Reviews in Colchester

I visited the Cafe for Lunch on Saturday. The Setting is lovely as were the staff. However I ordered the Welsh Rarebit, for £12 I had one piece of toast and a few salad leaves on the side which I feel was really bad value for money. As an aside the knives weren't sharp enough to cut the toast.

Thoroughly enjoyed crushed avocado with poached egg on sourdough for breakfast, including excellent coffee. Although busy at the time experienced attentive service.

My husband and I went for breakfast yesterday morning. On the whole the breakfast is very good but the sausage looked so anaemic. I said to the waitress that it didn't look cooked. The chap who takes you to your seat came over and told me that they are steamed first then grilled so they are cooked and that was that. Didn't make me feel any better about it so I left the rest. Very disappointed in his attitude.

Lovely lunch with two very good friends as a thank you. Good food, service and atmosphere.

Delicious food, served by helpful, friendly staff. Lovely ambience.

Had Sunday lunch with 6 of my family for my fathers birthday. I chose this because I had had lunch there recently during the week and it was excellent with very fresh and tasty options. Sunday lunch wasn't quite as good, the pork was a little tough, the potatoes slightly underdone and very light on gravy (we did get a little more on request). But lovely stuffing and yorkshires. Really appreciated the gluten free options for my son, he had plenty of choice which was refreshing. Lovely atmosphere and the service was friendly if a little slow - a very big restaurant with lots of tables and staff were doing their best to get round.

Another amazing roast at The Barn. Brought my son and son in law who don’t normally like roasts and both ate everything and commented on how lovely it was! High praise to the chefs! The lady serving us called Lisa was extremely friendly and attentive. Highly recommend

Really enjoyed our breakfast and will be back soon.

Very good food and service excellent.

Great, fresh food .

First time I have eaten on a Sunday although have been many times before for weekday meals. Two of us had the Sunday roast beef brisket and it was first class. My partner had the skate and was disappointed that it didn't have vegetables with it although the fish was stuffed and had a sauce with it. We can't remember what our 4th guest had but it was something with prawns. Brilliant service as usual but not manic as it is in the week.

Beautiful lunch. Excellent service.

Had a lovely lunch last Thursday

I ate lunch here with a friend and her son and I specifically chose this restaurant due them having gluten free options on the menu, which I had checked in advance. I asked for the ‘barn burger’ which detailed gluten free option available, but when I came to order this, the server advised that this wasn’t available due to it being a Korean fried burger, so this was disappointing. Once we had finished our lunch, we wanted to order coffees and cake, but there was a very long wait/ very hard to get a servers attention, by which time I went to the front till. We asked for a table of water with the coffees and cake which didn’t arrive and I had to again try to get a servers attention to ask for this.

Had a lovely brunch at The Barn Plenty of vegetarian options (miracle in itself!) very good price and very tasty. Service was also very good

What a delicious Sunday lunch I and my friend had . My lamb shoulder melted in the mouth and Diana’s pork belly was superb …..especially the crackling! A lovely selection of veg…..not to mention enormous Yorkshire puddings with extra gravy to complete a wonderful main course. We finished with real vanilla pannaccottas and didnt need anything more to eat that day. THANKYOU chef and your team!

Had breakfast at The Barn on Monday 25th August, really lovely and great value for money, service was excellent too. Would highly recommend. Thank you