The best restaurants in Stanway Colchester East of England

We had an excellent breakfast, everything was great and Ricardo provided great service. We will return!!

We booked the restaurant for a Curry Night fundraiser for our charity, Open Road. Rim Jhim Spice gave us a great deal and could not have been more accommodating. The food was superb, with an extensive and generous set menu, the service was excellent and all the staff were so friendly and helpful. Everybody was so complimentary afterwards and the 40 plus people who attended all committed to make a return visit. Just brilliant all round.

Great Sunday lunch, great service and Ian is an excellent host.

Very nice place great friendly staff .food cooked to order just a shame it's cash only .

Great cappuccino. Been busy but great service both times I've been. Coffee has a nice taste and is reasonably priced. They do take away as well as sitting in.

Went to Live and Let Live finking it’d be a nice day out wiv our 6-monf-old, but it was proper dissapointing. Sat in the gardin and some blokes at anuvver table was smokin weed, stinkin the place out. It ain’t rite wiv a baby about, is it? We askd ‘em to stop, proper polite, but they got all mouthey and carried on. Told the staff, hopin they’d sort it, but they just shruged and didn’t give a toss. Made us feel like we didn’t mater. Proper let down, this place. Wont be back, and I woudn’t tell no one to go, speshally not wiv kids.

Firstly, I just want to say that everything except for the massage was great. Location, staff, facilities and food are amazing. But the massage was awful. We booked a couples full body massage and the experience I had compared to my girlfriend were vastly different. She got a full body massage where the lovely lady asked her about firmness, action areas and was relaxed. I got stroked, tapped and 10 minutes of playing with my hair (we checked, this isn't part of the massage). This is the first time a massage dragged for me. The masseuse seemed to not want to be there, took little to no pride and more importantly didn't let me relax. Every 15 minutes she'd ask a question in a loud voice. For example asking when I was booked in for, halfway through tacking me out of the little relaxation I felt. Icing on the cake was that I could see everyone else who left was guided back with a water to rehydrate. I was abandoned, kicked out the room to fend for myself and wasn't offered any water. My girlfriend loved it, I got stroked, poked and came out feeling stiffer... We did complain and to the credit of the lovely lady on reception she took down notes and agreed that it wasn't what I had paid for. Hopefully we hear from them and we can get a resolution. Issue is after this, I was in a pretty bad mood as we paid good money for 2 massages and 1 was shocking. My advice, go else wear just to ensure you don't get one person.

Great service from Samir, very friendly and efficient. Thank you ☺️

Watch out for the parking fines!!

Person serving was friendly and drinks were lovely (take away). However it appeared short staffed as all tables were covered in used cups, cutlery etc, inside and out. The counters where food and drinks were made, looked messy with food and chocolate powder covering the surfaces. As I was leaving a member of the public stated the toilets were not clean and I chose to use the lovely toilets provided in the shopping centre.

The food and service are excellent, and the ambiance is nice as well.

Jodie was great and very helpful. Cutlery,Drinks,Sauces all sorted within seconds! She went above and beyond for us! What an experience, will be back thanks to her!

Got served by a gentleman called kris ! Who was super accommodating, polite and very nice to talk too ! Food was great and the cocktails were amazing ! Would highly recommend! Especially if your waiter is kris ! Thank you so much

Recently moved to the area and have been looking for a new Chinese takeaway to order from. Found the online ordering system very easy to use and delivery was very fast for a bank holiday. The food was absolutely incredible! I’ve never had food delivered so hot. Portion sizes are the best I’ve ever had from a Chinese takeaway too. I am very satisfied with my experience and will definitely be ordering again!! Thank you!

I’m writing to you today to express my pure Hatred towards this Chinese, we ordered on a Friday night and when it arrived we were missing 3 items, and in all honesty I’m am MEGA MEGA fuming, we phoned up about the lost meals and they said they can’t do anything about it, at this point my husband was crying. We would just like let the world know that you’d be better off eating you own hand then this Chinese, thank you and goodnight 🙏(we did still eat it in the end, but yet again it was horrible ;)