The best restaurants serving Default food in Epping Forest East of England

Best in town.. we are ordering every day for lunch , service its best,delivery fast, food good quality .... no complaints 👌

The hotel is now being used to house refugees & immigrants awaiting processing last time I checked.

Great staff. Good coffee! Finn who served us was very kind and helpful! Thank you

We came with 3yo for Easter Breakfest Egg hunting. Lovely atmosphere, the staff very friendly and helpful, a lot of activities for the little ones, including pictures with Bonny the Bunny. We were supposed to stay for an hour and changed our plans as the kids had great time. The place is lovely, rustic interior, a lot of space and beautiful river view with birds singing nearby. The breakfast was very nice, we will definitely come back to try the mains.

Had lunch here Great food lovely staff loads of parking space, not to far from town centre,nice countryside pub

I know I have put visited in. May 2022 but the last time I visited was back in 90s, & no later dates to put in. was visiting the area with my ex husband family & stop off at phillpotts, not sure if they still bake the scones on premises but they use to make the scones, & jam themselves back then The best cream tea I've ever tasted, shame they don't do a phillpotts in newcastle as I moved back to my hometown It was still owned by one of the phillpotts family back them, a remember a guy with dark hair beard & glasses , but I was in my mid 20s then in the 90s Recommend such a lovely place & I do recommend the cream teas 👌👌👌

Food is nice BUT dont get caught by their prices, if you look at the menu on the website it is badly out of date. When I phoned back to question the price 20% more than advertise they said they dont use the website any more, they dont have access and cant take it down!!!!!!!!!! Made the meal disappointing because it was much more than we expected

Called the restaurant, told me to send the photos and the videos and they would call me back, now they are ignoring me! A long hair in my chow mein! Disgusting!

I always look forward to ordering a takeaway from here as food is consistently good.Our takeaway yesterday was excellent, can thoroughly recommend this place.

Nice venue good layout but drinks are expensive

Average Turkish cuisine, there are others that do it better. Feels a bit like a cafe rather than a restaurant. Service average, food okay.

Let me start by saying: the food here is outrageously good. The sandwiches are divine, the cakes are borderline spiritual experiences. I work in Debden, yet I willingly walk to Theydon Bois at lunchtime and catch the tube back, just to get my hands on a Bakewell tart that tastes like it was baked by angels. But then you meet her. The blonde woman behind the counter is less “service with a smile” and more “served with a sneer.” Miserable doesn’t even scratch the surface — she’s like a black-hole in an apron, draining every ounce of life from the room the moment she opens her mouth. Rude, condescending, and so aggressively unpleasant that she could suck the joy out of a lemon tart from 50 paces. What really turns my stomach, though, is the way she treats the Asian woman who works alongside her. You don’t need a HR degree to see it’s bullying. it’s blatant, cruel, and deeply uncomfortable to witness. The poor woman deserves a medal, or at the very least, a workplace free of passive-aggressive jabs and public dressing-downs. I’ve given this place three chances. Three. Because the food is that good. But each time, I’ve left feeling like I need therapy and a sage cleansing. I just can’t keep rewarding this behaviour, it’s like emotionally abusive fine dining. So here we are: five-star food dragged into the gutter by one woman’s catastrophic lack of people skills. I won’t be back, and that breaks my heart, but my dignity is worth more than another of their cream cakes, not matter how sublime.

Appalling service that spoilt an evening. Visited here as the venue for a summer ball for the friends of a school. Bar staff were shocking, rude and incompetent. Food was appalling and verging on inedible. Bar ran out of wine during our event and had a poor selection of other drinks with bar staff that didn’t even know the rudimentary facts about drinks they had. Avoid at all costs - will NEVER go back

Ladies meal out and what a disappointment… had to ask for cutlery and condiments.. soggy bruschetta and pizza partially burnt and extremely lacking in ingredients… added to this the chef seemed to be having a bad day at the office!!! Kept dropping pans and lids and seemed exasperated.. will not be back

Strange that whenever one of two people give this place 1*, all of a sudden a 5 star review appears. Not really a conspiracy theory but...... Visited on Saturday. No cocktails available, no sea food available, incredibly limited fish and chips and that's it. Totally indifferent manager who, when we walked out suggested dismissively that we should come back in a couple of weeks.... As if. The name of this place pays homage to a wonderful gentleman, pity the restaurant sinks as low as its possible to go. Service 0 starts Drink 0 stars Food impossible to say. We walked out as only 10% of the menu was available. Don't waste your time. There are plenty of restaurants in the vicinity that won't set you back as much and night even have food and drink available.