The best restaurants in Braintree East of England

Absolutely disgusting food. I would not recommend attempting to eat here. The chef needs to go back to the drawing board or think about throwing the towel in. Worst food my family and I have had, can’t remember ever eating such terrible food. There is more salt in the food than the Dead Sea, and in kids meals…. Wowza

A local Rayne pub. A sunny position.good range of drinks and non alcohol beer. The Sunday roast was mouth watering and everything on the plate was tender. I had turkey, he had pork and turkey ,even the crackling was to die for.. gravy perfect. A large dinner, we both left some veg as such a big dinner Yorkshires perfect. As were roasties. Broccoli,cauli,parsnips, carrots, red cabbage. No room for dessert. Will be back for definite. A lovely atmosphere. Very nice staff,polite and courteous. Also a dog friendly place. There is a garden too with seating .very friendly. .Ample parking.

Such a brilliant idea, lovely to meet and interact with the gorgeous rescue cats whilst having a cup of tea and some cake, you can also adopt when it's their time to be rehomed.

I think Costa Witham makes a truly fantastic dry cappuccino! I looked over at the counter and mentioned to my husband which lady had made my lovely coffee and just as I was just spooning out the last drops the member of staff came over and said was your coffee ok? How lovely that someone would ask, I explained I was scooping out the last drops as it was sooo delicious :) I think the staff should be given a treat for good service!

This was literally a stones throw from where we were staying so on Monday night (after a lovely Chinese lunch in Witham) we had a "snacky" dinner from here of chips and gravy! The chips were freshly cooked so I had to wait 5-6 minutes but this was not a problem. It certainly looks very clean inside and the food was good and tasty.

This was a brilliant traditional cafe supplying a good selection of reasonably priced English style breakfast and lunches, I was a regular punter. They closed a couple of months ago for a refurb and are now about to re open so I stopped by to check out the new menu. Oh dear, oh dear, it seems they have all gone a bit "Champagne Socialist" while they have been closed. The prices make no sense, instead of, say, £7.20 the menu says it as "7.2" Why? It's hard to find a breakfast without flippin Haloumi included! Why do I want squeaky rubber with my fried egg?? When you find a decent breakfast on the menu it's £11.90!!! (11.9 in their money) and that includes 1 slice of "sourdough toast", no drinks though. So by the time I add a coffee I'm going to be paying upwards of 16 quid for a fried breakfast (16.0 apparently), and I'll still only get one slice of poxy "sourdough" (yuk) I'm sure some of the Wickham Bishops Massiv will pop in from time to time but at these prices you've probably lost your core customers, the oldies, families and workers. And as for Halloumi on a fried breakfast, what's all that about eh?

Use to love Ying- but seriously now- nearly £6 for palin boiled rice?!!!! - satay chicken skewers - Boiled Rice Almost £21 WTF 🤬

We always order from here it is the best Chinese and best service my only complaint today was chicken was lovely n white in fried rice but very dark in chicken chow mein it is usually same as fried rice so a bit disappointing

shocking delivery service from empire house, used this firm before ,no problems, not waiting nearly 2 hours, excuse after excuse, on the plus side the food has always been good

Ordered one of your party boxes fantastic, it took me three times of eating it over three days to finish it up keep up the good work guys your great

Arranged a Takeaway and Sure delivered on Time by Delivery By Lee very nice Chap would recommend Veery Polite and Prompt. Also good Food!

Big portions and great service from the two ladies. Really good value for money and the best quality Chinese in the area in my opinion.

Good food and reasonable prices. The service was amazing - we were served by the lovely Isabelle who couldn’t have been nicer. She looked after us very well on a very busy Saturday night during Black Friday weekend! Food came out quickly and everyone was friendly!

Friendly people who provide almost everything you could need in the centre of the village with foods and gifts.

This is the best takeaway I’ve had for months. Thank you. Great to see you open in these difficult times