The best restaurants in Hullbridge Rochford East of England

The Smugglers is a great old traditional Pub in Hullbridge. Truly a hidden gem near the River. Beer prices are reasonable & Max the Bar Manager is epic works like 3 people behind the bar 🍻. Great venue with live music played most weekends.

Terrible arrived 11.45 for lunch not overly busy after being shocked at the price's went up too order as this is the new system 2 people in front lady came out from the kitchen saying to the server I need some help in here then turned to tell us all queuing there will be a 45 minute delay on top of the usual wait time I enquired what is your normal wait time was told 20 to 30 minutes so it will probably be over an hour I said there are lots of empty tables so how can it be so long she replied I don't know just do what I'm told, needless to say we walked out speaking to a gentleman on the table next to us who had eaten his food he said they had waited 45 minutes for 2 sandwiches and a coffee and had asked twice where there food was. We will not return again such a shame was a lovely friendly run restaurant before cannot see this lasting.

A busy restaurant for the carvery lunch today with two large parties in. We enjoyed our lunch - Broccoli and Stilton soup and the carvery for me and prawn cocktail and the carvery for my civil partner. Service was excellent as the restaurant had extra staff on duty.

Staff were so accommodating. Food was plentiful & delicious. Would like more Vegetarian options . Can’t wait to return.

We have always used Lubbards for our Indian food and it used to be outstanding. However, tonight’s food was very poor in comparison, there was just one bag of salad, no raita, and the mixed starters were dry and quite tasteless. To top it all, I asked as I always do for the vegetable curry that accompanies the biriani to be Madras hot, when it was delivered, I had been charged for an extra full size vegetable curry although I had gone through the order twice with the person on the phone! Will not be bothering again.

Organised a Gala Charity Ladies Night in the Chrystal Hall on 09/11/24. Amazing food well presented, staff were eager to please.Thank you Jade, Claire & staff Kind regards. Micky Elliott on behalf of Thorpe Bay Lodge

Recently dined in which was a superb experience. Great food and nice location and restaurant. Got a takeaway this evening. Still very good but much preferred dining in and reccomend

I'll start with this: the last lot to own and operate this shop were a very tough act to follow. Almost unfair to whomever followed. The previous owners operated in that unique space between 'kebab shop' and 'Turkish restaurant' and all their stuff was amazing – real 'secret sauce stuff' when it came to their meat. Having tried this new shop's offerings a few times, I'd say what we got is aligned back towards what you'd expect from an out-and-out kebab shop. We ordered what we used to order from the previous owners, and it just wasn't the same. I don't want to denigrate a brand-new business just starting out, so please take this review with a pinch of salt as things will probably change as the business matures. But for us, the unique selling point and the reason why we used to buy from this shop on a weekly basis has gone. So for us, it's time to mourn the passing of what was and move on to try and find something to replace it. To end on a positive though, if you enjoy honest to goodness kebab shop food, you'll probably be just fine here. Good luck to the new owners and I hope you make a big success of it all.

Disgusting terrible worst i have ever had, dry burger dry hard chips almost uneatable 4 of us had all the same dry crap food, most not eaten. This used to be very good kebab shop but it has been taken over by new owners. Will never use again .

Poor, overpriced. chip portions very small prices gone up not great service won't be using again shame how hard is it to make decent food.

Went here for my daughters birthday sat outside in one of the pods which was very nice with lovely views. Great service from Ella who was our main waitress she was very friendly and professional. Food and drinks were very good everyone enjoyed there food and drink.My first visit would highly recommend and will be back. 👍