Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Southend
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Southend restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 85 restaurants in Southend and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Southend restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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18.
The Golden Ball
British, Modern restaurant in Henley-on-Thames
Lower Assendon - RG9
In November 2022, after 15 years at the helm, Stephen Luscombe dramatically handed over the reins of this pretty former pub with a foodie reputation to local boy Ben Watson (whose CV includes the acclaimed Core by Clare Smyth) and Priya Arora-Watson (a former FOH at London’s famed Gymkhana). By all accounts there is “little to suggest any adverse change” now it‘s running under an abridged name – and indeed, for fans, the local, seasonal food is “even better” now, with the “brilliant set menu” (£23 per person for two courses, £28 per person for three) representing very “good value given that prices everywhere have gone stratospheric”.
19.
The Little Angel
British, Traditional restaurant in Henley-on-Thames
Remenham Ln - RG9
2024 Review: This “very old pub in a great location next to Henley Bridge” has been a scenic boozer for yonks, but now comes in a “fabulous new incarnation”, having been taken over by seasoned restaurateurs Matt Dockray and Phil Renner, who relaunched in late 2022. The hugely stylish interior (not least in the vaulted dining room, strewn with trinkets) makes it a “great place for a first date”, and there are positive early reports on the elevated pub classics by head chefs Joshua Wilde and George O’Leary – both previously senior sous-chefs at Tom Kerridge’s Marlow joints The Coach, and The Hand and Flowers.
20.
H Café
Sandwiches, cakes, etc restaurant in Henley-on-Thames
22 Market Place - RG9
2021 Review: Henley residents can now save on the rail fare to ‘The Smoke’. Hot on the heels of opening a luxury food court in Harrods, the famous store’s first café outside London is to open in late 2019 on the market place of this chichi town (in what was formerly a branch of Nicolas). We are promised an experience akin to the new food hall approach recently adopted in SW1: ‘a menu of dine-in and dine-out options, replicating the current food-to-go and deli offering’ in Knightsbridge.
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