East Anglia Restaurant Guide

An Essex offshoot of the Sugar Hut in North End Road, Fulham SW6, the 'Village' occupies what was once the old White Hart Inn in Brentwood - a hostelry thought to date back to the fifteenth century.

96 - 95 High Street, Brentwood, Essex

Handily placed just ten minutes drive from Stansted Airport at Mill End Green, Great Easton, The Green Man is a fifteenth-century country boozer that has seen vast expansion and rejuvenation.

Mill End Green, Great Easton, Essex

A fixture of the Burnham-on-Crouch restaurant scene since the mid-60s, the Contented Sole is now enjoying something of an upsurge, thanks to an enthusiastic new team who took over in 2007.

80 High Street, Burnham on Crouch, Essex

A once-aging local boozer in the Norman village of Writtle (a couple of miles from Chelmsford) has been stylishly transformed into the Blue Bridge - a flashy in-tune venue that combines a restaurant and a piano bar offering regular live music sessions.

1 Bridge Street, Writtle, Essex

Owners Pietro and Nicole discovered Stock in 2006 and fell in love with the place; eventually they succeeded in converting what was the Old Tearoom in a lively, great-value neighbourhood Italian restaurant that now pulls in punters from Ingatestone, Chelmsford and Billericay.

20 The Square, Stock, Essex

Sister restaurant to La Vista in Chelmsford, La Toscana is overseen by friendly owners Antonio and Suzanne Viscariello, who have injected some Tuscan warmth into Billericay.

Old Barn Court, Billericay, Essex

Opened by Antonio and Suzanne Viscariello on the site of Gerrardo's in Great Baddow, La Vista is a now a winning name on the Chelmsford restaurant scene with its combination of traditional Italian food in sleek contemporary surroundings.

23 - 25 Church Street, Chelmsford, Essex

Billed as a 'provisions store and dining room', Hitchcock's occupies a 150-year-old coal merchant's premises, but is now in the business of delivering food rather than fuel.

10 Station Road, Sudbury, Suffolk

Glorious Somerleyton Estate, with its stately Hall and 14 acres of fabulous gardens is now home to all manner of tourist attractions, corporate events, weddings and the like.

Slugg’s Lane, Somerleyton, Suffolk

Opened by brother and sister Spencer and Emma Hewitt in 2004, Dish occupies an historic beamed house that was once Saffron Walden's 'mint'.

13a King Street, Saffron Walden, Essex