The best restaurants serving British food in Saffron Walden Audley Uttlesford East of England

Visited The Plough again on Friday 24th January and the experience was superb yet again. We've now eaten at The Plough 4 or 5 times and every time the welcome is very friendly, the food is excellent and the service is great.

I booked an afternoon tea for a friends birthday - but upon turning up found that there had been a technical glitch and the afternoon tea wasn’t available. Rather than just apologise for this IT error and fob us off - the manager went totally out of his way to make amends. We were treated like royalty. We opted for a lunch instead and the food was delicious. The service is outstanding and if you are lucky enough to sit outside you have a view of the heart of Saffron Walden while you eat. Truly recommend a visit here if you are in saffron Walden

Excellent roast dinner that was beautifully cooked and superb value for money. Sat in the cosy rear garden. A perfect way to spend Easter Sunday lunchtime. Very friendly service.

Great pub realy good atmosphere one of the only real pubs left in saffron Walden

Visited here last Saturday, table and cutlery was very clean. We ordered an all day breakfast and the special board Shepherds pie and 2 cups of tea . All day breakfast was nice and hot but the bread and butter turned out to be bread and margarine, the Shepherds pie and veg was only luke warm. With the tea I had to ask for another tea bag for one of the cups as it was milky with a very light brown colour to it ( I like strong tea). Tea was reasonably priced if it comes out stronger at £1.50 a cup. The 2 meals brought the price to almost £27 . I will admit both meals had good quality food on both plates and the flavours were good, but the Shepherds pie needed heating up more. Service was good and all staff we encountered were friendly and efficient

Booked for a big group family lunch. All had the roast which was great quality and value. Limited menu unfortunately however due to staff shortage and this sadly affected service which was slow. Yet we would return as it was very nice.

Massive difference in the last couple months! Clearly new management! Atmosphere better , staff so friendly and better train great to see a different in our local ! Well done !

I arrived here today with my mother. We had planned on staying for lunch. We left after the complete and utter rudeness of this man! We were made to feel so uncomfortable that we decided not to stay. We moved tables and just wanted to let him know. We were told that he isn’t a teenager! He made us feel so uncomfortable and upset my 70year old mother so much that she still talked about it at the end of the day. No hospitality skills whatsoever so ever! More hostility than hospitality! How and why do they keep going if they hate people so much!

We arrived to find that the staff appeared to be overwhelmed, so I walked through to the main pub, where I asked the other staff if we could order tea and cake. Once the staff arrived we were swiftly given the cake options, and asked for tea for two and a soft drink. We had to wait for about 15 mins for our drinks, after the cake had already been deposited on our table. It took several prompts, to be told that they had a rush on, and they were waiting for drinks. The actual cake was very tasty, but the occasion would have been so much 8mproved if the drinks had arrived at the same time..