Heading back home from Hylands House in Chelmsford this afternoon, we decided a Sunday roast would hit the spot nicely. But how to find a pub who served food all through the afternoon? Fear not, gentle reader, as I had come equipped with the Chelmsford CAMRA booklet ‘Where to find the best real ale in [...]
I had a trip out today to Chelmsford and fitted in three things I’d been looking forward to for some time : visiting the Chelmsford Museum to see it’s new extension; visiting the 12th Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival; and visiting a couple of Good Beer Guide listed Chelmsford pubs. I’ll report back on the museum [...]
The Hare and Hounds is under new ownership since this article was written, and we’ve visited and the new menu is a huge improvement on the one we reported in this article. So to make sure there’s no confusion, we’ve removed the content in this article about the old menu - click here for the [...]
The Old Queen’s Head in Aldham is in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide, and we popped in for a quick half before xmas prior to a bit of Christmas shopping at the nearby Mill Race Nursery and then picking up our christmas tree from Bullbank Farm. This Saturday we popped in for a meal. The [...]
We set out to Manningtree this morning with good intention : to set rolling a programme of winter walks in Essex. A couple of years ago we had a nice Boxing Day walk around the fields around Manningtree, ending up at one of the pubs on the High Street. We intended to retrace our steps, [...]
It’s been a busy year and I thought I’d take a moment to look back on 2010 in terms of real ale and pubs. .. The year started, as it finished(!), with a lot of snow. In January we blogged about a walk in the snow around Colchester Castle Park (link), whose route back home [...]
The 9th Harwich & Dovercourt Winter Ale Festival 2010 has been in my diary for some time, and I’d been looking forward to my first experience of serving behind a bar. The heavy snow this week, and the struggle National Express East Anglia had to cope with it, looked to jeopardise this trip. But in [...]
The plan to visit as many CAMRA Good Beer Guide-listed pubs in NE Essex took another step near completion with a quick visit this afternoon to The Haywain at Little Bromley. It’s been the Tendring & NE Essex Pub of the Year for a couple of years since being taken over by the current owners. [...]
It was cold and foggy last night, an atmospheric drive a couple of miles out of Colchester to the north and over the border with Suffolk to The Anchor Inn at Nayland. We enthused about the light lunch option a year ago, and spent a great evening last night next to a roaring open fire [...]
The Queen’s Head sits on the A120 halfway between Colchester and Coggeshall, re-opened a year or two back after having been empty for some time. We popped in today – on a bleak, wet and windy Thursday lunchtime in November, which is not really a good time to see a pub at its best! There’s [...]
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