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.

Great pub food. Massive filled potatoes and home made steak pie with creamy mash all freshly cooked. Very good value with offers mid week. Go early as they run out of some dishes! Lovely ambience friendly helpful staff. We will be back!

Great pub, great selection of lager. Only thing it could do to improve is a wider selection of ale

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.

Used to go here a lot and there were two lovely girls waiting thr tables, one cook and the senior man overseeing it all. Today we visited and no adult apart from the cook. Three young waiting staff who were clueless. Two breakfasts and two hot drinks. One drink came, they forgot the other one and dive minutes later they finally realised. Breakfasts arrived but no toast, another five minute wait and was plonked down unceremoniously without a word. Finally someone should tell the young boy in there to get his mum to put new elastic or a belt on because he kept his joggers half way down his backside and they kept slipping off, constantly adjusting them slightly up so his pants were in show. Not appropriate for serving in a cafe. Overall service was downhill but food still good.

Feet a colada The pina colada tastes like feet

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

I was kept informed about the delay. The food was hot and delicious when it arrived.

Now been sitting here for 1 hour still awaiting the lunch to turn up. Would understand if it was busy. The pub it self is nice. But the landlord seems to be the only one keeping the place working well. He was out today. And it showed!!!

Amazing food very kind and really generous

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.

Lovely friendly service, food was decent and service was spot on.

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.

Friendly service and a good selection on the menu. The sausage and mash was delicious. Huge meaty sausages, served with fresh vegetables. My husband particularly liked the gravy. The roast beef was a huge plate of food. Tasty fresh vegetables and plenty of roasties, the meat was just pink but very tender.

Busy but its way bigger than expected beer garden is nice