The best restaurants serving British food in East of England

The redecorated pub is good, the sloopy way the staff dress matches there attitude. No wonder it's not achieving its potential.

Had a lovely, tasty lunch, friendly staff. Very clean and comfortable surroundings, large car park. Will definitely return, hopefully often!

Not tried food - beer is expensive but good range of Craft beer. Good vibe

We had a really good night here on Saturday. The atmosphere is great when a DJ is in. It wasn’t overly crowded but the dance floor was busy and the music suited everyone’s taste. The only slight complaint was that drinks were quite expensive outside of happy hour, so load up on the 2 for £14 cocktails before 10pm! 🍸 Also, I can’t comment on cost of entry as we got there at around 9pm when it was free.

I used this cafe/restaurant many years ago and then it was fine, a good clean establishment that produced good food. I have been there twice recently, the first time a few weeks ago where I was not so impressed but decided to give it another go today. I went in there around 11-11:30am, I think there were two other customers in there. We sat down and a young lad came over to take the order, he wrote down what we told him and when he came back with the food and drinks the order was not quite what I had ordered, I ordered omelette with salad, no chips. The omelette came with salad and chips, I asked for the chips to be removed and more salad was put on the plate instead. The omelette was quite disgusting, it was greasy and I could taste the grease in my mouth for hours afterwards. I orderd two sparkling waters, they were served up in bottles with straws, now I am a man of older years and I prefer to drink from a glass, I asked the young lad for glasses and when he came back with them they were filthy, so bad to the point where I did not drink the water in the cafe but took it home in the bottle. I went up to the till to pay and the young lady on the till told me the cost, I gave her three ten pound notes for a bill of £25.75p, she had no change in the till and she was unable to work out how much change to give me back so I took five pound coins from my pockt, told her to give me one of the ten pound notes back and I told her how much change she had to give me, she still got that wrong and gave me 40p more than she should. All in all this was not a good experience and if the owner of this establishment wants to stay in business they need to step up their act very quickly or the will be the next business in Hitchin to go bust.

Recently stayed here was very impressed with the room, unfortunately it was a quick visit so I didn’t get to eat at the venue but I would definitely stay here again if I was in the area. The room was very homely and the staff was very friendly.

The place was a little run down but the food on the buffet looked nice.

Ordered kebabs online chased up over an hour later to be told they forgot to do it and couldn’t give a delivery time. In the end collected my order got no delivery charge refund,no apology and when got home found the portions were tiny and no rice - rang to complain was told they’d run out of rice and forgot to tell me also that the portions were tiny size. Was normal - we’ve previously had great food and service from here and recommended to friends however we will never return and will not recommend after this rubbish experience

Chow mein not much meat and had lots of cabbage! And lots of liquid which was odd.I prefer noodles and meat with a bit of veg and lots

under new management from October 2024 so ignore previous reviews it's a great village location we didn't eat here so can't comment good atmosphere

The swan wonderful place where i married my wife on the 15th of june 2024. One week before the extreamly sad unfair end to a one of braintrees local pubs another sadly lost to rediculous fancy carabian dining we. One of the best friendly enviorments wonderful service respect due to amazing management by landlord ken amazing man with exellent management. Looking forward to see where he goes so will all of his customers will follow. Wonderful memorys. Sad loss butiful memorys. Love adam and wonderful wife serena. We will miss you swan. Loved alway.

Basic pub food. Only keg lagers/beers. Coffee abysmal. Not enough staff so expect long waits to get served. A nice location with a view down the rowing lake. A seal or two sometimes in residence in the lake or adjacent river basin.

Went on a Saturday for a birthday celebration we had room just off of the bar FANTASTIC. We were allowed to decorate this area. It was at lunch time and the staff were very busy we had our own birthday cake but forgot the candles the staff supplied one and a large knife and small plates WOW what a place. The food was the best as well 10 out of 10 all around 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Incredible staff so welcoming great place to go for drinks and atmosphere . Do not eat here. the food is awful so so bad and overpriced its inedible... Such a shame as its such a great place and as said the staff are lovely .. Got offered free drinks and pudding as the food was so terrible.. Not a one off as others has pre warned me. I didnt listen.

Great food and drink at very good prices