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Beautiful food, you can tell it’s prepared with love and passion for cooking. Thank you

A busy restaurant for the carvery lunch today with two large parties in. We enjoyed our lunch - Broccoli and Stilton soup and the carvery for me and prawn cocktail and the carvery for my civil partner. Service was excellent as the restaurant had extra staff on duty.

Like this cafe the staff are lovely and very polite we had scones this time they are little bit crumbly need to tweak the mix but plenty of options on the menu but all in all very good we will be back 🤠

Went with my two sons for birthday celebration. The interior was beautiful with lots of wooden carvings. The food was very nice and portions are good. Lamb briyani takeaway came with a separate portion of vegie curry. Very nice indeed.

Tried their iced coffee for the first time recently- it was excellent, as is everything else I have experienced about Utopia. Went with husband and brother in law. Service was excellent as always- dog friendly as always, and now they actually take card! Which saves me a trip to the cash point (which is fabulous as I hate using cash points in Southend High Street!)

A group of 4 of us booked afternoon tea. Was a beautiful clean place with a good atmosphere. The food and service was excellent. We had a lovely couple of hours. Highly recommended. Staff were so warm and friendly. Will definitely come again.

Atrocious Pizza. To call this authentic Italian Pizza, is an insult to every Italian man, woman and child. It even offends the animals living in Italy too which tend to eat anything they are given, except this pizza. I do not know what is worse, the pizza or the rude customer service... I am not one to complain usually but when I called to explain that the pizza had no flavour, and was just thrown together without much care, the lady on the phone took it very personally exclaiming her sister had made the pizza and her dads name was above the door. I feel bad for her dad. They should really take his name down. Anyway. They offered no resolution, and acted as if I had done something wrong for having the courtesy to call to discuss it with them, hence this review. Myself and my partner have now both been sick from this pizza. Please save yourselves the pain, not to mention the 1.5 hour wait time when promised in 20 minutes. Just order from a1 pizza instead, where they actually make italian pizza with real italian ingredients. Not some fake italian sausage and fake mozzarella. I think if they stopped scrimping on ingredients their customers might actually get to enjoy something other than cheap (non mozarella) cheese and cheap canned tomatoes, and some dough which quite frankly is of lesser quality than dominos. I would like to end this review on a positive note, however there is nothing positive to say about the worst pizza I have had in years. It was not edible. I regret eating a slice in hope it would get better. Now I wish my phone battery had died prior to ordering so I would not have had to experience such bad food. It is insulting that I even had to pay for it.

Nice surroundings & lovely clean restaurant, the food was excellent. The staff were helpful & friendly, very attentive throughout the meal filling drinks up without being prompted. A very nice experience, we wouldn't hesitate to recommend this place.

As soon as we arrived we were greeted with a warm welcome the staff were so friendly and professional, the atmosphere was calming and the food was perfect. Great portions and value for money, definitely recommend the chicken and mushroom risotto:)

Absolutely delighted to see dukes back up and running with fab decor ,great menu and lovely staff ,totally worth a visit. Was extremely busy so glad we had booked.

Awesome place. A good choice of ice cream but not so overwhelming to make it difficult to decide. Nice cakes (not too much in the way of gluten free options if you need that) and some decent looking savoury food. Turkish delight milkshake is fantastic.

This is a great hotel, and reasonably priced. The staff are a credit to it, and were very helpful and friendly. The food was exceptional, if not a little pricey , but it is worth it, and the afternoon tea is just incredible, on par with the Ritz. I believe they have a dedicated pastry chef, and it shows. Very nice indeed. They are also dog friendly, very useful if your fury friends are in tow. My only grip was the room was too hot, their were digital thermostats set to 18c, but they did not work, the room was 27c when we went to bed, and 25c when we woke up. They had a fan, but that just circulated the warm air. If it wasn't for the aircon not working, They would have 5 stars.

Google says it closes at 10 on Sundays. Sign on door closes at 9:30. Went at 20:20 and it was closed.

You could drive past this little pub every day without realising it has the best Thai restaurant in Norfolk at the back. Lovely little pub with warm hospitable hosts. Love this hidden gem. Recommend the Chef special chilli beef with lime and mint

By far the Best cafe in Loughton!