The best restaurants serving Other cuisines food in East of England

I have been coming here for a good couple of years and always enjoy a coffee with friends after our round of golf. During this time, there has been a huge staff turnover. Really disappointed to see more recently though that the one young lady who always greeted us with a friendly smile and made the best coffee has gone off to university I believe . Now left with very young staff and some older but not as competent Barista’s! Food overpriced but generally Ok. Nice surrounding and spacious to meet with friends.

As this is my local, I have to state that I am biased towards my review. However, I continue to say how good value for money and excellent all the staff are. I say this as I observe the staff interactions with other customers and it is always excellent with wonderful banter but with service foremost. Chrissy is happy to chat away when waitressing ,which is lovely, as are all the bar staff, even when busy. Over the years I have seen the standard and portions of food go up and down. Now is definitely an up and things are looking good. I would always recommend the Monkfield good value for money and excellent staff.

Me and my friends came down to Maldon from Colchester for their Halloween quiz on Thursday the 24th of October. We called the day before asking to book a table for 13 of us to let them know there would be a lot of us coming. They said that was fine and we drove down 45 minutes and called on the way to say we would be 5 minutes late. We turned up just to be told that our ‘reserved’ table was taken by other customers that have ordered food so the staff could not move them. The staff were not apologetic at all and would not offer any other arrangements for us to take part in the quiz. We were pretty much turned away from the moment we turned up. We were so upset that we had travelled this far so we had to leave and go someplace else. Would DEFINITELY NOT recommend this place!! Shame on you.

Warm welcome as always. The new landlady chloe has really worked hard to turn this pub around. Amazing keep up the excellent job you are doing

Absolutely brilliant. Had mums 90th birthday afternoon tea here. Highly recommend staff absolutely amazing as some of the guests needed helping upstairs and they insisted on helping. Nothing was too much for them. Highly highly recommend. We had the whole of upstairs to ourselves which was brilliant. Pls consider this location as handy for parking and vvv kind people working there. ! Defo 10/10!!!

Terrible service25/10/24 morning shift ,from Alex and Sofia , they keep changing the words ,and big liars , never trust those guys . When you booking the hotel make sure you need audio or video record , it will help you from cheating

Waited 35 mins for carvery people queuing around the restaurant next to people eating guy doing carvery looking very stressed need another person to help him , We were in a queue of 40 people !!! Never again

Moored up for the night and wandered in for a beer and a meal. Everything first rate, service, choice, quality & price. Not my first visit here and certainly won’t be my last.

We didn’t really eat here, apart from a tasty but small bowl of chips. The atmosphere is great, plenty of space, plenty of places to sit. Lots and lots of tv screens with all sport showing. Staff are very accommodating, turning tv stations over for guests to watch different matches. Floor service available and drinks/ food can be brought to your table. Giant screen which is brilliant to watch!

I’m a regular at this place and I can’t recommend it enough! The service is amazing and I will definitely continue coming back!

Our 3rd consecutive visit here. The food is freshly prepared, fish and seafood dishes are the best we've experienced. The tiramisu is to die for! Service was excellent, chef even prepared dish without garlic for my mum - quite difficult when eating Italian!

Like any other Greggs to be honest ❤️

A lovely and very well decorated restaurant with very poor customer service. All the standard duties of a restaurant just missed. Drinks were not offered through out our meal, no one around to ask for more drinks or to take our dishes when finished. Food was very average for the price. When we finally got someone’s attention and asked for dessert we thought we had been forgotten as the waiting time was far too long, they informed us that our ticket did not go through to the kitchen and gave us extra scoops of ice cream. Very unfortunate that a lack of customer service has let down a very beautiful setting.

We were a party of 7 with a dog and were able to bring the dog in with us, so long as he was out of the way and well behaved, which he was. Lots of choice on the menu and all clean plates! If you are in a rush, this is not the place for you. Plenty portion size, freshly made and no complaints over the quality.

Since ownership change it’s gone down hill. Won’t be going again. Food not as good as it was & it’s lost its class. Ordered a smoked salmon pain I as bagels had finished & got a cheap hot dog roll which wasn’t even toasted to be a panini. Panini rolls are different but was told that’s what they use. I sent it back for something else. Attitude not good from guy who preps food & no apology