The best restaurants serving Other european-cuisines food in Maldon East of England

Visiting family and friends in the area we booked three nights here, first impressions were very good, although parking can be a challenge, fortunately we did get a space out back near our room each day. We chose one of the ground floor outside rooms intentionally, unfortunately our first night we had very heavy rain, one of the gutters must be split as the drip drip drip was annoying, also there is a smoker’s container on the wall near the rooms, one night my husband had to get dressed to open our door to ask a smoker not to stand by our open window, I suggest that this container is moved from its position. Otherwise the room was a good size with a king sized bed. A good tea/coffee tray with biscuits. A small but adequate shower room, although we couldn’t work out how to turn on the heated towel rail. We ate in the restaurant every evening, the food on the whole was good. My husband enjoyed his lamb rump, the pork belly and his burger unfortunately the chicken shawarma wasn’t to my taste, the cauliflower described as crispy had been deep fried in batter and was soggy. The wing of skate was very small and thin. The continental breakfast was the most minimal I’ve ever seen, Cooked breakfast only being offered at the weekends, limited cereal, a small fruit bowl and DIY toast. On checking out I did indeed to point out the gutter and smoking container problems but there wasn’t anyone to be found.

Very laid back place to meet up with friends for a chat. The dumb thing is they don't seem to have any menu offerings for those who don't eat meat. They will charge you full price for a sausage, egg, cheese bagel with no sausage. That doesn't make sense and is insulting to make a customer pay for something they aren't getting. Pastries are good. They finally have cardboard boxes for baked goods. Stop the plastic clamshells completely!