Maldon
The Maldon Smokehouse

The Maldon Smokehouse

Cromwell Lane, Maldon, United Kingdom

Kebab • Asiatic • Seafood • British


"Cancer in brine are not a substitute for crushed crab claws. if they don't have them, then their chef must tell the poor waitress that instead of just serving what he has, not what is on the menu, and explain them. Lobsters... with roe in the march? They didn't look at theatrical and I suspected that the dry and bladder appeared frozen. to overdo everything we decided not to order anything else, but only to pay for our ancestors who were accused of being rude and annoying the waitress at their first day, which was not true at all. the only rude person there was the woman who was responsible, incredibly rude, and since 30 years worked in the hospitality industry I know how to treat customers if they want them to come back and they could do with some advices here clearly. we are very regular customers here, the support of the smokehouse, as it first opened and all by locking off to eat with takeaways home, and always had a great relationship with the staff. we treated ourselves as friends and were treated as friends in opposition. but today we were very disappointed and after we were accused of being rude and annoying what we certainly were not, we will probably not return. very sad, as with the help of matt, the former cook, we have hosted some amazing important family jubilees here. and please steve, no sarcastic answer. they have a really wonderful business, but they have to change their cook and in front of the house staff. they are not only on their usual high standards and are badly deducted."

The Lock Wilkins Tea Room

The Lock Wilkins Tea Room

The Lock, CM9 4RN, Maldon, United Kingdom

Cafe • Pizza • Seafood • British


"I 'll start with a positive the lady that served us was delightful. I didn 't catch her name but she was a little older. She was very friendly and couldn 't do enough for us. Unfortunately this is where the positivity ends. Having had 30+ years in the catering trade I understand that I may be a little more critical, however, it doesn 't take years of experience to notice what we saw here yesterday. I was more than a little shocked at some of your hygiene standards. On at least two occasions I saw a member of staff walking through the seating area with a bag of rubbish. Didn 't necessarily have an issue with this until they put the bag on the floor and then served a customer at the 'hatch ' with an ice cream cone. Absolutely no attempt made to clean their hands beforehand. Having been to the bin, they were more than happy to pick up a cornet to fill with ice cream. Also spotted one of your girls licking her finger ready to pick up a cornet. That 's just not on guys. Re food quality has anyone tasted your quiches lately? My homemade quiche lorraine had two pieces of bacon it was basically an unseasoned egg tart. Potatoes were slightly undercooked too. I will say that the leaf salad was lovely and fresh. Your vanilla ice cream that you serve with desserts is obviously a cheap soft scoop. Totally lowered the standard of the whole dessert. Please consider using an elevated option. You have a widely known reputation but I don 't believe this site is working to your brand standards. If it is, maybe this needs to reassessed."

The Kings Head

The Kings Head

High Street, Maldon, United Kingdom

Fish • Steak • Coffee • Ice Cream


"Not long moved to the area. The Kings Head is in the next village. Had friends visiting so thought we’d book a table as it was a Saturday night. We drove into the village from the direction that we got to the car park first without driving past the pub, It was a bit difficult to navigate how to get inside. As there are a collection of barns and what looks like a disused dirty conservatory. There are no entry signs. We were just going to walk back to the car park entrance to enter from the street when we saw a member of staff. She told us to walk through the conservatory then through the restaurant and she would meet us a the bar. We were given a table in the window which had a lovely view but had a huge tv to the side of it which was really distracting. We ordered drinks at the bar and then went to collect menus as none on the table. We picked two different menus that had similar items on but presented very differently. The menu is not easy to read as it’s a huge choice all crammed onto one side of A4 paper. I’m Dyslexic which for me layout not being starters then a list, mains then a list and deserts then a list is really confusing. The layout is kind of newspaper style. Our order was taken and our starters arrived. The young lady serving us was very nice, smiley and relaxed. One of my friends is rather particular about certain things like minimal water being served from a closed bottle with an empty glass not being poured from a hose into the glass and delivered to the table. The young lady was very good at dealing with her. Even though she could not resolve the issue as the pub didn’t have any bottles of minimal water. My starter was kicking chicken wings which were delicious and melted off the bone. My main was beer battered haddock with chunky chips and a side portion of beer battered onion rings. Again delicious. I didn’t eat it all as the portions are a good size. I wanted to save room for dessert. I had the apple crumble with custard. Again delicious. I had a great evening and really enjoyed my food. I’ll definitely be going back again. Next time I will be mindful of who I’m taking as it’s not a brasserie type establishment that I thought it was."