Reviews in Colchester

My family and I visited the restaurant for a birthday breakfast and, upon arrival, I mentioned that we had a reservation but asked whether it would be possible to add two additional guests or, alternatively, be seated at two nearby tables. The restaurant was not busy at the time, so I did not expect this to be an issue. However, the staff member who greeted us responded in a very rude manner, stating that we should have called in advance. Unfortunately, this is not the first time I have encountered unprofessional behaviour from the same individual. On several occasions, she has been consistently discourteous, unfriendly, and visibly unpleasant in her demeanour. Her conduct, including an apparent smell of smoke, reflects poorly on the overall standard of the restaurant. It is disappointing that such behaviour detracts from what would otherwise be an enjoyable dining experience.

A lovely place and great atmosphere. Had a lunch. Food was tasty but for the price of the lunch I felt the portions were rather small.

5 star!

Fantastic breakfast as usual BUT lady serving them had the worst cough ever maybe not a good idea to have her serving food and drinks unable to put her hand over her mouth because of tray carrying. A better idea would have been send her home or give her a mask to wear. Dreadful she coughed into our coffees and breakfast which is totally disgusting did not want to cause a scene so paid and left. Expensive empty tummy’s but such a shame as we love your breakfast but having a chest infection for Christmas is not an option for us thankyou.

Service was excellent. The food delicious and generally goid value for money. The atmosphere is so much better, you can hear each other now. Chairs are a bit hard.

Have met friends here many times over the last few years but we were all disappointed with the lunch menu this time. Expensive and poor choice

lovely breakfast and service from the team, it has become a regular venue for a business breakfast.

average service. cake quality fine. other food poor, overcooked and dry. expensive considering the overall quality. will think twice before returning.

Lovely food, lovely staff, wonderful setting. My second visit in two weeks both times couldn't fault it! Thank you

Very warm welcome from the restaurant reception when we arrived. We were shown to a nice table in a very busy main restaurant area. Menu for breakfast had the usual choices ( nothing different from most cafe breakfast menus) 2 guests ordered the Barn breakfast (full English) 1 guest orderd Cacloe peppers eggs and salmon I ordered a round of white toast. Our drinks arrived very fast with a small waist for our breakfasts which was expected as the restaurant was very busy. The main restaurant area was very bright, spacious, clean and tidy. Unfortunately the 2 Barn breakfast were very disappointing ( bacon, black pudding & bubble disc were all very over cooked, dry and cold. Possibly from being left under a heat lamp or tray too long) One breakfast was missing its bubble. The salmon choice was nice with a good amount of smoked salmon. The 1 round of toast was fine (can't really go wrong. Delicious choice of Stokes condiments. Whilst we paid at the counter, we were asked if everything was OK. We gave an honest opinion and the girl just shrugged her shoulders to our constructive criticism. Over all 5/10 Not sure if we'd rush back for breakfast

Food was absolutely amazing but we waited 50mins after being seated with a booked reservation for our food. That was the disappointment outside of a lovely food.

My first visit- pleasant venue, pleasant staff, nice table, not too noisy. Food was very nice and prices reasonable. However we waited half an hour for our order to be taken and a very long time for our food. No one took our plates away or offered desserts or coffee and we gave up on our plan to have desserts and just had coffees and left.

Our table was booked for 12.30 pm but our order was not taken for 40 minutes. However our food was delicious!

Amazing Breakfast. The best we have had in a long time. Great produce and fabulous customer service. Well worth a visit. We will be back.

Having visited many times found the recent visit found the food and service very dissappointing not up to the usual standard

As always, friendly & attentive service in a pleasant & comfortable environment. Food was mainly really delicious and presented nicely, and came at areasonable price. One of our party of four, had a bacon sandwich and felt the bacon was a bit too fatty and the white bread was very dry. Very rare to find anything to complain about though.

Lovely setting. Good food and choices. Staff courteous.

Food was lovely and well presented, staff were friendly albeit a little rushed. Drinks took a while to come but were delicious when they got there!