The best restaurants serving British food in Maldon East of England

Visited this place for lunch on the way home from a shopping trip, the first thing we noticed were that the two ladies serving both had very untidy unkempt hair, none of them were wearing any sort of headwear to keep their hair off their faces, the welcome wasn't very warm either, the pies were slightly overdone but hot and the mash was just warm, the pies did not have a lot of flavour to them but there was a noticeable twang to them, possibly mixed herbs not quite sure, the meal was passable but doubt that we would eat there again, the hygiene issue needs to be addressed as we also noticed that the staff were also dragging big bags if potatoes around in between serving although they did put on a a pair of rubber gloves to do this but I doubt they washed their hands after taking the gloves off.

The worst fish and chips we have ever had, went to burham to have fish and chips at the jolly fryer unfortunately it was shut. So gave sauda village other try. Never again the chips were black the sausages were tasteless and dry. Fish was dripping in oil. The table outside was filthy had to clean it ourselves. I don’t know how they got a 5 rating from EHO

Our first visit. We had been on a fiver mile walk, starting and ending at the pub. We did manage to work up an appetite for their Sunday lunch, we certainly couldn't manage a started and sweet. I shouldn't have opted for the cauliflower cheese as an extra as this meant I couldn't finish my other vegs.

Comfortable surroundings, friendly and helpful staff, quick service, nice beer, and food was excellent in quality and quantity, and great choices on the menu. Perhaps some of the less flattering reviews were from visits at busier times, I'll admit they were not exceedingly busy when we were there.

Awful. Near-cold baked beans, too-small sausages all put on a cold plate. Meal the size for a child. Coffee machines broken.