The best restaurants serving British food in England

We just had a couple of coffees and two sausage rolls. The coffees were OK, but the sausage rolls were vile. They appeared to have been kept warm for a very long time, so the pastry was rock hard and brittle. The sausage meat filling had the consistency of pink sawdust; it was very salty and there wasn't much of it - perhaps just as well really! Without any poetic licence - it really was the worst apology for a sausage roll I've ever encountered, and the most expensive at around £6. I would never eat at this establishment again. The catering offer lets Wakehurst down, bigtime.

OMG !!! Worst service ever ! So so slow . Not feeling welcome there at all . Grumpy faces .not giving attention to orders . Not going back again there.

Used to love eating at this garden centre but will not be coming back. Below average food and service but premium prices. Such a shame as used to shop here all the time 😞

we have had a few days staying in the hotel on site, wanted something different for breakfast there's not really much to choose from there and then we decided to try here the food was hot and was delivered to the table, it was expensive for what we actually had but cooked well and enjoyable the coffee was the best one I had in days so much better than McDonalds one and costa the man who served us was so pleasant and chatty he was brilliant made us feel really welcome and couldn't enough for us

This place has no hot food except packed buns with bacon ect. No menu at all. Wanted a toasted tea cake for my wife they said they had supply issues so it's a no-no. Yet in the store packets of them to buy. A hopeless place that's very clean. Go to Morrisons across the road, at least they have a full menu. Just don't bother.

Meal was thrown on the plate ...mostly made up of frozen vegetables bland not appetising at all will not be returning for a meal any time soon...plenty of other places to eat

Lovely place, food and staff were amazing! Id recommend to go for a great lunch out in Southend. The server was very nice and food was delicious.

I don't mind the self service, but the options were so limited. I'm gluten free and I basically couldn't get anything that wasn't available in the food court, and it was a significant mark up in price. Spent £20 for 2 sandwiches and a coffee! The high chairs were dirty, even though they'd been stacked. Not up to usual M&S standard.

Old and badly designed store with more miserable looking security guards then miserable looking staff. You have to walk 5 miles to get in to the store past a narrow corridor as entrance is right at the other end of store. You are told not to enter through the tills by angry staff and when you have finally got in to the store you can not get out if you have bought nothing as you are gated in and the alcohol is in locked glass cupboards. You then wait for 20 minutes to be bossed about by a talking till that never works as most of the staff tills have gone. Feels like being in Alcatraz and you are treated like you have done something wrong rather then a valued customer so not exactly a pleasurable shopping experience so now shop at Asda.

This is part of Rudd's Hotel - but they try and keep the reviews separate - with good reason. Lulworth Cove is beautiful. The pretty courtyard to the hotel looked a great spot for lunch and the menu looked perfect. We arrived at 12:45 and went to the hotel bar to collect menus and order. We ordered drinks but were told they had just taken a big food order and were waiting for some deliveries and would take our order in 10 or 15 minutes. When we went back later we were told the owner/chef was expecting a delivery of wood and they wouldn't come until he paid them hence a further delay. "It's like Fawlty Towers here" said the girl behind the bar. At 1:15 they announced that they were now taking lunch orders. We ordered Calamari and chips for my daughter, moules mariniere and chips for my son, a crab sandwich on brown with halloumi fries for my wife and seafood paella for me. Total cost £64.50. We were told we would be called to the window of the kitchen when the food was ready. In the meantime I went to the loo - a trip I would only recommend in the most urgent of circumstances. They didn't have brown bread (my wife won't eat white). As he pushed to polystyrene boxes of food through the window to me the chef explained that they didn't have halloumi fries so he had put in some spring rolls instead. The calamari was inedible. As I said to the chef - they could have been used as weapons in martial arts they batter was so hard. We also failed to detect any squid, The seafood paella was also inedible. They had lined the polystyrene box with tin foil because it was swimming with liquid. It was also bland and just awful. I complained to the chef who offered to refund the money for the paella - £15. I would have argued and demanded a full refund - but we were on holiday and it doesn't take much to embarrass an 11 and 12 year old - so I let it go. The girl who took our order came and put the refund back to my card. I have just got back home and checked my account and instead of refunding me £15 they charged me another £15. You couldn't make it up.

If you have a food allergy don't bother. Unhelpful staff who didn't try to find an alternative. Did not listen when ordering and got order wrong. Disappointed again.

Terrible, siempre ha sido bueno sin embargo, esta noche las patatas fritas deben haber sido calentadas desde la hora del almuerzo, sin duda no las mejores patatas, no gastar dinero aquí de nuevo.

If you like to be shouted at or ignored in equal measure by the groutesque "staff" The fat Miss Piggy lookalike is pure evil. I'll explain about that utter guttersnipe Have no TV. Barely any heat. Cracked bathroom window. Worms in the toilet. A door that doesn't shut unless pulled within an inch of it's life. No kettle. A broom cupboard with unsanitary appliances. Geez please don't waste your hard earned money. X

Insanely rude staff. Asked for some sauce on my chips and got told I should have asked during ordering my food and had no intention of giving me any. Only after I commented back at him, did he give me some mayo, but immaturely gave me the most minimal amount and walked off.

WARNING ⚠️ do not park here unless you are only going to the store… if you walk off the car park you will incur a £100 present 🎁 ( a very happy Christmas present !) A WONDERFUL FINE … the signage is unclear it states you can park for two hours provided you are a customer, which I was… but then I went to help someone who had fallen on the disabled parking bay … and post a letter in the post box m, so for being a good citizen & walking off the car park I was sent a nice fine… I refuse not to be a good citizen and will always help people who need my help… I will be checking if my car filmed the event & if it has I will release it on every social media outlet site & every news paper and every other media outlet humanly possible as this is a disgrace …. I would have thought st Helen’s would have welcomed custom seeing as the town is dying in its feet but my money will spend anywhere … and it won’t be here ever again nor would I pay to charge my car in the event of maybe walking 🚶‍♀️ anywhere big brother says I’m not allowed to and being fined …. As a store the range is amazing but never ever will I shop there again