The George is one of my favorite pubs anywhere. Beautiful drive through country roads in Kent to…read moreget here, full traditional pub with a beautiful garden with tables outside. Service is super friendly, food is amazing, beer is plentiful. I would have lunch here every weekend if I could.

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.

Awesome place, great atmosphere, service and amazing food! Classic old English feel and had a kids…read moremenu!

Cute country pub with a gorgeous outdoor terrace. The food was great too. We couldn't decide so we…read morehad half each of the fish & chips & lamb burger. Chunky chips were delicious and I couldn't pick a fav between the burger & fish. The kids had chicken nuggets & chips..no McDonald type nugget here..they were like small chicken escalopes. And some lamb kofti just because. All really good and if that isn't a good enough reason to visit then the excellent, helpful & happy staff should!

Good bar for cask ales…read more Selection of cask ales is good and they have a good range of other beers on tap. Full bar otherwise.

Really nice pub, great selection of drinks, good food. Dog-friendly. Friendly staff!…read moreThe menu is very decent and there is an extra bar snacks menu as well.

Amazing food and service, always made to feel welcome great value for the quality and portions…read morehighly recommend the mixed roast! You won't be disappointed!

The Shepherd & Dog was just.a pub which was very popular but I never had the inclination to drink…read morethere. That was then but now it's been revamped into a restaurant that serves dishes that are of very high quality. Their Sunday roasts are good value with plenty if taste. The staff are friendly, polite and extremely efficient. Customers do like to dress up when they dine here and I don't blame them. As it does add to the ambience

This place is absolutely amazing. The location is beautiful,…read moreright on the river, especially on a beautiful summer's day watching the ships go by. The ambience in the pub itself is unique, very quirky, a great hit with my husband who is a big Star Wars fan! The food is good, sizeable pub grub, with a menu extensive enough to appease any fussy eaters or big appetites. Anything from fresh pies, steak, fish and chips, burgers you name it, they've probably got it. But the BIGGEST compliment to this place has to go towards the staff who made the entire experience brilliant they were funny, interested in where we'd come from and why we were there, made recommendations based on the menu and even changed the cheese on my husband's steak as he wasn't a fan of Stilton the waitor said he'd seen some Jalapeno cheddar in the kitchen if my husband would prefer that, and it went down a storm. What fabulous service. We didn't feel rushed, even though we left it an hour between mains and desserts and it was a packed Sunday lunchtime they let us take our time and the desserts were delicious. Only slight criticism is that, for how big the main meals were, I was extremely disappointed with the size of my dessert three mouthfuls and it was gone. Not worth 5/6 quid really. Would definitely come here again, what a hidden gem.

This pub has been transformed from a fairly freary tired looking pub in to a nice bright fish…read morerestaurant and wine bar. The fish is fresh and cooked nicely. It generally gets busy over the summer when you can sit out the front and watch the boats going up and down the river Medway.

Right, although I'm on the Newcastle Elite Squad of Yelpers and very proud of what the Toon has to…read moreoffer, I think I may have found a place which would make me up-sticks tomorrow and move to Essex. Yep, seriously - Essex... I know! However, the Bell Inn at Horndon on the Hill is truly something else. Totally not what I was expecting to find a few miles from Lakeside shopping centre (which is work-related, the reason I found myself in this part of the country, just in case you were wondering...) The location is a 15th Century coaching inn overlooking the hills down to the Thames Estuary. As you go into the main pub area, which leads through to the restaurant, you step into an authentic English country pub atmosphere, low wood beams, open fire, numerous ales on tap (the local pale ale we had was excellent), random brass items on the wall, but all done properly and not in the faux manner you get in some pubs. What really sets this place apart is the food. Wowser, this was superb. When we mentioned to colleagues that we were going here, everyone said we would not be disappointed and they were not wrong. The menu changes regularly to reflect seasonal produce (a big tick in my book) and the quality of ingredients and level of cooking was top notch. Starter was English asparagus wrapped in parma ham served with the richest hollandaise I've had in a long time. The main was a breast of guinea-fowl, served with various veg, each individual item cooked to perfection. To finish was a dark chocolate cheesecake with hazlenut ice cream. Each course went down a treat, I was actually a little sorry to finish as it was that good. All served by very friendly and professional waiting staff, their attention to detail was second-to-none. You know when somewhere gets it right on the money, well this place has got it and then some. It comes as no surprise to learn that The Bell has won numerous industry awards including being on The Sunday Times Food List as one of the 10 best gastropubs in the UK. So if you ever, ever, ever find yourself 'dahn sahrf' anytime soon, get yourself along the A13 and make a reservation here. Oh and they also do accommodation here, sadly this was fully booked on the night of our visit. However, I'm back down to Lakeside next month and you know where I'll be staying this time...

An excellent dining room which is open on Mondays as well. It has never failed \to please…read more Adrian Winbow

Great place for drinking ...classy but not pretentious, fun but not in your face and comfy!…read more It has strange times for food so double check before you go if you want to eat there. Fun fun fun

This is a quite tastefully modernised Shepherd Neame boozer in the original medieval part of…read moreSevenoaks. It has a happy crowd of local office types and the City brigade unwinding after a hard day of doing-God-only-knows-what up in Town. There is a relaxed atmosphere: The style is all candles & uplights, varnished wooden bars & chairs and exposed brickwork. Special consideration should be given to the chalk boards in the loos; They are covered in philosophical bon-mots that work well when first pint of the day has hit your central nervous system square on!

The only pub in the village and a good one too. Plenty of local trade but welcoming to strangers…read more Has a very large car park and a huge beer garden with pond. At the rear of the pub is a games room, which also doubles as a dining area for the great food this pub serves. the barstaff are friendly and polite and take debit cards with cashback!! Sky Tv available for sports. Child friendly.All in all a great pub

This is fast becoming a very good local pub,with friendly staff . I is on the village green, with…read moreparking at rear The management appear to be making great efforts to create a good atmosphere,with great food (at reasonable prices ) . I think they are doing a great job Steve B 18/10/2009

"the royal oak" a 5 min walk from ockendon station. my first impression on looking at this "ye…read moreolde" pub was well presented and clean, upon going inside initially it was dark. a very clean refurbished pub with a marble bar and exceptionally clean and pleasant surroundings. the bar staff were very welcoming and greeted me with a smile, they were attentive and made me feel as though they had known me for years. the beer garden has a relaxed tone about it with parasols and seating for over 100, the grass and border flowers are immaculate, whilst i was there, there was a wedding party in the other side (the restaurant) the food i hear is superb and well worth a visit on a sunday.. my overall impression is this is a place you can bring your wife/ partner to and will both be impressed at the attention to detail and warm friendly atmosphere... terry h (an impressed member of the public) 08/october/2013