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Had a lovely meal with my partner and there was a lovely gentleman behind the bar definitely will be coming back again soon

I don’t usually bother leaving reviews but felt like I had to here. I’ve worked in hospitality managing restaurants and even had my own so I’m experienced in food service. But I must say I was appalled by what I can only assume was a manager or supervisor in reception. There was 8 of us lads coming to eat after work and 6 had gone in and two of us followed after (3 minutes or so) We got to the reception and explained our friends were already in in to which I’m unsure what the lady’s problem was but it just felt like she did not want us there. She proceeded to say no we are fully booked can’t sit you, to where we told her again our friends are here already and she continued to not understand and kept saying we couldn’t be seated with them because they were full. She finally accepted that the rest of us where there but her attitude was appalling and if she is the manager you may want to look into this as honestly I’ve never met anyone so rude in 15 years in the business. Our waitress top draw along with everybody else there and the food was decent too. But the managers or supervisor pretty much runined the start of our meal.

I ate here on consecutive nights during my weekend in Blakeney, since my first visit was excellent in almost every respect. The waiter was very helpful when I complained about the sticky table, explaining that it was due to over-use of sanitzer and moving me to another table with a glass top. My simple haddock and chips was perfect. Thin crispy batter, a generous helping of tartare sauce and deliciously minty pea puree. On the second night the starter of smoked mackerel pate and the seared tuna and cucumber salsa of the mains were similarly excellent. But the bed of couscous was drenched in a shoyu-based dressing that was inedibly salty. I do not mean just a bit salty. I mean heart-attack salty. A professional chef should obviously not make such a simple error and at the very least should taste their creation before passing it for service. I duly complained (though did not just send it back as I should have). The waiter deleted the service charge without my asking, but I left gasping for water despite having eaten barely 10% of the cous cous. On reflection the waiter should have apologized and returned it to the kitchen themself. The incident marred what would otherwise have been a 5-star review.

Despite having lived in Southend all my life only been to Tomassis once before and my wife has never been so we popped in while in the High Street for a light lunch. It is very nice with traditional waitress service. Friendly staff but perhaps the light lunch menu is a bit restricted? We had paninis followed by ice cream desserts. All was good but may be a little on the expensive side? Just over £40 for 2 for a light lunch?? I would return though as it is a traditional place and does have a certain quality.

Celebrated Mother's day with my 88 year old mum and was greeted by professional yet friendly staff at the beginning and at the carvery in a fantastic way

Sooooo impressed! Came here around 6 months ago and was shocked at how bad it was! Everything sticky and gross… however came tonight to give it another try. Really pleasantly surprised! Manager greeted us at the door and was shown to our table. I’m a vegan and the food was really good and had a meat alternative for me! My boyfriend isn’t and he said his carvery was great, meat was great! Started talking to the manager and he said there has been a change in management which makes sense with how much better the place is! Will definitely be returning! As a vegan I prefer this place over a Tobey any day!

This hotel was quite nice but was not marvellous. Hotel room was nice, big comfy bed and roll top bath. Good shower too. We had a dinner bed and breakfast deal and the dinner was a shambles. No vegetables at all to have with dishes, which was odd. Dinner service poor also. Great barman in the underground bar though. Breakfast was ok/good. We would stay again but would not eat here again.

Booked for late dinner 5.30 walked straight in everywhere looked filthy n sticky empty. Glasses all piled up on bar there was hardly anyone in and the guy behind the bar if you don’t like your job or customers u in the wrong trade I work in hospitality and he was disgusting rude to customers we ordered off the menu and nothing much was available so walked out. And OMG outside area filthy too ruined our evening if I spoke to customers like he did not a care in the world I be sacked I be happy to email greene king themselves.

It was busy to be fair but by 7.30pm all drinks were being served tonight 6th sept in plastic glasses .!! So disappointing on our leaving do Surely more staff could be pointed to pot wash And the price is the same . Shameful

AVOID No point booking because you just sit anywhere Don't expect to eat all your breakfast at once, no eggs, mushrooms, potatoes beans or sausages when we queued, twice went up for an egg and there were so many people waiting we never got anything so what seemed like a cheaper breakfast wasn't when all we could get was bacon, hash browns and toast. The place is dirty and understaffed.

food was Luke warm and not that great and salad bar was sparce and in a bit of a mess the only good thing was the waitress. Don't think we will be back ever again not that cheap either

What a lovely find on our recent trip to Norwich to visit family. The waitress was friendly, helpful & very patient serving us delicious food. Many thanks.

Excellent Sunday lunch. Great service, pretty setting. There is a large beer garden with a bar and ordering outside, it gets full very quickly. Plenty of room inside which is really nice and there is a covered terrace too. Historical place with good food and dog friendly what more could you want?

Ridiculous restaurant. You ring their telephone number with an answerphone saying we cannot accept your call!!! How about that for service!!!!! Never again

very quiet when I went but staff were friendly and welcoming, food was nice and fairly good value, place was also very clean!