Toby Carvery - Chemlsford

Breakfast visit, the selection was empty and what food was left was so bad it was disappointing to say the least. The bacon was the only part that was ok but then it was dry . The eggs we had to wait for arrived snotty and literally floating in oil . The scraping of beans I managed to get was cold and runny . The sausages were ok but again just lukewarm. My coffee was tasteless and bland . After waiting 5 minutes for the toast machine to complete making my toast everything was cold . £11 well spent not really. I would have to recommend you avoid this Toby until they get their act together and deal with the problem. The chef can’t be a real chef to put out food on this low quality. It’s just basic food. Beans , egg , etc . Very disgusting and disappointing visit. Even the bread for the toast was empty. Visiting 45 minutes after opening it’s not like we arrived at the end of the breakfast service.

The roast was really nice, especially the stuffing and Yorkshire pudding, but I wish the potatoes were crisper. For dessert I had the bramley apple pie, but it was cold in the middle. Lovely service and waitresses though, and the atmosphere was very cosy. There's a huge variety of food here and it's amazing for the price, I would definitely come back for more 😋

Update, so finally refurbished, loos are now much much nicer, overall clean and bmuch brighter, food not great was dry and apparently now if you want scrambled eggs you need to request them. I have left my previous review below Friendly staff swift service unfortunately cleanliness was very poor, not sure I woukd eat there again after seeing the gents toilets. You can see the door had had not been cleaned in months if not years. Especially with the resent covid pandemic I woukd have expected things to be extra clean. If that's how the things we can see are what state is the kitchen that we can't see.