The best restaurants in Castle Colchester East of England

Good products and pleasant service from staff

The food quality and service are top calss……. Highly recommend best take away

Lovely place nice wine Fantastic staff highly recommended did not eat bur these that did food seemed very good and have a specialals menu

An absolutely stunning pub to visit. Staff are very accommodating with friendly customer service. The drinks are excellent and the food is out of this world. The management team are exquisite and always introduce themselves to the customers. I highly recommend coming to visit this pub.

first time ordered a delivery from this restaurant..it turned up early..which was great..when you are hungry..the food was hot..the portion was massive..meats great..salad and chips..pitta bread warm..side order of taramasater was lovely

Played darts, round the clock, beat Eugene, by a country mile!

Dreadful service, had to ask if I could sit down, and if my food would brought to me. Despite the pretty lady in front of me beside by spoke. To by both employees, I stood waiting and then had to ask if the transaction was actually finished… clearly more important things to do than speak directly with a customer, Jacob. Also, can’t use reward drops.

It's just so small for a city centre McDonald's. It's very busy but only has two stands. The stairs are really steep and there's no lifts making it hard for prams and impossible for disabled people. There are much better McDonald's out of town. My burger was a shambles too and the Lettuce brown and the chips chewy.

We booked 3 nights at the Red Lion having stayed there many years ago. We booked for meals each night and the email booking confirmed this, including the price. When we arrived at the Hotel we were surprised to find that the hotel hasn't done meals in the Parliament restaurant for several years now! The staff were pleasant, the room dingy and unloved. The bar was freezing cold ( and wasn't ever open) which meant breakfast ( which was good) was a hurried affair! The worst of all this is that although I sent some comments to the Brook head office ( rather than go public) I've received neither an acknowledgement or a response, Clearly this Brook group care very little about their customers and I feel very sorry for their staff if this is how they treat people. It's very sad as the Red Lion is a beautiful historic building and I fear for its future.

We visited twice: the first time we shared a toasted cheese and ham sandwich and a cream tea, with a fabulous hot chocolate. The second time we had lunch of a mixed ploughman’s and a sausage baguette with tea and fruit juices. All the food was excellent and service was also very good.

Just got such a friendly service from william (I hope that’s right). So kind and bubbly and recommended me a white hazelnut frappe which is now gonna be my go to. The service was amazing thanks so much. Refreshing to see such a kind person working x

The staff in Sir Issac’s subway are so lovely and wonderul! Always make my experience in shop warm and welcoming. The shop is always tidy and food is incredible!

We met some old friends for a drink and food at the Kings Arms in Crouch street. The pub itself is very pleasant and the staff were very pleasant as well. We decided to order food. I ordered the Scampi at £15 and the ladies each ordered the grilled cheese which was £10.at that price I was expecting a really exceptional Grilled Cheeses with artisan bread and great cheese and a nice side salad. Describes as “ A medley of mature cheddar cheese and emmentsl with bechemel sauce in a toasted farmhouse loaf”….What they actually received was beyond appalling, 2 slices of processed white bread with a slice of plastic processed cheese no obvious sauce and a small bland salad.. I’ve had similar cheap toasties before , typically paying £2.50-£3 but to charge £30 for these sandwiches is nothing short of criminal. The scampi came with 13 chips and 7 normal pieces of scampi and 3 tiny pieces that were 90% breadcrumbs. Compared to other local pubs such as the Princess Charlotte this was similar to the “light version”. I would never recommend eating at this pub although as a drinking hole it’s very pleasant .

05025 Nisha was great! Customer service was great and very helpful

We have given it three tries, first, food was OK, short staffed, bad service, 2nd similar but food again was ok, tried again last night, 8pm booking, only us and a table of 4, another couple were then seated, table of 4 had finished. We ordered starters and mains, starters arrived, yes ok, having finished those they were cleared, we awaited our mains, we could see 4 main meals on the counter where the two chefs were as only us and the other couple, they had to be ours, after watching for ten minutes and still sitting there under the heat lamps, I spoke with the manager, he went to them but apparently not fully prepared, awaiting chips ? After about a further 10 minutes they were served to us, no cutlery so we had to take from the next table, the food was dry, mixed grill was awful eggs were now rubbery all meat was dry, salad was warm, the other meal was equally as bad, warm salad and small tomatoes, chicken dried out, sauce congealed. Neither edible, so mostly left. No we didn’t have to pay, but how can Two chefs not prepare 2 meals to come out fresh and hot, it’s wasn’t as if it was busy, total joke, maybe time to replace with a new restaurant team. I feel all there have become complacent. To be that empty on a Saturday evening, something is wrong.