Jay Rayner on The Mistley Thorn

Food critic Jay Rayner was in Essex the other week, tweeting about his visit to The Company Shed on West Mersea (and sharing a picture of a huge pile of crab, oyster and mussel shells). He also went to The Mistley Thorn and reviewed it in today’s Observer Magazine.

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The Compasses at Pattiswick

Being a milestone birthday today, we decided to head off to The Compasses at Pattiswick, which is off the A120 to the west of Colchester – about 10 minutes from the A12 at Marks Tey. It’s got its own very swanky website (click here) which rightly boasts of the numerous awards it has won recently. [...]

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A light lunch at The Anchor Inn, Nayland

The early sun caught dozens of spiderwebs spun between the iron railings of the Recreation Road this morning – and me without my camera! So a photo of Jumbo from the roof of the St. Mary’s cark park in Colchester will have to suffice as evidence of the crisp loveliness. Christmas shopping over, it was [...]

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