The best restaurants serving British food in Rettendon and Runwell Chelmsford East of England

Spent a week here a lovely place nice staff cracking food not had a bad meal highly recommend it .lovely peaceful area to so relaxing

Lovely place expensive had food the eggs Royal the Salmon was very salty, and sourdough toast was very hard. Left half of it.

Exceptional service by Sara!! Very friendly and great ambiance of the place is great as well! First time here and recommend any and everyone to pass By!!

This is a nice place to eat it's laid back and has a nice quiet atmosphere, from my point 👉 of view a little bit better cleaning is needed between one lot of customers leaving and another being shown to their table, we went today and under the table was food that had been dropped and left this was not a very good start, our food was very good but could have been hotter you could not fault the attitude of the staff they were funny and on point, parking, there was plenty of room for cars but you must enter registration on a machine in the entrance or a fine will be given so overall this is a place worth going to eat and is responsible priced.

The food was terrible. I had the ravioli and it was over done and tasteless. I only had a little of it. The sauce was nice but you never got much of it. The mushrooms were rubbery. Two of my companions had fish and they had to send it back since they were overdone. Other people had the burgers which seemed ok but the onion rings were solid.

Loved the calamari and the friendly staff! Will come back. The calamari was splendid I usually don’t like squid but my partner (Ernie) urged me to try some squid.

Really lovely pub/restaurant. Been to Battlesbridge many times but never been in the Barge before as gluten free, so presumed they wouldn’t do this. Took a chance this time as hungry and how wrong was I? Great menu. Wasn’t goi g to have a starter but they had White bait GF and haven’t had this in years. Delicious. Then had the pork/bacon egg and chips. Absolutely lovely. Portions were good. Husband had chicken wings starts and the Wednesday roast lamb. So nice we didn’t want to leave anything but I had to. Daughter had white bait and Barge burger. Everyone enjoyed their options. Staff were excellent. Very friendly and helpful. Great value for money. This is really a little gem.