The best restaurants serving Brasserie food in East of England

Bored with the food choices, the burnt ends are no longer burnt but slushy and chewy. Swap out the prison metal plates you have used them for too long, get some cherry beers in. But yep I will keep coming back!

Ordered on phone, was told collect in 20 mins. Went in, was told another 5 mins (ended up being another 25 and the place wasn't busy at all). Ordered 2 meals and 1 of them was sat on the table lid off for about 10 of those mins. Chips were stone cold, seems like there's no care in the world. Meals were ready for 5 mins, woman at the front was yapping and laughing about with the owner instead of getting me the food. Wouldn't recommend. Shame they've gone downhill since new ownership.

The place ok, food ok but to sit having a meal in the middle of loads of people watching football is wrong, one man tried to take some of brother inlaws desert. We finished food as quick as possible and got out, tiolets over flowing. Service excellent and staff friendly but sorry Would by pass next time. Upstairs tables looked better.

To say something is very wrong would be an understatement. My friends and I have eaten at this particular Prezzo for years, and never usually had problems...however, recently things have gone rather wrong. The order sizes have shrunk, especially the pasta dishes. We usually order the spaghetti carbonara with added chicken....it used to come in a lovely large dish and now it's a tiny portion with 4 or 5 tiny bits of chicken (which for an extra £3 is ridiculous). But more worrying was the serious lack of communication between staff. I understand it's a busy time of year, but the restaurant can only get so busy as there are only a set number of tables. So surely the staff should be able to handle it at it's busiest, if not then management need to restructure their staffing needs. On our last visit for example, we waited 45 minutes for our food, and when it came the waitress bought our desserts before our mains....took them back....then we waited a further hour for our mains to finally arrive (que the disappointment in the tiny carbonara) then a further hour past whilst we waited for our desserts which they had tried to serve us previously....in the end we told them to cancel the desserts and asked for the bill so we could just leave. The table next to us were having the same problem and also decided to leave half fed. £50+ it cost me for the privilege of two tiny dishes and a couple of fruit juices over the time span of 3 hours of waiting.....and it then took 4 staff members just to sort out our total and give me the bill. But sure, take my £50 I guess. I sincerely hope things improve.

Lovely place to go and eat at a great price

Came for my daughter's birthday. Very busy. New trainee waitresses served us. She was very friendly and attentive. Very impressed. Nice experience. Food was great. Will definitely come back again.

Since I’ve ordered I’ve seen people come in, order, get served, finish their food, leave and I still haven’t got my food. Got a starter bout half an hour ago so should be good👍

Was empty on arrival which was odd? The service was poor and the food was over cooked and the contents of the sea food platter were reduced to scaps compared to our last visit.

This is amazing 5/5 it was the best food I ever have ahsd in my life ever it is amazing as the chikien is well flavoured.AZMAZI G

Now Kings - food was cold on arrival, part of the order missing and refused to return call to resolve. Won’t be going back.

Visited on a Monday lunchtime on a drizzly day. A fair few people were there for either a drink or lunch. Beautiful fifteenth century coaching in with lovely atmosphere, full of beams, old furniture, pictures etc. This place oozes charm. Good quality and tasty pub food. All what we had was homemade to include the chips. Always put off when the chips are out of a freezer. Not inexpensive but that does not mean bad value. Nice and helpful lady behind the bar. It’s nice to have a trip out to this pretty village. Used to come to the village when our children were young and eat at a lunchtime/tea shop place called Magnolia then Buckley’s. That closed down a few years back and now without the children this place is great and utterly charming. Will return soon despite the 40 minute drive from the Herts Essex border where we live. Highly recommended.

My “around the way burger shop” never lets me down, tastes better than kfc and the service is better too.

Really nice pub, great selection of beers and super friendly staff. What stands out is how clean everything is. Nice touch.

Great bar & restaurant. Friendly & welcoming staff. The Sunday roasts were very good, hot plates & food with healthy portions too.

Ordered chicken doner and chips. Live 5 mins away, got home and it was all freezing cold. Chips were hard, probably left from lunchtime, salad was limp and again probably left from day before. Haven’t been here for a while and definately won’t be going back.