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

Visited at lunchtime. Bar staff were really lovely and welcoming. I had the vegan aromatic garden burger which was good. My friend had sausage and mash which was apparently very tasty. Was very impressed that they had a whole page vegan menu. The beer was well kept and if we were in Saffron Walden would definitely call in again.

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

This is without doubt the worst dining experience I have ever had. Upon arriving my sister in law had a very inappropriate comment made by the waitress regarding my brother. Then after waiting for 15 minutes someone finally came to take our order but she didn't even bother to stand up to take the order she sat down for the entire time. then when the food did arrive after a long wait all the portions of pasta were different sizes and my fiancé got maybe half a teaspoon of crab with her crab linguini. We also ordered some truffle fries which they forgot so I had to remind them and then when they did arrive it was just fries with Mayo drizzled on top not truffle fries at all, when we took it back the staff behind the bar told us "it's coming" to which I said "no it's here and its still wrong, please take it off the bill" then when we got the bill they tried to charge us anyway and they also tried to add their own tip! Disgraceful. Avoid.

What a lovely couple! And a really nice tea house. We particularly enjoyed the coffee, hot chocolate, and bagel with egg and paprika. Also Kim’s home-made cakes. They are, by the way, very dog friendly. As we live in a free country, still, just about, I hope, and because Kim and Paul have different, but in my opinion quite reasonable views on a number of issues, some reviewers have been pretty nasty. Go elsewhere then! is my response.

Great place to go. I come here all the time and there’s no where better to go in saffron Walden then here. Nice priced drinks and food. Also the food is delicious. Will always recommend

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..