We went here with family and had the Christmas menu deal.The service, from walking in until leaving was excellent. All staff were professional, yet friendly and attentive. The standard of training they have received is almost, but not quite to Silver Service level.The food was of very good quality, extremely flavoursome and tasty.I can find no fault with this restaurant, it deserves better than the five star rating available.I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting an enjoyable time in lovely surroundings, eating exquisite food and being treated like you were the most important people in the area.
David M Ireland
Excellent food and service. Very friendly. And not too noisy.Parking: Difficult to find space in adjacent car park. Had to park in road a couple minutes walk away
Peter Clarke
Wonderful building, full of character, gorgeous food and friendly
Hen
Highly recommendEverything was fresh and cooked to perfectionNo complaints at all,Highly attentive and knowledgeable serviceWould return
Suzanne Gilson
Found this gem of a restaurant with a fantastic menu reasonably priced. Lovely venue and beautiful as well as tasty food.
Rory Pickard
Amazing food and service, get the pork belly!
H Mcfee
Absolutely superb food and lovely attentive staff.Dietary restrictions: Very knowledgeable regarding gluten free food and drink highly recommend.
T McDermott
Absolutely superb food and lovely attentive staff.Dietary restrictions: Very knowledgeable regarding gluten free food and drink highly recommend.
Tina
Absolutely 1st class restaurant the food was fantastic as were the staff, the gluten free options were the best ive ever had we will definitely be returning. Thank you for a lovely evening.
Daniel Mcdermott
Found this gem online, great service and even better food. Gluten free options and waiter service is second to none. Highly recommended.
As well travelled foodies we are still trying to understand how it is we’ve never eaten here before. It’s very sad really because it’s very very good. Anyway we shall be making up for lost time. The restaurant is a deceptively large barn like structure. The staff are very welcoming and pleasant. We had a mid week set menu lunch with good choices. The food is superb, inventive and well presented. The complimentary pre lunch bread was a nice surprise as it is so rare for restaurants to include this anymore. We come from the Southend area which has an abundance of restaurants some of which are passable but none that are as good as Russells. Chelmsford is very lucky to have this restaurant. We will definitely return and perhaps to one of the interesting evening events as per the photo I took as attached
Dutch Skyline
Absolutely fantastic place excellent food with outstanding service.
Brian Davison
As usual a great meal good surrounding and survis.
Stewart Peppiatt
Second time we've tried it. Lovely food - lasagne for me, smoked haddock for the other half. Good service, nice setting.
Paul Fisher
Very impressedWhat a lovely atmospheric venue.Whilst it was quite quiet on a Thursday lunchtime service was attentive and appropriate.Starter choices were wide, I chose a beef carpaccio beautifully flavoured.Main was a truly delicious Beef Tornedo Rossini.We had the dessert quad plate and asked for one dish change. Chef was delighted to come out and tell us he liked our combination better the established one, so would be changing it. The frangipan was absolutely sensational.The toilets were very clean.Great visit to a beautiful venue
We went here with family and had the Christmas menu deal.The service, from walking in until leaving was excellent. All staff were professional, yet friendly and attentive. The standard of training they have received is almost, but not quite to Silver Service level.The food was of very good quality, extremely flavoursome and tasty.I can find no fault with this restaurant, it deserves better than the five star rating available.I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting an enjoyable time in lovely surroundings, eating exquisite food and being treated like you were the most important people in the area.
Excellent food and service. Very friendly. And not too noisy.Parking: Difficult to find space in adjacent car park. Had to park in road a couple minutes walk away
Wonderful building, full of character, gorgeous food and friendly
Highly recommendEverything was fresh and cooked to perfectionNo complaints at all,Highly attentive and knowledgeable serviceWould return
Found this gem of a restaurant with a fantastic menu reasonably priced. Lovely venue and beautiful as well as tasty food.
Amazing food and service, get the pork belly!
Absolutely superb food and lovely attentive staff.Dietary restrictions: Very knowledgeable regarding gluten free food and drink highly recommend.
Absolutely superb food and lovely attentive staff.Dietary restrictions: Very knowledgeable regarding gluten free food and drink highly recommend.
Absolutely 1st class restaurant the food was fantastic as were the staff, the gluten free options were the best ive ever had we will definitely be returning. Thank you for a lovely evening.
Found this gem online, great service and even better food. Gluten free options and waiter service is second to none. Highly recommended.
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As well travelled foodies we are still trying to understand how it is we’ve never eaten here before. It’s very sad really because it’s very very good. Anyway we shall be making up for lost time. The restaurant is a deceptively large barn like structure. The staff are very welcoming and pleasant. We had a mid week set menu lunch with good choices. The food is superb, inventive and well presented. The complimentary pre lunch bread was a nice surprise as it is so rare for restaurants to include this anymore. We come from the Southend area which has an abundance of restaurants some of which are passable but none that are as good as Russells. Chelmsford is very lucky to have this restaurant. We will definitely return and perhaps to one of the interesting evening events as per the photo I took as attached
Absolutely fantastic place excellent food with outstanding service.
As usual a great meal good surrounding and survis.
Second time we've tried it. Lovely food - lasagne for me, smoked haddock for the other half. Good service, nice setting.
Very impressedWhat a lovely atmospheric venue.Whilst it was quite quiet on a Thursday lunchtime service was attentive and appropriate.Starter choices were wide, I chose a beef carpaccio beautifully flavoured.Main was a truly delicious Beef Tornedo Rossini.We had the dessert quad plate and asked for one dish change. Chef was delighted to come out and tell us he liked our combination better the established one, so would be changing it. The frangipan was absolutely sensational.The toilets were very clean.Great visit to a beautiful venue