Beehive Basildon — Restaurant in Basildon

Unfortunately the lack of healthy competition promotes complacency, authoritarian, chauvinistic behavior and narrow-mindedness. How can you have people in charge of security put women into dangerous situations? I came out of the Beehive to briefly speak to my husband leaving 2 of my girlfriends to finish their drinks. Upon my return I was advised by security that I wasn't allowed in as it was past 23:45. I explained to security that I just wanted to get my friends to come out as the pub was soon closing anyway. I was told "no". I called and messaged my friends but they didn't reply as it was too loud in the pub and they didn't hear me calling. My husband drove off home earlier as I didn't need him to pick us up, planning to go to the Loft next door. I found myself in a stressful situation when masses of intoxicated, lairy people started to come out of the pub but I wasn't allowed to reunite with my friends and I started to feel uneasy. I asked the bouncer who refused me entry if they could be so kind to get my girlfriends. I described them, pointed them out and explained that they haven't read my messages so they are not aware of me not being allowed back in but the bouncer refused to let me in or go get my friends. At this stage I decided that the situation was ludacris and I walked in to get my friends. We left before the pub was due to close and gone to the Loft where I was refused entry for "causing disturbance". The bouncer - a white, bald, podged bellied, beady eyed, tired looking, middle aged man who refused to provide me with his name but I trust my description will bring a face to mind, communicated to security at the Loft that I was to be denied entry. This is the most bizarre situation I have found myself in my 35 years. I was not drunk, not causing a scene nor being loud. I can only think that a small town mentality has influenced this behavior. I understand that rules are rules, however, discretion and common sense should be used in certain situations. If a reader has a woman or a vulnerable person in their life imagine an authoritarian figure cutting off that person's security system for the sake of a blanket approach rule. It makes no sense! And then imagine further power trip - hell bent on ruining the experience even outside said establishment. This behavior wouldn't last if people had elsewhere to go but for now Beehive security can do whatever they please as this is the main watering hole in Basildon. I just hope karma will find a way to repay the man...

It would be extremely helpful if the staff at the beehive put signs about the 7pm rules around the venue. My first visit, will certainly be my last. Me, my partner and our baby and friends attended at 6pm for a nice meal how was we wrong! We turned up and sat down to order food, which we did. They then come and told us at 7pm we had to move tables due to it being reserved. Which is fine! We continued to sit and relax. Someone then come and told us we have to leave at 7pm because we had a baby. This is AFTER we paid and ordered food at around 6.45pm. I totally understand this rule, but this was NOT expressed to us when we entered and they saw us. There is also NO signage to say this. I then left because I felt so uncomfortable with them watching us the whole time. My partner and his friend waited outside for our food so we could take it home with us and then they come up to him and told him to leave because he was in tracksuit bottoms. Which, again they was leaving anyway! They was so so rude. The bouncer was brilliant and he totally understood the stupidity of the situation. We were made to feel so uncomfortable. What a waste of £60 the food was awful too. As we was leaving the women not sure if she was a manager was shouting at other customers. This may be a good place to come out of the days / hours but not for us. If they just told us at the start the rules that came into play at 7pm we would of happily found somewhere else to get our food.

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I was given a food delivery from here where it is called "88th Street Burger Bar". There is no free parking for food delivery drivers and the nearest free parking is a long walk away. With the low amount getting paid for food deliveries, I would be losing money if I was to pay for paid parking. I still arrived on time and when I arrived I was told it would be a 5 minute wait. There is nowhere for drivers to sit and wait and no where to stand either without getting in the way and having to constantly move for staff to get access. Another driver there also had a long wait. It would not be so bad if they had somewhere for delivery drivers to sit and wait out of the way. It actually took 25 minutes until I was given the delivery in the end, where I was given no updates until I had waited 20 minutes and then managed to flag down a member of staff to make sure everything was ok and it was still coming. I could be wrong, but it seems like they can't cope with the demand for food ordered by present customers as well as deliveries. With demand being busy during a peak time I expect I missed out on another order elsewhere due to the excessive wait time here. The music was really loud which made it difficult to talk to staff and understand them, along with customers shouting at each other over the loud music to try to hear each other, making the long wait...