The Swan Public House — Restaurant in Braintree

We visited the Swan Public House & Restaurant on Sunday 01/09/24 this was our first time visiting. This pub has a friendly cosy vibe. We were shown to the restaurant area but unfortunately left for quite a while to the point we weren't sure if we had to go to the bar to order or if they waited on us at the table, we popped down to the bar and a lovely lady said she would come to us at the table which she did do straight away (they were extremely busy so maybe that's why we had to wait longer than maybe you normally would?). The lady that took our orders was extremely pleasant and polite and very helpful when we were ordering certain dishes ie: roast options and steak dishes. The food was delivered in good time & was presented well, it was absolutely delicious & cooked to perfection, you get served a very good portion of food not like some places that scrimp on portions now days. I would say excellent value for money. We all left the table very satisfied. I have given an overall scoring of 4* purely due to I feel the restaurant could do with a little sprucing up and in the garden area there were tables that hadn't been cleared even though staff were delivery food out to the tables, but unfortanley they never cleared any tables on their return to the bar, this is one of my bug bares you should not be returning empty handed if there are tables to be cleared! it also makes a lovely area look unwelcoming to those seated already and to prepective customers.This score has no reflection of the service and great food that's definitely a 5* from all of us. We will definatly be returning to The Public House & Returaurant ...

This pub is OK four of us had lunch here. I had ham egg and chips, I told them I was gluten free, when the meal arrived there was plenty of it but the ham had breadcrumbs on it which was disappointing. You got 2 eggs with it but they were quite greasy. My husband had lasagne and chips the lasagne was a good size and plenty of chips. The other people we was with both ordered the curry one had chicken and other had prawn and it came with nan bread, onion bhaji rice and chips. They also ordered nachos which came with cheese on top. They were quite slow in serving us and it wasn't very busy, although I couldnt tell if there were many people sitting in the garden and that may have been why they were slow because of being busy. We sat inside the area they call the restaurant it was clean but very rough and ready, so if you are looking for big portions and your not gluten free then this place might be...

Maybe we shouldn't take an unplanned afternoon pub meal too seriously, but we were incredibly disappointed with what we felt was by the far the worst pub food we've ever had. Stale, cheapest quality bread bun, the cheapest slice of plastic cheese, the worst quality burger, chips that oozed grease when you cut into them, eggs that were fried to oblivion (solid / no runny yolk / glistening in frying oil), a gammon steak (I ordered ham, there's a disntinction) coated in greasy oil. Inedible and a waste of money - I'm really not one for writing bad reviews for the sake of it but this experience left us feeling cheated the food was so bad, and in our opinion isn't of an...