The Woolpack — Restaurant in Chelmsford

Had dinner with my fiancée at the Woolpack tonight around 8pm. I ordered a hot dog and my fiancée ordered a chilli dog. While we were waiting for our food, a Deliveroo driver came in and picked up a food order, and I said to my partner ‘why would people order pub food when there’s so many proper restaurants delivering?’.

We quickly received our hot dogs and after one bite, I completely understood why people would order their dinner from there. The hot dogs were SOOO GOOD! The crispy onions on top were great, also the chips were amazing and I don’t even usually like chips. Super yummy, highly recommend 👌

The bar staff and Landlord were all lovely. They were very attentive, sat us down as soon as we walked in, asked us how our meals were and brought us drinks quickly after we asked for them.

This great service was all while the bar staff were trying to deal with multiple groups of proper rowdy people who couldn’t stay in their seats, and couldn’t seem to figure out how to order drinks. They handled the situation brilliantly and to be honest I’d give 5 stars just for the bar staff alone, they stayed so professional at all times and were clearly looking after every single customer that was in there.

Needless to say we’ll definitely be coming back and we’ll also order food from them...

An absolute gem of a pub that we found by accident after taking a wrong turn. We had checked out several nearby pubs which turned out to be offering ‘fine dining’. Which means £23 for fish and chips and they seat you before you can order a drink so everything goes on the tab and you feel obliged to tip like a restaurant. So after our wrong turn we found the next pub down the road and what a happy accident. A proper boozer with a great selection of beers - often you can’t find one decent IPA but the Woolpack had Neck Oil AND Level Head. Sophie’s Choice and not in a good way. But a proper boozer rarely has such an amazing selection of food. Apart from standard s like fish and ships they had shepherds’ pie, beef stew and also some of the more exotic pub food options such as ribs which are apparently massive. We got a chicken sharing platter of wings and tenders with a load of dips and some steak fries while we tried to decide what to order for maims, and there was so much food that we never went on to mains that we were so keen to try. All fresh and hot and served quickly. The landlady was very welcoming and busy running round doing everything. Icing on the cake was an unobtrusive classic 80s soundtrack. We will have to find an excuse for a return visit.. I bet Sunday...

Your reply is a total lie, and we can prove it. You charged us £2 per dish more for the stew than the published price and did NOT refund anything. Congratulations on now dropping to one star based on your lies.

Feb 23: Bad organisation lets them down. The menu that was published on their website and Facebook page 2 days previously is suddenly wrong when it's time to pay. Advertised at one price, no mention about it when ordering then increase price when it's time to pay claiming the menu was a mistake. And no-one noticed this for 2 days? Poor form. Nice food + beer but this behaviour is appalling

Great pub and friendly staff. Great range of ales. Lovely garden space outside. Always a nice place...