Reviews in Colchester

Perfect setting, great quality food and excellent service!

Tasty food, lovely thoughtful staff. Highly recommend ❤️

Alway enjoy our visits very welcoming and good excellent

Loved our lunch at the Barn, always look forward to going there for lunch and then having a look around the garden centre . Friendly staff and great food.

You know when the name of company keeps cropping up on your bank statements that you know you are onto a good thing. We always look forward to our visit to the Barn even if just for a wander around the plant section. Taking our neighbours for breakfast on Sunday and enjoying great food with great friendly service just makes you want to return. The staff are always attentive and we even manage to have a laugh together which hopefully makes their working day enjoyable as well. Looking forward to our next visit. Thanks all Davi & Rachel

Sunday lunchtime visit to celebrate special anniversary. My request for quieter table location was kindly met, despite it being a busy service. Great menu choices, we opted for the roast turkey, which was perfectly cooked and served, with very generous vegetable portions. All the staff were extremely polite, friendly and efficient. In fact everything about our whole visit was impeccable! We were absolutely delighted, thank you very much.

Usually enjoy any meals we have here but unfortunately this weekend was not one of them. No choice of roast only beef left & then roasts ran out for any other customers!Our dinners were not hot enough with hard to cut roast potatoes & an unusually dark gravy that tasted of marmite! Definitely not up to The Barns usual standards! Service there seems to take a lot longer nowadays too!

Great food and service. The waitresses and counter staff were very attentive, friendly and professional. Thank you

This a my first visit to the Barn Garden Centre and it was charmed. It is an excellent place - plants in very good condition, tasteful items of homeware and cards and a large cafe area. The service and food delivery was slow so allow time for that, but the coffee and scones were delicious. We had a window seat and eye-level view of the butterflies on the verbena outside. A very nice visit - would recommend.

Another fabulous visit to The Barn Cafe! This is now my place of choice for breakfast or lunch when going out with friends. The food and service never disappoint. The staff are friendly and so helpful :)) can’t wait to go back - now who can I invite along this time? :))

I booked a table for Sunday morning as it was my wife's birthday. Excellent food, using quality ingredients, and excellent very friendly service. I would always recommend it, plus the opportunity after to look around.

Came here on the 15th August, with my sister and Dad. We all had the salmon Nicoise, although nice, there was an abundance of lettuce and only 3 small chucks of salmon. I had the same dish here about six weeks ago and at that time we had a decent piece of salmon, I even took a photo at the time (which disappointingly I have erased). Shame as we won’t be returning.

Very pleasant atmosphere and delicious food with fabulous new summer cocktail.

We chose to go to the blue anchor to try the lunchtime set menu, we weren't disappointed. The right amount of delicious food for lunch, particularly enjoyed the pineapple upside down cake! Would highly recommend

Our first visit, on friends' recommendatio, and we were delighted. Nice setting, we ate indoors. Polite, friendly staff. Sue had the fish and chips, beautifully cooked and not at all oily. I had the Buddha Bowl, deliciously divine, amazing ingredients with many complementary flavours. I was full up without any additional extras, but nicely so - full but not uncomfortable.

Wedding Anniversary visit…waiter was polite and friendly,food was very good with what we considered a respectful time between courses. I checked the bill as I do everywhere and noticed we were charged for a bottle of wine we did not have. I called the waiter over to discuss this and he agreed it was wrong and changed the bill accordingly.. Will happily refurn

Went for breakfast for the first tine. lovely food cooked to order but quick service. Also tasty too