The best restaurants in Harwich East Tendring East of England

Pure peng building crazy how big it is 😩 landscaping is cray cray the old dude did bits building it

Food was delicious and beautifully prepared lovely staff and very friendly owner... Glad we got in .

Best food van ever. Great food, reasonable prices, friendly staff. Highly recommended a visit when you’re in harwich.

The Inn has undergone a thoughtless renovation of furniture and decor. The 2024 renovation had stocked the rooms with locally made furnishings from Simon Pearce and Pompanoosuc Mills. The current attempt at mid century modern is colorblind and insulting. The decorators failed to consider The College, installing Yale Blue headboards and bedding runners. The multicolored heads in the artwork over the couch are pandering to multi culturalism while failing to recognize that all of the heads are shaped like a patrician white man. It is embarrassing. There is one cute print of Kemeny’s car with a BADIC license plate, but the rest of it is decorated like a typical Homewood Suites now. The Inn itself remains otherwise lovely. The staff are kind and welcoming, the bed is comfortable despite its ugliness, and the location at Dartmouth College (Yhe Home of The Big GREEN - not BLUE!) remains perfect.

It was so sweet to sit in the pretty courtyard after visiting the wonderful seafront, quay and promenade. We enjoyed chatting and listening to the birds and found the staff kind and helpful.

Visited at lunchtime when their Facebook page said they were open, but closed and shutters down. They need to publish accurate opening times on their website.

Would highly recommend the restaurant, the food was lovely and the staff was very friendly would definitely go again. Very well priced.

We were here for lunch with an aunt who lives in Dovercourt. She came here at Christmas with friends and recommended it. Although it was off season, we booked a table as it’s a small pub. The food was good, with very generous portions. We can recommend the ham egg and chips and the salmon and broccoli fishcakes - but bring an appetite. The staff were friendly. Parking is limited and their car park is round the back.

This is a lovely modernised Victorian hotel set in a unique building in a unique position in old town Harwich. Run by Milsom’s of Talbooth restaurant fame the food is superb. The ground floor cafe is dog friendly, the first floor brasserie offers views across one of the busiest stretches of water in the UK. Harwich should be one of the tourist gems of North Essex it has so much history and the smaller back streets are worth a wander around. Although you do have to use your imagination to picture the past. If only the planners could see there way to demolishing most of the residential developments from the last seventy five years, restoring more of the older properties and providing more parking for visitors, one could see the return of the smaller shops and the whole old town could be a real delight. All it requires is someone with vision controlling the old town.

Great location and nice decor, however to charge £6 for two teas in paper cups is unacceptable even if they are named designer tea bags and “responsibly sourced fully recyclable” paper cups, surely washing up real cups is kinder to the planet ? As said by others, this cafe has been recently taken over by another well known chain who have several other upmarket venues in the area. Perhaps they are trying to gain a monopoly hold in the harbour area ? My advice would be to try the burger van which is often parked up nearby for better value.

A very friendly and welcoming pub. We called in, without booking, on Thursday lunch time , the pub was so busy but a table was found for us without any fuss. We did wonder about the wait for food considering everything is cooked fresh but need not to have worried. Menu is full of fish which the bar staff knew all about. My skate was excellent, my husband haddock and chips were cooked to perfection. The staff are great fun with a good knowledge of Harwich

We came here for a Saturday afternoon lunch. The staff were very welcoming and friendly. We had the starters and main meals and the portions of everything is massive, so be careful unless you're really hungry! It was worth it though because the food was very tasty. I would also recommend the black forest cheesecake if it is on the dessert specials.