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Venue Details

Address: Horseshoe Hill
Town/City: Walthan Abbey
County: Essex
Postcode: EN9 3SN
Tel No.: 01992 712 745
Website: http://www.thehorseshoes-countrypub.co.uk/
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday 11.30am-11pm, Sunday 12-10.30pm
Located in Upshire near Epping Forest The Horseshoes is a friendly country pub.

All food is prepared daily using fresh ingredients including local game when available. Booking is advised for Sunday Lunch.

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User reviews

Average user rating from: 7 user(s)

Overall rating
4.8
Overall
5.0
Food
6.0
Service
5.1
Ambience
4.3
Value
4.4
Toilets
4.3
Recommend
4.7
 

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Variable, Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Written by Joe

Overall rating
2.9
Overall
3.0
Food
5.0
Service
5.0
Ambience
1.0
Value
2.0
Toilets
2.0
Recommend
2.0
Have visited several times. There is little atmosphere in the dining area but we've always found the staff friendly and quite efficient; it is obviously trying to double as a local pub and a pricey restaurant.
Avoid Sundays as the cuisine is aimed at the Sunday-lunchers who rate the food by how much is piled on the plate ! Also, the staff are sometimes overwhelmed and some of the food arrives over or under cooked.
However on weekdays/evenings it is different. The menu is more varied and some of the "specials" are up to West End standard.
Pricing is OK, but I object to a service charge being slapped on the whole bill. Fair enough on the food but it's not acceptable to pay a service charge on drinks. To open a bottle of wine hardly involves much "service2 and it's not cheap to start with.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

keep on driving, Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Written by m cassell

Overall rating
1.0
Overall
1.0
Food
1.0
Service
1.0
Ambience
1.0
Value
1.0
Toilets
1.0
Recommend
1.0
Everything you dont want in a country pub...except a nice view! Indifferent, unwelcoming staff, tatty, run down room, non-existent ambience and white wine that would ruin your car battery!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Mothers day rip off!!, Sunday, 14 March 2010

Written by Suzanne

Overall rating
1.7
Overall
1.0
Food
6.0
Service
1.0
Ambience
1.0
Value
1.0
Toilets
1.0
Recommend
1.0
We have just experienced the worst ever service and over pricing in the Horse Shoes pub. The mother's day menu was priced at £26.95 for 2 courses and £32.95 for 3 courses. The options were your usual pub starters such as pate and prawn cocktail and for main, Sunday roasts or fish with roast trimmings, with usual pub desserts such as banoffee pie and treacle sponge. It was a set menu for mother's day with no other menu options. I didn't want a dessert and asked if I could just pay for main, but was refused point blank and had to pay £27 for a roast dinner!!!!! Although the food was nice, paying this kind of money for basic pub grub is daylight robbery. Now let's talk about the ambience, we arrived at our table with 7 odd chairs, 4 of which were fold up chairs, next to the toilets, under the TV showing motor racing and rugby. We were told that we had until 3.30pm when the next people were arriving for the table, which by the way was filthy! The toilet didn't flush properly and run out of toilet roll. The staff were unfriendly, unwelcoming and some just plain rude. We asked for a high chair and were told there are only 2 and they are booked out. We were not offered an apology about this situation, that was it, like or lump it. There were 3 mothers among us and we did not have the best time, and that's an understatement. The meal came to over £200! Needless to say we didn't pay any service and won't be going back.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Disapointment, Monday, 22 September 2008

Written by Paul Kaye

Overall rating
3.0
Overall
4.0
Food
3.0
Service
2.0
Ambience
3.0
Value
6.0
Toilets
2.0
Recommend
1.0
Having read some of the reviews on The Horseshoes my wife and I were eager to introduce a good pub restaurant to our friends from Dorset up for the weekend. Our reservation was booked for a late Sunday lunch at 3.15pm. We arrived 15 minutes early noting several empty tables only to be informed that there were no tables available until 3.15? We ordered some drinks to take to the garden and in fairness were called to our table promptly.

Everything on the menu was available except for the sardines. The Horseshoes caught our attention due to its promotion of using fresh produce and ingredients, I dont think so?

Starters were shall we say less than lack lustre, the Scallops with Bacon & Peas consisting of 3 pre-frozen sacllops topped with what looked and tasted like ready fried Streaky bacon that you buy for sandwich fillings from any supermarket. The accompanying bread was without a doubt pre-cooked warm in the oven type and to add insult to injury a samll pot of what was hoped to pass for butter placed on the table, its was in fact margerine.

Main corses proved no better either in presentation or execution of cooking. The roasts served admittedly in huge proportions but without flavour topped with a soggy and cold Yorkshire pud. The fish and chips fairing little better being flavourless and dull.

We thought we would push it to the ultimate and ordered the steamed puddings, Spotted Dick and Treacle both of which were not even of store brought quality with an apology for a custard.

The meal was not expensive £80.00 plus we added a £10 tip purely out of habit, the service being non existent.

I just wonder how those high rating are achieved or was this just a bad day?
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Simply Fantastic, Friday, 29 August 2008

Written by Sean

Overall rating
9.0
Overall
9.0
Food
10.0
Service
10.0
Ambience
8.0
Value
8.0
Toilets
8.0
Recommend
10.0
Have been here for food 3 times, and each time have been blown away by the quality and presentation of the food. Seriously would not be out of place in places like Oxo Tower, Tower 42 & Coq D'Argent, but with a pub setting rather than the swanky bars. People are nice and friendly, staff are attentive, it's worth booking as we've tried just walking in on a number of occasions and not been able to get a table. Overall top marks from me - will definately be going back!
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