Pub with deals including a spicy Mexican and Thai menu on Wednesdays and steak menu on Thursdays.
A friendly, village pub and restaurant, serving quality cask ales, bar snacks and food all day.
Stopped by Wednesday the 31St of January, didn't book , but plenty of room in the restaurant, showed to our table ordered drinks and made our choice of food, we had chicken strips with a chilli sauce and some garlic bread very tasty then came our mains one Beef and Ale pie and Beef Bourguinon very good as well all on hot plates , so great food great service certainly worth a visit, we will go again
We enjoyed a fantastic Christmas Festive Fayre meal yesterday with our group of 15. Everything was well arranged and well accommodated, from booking arrangements to queries before the day. Our meals were delicious, food was served piping hot, staff were efficient and nothing was too much trouble. We weren't rushed to leave and everyone enjoyed the evening. We definitely will be happy to return. Highly recommend.
This was the first time visiting, we have recently moved to the area and wanted to have a nice meal with my parents before they go away for a month. I was really looking forward to it all day but I ended up not enjoying the evening at al! We booked it online 2-3 days before, the only available booking was 7:45pm which is fine. However, it was a bad experience from start to finish. We arrived and waited at the “wait here” sign for a couple of minutes before a lady who I am assuming was the manager saw us and straight away just said “there’s no more tables in the conservatory if you’re looking for a table” so not the warmest of welcomes. We advised we had booked a table for 7:45 and gave her the name it was booked under. She came back a couple of minutes later and said again “there’s no more tables in the conservatory, we just have this table here” and took us to the pub side, she then advised we had to order at the bar. So although we had booked a table for the nice restaurant table service side, we were dumped into the loud pub side where we had to get up to order at the bar. Where there was a rowdy group of four who had clearly been drinking for hours and had their two dogs, who although were very cute, they kept yapping, as well as their noisy owners making it difficult for us to talk to each other. When we ordered, we were advised it was a bit of a wait due to there being a table of 40 in the restaurant part. The starters were very nice! This was the best part of the evening. For mains, I had steak and asked for fries instead of fat chips, when it came out it had fat chips so had to send it back for what I ordered! I wasn’t very impressed with the steak to be honest and although they warned us of the wait, it was just over an hour wait for our food. The lady I assumed was manager who sat us down just sat on the public side at the bar talking to her friends, and looked annoyed every time she had to clear our table (which took a while to be cleared each time), when she cleared the starters she said “when did you book? Did you book it today?” - which is irrelevant. We booked a few days before but no matter what day or time we booked, the booking was available to book so we should have been in the nice restaurant bit. When she cleared our mains she said “sorry we are tied up, we have a table of 40 in the conservatory who changed their booking time” - so just because they decided to change their booking time, we suffered being put into the rowdy pub part and having bad service. A table of 40 should not be allowed to change their time, and if so, we provided our number when we booked so we could have been phoned to ask if we minded coming earlier or later. Then after advising us that they are so tied up, she went back to sitting and talking to her friends (which is what makes me believe she was manager to be able to get away with that). My mum ordered a mulled wine which came out with no orange slice which is one of the main parts of mulled wine, when we enquired we were then told they’d run out of orange slices, which is fine, but warn us before bringing out the drink? Honestly, I couldn’t wait to get out of the pub and we skipped dessert just to get out quicker. I am upset about this because it was supposed to be a nice meal out before my parents go away until middle of January.
Popped in here as a spur of the moment treat on Sunday afternoon. Not the warmest of welcomes from the manager but he explained they were fully booked but we could choose a table outside (we were hoping to sit outside anyway 😊). We ordered the gammon, roast beef, steak, chicken strips and halloumi fries. The gammon, chicken strips and halloumi fries were excellent, flavourful and cooked perfectly. The sirloin steak was good but quite fatty and tasted a little burnt. The roast was disappointing, the stuffing was solid, as was the pig in blanket, the beef was rather fatty and the gravy had a horrible paraffin taste that was quite off putting. Would probably revisit as it had a nice big car park and a lovely beer garden.
Just stopped for a lunch and i went for classic hunter's chicken and it was amazing long time didint had such a good classic pub meal for long time only one minus that the portion of chips and onion ring could be a bit bigger but apart that the foor is amazing and atmosphere is really warm. Highly recommended if you passing through :)
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Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, CM3
4.4/5
The William B is a contemporary restaurant set in a refurbished 17th century coaching inn formerly known as The William Boosey public house, re-opening in September 2012.
Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, CM3
4.5/5
