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

Lovely pub, friendly service and beautiful food. The roast and seabass with prawns and muscles were all cooked beautifully.

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

Never been in this pub before but glad have now, a lovely cosy pub!! Both had the burger and chips which was very nice, and the service was excellent!

Delicious food by Chef Robbie, made even better by the excellent service from Ash and Paige. The pub is traditional, warm and welcoming, with a great selection of real ales. Highly recommend!!

I came to Saffron Walden having travelled down from Shropshire and went for lunch at Mocha with family on Saturday. While half my family received their meals in a timely way, 3 if us were not served at all. After having watched the others eat at the table, after about 45 minutes I went to ask. I was abruptly told by a young girl behind the counter that they hadn't even started cooking it and that it wasn't her fault as it's up to the people cooking it. No apology from her, no customer service at all. I asked for a refund. She refunded the food but not the drinks that we'd had (that we'd bought to eat with our food that hadn't arrived!). Absolutely abysmal service. Me and my family will definitely never visit there again. It was disgraceful. It didn't seem to be the fault of the kitchen, I think this girl behind the counter was up to mischief (not putting the order tab in the right place). Too young to care, too worried about her perfect hair and make up I'm presuming. I really hope this happens to her and her family at some point and then she might learn how it feels.

So disappointed in our visit. We braved the crowds and visited the market on a Saturday afternoon. The pub looked warm and welcoming on a very cold day. We were ushered to the bar when we first got there while a table was made ready for us. Only waited 10 minutes which was great. Ordered some bread and olives which took 20 minutes to arrive …. We should have taken more notice of the timing!!! After an hour of waiting for our lunch (a chicken wrap and a roast beef sandwich) we asked for the bill and for our order to be cancelled. The waitress apologised and offered us our sandwiches free of charge but quite frankly we’d had enough of waiting. Won’t bother going back but if you want to wait ages for food, it might suit you. All the gear and no idea springs to mind!!!

Glad to see the Temeraire has a relatively new and very capable manager steering the good ship into a bright new future. Seriously though, the Tem is improving steadily and that is down to Jan and his staff. Well done and keep up the good work. Beers have been great of late and the food continues to be excellent value for money. Personally I would love to see more stronger darker ales like Wolf brewerys 'your granny wouldnt like it, Theakstons old peculier and the excellent Reverend James Original as a lighter choice. Lets not forget Broadside as so appropriate to the Temeraire.

Awful. A very bad tempered and cantankerous host spouting uninvited right wing nonsense. Made for an unpleasant atmosphere. The boards outside with their ridiculous conspiracy theories should have been warning enough. Avoid like the plague.

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..