Reviews in Essex

One of the best pub/restaurants we have visited,fresh food great v.f.m, Spacious comfortable, in fact our group gave 9/10

The best in the area, especially the lamb buna, fantastic. recommend 2 any1. Try it n u will keep goin bk

I think the food at the sunflower is great, it so yummy :)

This got to be the best Indian Take-Away in Brentwood. We have tried many elsewhere, this is unique. Everything is nicely balanced. Antonia Lynn Brentwood, Essex.

My wife and I had carvery lunch @ the Bread 7 Cheese today. The food was top class, the chef Graham, the waitress Tracy and the manageress Micheal,were very happy helpful people. We visited this pub because I am chairman of the newly formed Canvey Island U3A, I am also leader of the new Luncheon Clud for them and this venue was suggested as the next meeting place for my group on June 1st 2011. I would like to find out more about the history of the building, but have not so far had ant luck any help would be appreciated. Mr G.Robertson (chair Canvey Island U3A )

Unable to recommend this restaurant, house wine for £14 very poor, £2.99 quality, fish and chips meal,well i have had better from a take away, very disappointed, I just wish the food was as good as the staff.

Do not eat here, it's awful and the owner is shockingly rude. I paid £3.20 for a circa 1970s school dinners style apple crumble.Yuk. We sat outside and witnessed her bawling at a woman who'd moved a cheap plastic table so that her elderly partner in a wheelchair could access it. I was visiting the area having last been around the mid 90s when it was a delightful place with fabulous cakes,sandwiches and mismatched olde worde china. ALL of this has changed. A comprehensive disappointment.

Without a doubt, the best fish & chips around. Even better than Harry Ramsden's.

Great atmosphere, beer and food. We tried to the set Japanese meal and were really pleased with the flavours and quality - a great way of trying the cuisine of a different place. The staff were attentive and courteous. We'll be back.

no recommendation except don't go there waste of money went Sunday horrible

Amazing food, staff were so funny and made us feel at home. The best pie and mash I have ever had by far!!! x

THE new place to be in Leigh - the real deal - laid back, cool crowd, live music. Will be back to try the food.

Great little bar, food is excellent and the character is topped off nicely with the live music. My new local!

Nice small cosy restaurant that looks like it has not been decorated for at least three decades. The menu was decent & this is certainly not one of those high straight ‘Italian’ restaurants’s that sell little other than stereotypically Italian pizza & pasta dishes. This was definitely more authentic than that kind of fare, which was a big plus. There was a mixed response to the dishes we ordered from our group of eight but I think on the whole everyone enjoyed their meals. My main special of slow cooked beef shoulder was delicious but I was less impressed with my starter of deep fried whiting, prawn & crab claw. This wasn't very exciting at all & made me think of the kind of finger food you buy frozen from the supermarket. I didn't have dessert but some of these that were ordered also looked like they came from a packet. Presentation was at worst sloppy & best quite ordinary & definitely had a pub grub look about it. Our bill worked out around £40 a head, which is not bad at all considering the drinks we had. I'd go back for sure but I’d drink less to make it a better value meal out.

We visit the sister branch of Village Indiya in Hadleigh/Benfleet, and the food is spectacular. It is very different to your standard/average Indian restaurant. The menu is brilliant, and every dish we've tried tastes so fresh, with so many beautiful spices and flavours. Very well priced also. I look forward to returning. Highly recommended!

superb pub food at a high standard really friendly family atmosphere, thanks for the new monkhams

New friendly owners very good beer big TV in one bar , the snug quiet, pool &darts. I did not sample the food

Avoid. Poor food, much from packets, shabby decor, scruffy facilities.