The best restaurants in Writtle Chelmsford East of England

Little village pub from the early 1800, real ales on tap and experience some real local atmosphere.

Wow, what a great find. Immaculate and stylish decor, impeccably clean dinning area. Excellent food, very quick service, generous portions and very attentive friendly staff. Gorgeous home made Tiramisu on the house for Mother’s Day. Couldn’t have been any better.

My favourite restaurant. Great food and wonderful staff.

A birthday treat , absolutely amazing food, beautifully presented and delicious. Service was excellent and thoroughly enjoyable experience

We all had a fantastic Sunday Lunch for 6 adults and a toddler.. Food was faultless … one of our family is Vegan and she said her nut roast meal was absolutely, without doubt, the best she’s ever eaten!!! The roast lamb was soooo tender and delicious. Two others had chicken meals which they were really pleased with. The staff are so lovely. Really engaged with us. They were so helpful and just lovely. Most definitely the best Sunday Lunch out in a very long time.

Visited for dinner with my partner. I'll start with the positives - the refurb is gorgeous. The garden is a lovely place to sit on a sunny day and enjoy a drink. The service was good and the staff were welcoming. The menu has a large selection to choose from, including a specials menu. Unfortunately the food was a let down. The starts were average, we enjoyed the calamari. For our mains I had a pie which was ok, it came with chips, veg and gravy. The veg was bad - the green beans had the stalks left on so I was picking the stalks out of my mouth. And the other veg served with it was radish?Radish with pie and gravy? Very odd. The other main we ordered was from the specials menu which was soy pork belly served with rice and veg. It was literally just pieces of meat and dry rice with no sauce. Very disappointed and it was £19.25 for that dish alone :( We felt most things on the menu were extremely over priced and left feeling like we had wasted our money

Have used this pub many times. Always great food and staff. Great atmosphere

Think it's more of a weekend venue, but nice open plan to the main bar. We visited midweek and unfortunately there was no heated seating in the garden at all.

This Punjabi restaurant has a very stylish, comfortable interior. The menu is not hugely extensive but the food is delicious! We really enjoyed our chicken with chillies and chicken with fenugreek. The accompaniments to the poppadoms were tasty too.

Such a shame its last day after more than a decade is 30 August. Staff charming and we wished them well for their futures. Food was excellent value. Hopefully the College will see fit to continue to provide similar going forwards. Adieu

Fabulous sandwich, which we shared, also excellent quiche. We will go again ASAP! We want to try the rest of the menu, but also the garden centre had a really good selection of house plants

We went here for lunch and sat in the lovely garden, which is decorated with teacups lovely plants benches and white tables. Staff were friendly and the food was lovely we had the brunch bagel 🥯 and an ice coffee. Just be careful when digging into the bagel as the poached egg yolk went everywhere- but this is a sign of a great egg. Drinks were also lovely. Would defo go back. They also have a gorgeous private function room with music defo worth looking into.

food is good and all staff are lovely

This used to be a favourite spot of mine with the kids for coffee and some cake about 10 years ago. Yesterday I took my son back there and wished I hadn't. We had paninis, a muffin and a hot drink each. The coffee and cakes are fine.. can't go wrong really. The paninis were hardly toasted at all, my tuna luke warm, and today my whole abdomen hurts and i feel sick.. 2+2=? But the worst is yet to come, the hygiene. At the counter, above the coffee machine, were the mugs. On and around them buzzed at least 10 files. The staff seemed oblivious and uncaring. We picked a table with bench seats... food & crumbs absolutely everywhere. Tables has not been cleaned at all although the previous plates etc had been taken away. The crew that have taken this over are just not up to the job. I will never go back...

Absolutely brilliant!! From the moment me and my wife walked in, we was greeted very friendly and the service and food was amazing! Definitely recommend and yes we will be back!!