King Harolds Head - Waltham Abbey

The food was excellent, as always, and the service was very attentive! Highly recommended!

I want to extend a huge THANK YOU for going above and beyond by delivering a Mother's Day Sunday roast to my elderly grandmother, who is isolated and has no family nearby. The fact that you did this without any charge is truly commendable. The food and service were amazing! xx

It's more of a restaurant than a pub now, but we were pleasantly surprised. We enjoyed a lovely lunch at a reasonable price and will definitely return. The evening atmosphere seems like it would be very nice. There's a fantastic selection of food, and the coffee was outstanding. I really appreciated that the meal came with a good variety of vegetables instead of just the usual peas! While there isn't a wide selection of bitters, they do offer Guinness and I believe Theakston's as well. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this place, and my only regret is not trying it out sooner.

We had a 70th birthday celebration there. The staff were great and so efficient, food was amazing and a great time was had by all.

We had heard great things about the pub and we booked for a family birthday. We had a couple of drinks in the bar area first and the young woman who was serving behind the bar was a delight and an asset to the establishment. We were seated about 10 minutes later than our booked table. The Maitre d ' or restaurant manager is not full of charm unfortunately. He was quite abrupt when he asked for our names when we arrived and when we had chosen our meals, I would say he actually snatched the menu from me! We were a party of 3 and we didn 't have starters and went straight for the main course. This took nearly an hour to arrive. Before the food arrived I asked if we had been forgotten. When the food did arrive, which ironically was minutes after I had enquired where it was I asked the waitress why the wait was so long. She replied that there had been incident and an ambulance was outside. I asked her if it was the Chef as I couldn 't understand the connection why we were waiting for food because of this! Whilst I have every sympathy for the family who had this upset to deal with and I do I cannot see this was anything to do with it. When the food arrived I had to send my steak back as it was cold I am assuming it was sitting in the kitchen (as I say had we been forgotten!! . Would I go back doubtful. The food was okay, but the rudeness and service received would stop me. Which is a real shame as the pub itself is beautifully decorated and has a very nice look to it. We eat out a lot and return to restaurants/pubs quite frequently, but this one sadly we will not be.