The Marquis — Restaurant in Colchester

Good selection of drinks, friendly staff, darts, pool, several TV screens, jukebox, fruit machines, occasional karaoke and a beer garden. Pub snacks (crisps, etc) are available. There are several areas to the pub, so even if a game is on, you can hide away from it all. It can get quite busy on a Friday and Saturday night, but quite cosy at other times. The building itself is beautiful and incredibly old; tall people will need to watch their heads in places! It's not the kind of place that has trouble, the management are pretty good at keeping the peace. A nice place for a chat, to watch a game or to get your...

I have eaten sqid for lunch here. MY friends drink here daily during lunch and sometimes in the evening. I have just arrived from overseas. And I am not impressed by the service. As a new patron, I expect a polite conversation from the bar staff, and they don't even ask how my day is? Or where I'm from? No customer service skills at all. And it's disappointing because my friends are local for 25 years they been coming here. They no longer have a chess board, only crib. A coffee /pint of Guinness is around £10.00. Big court yard. No parking, and it's uphill back to town. Staff have no area to smoke away...

After being in lockdown for all them months we went to the marquis for a well deserved beer , with all the changes they made for you to feel safe was next to none , brilliant , asked if we wanted to sit inside or outside , asked to follow the appropriate one-way system which we did, got to the table , asked what drink we wanted , no wait , got our drinks within 5 mins , then after that the server came around about every 10mins , very efficient , so had a great afternoon in the sum in a pub with good atmosphere , so if you want quick service and feel safe this is the pub to go to , thank you for a...