This is a great family pub that is clean, bright & friendly. The food is great, Sunday dinner is…read moresuper & through out the week they have offers on food. The pub has recently been holding food challenges which the entry fees have been donated to local charities. This pub is the heart of the village & welcomes everyone. Great for families with the outside play area, dogs are welcomed and not allowed in the play area, plenty of seating inside & out, good food at good prices & good beer, what more could you ask for!

Great gastro pub. Fab food, atmosphere and really friendly service. Strongly recommended.read more

The Bear has become a good quality gastro pub recently with a nice atmosphere and a good menu and…read moresome great specials. The ambiance is relaxed country pub and the staff are very helpful. There is a reasonable ca park as it gets quite hard to park in the summer. I have visited for lunch and dinner and both were very nicely presented and well cooked. The skate is very tasty and the scampi and Jenga chips are good. The costs can be a little bit higher for lunch but the menu is very similar and therefore for dinner, I thought it was quite reasonable. Peter who used to be at another Billericay restaurant is the restaurant manager and as normal makes sure we get well looked after.

They work hard to give good service and food at the increasingly-popular Shepherd and Dog. Well doneread more

Another works get together lunch. We chose a different pub/restaurant this time and crossed our…read morefingers. Shouldn't have worried, The Two Brewers came up trumps. Great service, especially from one Spanish young lady, a character. Food was second to none, very filling roasts with more than sufficient veggies and various types of potato. Would I go back again......most definitely.

The Two Brewers changed ownership and is now known as : The…read moreTwo Brewers Pub Northaw, EN6 4NW. Their new number is 01707 664 101 Excellent service, lovely staff and management. Good food with two different menus, one smaller menu for bar food, and plenty of seating in the bar area, and a much larger menu (way larger!) for the lovely dining room seating. Their outside garden is very pretty and they also have seating outside in the front. Plenty of parking. Recommend

We were visiting some friends in Ipswich and we had booked a meal at the punch bowl. It's the…read moreperfect pub - for a drink, it's very traditional, warm and welcoming. Exactly how a pub should be. The food however - it was fish night, when we read menu there was not much choice and the dishes were quite extravagant ? Not even a normal choice of fish and chips or fish pie, seemed strange for a pub. I had the mussels for starter and they were nice but stingy portions for the price we paid my partner had the White bait it wasn't so pleasant flavourless and over done. Main - I had the sea food pancake which came with tastless boiled "saffron" potatoes and veg it seemed the nicest choice out of the 3 mains it was ok but nothing to write home about. The food was far too extravagant and not to a high enough standard and to expensive for what we got. Why not just stick with the traditional pub food? That's what you go to a pub for. Don't try to much. I do hate writing bad reviews.... So On a positive note the service was good and the staff were very friendly. I'd like to try it again on a normal night selling normal pub food. - it's dog friendly too***

It was a great pub when Barry and Karen were there running it. Its not even average now.read more

I would agree with the bad review as the pub was before but it's now under new ownership, has had…read morethe most amazing renovation and the addition of a restaurant. It's a beautiful venue inside and out with great food and amazing staff. https://www.facebook.com/thecrownstowupland/photos

Fully refurbed from thatch to car park , new chef poached from One house , great food , bit pricey…read morethough, great for celebration meal , not a local pub anymore.

Had our works Christmas meal here and they coped well with a large party. The food was very good…read morevalue for money, especially for a standard xmas menu. A little slow on service, but there were a lot of us! Room was a bit chilly but they bought in extra heating and had a real fire as well (it was snowing outside as well!)

If you're looking for a good pub, it doesn't get much better than this…read more Lovingly called simply "The Axe" by locals, this pub is in a different league to most other rural pubs. I'll explain why and try to be concise. The cuisine is exceptional. There's a good selection of quality drinks. The service is excellent. The atmosphere is always friendly and welcoming -- the sort of place where complete strangers tend to strike-up conversation. The location is perfect, overlooking the Village Green, with a big beer garden behind, and a vast playing field behind that. It's a lovely village, nestled in the gently-undulating farming landscape of rural north-east Herts -- no wonder Braughing was recently awarded the prestigious "Village of the Year" accolade. The pub's menu always includes the best of local produce, from locally-reared beef to local pork sausages, alongside popular country pub dishes. (Braughing village is famous for, among other things, the delicious local sausages, and this is a good place to sample them.) Did I mention the pies? A different pie every day it seems, and you won't find better pies than these. I don't make a statement like that lightly.

This is a great country restaurant, unassuming but with wonderful food. David is a charming host,…read moreand his wife Olga a fantastic cook - her plum crumble is second to none! We recently had our wedding lunch there, and every member of the family was highly complimentary. Definitely book in advance, it's very popular locally.