Come here for delicious homemade meals, very cosy place right on the shores of river Thamesread more

What a charming little place situated right on the seafront. My dad reckons it's the best fish n…read morechips on southend seafront. I had the vegetarian lasagne which was delish! It comes with half portion of chips and half portion of salad which consisted of a very tasty homemade coleslaw. To be honest if this was the half portion I can't imagine how massive the full portion would be! Definatly amazing value for money ! Dont even bother checking out the other bistros as this one is all you need to know! Having just arrived from LA I was gagging for a good bit of Essex cooking and you will not be disappointed with the extensive menu choice including a full English breakfast. The staff are amazing, service with a smile and a cheery bit of convo. Will Defo be back to sample other items on the menu.

Beautiful, friendly, I absolutely adore this Cafe. We visit every time we come home. Great place…read more Lovely owners. Her art is beautiful.

I really like this restaurant and tend to go during the week to take advantage of their set menu of…read more3 courses for £12.95 from Monday to Friday. Their menu, as the name suggests, is primarily pasta and pizza but their fish dishes are great and I highly recommend the trout with almonds. The starters are straight from the 70s - avocado with prawns - and it's probably the only place in Southend where you can get frog's legs in garlic and white wine sauce!

Probably one of the worst meals we've had. Tasteless and over priced. Definitely not authentic…read moreItalian cuisine, just basic cooking with not very good quality produce. We've had far better produce from Aldi. Would definitely not return.

Amazing family run vegetarian restaurant. Highly recommended!…read more Everything on their menu can also be made as a vegan dish. Great for the whole family!

From the owner: Vegan and gluten freeread more

Had a large order and the guys filled with great enthusiasm and humour, great value, great food…read more Perfection

The best fish and chips ever! Brilliant value for money and I bet my life savings that you could…read moresearch for a million miles and still not find a better chip shop. The range they offer is brilliant and has an equally good price. The food is delicious and couldn't be better, the staff are lovely and helpful and are always happy to chat. I have been going for ages and couldn't praise any higher.

Great place for early breakfast. Big plate of food for a fiver. Not mad on the sausages, they are a…read morebit too fancy for a early morning breakky but sure some would love! Will be back

From the owner: Friendly local café offering a wide range of food from breakfast to lunches in Southend-on-Searead more

Friendly and courteous staff, lovely surroundings and best of all beautiful food some of the dishes…read moreare unique to the restaurant are are simply amazing.

Where do I begin? DO NOT GO HERE!!…read more The manager is a vile human being and after reading other reviews I'm baffled as to how he is still running this business. Myself and 9 other family members visited for a Sunday lunch. I am a vegetarian and ordered the vegan nut roast which once arrived was full of rice which was disgusting and the whole meal was bone dry. This was also served with tomato pasta sauce on the side which seemed like a very odd thing to serve a roast dinner. I asked for some gravy with no meat in, and this is where the problems began. He raised his voice at me, telling me all gravy has beef stock in (incorrect). He then put the menu in my face and raised his voice telling me it says it comes with the tomato sauce and that I shouldn't have ordered it.... Ignoring the fact it was disgusting and dry. I asked for my food to be taken away as I couldn't eat the dry meal as it was not edible. Another family member had the same meal and issue but after the managers outburst, did not feel comfortable expressing so had 3 bites and left the rest. When the bill came, he charged us for my meal regardless of the above and refused to take it off. I have never experience anything like this in a restaurant and I'm embarrassed for the business owner, if it is not himself. We told him because of the above, we would not be paying for my meal and it should have been deducted from the bill. His violent and disgusting manor then presented itself even more, he shouted at every member of my family and got into my uncles face after he told him to stop speak to me in such an aggressive way. Not that it should make a difference on how you speak to customers or people in general but I am pregnant and this experience left me extremely distressed and I don't know how this man sleeps at night. We eventually paid for what we had, a total bill cost of almost £300, minus my meal and got up to leave. Once he realised, he begun to say ' this is a small price to never have to see your faces in here again ' and the abuse continued for several minutes as we was leaving. He also refused to tell us his name because it was irrelevant...just like his existence in my opinion. I wish I had recorded the whole thing to be able to show just how hideous this man was to me and my family, instead I write this review to warn others about visiting this restaurants. After reading some other recent reviews, Apparently violence and abuse comes free with every meal ordered! How is this ok...? This small man is a bully, potentially little man syndrome and I'm still in shock by our experience a week later. The other staff members were lovely, polite but also look completley terrified of their manager.

While ordering our food, our daughter popped to the Loo. Unfortunately, whilst in there a poor lady…read morewas violently sick...not making it to the toilet in time & my little one come back let say 'splashed' As we had only just ordered, i told our server we could no longer eat as we needed to get home & changed- to which he asked us "what did we want him to do about it" We had literally just placed our order, he expected us to stay & sit there with our daughter, wet () Maybe even a voucher to come back another time would have been better than having to pay for food we couldnt receive. Understand its not their fault, or the ladys, or ours....im just extremely frustrated that we had to pay even though we had to leave, no fault of our own.

This is by far the best coffee /tea shop in Southend and Westcliff, beautiful people and wonderful…read moreexperience make it the only place to go! Forget what you have tried before this is the only coffee shop your heart will ever want!

I know it wasn't very imaginative to just have a Spaghetti Bolognese garlic bread and a bottle of…read morered wine to compliment it.my wife had the lasagna. but it was fabulous. I'm not going to bore you with why i love this restaurant other than to say. If you wan't to experience all the things you love about Italy and without needing your passport then La Pizzeria is the place.

Have been to this Pizzeria restaurant quite a few times now and the food is always cooked fresh for…read moreyou, it is served straight out of the oven (if its Pizza) and straight off the hob if its a pasta dish. Even the takeaway Pizza is lovely, I thought it might not travel well but I was wrong. Our takeaway pizza's were still very fresh and tasy. I would recommend this place to anyone, really friendly staff and the price is reasonable too.