The Rose Inn - Southend-on-Sea

I came here for years and eating was always ok, I visited last weekend with some friends and the new menu looked great, but was such a disappointment. I ordered a cake and the baked was so hard that instead of letting itself cut, it completely flips over on my teller a friend ordered the risotto and instead creamy and soft was hard and tasteless. the pub itself is great! the waitress was beautiful, the beer garden is fantastic for children and will go back to the occasional pint, but as a restaurant it was bad.

The first time here, first impressions of the service was blunt and almost like us an inconvenience that the pub was not busy. we sat outside, as it has a good small climbing frame for young children. the menu sounded delicious, I ordered a vegan burger who...solte with sweet chili and mango sauce come. when it arrived, the soße was nowhere to see, only a dry bungalow and very dry kichererbsenpatty with a leaf salat. I asked where the sauce was and the waitress said they weren't sure if the sauce was vegan, so she left. (why was it on the menu then I answered, I don't want to eat so please. she comes back and says that they have fled from the sose (finally the truth). the children carrot and gurkenfinger were so old and dry that they became white. I wouldn't let my little children eat, I didn't see that veg as this god knows how long they were tied. they are not served for children with the soße promised and we had to ask for it. my partner meal was poor. unexistent veg and only stems from “Tenderstamm Broccoli” when I asked for tomato sauce, the waitress asked me to follow her to knife and fork and to collect sosss. what I like to do, but over all the service was as strange as I said before, we were an inconvenience. cheap food, but it is not worth paying a penny. can get better meals from aldi. for a nice pub experience I recommend the bullen in hockley

Excellent dinner before quiz then great quiz great place to friendly staff good made all

Watch your drink measure as they where under on al our orders. When challenged where not welcoming of the challenge. WILL NOT BE GOING BACK TO THIS ONE AGAIN. shame as it was a lovely pub under the old landlord.

This pub has a lot of personality and the staff are friendly. However, there are some issues currently. There are long waits for drinks and I also noticed delays with food. This place really needs more staff, and in this aspect it is not as good as The Old Walnut Tree, another Greene King pub just a mile or two away.