The best restaurants in Epping Forest East of England

Nice pub. The food is decent. There set lunch menu is good value for money. Has a car park of a decent size, which is well laid out

Best pub in loughton food amazing staff unreal 👌

We visited a few times, food is consistently good, and service is good. Portions are generous. The only big downside is the light! I would suggest changing from blueish hospital light to warm one. This is ruining the atmosphere. We would probably come more often if not that.

Had an amazing lunch and was served by Gold. Great service attentive and very friendly.

The tables had all dirty cups on no one was collecting and cleaning up. Had to take a tray away myself. When they were making the coffee today all the milk was left out on the side not stored in fridge when not serving.

Another excellent meal at The horseshoes. As always, excellent and very friendly service. Look forward to mynext visit.

Great pub, great food, great atmosphere!

Naomi is my favourite bartender at the plume. She has already made such a huge difference to the venue like she did at the Stag and Hounds, she’s patient, helpful and brings a very very good atmosphere to any venue she works at. She was very accommodating on our visit to the plume, we will be back especially because of Naomi!!!

This has been the third time I have been because it is convenient to meet a friend but the food is just not nice. Every meal has been really badly cooked, cold, overcooked and tasteless. Please tell you chefs to cook better.

I added garlic dippers to my order instead of chicken strips by mistake which was my fault but then had called instantly once made the order to change it, I had to call 5 times before anyone answered, I was then told they couldn’t change it because they had already put it in the oven so I accepted this, once the order had arrived I realised they had got the order wrong & in actual fact had not even sent us garlic dippers at all so they could have changed them in the first place for chicken strips as I had ordered a deal bundle so would not have changed the cost, at this point I called the branch & was told they would now send chicken strips but was very rude & just hung up the phone, I then received a call 10 minutes later saying they now can’t send the chicken strips because it was not on my order, I then tried to explain it’s a deal on there website & they was also a option so it would not make a difference they became very argumentative & at this point felt they was just being awkward because they did not want to rectify there mistake, would not recommend using this branch especially don’t deal with them personally as are rude & hard to speak to, they could all take a class on customer service in my opinion being a business owner myself I would not have anyone of them work for my company

Had a mixed Shish the chicken was dry and lamb was just lumps of fat. Very expensive for what you get. Although the staff were very good. This was a very large family event and all 8 tables were charged extortionate service fee and it total that came to £280 an absolute joke when we only had 2 servers. It took them over an hour for us to all pay as there was items on the bills that we didn’t get and unfortunately we decided just to pay and get out. But most certainly will not be returning.

It really does look inviting from the outside as I walked past it.

A nice garden centre with pleasant tea room

Met some friends here.. Their first visit...enjoyed lunch Staff very friendly. Lots to do... Food shop soft play area and wine shop. Also picnic tables....around children's play area.

Had an average meal and got completely robbed. Went with a group of three and we all got £100 parking charge on our cars. Went at night when the signs were not marked properly and no staff mentioned the parking on entry. Ultimately this company got the bill paid plus an extra £100 per head on parking fees. I am happy to amend this review if they can make it right. If your reading this now you can assume the above never happened. Be careful of this place as you could leave like me.... Feeling scammed