Epping Forest
Crusader

Crusader

United Kingdom, Epping Forest

Pub • Vegan • British • Vegetarian


"We (a couple) walked in the Crusader about 13:00 and was greeted at the bar with “was you planning on eating?” yes we replied, “there could be an hour wait, we are expecting a party of 11” so we just had a drink, as we was there for over an hour, in that time I could see there was in total of about 10 or 11 diners in the whole restaurant! I'm guessing there was more than 40 dinning settings available! We plan to eat out tomorrow, in Roydon, in one of the other two pubs! The Crusader is incompetent ! So, I went to Roydon again for a pub lunch, It's been a few days since my bad experience with the Crusader so I headed to the new inn but found I couldn't get into the car park because of a delivery to the pub, no parking spaces on the road, so I span around and said to the person I was with “shall we give the Crusader another chance” and we agreed to go back there! So In we go! Greeted by the barstaff. . . . couldn't had been better, lovely woman, ordered food, all going well, food served in a short time, great! The fish and chips was fine, my sausage and mash was awful! You know when you forget to get the sausages out the oven and they end up with just a thin core of pink meat in the center? The sausages served to me didn't even have a pink core! They were beyond belief! I'm 54 and have never complained in a restaurant before, it was embarrassing! The bar staff apologized and said she would have a word with the chef, she came back with the chefs excuse “it wasn't me, it wasn't me” but it was you that served it! Wasn't it! I got a refund for the meal, I was embarrassed complaining in front of my company and to the staff and I went home hungry!"

The Blue Boar

The Blue Boar

Market Place, RM4 1UA, Epping Forest, United Kingdom

Pub • Steak • Drinks • British


"We decided to go here as a last resort as all the best pubs were fully booked. 12 of us out celebrating my nans birthday. First thing we experienced as we walked through the door was the stench of poo from the toilets, walk past that to the bar area owners just sat their blowing his nose, slurping up his own dinner, gross. We are then taken to the back of the restaurant, where there is large circle table and two rectangle tables pushed together, one with a cloth, one without, table not dressed at all (thanks for making that area special after taking a £120 deposit) We arrived at 7:30 our dinner plates were still not cleared by 9:30, restaurant wasn't even busy, food was so bad, zero flavour, over cooked (avoid rib of beef and croquettes disgusting) they forgot two of our starters, messed up one of them, each meal didn't clear our plates away after we'd finished 1 hour gap between starters and mains, service was so poor, didn't take one glass away from the table the whole meal (photo) no one asking if we're ok, had to walk up and ask the owner if he could ask the staff (who were just out in the kitchen laughing and joking) if someone could come and clear our plates, he offered a round offered drinks aggressively like he thought that would solve everything, just a rubbish experience start to finish, didn't have any ginger beer, the wine tasted like ribeana, owner doesn't care, no manager organising the teenage staff, awful food, avoid at all costs."