I first stumbled on this place when out mountain biking in Epping Forest.
I stopped off for a sandwich and a soft-drink and was delighted to find that I was served anything other than a simple sandwich. The beef was excellent, a good cut and cooked to perfection. The accompanying salad was delightful too [I'm normally a salad dodger, but here I cleaned the plate]
I have since returned a number of times and have had nothing but excellent food everytime. The seafood is well up there with London restaurant standards.
It can sometimes be a little crowded and Sunday lunchtimes especially so, but on my experience of the food here, this is to be expected.
The beer garden at the rear is a hidden treasure, the perfect place to relax and enjoy a nice afternoon with some good food, peaceful surroundings, nice views, and a couple of pints to seal the deal.
I'd heartily recommend stopping by if you are in the area.

Most disappointing. The menu is badly written - there is no ambience, the dining room uninviting - although there some fresh flowers.
The pluses - my starter - avocado crab was nice and garnish very fresh - ditto for my skate. My husband has eaten better spare ribs at the Harvester - also chips were from the frozen kind. Usual stoggy desserts and it would been nice to have a fresh fruit salad on offer.
Service was not good - earlier on the meal my husband tipped some beer on his food and table - we had to ask for serviettes, and the rinse bowl water for the ribs, full of beer, was not replaced. The waitress lacked warmth, personality and would benefit from going to some training, she was also wearing some velours low waisted track suit bottom which was out of place in a dining room even a pub one. Against my better judgement, my husband left a £5 tip as we did not have change, and she litterally grabbed it out his hands - needless to say we will not return!

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.

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!

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.