Grange Reviews Summary

Category: Pub Chelmsford

Address: Main Rd, Boreham, Chelmsford CM3 3HJ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441245398495

Rating: 4.1
based on 224 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Good food and well cooked."
  • "Delicious meal is a lovely cosy setting."
  • "Really enjoyed the food. Great atmosphere."
  • "The food was fantastic, we had the risotto with scallops and haddock (i think) and the rump steak with chips, and both the scallops and steak were cooked perfectly."
  • "The food quality was good."
  • "Food is very good!"
  • "The food was really delicious."

Cons:

  • "Never again would I eat there as a shame as is a nice setting other than the do as you likey’s taking over the place!"
  • "Food ok except steak and sauce was sent back as cold."
  • "That one meal was very poor."
  • "Most of the menu was unavailable so what we could order looked like it came out of a box."
  • "The pork belly was quite a small portion for the price of £7 in my opinion."
  • "The lasagne was heavy, too much pasta to meat ratio, white cheesy sauce thick."
  • "The roast potatoes were very anaemic."

Service

Pros:

  • "Catering for a party of our size (around 35) - with top quality food and service was truly amazing."
  • "From the moment we walked in the staff were excellent. Professional and very friendly."
  • "The staff were happy to move us."
  • "Service from Gemma and Karen was absolutely brilliant."
  • "Staff were lovely."
  • "Manager was very welcoming, hands on and led his team with great skill and humour."
  • "Kim was outstanding host, great personality, smiley and bubbly."

Cons:

  • "Unfortunately when the waitress took our order we had to wait 45 minutes for our meal to arrive."
  • "Waiter brought out dishes and didn't know what he was holding."
  • "We had to wait ages and drinks order was forgotten."
  • "The service that night was very disappointing."
  • "Service was terrible."
  • "It has gone down hill.. no warm welcome, staff chatting and ignored us."
  • "The service was absolutely terrible."

Ambience and Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "It's a nice place. Recently refurbished."
  • "Very welcoming and peaceful environment."
  • "Such an incredible restaurant the decor is beautiful and the staff are even more beautiful!"
  • "Toilet facilities exceptionally clean and well decorated."
  • "The Grange looks nice inside and out."
  • "Very nice n cosy atmosphere restaurant."
  • "Beautifully presented pub with a great atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "Seats and tables were dirty and old and worn, same for the toilets, whole place needs redecorating."
  • "It's a family pub so if you want total peace and quiet you may be out of luck."
  • "Awful experience today, ladies restroom out of order so had to use disabled or men's toilets."
  • "Was seated fairly quick, but restaurant was cold."
  • "We were also put very close to another loud table, and there was plenty of free tables, with the current covid situation I would of been happier a bit further spread out."
  • "The chicken was dry and cracked, looked like it might have had freezer burn before being cooked."
  • "Unbelievably slow service. Dirty tables everywhere, wet seats."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "Prices were acceptable for the quality."
  • "Decent prices, plus they accept Tesco clubcard reward vouchers."
  • "If you are a blue light card holder you can get 20% off the food (June 22)."
  • "The food is reasonably priced."
  • "Food was fantastic, above expectations and great value."
  • "Food was good value for money."
  • "The food was lovely and really reasonable."

Cons:

  • "Poor value for money. only three rings of calamari per portion."
  • "Very expensive even with offer 1 free meal still over £50 for 3 people would not recommend."
  • "3 types of pints all flat gave one back was that bad serious gas issue staff not a clue or the manager said never had problems or complaint before so doesn't care one bit and same as staff don't like criticism."
  • "The food was all cooked well and tasty but not enough...my husband had 9 chips with his steak at £24 half tomato and salad I think that's a bit stingy."
  • "Food was fairly good, but small portions and quite pricey too."
  • "Food was awful and you could tell it was frozen, very expensive for rubbish food."
  • "Average food which is overpriced."

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