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We picked up a meal deal in the early morning then had lunch there later. Friendly staff and good food. Very well priced. The sandwiches on granary bread were stuffed full of filling and the bread was fresh, soft and just gorgeous. The lentil and bacon soup was wonderful too. Highly recommended. Support small local businesses and give the expensive pubs a miss. 😊

Great venue, good Sunday lunch. Staff very accommodating even though we hadn't booked and they were very busy.

Lovely place to visit. Plenty of screen to watch the sport on, friendly and chatty bar staff and great facilities. Lovely outside area to sit in also.

Absolutely Disgusting”🤮 ordered a lamb Shank, one ☝️ of my favourite dishes, probably a lovely piece of meat until some plonker got his hands on it. These people need to learn how to cook before they call themselves Chef’s. Waiting at the table for 25 minutes to be served, staff totally ignored us, not even offering to serve us a drink 🥃. Served in a small soup bowl swimming in mashed potato, that had turned into soup. Looked like some sort of Peasant Gruel, we have decided to cancel our Christmas Works dinner planned for here {Staff and Clients} 56 people in total.

A fabulous time at The Real Greek in Braintree Village. Great food. Great drink. Great company and great staff. Thank you. We'll be back. Thank you Ellie.

Always reliably great. Excellent service.

Found this pub while house hunting. What a great pub. Great atmosphere and lovely food, and the lady behind the bar very welcoming.

We were customers when the couple moved from the catering van to the current premises, for years we would go out of our way to eat there. I have noticed recently that the spark has gone, miserable staff verging on being rude to customers it sure ain’t what it used to be!!!!

Lovely village pub with great atmosphere, staff and food. Nice touch as they knew we were bringing our small dog, in having dog biscuits on the table & water bowl on the floor. Couldn't fault this place but be aware it does not have a car park.

Had lunch today with 5 friends. The servers were both so miserable it was unbelievable. Over priced over rated and disappointing. Will not be returning

Attended for a meal. There were tables not cleared and been like it for a while, even though the place was not busy. Service very slow, cleared table before everyone had finished their meal and asked if dessert menus required when people still eating. Not able to provide change when paid cash and still added 10% service charge. Very poor and would not recommend even though food was very nice

The best pub and restaurant in Chorleywood. Great food, great beer, great atmosphere and super staff..!! The friendliness, service and quality is why you’ll need to book a table in advance - or get very lucky. Well done to the team for working so hard in creating such a wonderful local - 5* from me.

Stopped here for food after a bike ride. The staff could not have been more welcoming and helpful. The food was delicious and they were happy to split an adults meal for our children. May encourage me to get on my bike more! Thank you

To start with the pub was very welcoming from the excellent decor to ultra friendly staff and owner! We were served with drinks very promptly, we then made our way to the table assigned to us. A short time later we were brought menus and a list of ‘specials’. After allowing us appropriate time to browse through we ordered the fish pie and the steak and ale pie. Quite frankly the food was ‘superb’ the steak and ale pie was clearly homemade and was filled full of the most tender steak pieces encrusted in puff pastry with a delicious gravy, mine was served with lovely crispy chips and my wife’s with mash, this was accompanied with peas and carrots……..delicious. Our friends had the fish pie which looked equally appealing with chunks of fish topped with a crispy topped potato which they both said was superb also. We finished the meal with a crème brûlée and a cream/ fruit meringue. All in all a 10/10 meal which we couldn’t fault in any way. The two staff members (one was the owner I think) and a younger member of staff were friendly, professional and ‘on point’. We came on Friday 8th November so well done to both of you. I would highly recommend this pub to anyone checking out this review.

Lovely venue, really lovely local hub for meeting friends, nice food good service nice atmosphere