The best restaurants in Halstead St Andrew's Braintree East of England

The new owners Colin and LJ are great nice polite people, go there every weekend for the entertainment especially Friday night karaoke and disco night. Dj plays to the crowd.

Unfortunately this is the only fish and chip shop that delivers in Halstead. Just had cod and chips delivered, came fairly quickly but the food was rubbish. £4.50 for soggy onion rings, the chips were pale and not cooked properly and the cod, well, the cod was in a soggy batter, the batter was all flat and not crispy like it had been put into oil that’s not hot enough, and the fish had a bit of a funny taste, especially the ends of it. Next time I’ll go and collect form one of the other chippys in town. I cannot recommend this place and certainly will not order from here again.

Where do I start. Well, we walked into a very dingy bar, where 4 people were drinking, talking very loudly and spitting out beer onto the floor. The floor was really dirty. We were then taken to our room, where the entrance was filthy with daddy long legs in all corners. The door of our room wasn't very secure. It had a big gap down it, the drawers in the room were broken, and there was mould on the bathroom ceiling and tiles. The windows were also filthy. There was one rail to hang clothes. 2 good points were that the guy who took us to our room was very polite. Also he bedding was very clean. We stayed about 20 minutes and then just left! I wouldn't recommend this place.

Fantastic experience great food - friendly staff, love the decor and the best menu in the town. The coffee is so good 👍 Menu prices from £3 only - best value for money. I had full English breakfast with orange juice. The breakfast was freshly cooked in their oven served piping hot and orange juice was freshly squeezed. It's hard to find freshly made in this world. Staff were friendly and good atmosphere. They have a small Christmas gift shop in one corner. Kids play area and library and games also in the cafe. I will definitely visit again.

There’s been a marked improvement in the quality of the toasted baguettes. They are so much better. Not crispy/frazzled at the ends. Thanks for a much better brunch.

Terrible experience from start to finish. Our food didn’t turn up, so we called to check on it and were told it had already been delivered. We assured them that we were still waiting and hungry, but they insisted otherwise. Eventually, they agreed to redeliver it. When the driver finally arrived, she seemed confused, claiming she’d already given us our order but didn’t recognize us at all. Very odd. To make matters worse, when we called to confirm the food had now been received, the man at the shop was incredibly rude, implying that we were just trying to get free food. It was clear the delivery driver made an error, but instead of taking responsibility, we were made out to be liars—an absolutely unacceptable way to treat a customer. As if that wasn’t enough, they even got our order wrong and sent the incorrect rice. The driver came back quickly to correct it, looking guilty and uncomfortable. After finishing our meal, I decided to visit the shop in person to address the situation with the rude staff member. Suddenly, their story changed: first, they claimed the food was given to my neighbor (who I know was out at the time), and then they switched to saying it was handed to someone in my alleyway. I even showed them camera footage proving no delivery was made to my house, and only then did they stop with the excuses. If you make a mistake, own up to it. Don’t accuse your customers of lying. We won’t be ordering from Water Lily Chinese again, which is a shame because we were regular customers. But after this disgraceful treatment, we’re done.

Ordered chips found a hair in my food, let alone chips were hard and half frozen, normally have a good experience. Also ordered food before and asked to be left on the doorstep didn’t do that banged louder than they usually do!

Horrid bread cold bacon and not proper sausages and the meat was cold. I will never go here again ,worst food i have ever had

Worst delivery ever. No pizza and money, they robbed me. Absolutely criminal

One would expect a takeaway or restaurant to be ready for lunchtime with a large selection of goods on sale ready for a ruch. Sadly for this branch of Greggs this has not been the case on several visits on a Saturday. Arriving at a little after 12 to be met with empty trays, long waiting times ir to be told 'I'll have a look' is not the sort of response you expect to be met with. You could understand a few items to be be awaiting replenishment, but empty cabinets! Totally unexceptable. This review is by no means typical of all branches of Greggs, but is certainly the of the Halstead branch on at least four Saturday visits