The Grove - Southend-on-Sea

The staff was very nice and polite and helpful. The food was very well presented and of good quality.

Great atmosphere, lovely food,staff friendly and helpful Food plentiful I would say the bread basket is too big,lovely but way to much...you could easily feed 7 people on it Will we be back...definitely

Just called in for a drink after our walk. Sat on the terrace beautiful views, friendly staff. Will book for lunch in a couple of weeks.

The food is very nice but I have to mark down because of the service. The waitresses seemed stressed even though there were only a few guests. The service was just very sloppy…plates slammed down, glasses dropped, everything so rushed. One waitress was checking her phone all the time and another waitress was eating whilst working. We didn’t order dessert because we felt like an inconvenience and just wanted to go (we have tried this restaurant twice now and same each time, so I have only given this review after second visit). Also extremely slow! We waited forever for our food and it was almost empty.

Sadly not the service that we expect of The Grove. It took over 45 minutes from the time of order to serve our food 4 people in our group) It wasn 't as if they were very busy either, but they seemed more concerned with the people in the garden area than those in the actual restaurant 2 other parties in the covered area had the same problem Seems we were completely forgotten about despite being right in the middle of the restaurant and having the staff constantly walking past us. And then when they did remember us there was no hint of a apology in any shape or form just your food is being plated now Doubtful we will be going again.