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

Small but beautifully appointed restaurant and high quality food at reasonable prices. Very friendly and attentive staff too.

My family went for an afternoon tea to celebrate a 90th Birthday. We were very disappointed with the sandwich fillings which were very cheap, no prawn or smoked salmon just egg, tuna, sundried tomato and ham & cheese. Very expensive for the amount of money we paid. Also we were giving one pot of tea each which wasn’t re filled until we eventually see someone and had to ask. This was the worst experience of an afternoon tea. Waste of money and we should have gone somewhere else.

Was lovely the service was great and very polite the food was very nice I would definitely recommend the hunters chicken burger and my favourite vegetable spring rolls they are the best from there .

Nice food and even better service.

This was our third year at the Bear for our club Christmas lunch. Again, the food was superb, and the service was excellent. The welcome and atmosphere were friendly, and when we needed to make one or two changes the 'Bear' team were very helpful. We were a group of 24 people and we enjoyed having the separate restaurant room to the left. Thank you again!

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.

We went the Thursday before Christmas. We had a great time the food was amazing.

We all feel welcomed and by our local bar staff and our manager Pete who have made us all very welcome in a warm friendly pub. The Christmas lunch that was cooked by the kitchen team, including Sam and Alex was great!

It’s a nice little pub with a huge garden so great for summer! However, I took my 91 year old Nan and it was a bit claustrophobic for her, the seats were in were a bit low for the table as well and she’s diddy now so it was hard for her to eat her meal. The food was nice, wouldn’t say it’s the best roast I’ve had but worth a try, I had the pork which was nice some parts a bit tougher and Nan had chicken which was nice! Staff were lovely and polite 😊

A hidden gem and great place for some great food. Took the kids who had great fun in the adventure playground. Loved the reservoir view and fresh air.

The OKH is our local, and, as regulars, it has been one of our favourite dog friendly pubs for some time. Based on our last few visits though we’ve found that there have been too many menu options unavailable and that the food quality has deteriorated significantly. Our last visit was in mid December with a group of friends in the private room. It all started well, the staff, despite their young age, were helpful and friendly as always but on this occasion they were clearly not adequately supervised. Despite ordering around 7pm on a Saturday night, there were at least three unavailable main menu options. One of these was a standard burger. How can a pub run out of a staple from the freezer? One of our party was offered two children’s burgers instead. These arrived dry and completely over-cooked. Some mains were fine, others were pretty awful. Service was very slow. This was a group birthday celebration. The pub was supposed to be open until 11 but at 10:15 we were told they were closing shortly and were asked to leave within 15-20 minutes. We were made to feel very uncomfortable and the staff kept looking into the room to see if we were packing up. So disappointing because we’ve had some great times at the OKH but this and a couple of previous experiences haven’t been great. We’ll give it another go in January but if nothing changes I’m afraid it will be our last visit. It’s a shame because we want to support our local but no one seemed willing to take our comments on board when we raised the issues with them 🙁