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Best Restaurants in Essex

The 31 best restaurants in Essex are shown below. Our unique ranking algorithm factors in the ratings from the Michelin Guide, AA Guide, Good Food Guide and more, to make it easy to find the best restaurants in Essex (including any Michelin Star restaurants in Essex and AA Rosette restaurants in Essex). Explore these award winning restaurants below via the interactive restaurant map or check out the full top 31 restaurant list. Click any restaurant to access the full restaurant details.
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Top 31 Restaurants in Essex

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1
Haywards
Epping
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
2
Le Talbooth
Colchester
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
3
Galvin Green Man
Howe Street
Michelin Bib Gourmand
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
4
The White Hart
Great Yeldham
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
5
The Sun Inn
Dedham
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
6
Church Street Tavern
Colchester
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
7
The Pier at Harwich
Harwich
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
8
Ranfield's Brasserie
Coggeshall
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
9
Cloisters at the GreyFriars Hotel
Colchester
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
10
Roslin Beach Hotel
Southend-on-sea
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
11
The Bell Inn Bistro
Thorpe-le-soken
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
12
Tudors Restaurant at the Marygreen Manor Hotel
Brentwood
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
13
The Windmill Chatham Green
Chelmsford
Michelin Bib Gourmand
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
14
The Hoop
Stock
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
15
The Chophouse Braintree
Braintree
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
16
The Blue Anchor
Feering
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
17
The Grill Room Restaurant at Down Hall Country House Hotel
Bishop's Stortford
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
18
Milsoms at Dedham
Colchester
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
19
The Garden Brasserie at Orsett Hall
Orsett
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
20
1935 Rooftop Restaurant at the Holiday Inn Southend
Southend-on-sea
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
21
The Bull and Willow Room at Great Totham
Great Totham
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
22
The Cricketers Arms
Saffron Walden
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
23
Samphire Restaurant at the County Hotel
Chelmsford
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
24
Ellis's Restaurant at the Greenwoods Hotel
Stock
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
25
Harry's
Clacton-on-sea
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
26
Rubino Kitchen at Chigborough Lodge
Maldon
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
27
Flitch of Bacon
Dunmow
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
28
The Cricketers
Clavering
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
29
The Bell Inn
Horndon on the Hill
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
30
Food by John Lawson
Leigh-on-Sea
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
31
Tom, Dick and Harry's
Loughton
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50

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Best Restaurants - Counties & County Areas

Aberdeenshire Angus and Dundee City Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty Cheshire Clackmannanshire and Fife Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Cumbria Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Devon Dorset and Somerset Dumfries and Galloway East Anglia East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh and Lomond East Lothian and Midlothian East Wales East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Essex Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Greater Manchester Guernsey Hampshire and Isle of Wight Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire Inner London Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire Inverness and Nairn and Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Jersey Kent Lancashire Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire Lincolnshire Merseyside North Yorkshire Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Outer London Perth and Kinross and Stirling Scottish Borders Shropshire and Staffordshire South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire South Yorkshire Surrey, East and West Sussex Tees Valley and Durham West Lothian West Wales and The Valleys West Yorkshire

Best Restaurants - Other Counties & Major Cities

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Bedford Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth and Poole Bradford Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot Brighton and Hove Bristol Buckinghamshire Calderdale and Kirklees Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Central Bedfordshire Central Valleys Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Conwy and Denbighshire Darlington Derby Dorset Dublin Durham East Cumbria East Derbyshire East Merseyside East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Edinburgh Falkirk Flintshire and Wrexham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greater Manchester North Greater Manchester South Gwent Valleys Gwynedd Hampshire Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Inner London - East Inner London - West Isle of Anglesey Isle of Wight Leeds Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland Liverpool Manchester Medway Monmouthshire and Newport Norfolk North and North East Lincolnshire North Northamptonshire North Nottinghamshire Northumberland Nottingham Outer London - East and North East Outer London - South Outer London - West and North West Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Powys Sefton Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South and West Derbyshire South Nottinghamshire South Teesside South West Wales Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Tyneside Wakefield Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Cumbria West Northamptonshire West Sussex Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York

Best Restaurants - Other Cities

Aberdeen Bangor Bath Bournemouth Brighton Cambridge Cheltenham Chester Cork Drogheda Dundee Galway Guildford Harrogate Ipswich Limerick Lincoln Lisburn Londonderry Newcastle Norwich Oxford Reading Shoreditch, London Soho, London St Albans St Ives Torquay Waterford Winchester Windermere Windsor

Best Restaurants - National Parks

Brecon Beacons Dartmoor Exmoor Loch Lomond and the Trossachs New Forest North York Moors Pembrokeshire Coast Snowdonia South Downs The Broads Authority The Cairngorms The Lake District The Peak District Yorkshire Dales
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