Chelmsford
Skewers Kebab Grill Chelmsford

Skewers Kebab Grill Chelmsford

6B Baddow Rd, Chelmsford, CM20DG, CM2 0DG, United Kingdom

Kebab • Cafés • Grill • Mexican


"I have had quite a few lovely takeaways from Skewers and have put on glowing reviews. Heard it was under new management but hoped the quality and service would still be as good. They weren’t. Firstly it took an hour and a half for my meal to arrive even though the website “tracking” was saying my meal had been delivered for the last 20 minutes of that time. When it arrived the bags were wet on the bottom and I was warned to hold them underneath so the food wouldn’t fall out. On looking the bag with the salads in looked as if it already had fallen out. One of the salads and one of the sauces were open and upside down (he seems the wet bag Despite specifying no cucumber (due to an allergy all three salads had cucumber in making them inedible The two kebabs were cold and the meat was over cooked and dry. Several bits were so burned I thought they had put charcoal in by mistake. The doner meat and fries used to just be meat and fries but this time it was covered in loads of salad and masses of a white sauce (mayonnaise? . The salad had loads of cucumber in it so this dish was also inedible. Even without the cucumber it was stone cold and couldn’t be microwaved as it was covered in salad and Mayo. The two kebabs were cold and we tried microwaving them but the meat was so dry and tough they also got binned. All in all the meal cost £25 and 98% went in the bin. I rang the shop and the girl sounded as if she’d heard it all before. They had been rushed off their feet but she would get the manager to ring me back. Unsurprisingly he didn’t. So sad to see the best kebab shop in Chelmsford become this bad in just a few months"

The Hare At Roxwell

The Hare At Roxwell

Bishops Stortford Road, Chelmsford I-CM1 4LU, United Kingdom

Pub • Vegan • British • Vegetarian


"So bad we're still laughing about it in disbelief. I really don't mind paying good money for nice food, on the flip side if the food is cheap I don't expect too much from it and if I'm pleasantly surprised it's a bonus. Roast Beef here is £17, cauliflower cheese was £8 and dessert was £7 £8, I don't remember, so middle of the road for pub roast. But pricey enough that the food should be good. The quality was poor and the portion sizes were small. The roast potatoes you could hardly cut through the outside (one of the potatoes i actually couldn't) and the inside was rock solid. It was probably a god send that you only got three very small potato's. The £8 cauliflower cheese was cauliflower in thickened milk lacking cheese, there was zero flavour. The beef consisted of two small bits of beef, my beef wasn't actually too bad and I appreciate you need a bit of fat to add to the flavour but the other people I was with, their beef was overly fatty. Gravy, there was very little. The Yorkshire puds, I'm pretty sure were from a packet. For desert we had brownies as they had run out of trillionaires tart, the portion sizes again were very very small, i'd be surprised if 3 square, although the flavour was good. All in all a very very disappointing experience, my cousin who booked lunch is now banned from ever booking lunch again. I did complain, in a non vocal manner and they did apologise and take 15% off our bill."