Reviews in Essex

Excellent lunchtime visit. Helpful staff and top steak and ale pie. Enjoyable relaxed atmosphere in a wonderful village pub.

Very basic restaurant more like school canteen with plastic plates and warm food. Massive catering with little effort. Very tired seats. Won’t be going back.

Food has always been good although overpriced. Unfortunately today we felt the food was extremely overpriced. Buddha bowl with chicken £20 and im sure theses bowls have got smaller, not a substantial portion. The garden salad really was a joke, it came on what I would describe as a slightly larger than average side plate and the salad certainly didn't fill it. With the feta cheese it was £17.50 for a basic salad that would have made a large starters!

We always enjoy our visit to the Barn Cafe. The Barn Breakfast was absolutely delicious and can highly recommend. Service can be a bit slow but we’re never in a rush. However we haven’t been for a month or so and the service had definitely improved

Have been to Grumpy’s several times now and everytime the experience is just brilliant. Staff are so welcoming and the food is just great. Definitely the best American themed diner I have been to.

Wonderful lunch had yesterday, Sweet and Sour Chicken was fabulous, sorry no photo as meal was so delicious I forgot all about taking one ! Service was superb.

Lovely Pub, excellent service, great Sunday roast. Would happily return!

The food was enjoyable, with good portion sizes and quality for the price. However, the atmosphere was extremely loud, making it difficult to have a conversation at the table. The service was also quite slow we had to follow up on our order, which wasn’t ideal as we were dining with young children who were getting very hungry.

We moved up north but visit mum oftern in Enfield, took her for dinner here on Easter Sunday. The main reason we come here is because the food is homemade and fresh. We are sick of the frozen rubbish food in most places. We are so glad to have found this Gem of a pub. All our meals were fresh and all plates were cleared. The 3 meat roast was huge and amazing. Lovely staff there, all polite and helpful, which is lovely to see. Its evident that they like working at The Owl, feels like the staff are all a little family. Management should feel quite proud, to have such lovely staff. Unfortunately we forgot to take photos as we wanted to get stuck right in, but we had: Burger chips 3 meat roast Lamb roast Shepherds pie Chicken burger chips The hallumi starter is lovely.

Another excellent Sunday lunch at the Dukes!

Lovely Sunday Roast chicken

As per usual on a very busy Sunday morning the service was excellent with polite members of staff. The food was up to its highest standards and quite swift even though it was busy. A very pleasant morning. Thanks.

Always a hit for me and my friends. This is our regular ‘go to’ for brunch. Lovely staff and great food. I’ve even had their afternoon tea as a birthday gift which I can highly recommend!

The staff are very nice , the food is OK It is all about value for money I do not mind paying extra for good quality food and portions to match I have been a regular for a number of years and I feel that the food portions have been shrinking but the price has been increasing From a Buda bowel to the latest Chicken Caesar salad with three lettuce leaves although large .. sliced potatoes that didn’t make the grade to one full one … no boiled egg as advertised and the skinny fries were cold Disappointing

Lovely staff, fresh delicious food, great live music.

Tart would be better made.with a lighter short crust pastry as filling was solid

First time there and food was cold and tasteless and unfortunately I had bad stomach cramps when I got home. I was the only one who had the special fried rice. Won’t be going again