The best restaurants in Waltham Abbey High Beach Epping Forest East of England

A gorgeous rural pub that I wish my town had.

Outside seating, Cash Only. Beaut Salt Beef Sandwiches and good cup of tea. About £8-10 per person for sandwich and drink 👍 Car park next to it, pay online with RingGo app £2 for an hour. Very bumpy car park.

Came here before Christmas with friends. We had never been before but will certainly be returning. The food was lovely and very reasonably priced. The restaurant is beautifully decorated and the staff are very attentive, friendly and funny.

Rude obnoxious little bald man nearly got a punch in the face over my parking outside the car park, will not be going back, tea is piss water as well.

Queue expected on Fathers Day, Fantastic delicious fresh seafood, prepped on order & friendly staff. Go early! 🦑🦐🦞🦀 xx

Family run cafe. Card use after £5.00 .Recommended bequeattes chips seating outside only

Admittedly did not book but the table next to us had,and they were getting quite agitated but the wait from ordering to the food and arriving was at least one and a half to two hours we were originally told 1/2 hour which was fine but there was no update from the staff whom were obviously trying their best the food was OK apart from the all day breakfast (sausages overcooked) no butter served with toast. The staff were all very polite and helpful but if you are to busy to cope or understaffed you should tell people that way they will not be so disappointed. Maybe better heating in the conservatory is needed.

Perfect atmosphere, very tasty food, pleasant service 👌🏻

Azam on the desk an absolute life saver. I needed an urgent document copying for morning meeting. No problem went out of his way to help. That’s what I call service!

Fantastic food and service always a selection of ciders and real ale

I received no service, food quality was terrible for the price, my drink was flat, the food took ages to come out and we waited 20 minutes for our bill

Love the Bakers Arms. Staff great. Ambience brilliant. Food always very very good. I had chicken duo which was sooo tasty. Always enjoy visiting. 100% happy.

Christmas Day ruined because of the awful experience at this place. We booked our Xmas dinner here over a month ago. Paid in full in and made our course choices all in advance. Arrived for the second sitting at 2pm. The place was heaving with lots of people at the bar. It took 15 minutes before we were able to place our drinks order and after a further 15 minutes, my niece, who could see our drinks order waiting on the bar, fetched them herself! Despite the five of us all ordering the same (cold) starter, it was another 30 minutes (I hour in total since we’d arrived) before our starter came. A simple avocado prawn cocktail, just fine. We then had to sit for a further hour and five minutes (despite several requests for info on the whereabouts) for our main course. At this point my sister was so upset at the dreadful service, that she could no longer eat and asked for her dinner to be boxed up to go. They don’t do that apparently so her meal was wrapped in foil. I had ordered the turkey roast dinner. Unfortunately the meat was dry, the roast potatoes had clearly been ‘kept warm’ for some time and were hard and chewy, the veg was overcooked and there no Yorkshire puddings. It was pretty dismal. To add insult to injury, we then had to wait another 50 minutes for desserts. Two other customers walked out without their dinner because of the ridiculously long wait. A waitress had approached them with a card machine asking if they wanted to pay their bill, and they hadn’t even had their meal!! We were given several excuses as to the wait, including ‘only one person in the kitchen!’ ‘ the kitchen is behind schedule’ and ‘we don’t have enough waiting staff’ it was abysmal! We had paid £62.50 a head for this meal and I wouldn’t have paid £10 for it!! When we asked for possible compensation we were told we didn’t have to pay for drinks! 3 glasses of Prosecco, a beer, 2 soft drinks and a tonic water and lime!! Hardly a grand gesture!! This place does a Sunday roast every week so it’s not like they don’t know how to do it!! Absolutely disgusted and will not be recommending them to anyone. Never eating there again!

My family went to the cafe this morning i ordered 2 eggs 2 bacon fried tomatoes bubble snd hash brown my husband had a burger my son had porridge and my granddaughter had sausage and chips my eggs were hard and swimming in oil my bacon was undercooked so my husband had that the bubble was not nice the only thing i ate was hash brown they forgot my 2 slices of bread and butter so i had to go to the counter my husband’s burger was average and my son said his was not very nice i definitely won’t go back and neither will my family such a shame it used to be very good cafe but not anymore