely atmosphere. We've been here a few times and will always go back here! Keep doing what your doing guy's!!

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jo-newley . 2024-06-16

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Went for Sunday Lunch last week the food was ok and lady on the front desk was very nice and friendly, but the man behind the bar was so nasty and rude si won't be going back

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Janet Noble . 2024-06-14

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Wendy was very helpful on my visit today. Thanks

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Adam Crane . 2024-06-13

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Excellent service by Trish and enjoyed the steak dinner.

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Philip Scott . 2024-06-13

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Hadn't been here in years! Great atmosphere and modern. We had 4 adults and 2 kids in our party. Food was mostly good apart from the frozen veg 😅 And service was friendly but you could tell they were short staffed as tables weren't being cleared until the next course was being served. Won't deter me from coming back.

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Chenelle Blacklock . 2024-06-11

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Came for Friday lunch and food was excellent, great service from waitress Trish. Would highly recommend and will most definitely be back.

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James Kissane . 2024-06-02

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The lady manager was very rude to her customers and her staff that were doing a great job considering they were understaffed!the outside area was shut and has been needing work done for years.overall very depressing

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Amy gun . 2024-05-31

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6 of us went for a bday meal. 2x steaks rare, both couldnt get the fork into the meat it was like rubber. 3x burger/mixed grill dishes. Burgers rock solid lettuce brown edges. 1x chicken fajita thing. Only one that ate the whole meal. Been 2x before it wasnt great but drinks were cheap

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GRANT . 2024-05-31

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Very nice usal for hungry horse just be aware to pay parking you get it refunded when you eat if problem with parking ring pub with reg do not leave it or you will have a problem

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Tony Scrivener . 2024-05-29

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Food was microwaved and not fresh Following their response it won't let me reply, however when ordering a pie I expect a crust to be crusty and not soft and foamy

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Gemma Curtis . 2024-05-29

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First time visit. Standard good quality Greene King food with good selection of drinks. Very good value, each day has a different special discount. Unusually quiet for a Sunday evening, not complaining but I expected it to be busier.

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Steven B . 2024-05-21

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A lovely evening at The Hungry Horse. A big thank you to Wendy and her staff for impeccable service, the food was perfect and arrived all at the same time. Desserts yummy. Nothing was too much trouble for them. Even checking more then once we was all ok. Sorry if we left any mess. Thanks again. A****

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Stacy Wright . 2024-05-21

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I had vegan lasagne and chips and the lasagne wasn't great. It was the thinnest lasagne I have ever seen, and it was very over microwaved. I followed it with plant based crumble with ice-cream which was ok, but again over microwaved. We had to wait ages for my friend's meal so I had to eat mine or it would have gotten cold, so that spoilt the meal as well. Also I would have liked a latte but there was no soya milk! Surely if you are going to offer plant based food, you should have plant based milk? So not very impressed.

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Toni-Anita Edwards . 2024-05-16

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We went as a table of 11 adults & 6 children - staff were friendly & helpfull - Manager was friendly & working hard to make sure everyone was happy - food was delicious & all came out at the same time & hot - so we were all eating together - would we go back? - definately yes.

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Amber McArthur . 2024-05-14

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Lovely place to meet for food and drinks.

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Robert Hood . 2024-04-27

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Brilliant as usual on the Thursday quiz night. Always made to fell welcome. Friendly staff and always very helpful. Trish is a star.

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mrjango . 2024-04-27

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Lovely atmosphere and great staff!

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Chloe Stock . 2024-04-27

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Went for a meal sunday 14 of us had a lovely time, all the staff super helpful Kai and Harry always happy to help, and the manager Ruby super accomodating even though shes on crutches. Great value and great servive best place for large bookings. Will be back soon

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Rebecca C . 2024-04-26

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OK if you want quick and easy food and plenty of it. Reasonable price and lots of choice.

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Sandy Page . 2024-04-24

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Family party of five people. Completely satisfied.

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William Driver . 2024-04-22

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Friendly and efficient staff and food was great and plenty of it

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Nick Izod . 2024-04-17

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Lovely pub, good food! You know what to expect at a hungry horse

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Chris Kelly . 2024-04-11

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Always a pleasure to come to the pub when I see my family for lunch or dinner. Took my mum for early Mother's Day lunch. Booked table and was pram friendly for us to do. Staff polite and pub was quiet and empty. Food came fast and was delicious. A nice place for a family get together if you ever want a place for a family meal. No problems with ordering. Lovely staff :)

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Louisa Sandford . 2024-04-10

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Amazing pub, the staff are all lovely and the food was absolutely amazing. Although i haven’t seen the lovely wendy for about 3 weeks!! Missing her ☺️

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GoPlaces03939807566 . 2024-04-09

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absolutely stunning sausage sandwich, couldn’t have asked for better from the brilliant chefs there!!! 🥂✨💫

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Rose K. . 2024-04-09

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Good staff, i made a mistake on my behalf but rectified it very quickly

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Will Lock . 2024-04-09

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Never again . Staff had no clue what they were doing. Dirty skillets . An hrs for food wait and wernt even busy. Disgracful

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tenerife50 . 2024-04-09

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Oh dear..... Went early evening with the children not used a hungry horse in a few years, ordered children's meal deals along with adult meal. I appreciate they are basically micro wave meals but the adult one could have been hot rather than warm. Once the children had finished mains I went to get their ice creams and was asked for payment. Having ordered child meal deals dessert is included. So my order was not taken & put through correctly, not my error, but I felt I was in the wrong. Manager did apologise said I'm not the first & won't be the last that's happened to. BE AWARE you must order everything at once. Maybe the pub chain needs to make that clear on the menu card & get staff to check when taking orders. Won't be back in a hurry, plenty of nice pubs in the area.

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Jennie . 2024-04-07

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Owen is the most attentive staff member I have seen at this chain, his unbelievable attitude and customer service is second to none I will be returning to this pub due to his unbelievable attention to detail

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Dave C . 2024-04-06

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Had food here last september. Since then I've been harassed by the car park company to pay a fine. Would help if the staff would inform the customers about these unlawful parking fines before hand. As I paid in cash I do not have proof of my visit. Shocking

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Tom Jones . 2024-04-05

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Nice for a catch up with friends. Reasonable prices

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Pamela utting . 2024-04-02

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Fantastic atmosphere!! Always top quality service with great food and value for money. Sports always playing live too.

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markc278 . 2024-04-02

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Kat was there to help me as I walked in and has taken food and drink orders. She is so helpful and a credit to the Travs as all the staff are very happy to help, will definitely be back every week.

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Dave S . 2024-04-02

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Went there on Sunday 31st March had a roast dinner the vegetables were hard the beef was chewy and the Yorkshire well it was a lump of dough it was a job to swallow I didn't know a roast could go so wrong

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tony pease . 2024-04-01

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Lovely food, great value and first class service from our waitress Trish who made the experience so enjoyable. Thank you Trish.

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Christopher L . 2024-03-29

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Had a lovely meal with friends ruby served us and was lovely very friendly and helpful food was great with a good selection

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dbbiebrrtt . 2024-03-28

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Was served by Trish who was attentive and friendly. Food is good value. Nice place to have a catch up with friends

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Teresa Tully . 2024-03-20

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Not been in there for 6 months plus so not sure why it's showing.

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Cath Warwick . 2024-03-19

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