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

Fantastic pub. Service was very friendly and welcoming on every visit. Good beer selection - the casks change relatively frequently based on our 3 visits. If we are in the area again (we are from New Zealand), we will be back!

Despite there being no-one in the pub on arrival (12:30 on a Thursday) we put our faith in the online Google reviews. So glad we did. We both had scampi & chips which came quickly and was a generous portion, beautifully presented with peas a salad garnish. Only down side was that there was no vinegar & the plates were very cold. (Food was very hot though) Highly recommended.

Honestly quite shocked how the cook talks to people, shouting at someone in full view and hearing of everyone telling them to use old potatoes, swearing away at his staff and calling them idiots. Table was absolutely filthy, really gone downhill.

We stayed at the Cross Keys in Nov 2024, the restaurant was lovely, and the food was great. But the room was cold and very noisy. I took my husband for an overnight stay for his birthday, but we hardly slept all night due to the noise from the main road. Unfortunately, the room we stayed in was located at the front of the property and really needs double glazing installed, I would have got more sleep, sleeping in my car on the hard shoulder of the M25. The service also lacked, I had to ask for dessert, as the manager (who also kept singing all the way through service) was to busy looking on her laptop, arranging staff shifts for the following week. We were also told that the bar was closing early, around 20.15pm, I would assume to lack of punters drinking in the bar. I can't fault the food though this was very good, and we really enjoyed it, but the room well, this really lacked and needs to be used as storage only due to the road noise. Sorry but we won't be back.

Arrived with our three grandchildren, all very hungry after cinema to find no pizza or ham on menu. No reason given. We were told this by a surly bar lady after selecting our chosen dishes. Unhelpful staff and shabby surroundings. Needles to say we left. McDonald’s much better!

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..