Reviews in Colchester

Eaten her on many occasions. Always great food, good value for money and service. Will be booking again soon!

fabulous restaurant, fantastic food, glorious service ! very attentive staff who couldn’t do enough to ensure our family birthday celebration was great x

As always food was fantastic wasn’t rushed but ff after eating and staff helpful. Reasonably priced.

I’ve often thought your restaurant looked lovely. However in the past I wasn’t keen as people had said it wasn’t great. Recently I picked up on your advertising maybe or something that caught my attention and decided to try for myself. I was really impressed and even my request was acknowledged and replied to. The food was lovely the staff most pleasant the ambiance perfect! Especially fitting for a miserable Sunday afternoon. I will definitely be using it as a regular choice of restaurant now. Many thanks for a most enjoyable afternoon.

Wonderful lunch at the Barn Cafe, great service and such lovely food. Always such a lovely place to enjoy food & drinks. We ordered the ham, egg & chips, plus the open club sandwich, all so tasty and hot. We love this place :)

The Blue Anchor is half way between my friend & myself. I had high hopes that this could be a venue we can meet regularly at & we weren't disappointed. The food, staff & ambience were all excellent. My friend had ribeye steak (cooked perfectly) that she enjoyed very much & I had tomato pasta, also very good. We will definitely be going back.

Food and service lovely.

We had breakfast here on Sunday morning it was very chill. We were looked after very well and the food was lovely.

Had breakfast on Saturday 23/11/2024. The food was lovely but we had problems the drinks. Coffee was cold, so went back & when it returned the milk had separated. This was replaced. Ordered second drinks & one diner had to wait over half an hour for their cup of tea. Then we had to ask for it twice. It felt like it had been forgotten but when we asked we were told it was a bit backed up in the kitchen. This was poor service

Such a lovely meal! Excellent service, friendly staff. We were a table of 7 and celebrating my mother’s birthday. We weren’t rushed at all and they brought out a dessert for her with happy birthday piped in chocolate on the plate without prompting which was a lovely touch.

We have had a few lovely meals at the blue anchor, the last time being yesterday (sat) Burger looked amazing and was large! The chicken supreme was also a lovely meal that tasted great. We had a roast dinner the time before and that way great although veg and potatoes were slightly hard. Atmosphere is always amazing and staff are friendly and attentive. First class service.

A lovely meal cooked really well and great service. Plenty to choose from on the menu and good size portions but not too big that there wasn’t still room for a desert. A traditional pub with a nice atmosphere. The well in the middle of our table was an unusual feature and quite a talking point.

Lovely lunch at the Blue Anchor. Staff were excellent as was the food - not rushed at all and left us to have a very relaxed lunch (and a bit!). Only thing missing for me (as designated driver) was some Guinness 0% - otherwise hard to fault and would recommend

Good food and service as always. Disappointed though with limited dessert menu as items had run out excuse was we were busy! That’s not good enough knowing how many bookings you have in my opinion as someone in the food service business.

Nice atmosphere and food good although a little pricey

6 course taster menu, all lovely except the soup was a bit heavily seasoned....,.a polite way of saying it was too salty. Service very good and although we were very early we were assured that was ok. We've been before, and we'll go again.......although we live 35 miles away!

Good food. Nice atmosphere. Great service. Easy parking

We came with our family for our 55th wedding anniversary on Sat night. Food cooked beautifully, staff cheerful and efficient, good atmosphere and we were seated around a roomy booth. Well done ,we would love to return for the next family event.