The best restaurants serving British food in South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting Chelmsford East of England

I ordered the Stake and Ale pie and it was amazing. The portion sizes were amazing, absolutely huge also a chocolate brownie which came with ice cream and honeycomb. The owners is amazing and a great laugh. It was amazing service and the food was out of the world. I highly recommend.

Was treated to breakfast for Mother’s Day by my daughter. The building is beautiful, the atmosphere was lovely, the staff were extremely helpful and friendly and the breakfast was exquisite, could not have asked for more. I will definitely be back.

Nice food and even better service.

Great Pub in wonderful location. Staff are very friendly and the food was terrific. Really loved it when we went for Sunday Lunch last weekend.

His retirement Lunch with the family! ... The Bear is our go to favourite place .... they just get it right here on all levels time after time after time ...thank you for a superb lunch and a really lovely relaxed afternoon.

The rocky road (nuts) was a Christmas take and it was very yummy thanks Nicola would highly recommend maybe the adult cake next time ( Irish cream cake ) regards Roy.

Nice Garden for the kids - Over priced drinks and the food is terrible. Really disappointing.

We booked a dinner for 6 couples; which is always a challenge for a restaurant. The Hoop were outstanding! Everything was great from both a Food & Service perspective and delivered by a very friendly and attentive team. Thank you for a lovely evening!

Great location, what a shame it did not live up to the expectation. First of all we booked a table for 4 to enjoy the Sunday roast, only to find out they had given our table away to 2 people how does that happen? Apologies and 20 minutes later we sat down and eventually we were asked for our drinks order..... brilliant we can now relax, drinks arrived, we then ordered food. We ordered cauliflower cheese with our mains for the waitress to return 10 minutes later advising no cauliflower cheese left 'Stunned' as this was advertised as a vegetarian alternative which one of or party ordered for this reason. Roast beef (served pink) is the detail on the menu, well sadly mine and my friends were overcooked, so we sent them back, replaced but even then the beef gave the impression of catering style rather than carved.

Beautiful spot to have a cheeky breakfast watching the wildlife and world go by out of the massive windows. Excellent hot hearty breakfast and decent value. They have a huge deck on the water that I look forward to coming back to try out in the summer.

Food was poor. Ordered pork loin, with parmesan potatoes and seasonal vegetables Pork was so tough and dry, not sure how long it had sat before it was served, I'm guessing by the look of it at least a couple of days. Seasonal vegetables were a tiny portion of cabbage and 2 shavings of carrot, hardly any gravy. I did complain, will not be back again.