The best restaurants in Kursaal Southend-on-Sea East of England

Superb, authentic Italian food and really friendly service. Excellent value. Fabulous family-run restaurant . We've been here many times and never had anything other than a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Not to be missed !

My Dad and I come here every week and couldn't recommend Cafe 709 enough. Great, tasty, quality breakfasts and Emma does the best crispy back bacon! The choice of food and cakes available is great. Andy, Emma and everyone in Cafe 709 are all round the loveliest people, super friendly and welcoming!!

Had an excellent lunch today, food and service were amazing! The set menu had a great selection to choose from and will definitely be returning again soon!

Me and mum had a panini each with a tea and mocha, it was delicious. Lovely decor, great service and will be back. Also lots of space to take the pram in.

Absolutely stunning venue amazing staff was absolutely amazing very welcoming cocktails was amazing highly recommended to anyone ☺️

Heard great thinks since new management. Can't fault it. Polite and friendly staff, amazing food, dog friendly, great prices. Accommodated 2 sausages for my dogs. My new favourite place

fish cakes tasted more like scrambled egg with fish oil added, cold food, chicken very very dry, mossiman curry was mostly potatoes and soft and floury!

We had a nice time , the food was amazing. We ordered 3 langos and bubble teas. Will definitely come back again. Owners were very friendly and welcoming. Thank you we will come again !

It's a local bakery/hot food,I personally just like it here.

This restaurant only opened under this name last month and appears to have a new menu etc. It was formally called II Palazzo and from the dates of the reviews below they all refer to the "previous" restaurant. Service was Ok but instead of the large dining room shown in the photos we were all packed into tables set out in the former bar area with about two feet between tables. Food was Ok

I high recommend this place. Food is nice and authentic Chinese, and the staffs are just amazing. It's a place with history and that's what we want in this city.

Ashiana, Ash owes me £2000, still but has fled who is going to pay me now, you or your husband, when he had chip shop and I kept shop open and run it on my own while he did his delivery job, and don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about, because you and your husband and child occasionally came to see Ash

Not sure about the good food reviews.. Food gave me food poisoning and diarrhoea, they food was ready within 20 minutes now freshly prepared food takes 45 minutes!!!! Gave left over expired food that made me have DIARRHOEA. Might report due to health and safety. ***Response to owners reply*** Instead of addressing my serious concerns you’re dismissing them with irrelevant comparisons to fast food chains. McDonald’s and KFC serve fried food—I didn’t order fried wings, so of course, their food will be served quicker than rice and chow mein. Your response is unprofessional. You have served leftover food from previous days. Rather than arguing, maybe focus on ensuring fresh food is served so this doesn’t happen to anyone else. It’s quite sad that as a paying customer I have received a bad response from you not even an apology.

Gorgeous meal at Fish & Wish. Four of us went ( my sister and brother-in-law visiting from Australia). My sister and I both have coeliac so we ordered a gluten free cod and chips. The owner was so knowledgable and explained they use a separate fryer. He even brought out gluten free vinegar. It’s really hard to have fish and chips when you can’t have gluten as nowhere does it gluten free so this was great for us. Photo is of the gluten free cod and chips. My husband and brother-in-law had normal cod and chips. The servings were really big and the owner was so friendly. Even though we live in London I’ll definitely go back. My sister definitely wants to visit again during her holiday! So impressed

Excellent planned party for my Partner's 65th birthday. We reserved the raised area. Staff could not have been any more attentive. Food was excellent, everyone commented. Such a good night.