Rosey Lea

Visited for lunch and sat outside as it was a lovely day , was advised that someone would come and take our order outside , lady came and took our order for drinks and food . Waited quite a while for the drinks and questioned the wait time . Sandwiches and bagel arrived , all very tasty and nicely presented but no drinks, questioned it again and they finally arrived when food nearly finished . Had to go in to order cake as no one came out , again when the cakes finally arrived they were very nice but again had to ask where they were as waited quite a long time and by this time the place wasn't that busy . No apologies for the wait and prices aren't cheap so would have liked a bit better service .

Had lunch here on Wednesday with a few friends. The enormous amount of building work in the area which will swallow this lovely old town and turn it into another cookie cutter housing estate by the time it is finished completely cut off the old approach roads to this converted farm area. You have to drive through part of the new estate and then down the old lane to find the place. There are a few new, old build barns, much in keeping with the way the area is being turned into an artificial, mock old, plasterboard city for the "Look at me" crowd who will loudly state that they live in Bishop's Stortford, rah! Anyway rant over! When we arrived there was a long queue of mumsy ladies in dresses waiting to get in. We thought there was a wedding or something going on but when we asked we were told they were waiting to sit inside despite it being a glorious day and there is plenty of seating outside. The staff member was very helpful and we were told to choose a table, decide what we wanted off the menu, go through the further door to the counter, order what we wanted and it would be brought out to us. Which we did and got served our food before most of those still standing in the queue. The food was great and up to the same standard as their sister restaurant at North Weald airfield. There's plenty of parking but make sure you plot your route in and visit before the cardboard ghetto is completed and the mumsy club besiege it with their Range Rovers, Teslas and other attention seeking devices.

Been coming here 2-3 times a week for the last 3 years or so and received good to adequate customer service even when it was busy not today, truly awful, could see it was busy so went inside so the staff could see someone was waiting, at least 3 waitresses passed with no acknowledgement, benefit of the doubt as it was busy went back outside another 5 minutes no acknowledgement still nothing, then other people started to turn up and were seated and served while we were seemingly still invisible after 2 more party's arrived and were seated and had their orders taken! nothing was said until I approached a waitress and asked if she could see me and told her we had been there nearly half an hour and been ignored,needless to say we then left. Have been visiting again in the last few months and there has been a vast improvement here, same delicious food and drinks but with prompt and attentive service.