Amazing match to marry food science and old English pub atmosphere. I felt some lovely smoke from the fire place, stroked all the local cockapoo pups while Eating Hestons "fat duck" with red cabbage and blackberry. My new favourite place!
The place where pub and Michelin star food meets. Great friendly staff, totally recommend - already have been 3 times, planning now the next visit �
Sunday 27th May 18.
My daughter, son-in-law and I had a wonderful time there yesterday. We ate lunch in the pretty courtyard, all very good, along with a great wine; then we moved into the delightful garden area and spent a very relaxing couple of hours on the comfy sofas. More wine, a burger from the bbq, ... all lovely.
Throughout our visit, all staff were excellent - efficient, eager to please, friendly. Prices are slightly on the high side, but well worth it for the experience of being served so well, in such lovely surroundings, and we look forward to returning.
Karen Norman-Tomlinson
+5
Gorgeous food- every thing we ordered (3 courses) was delicious! Best steak ive ever had. Would 100% recommend. Lovely atmosphere with fire and beams. Busy but surprisingly not too long a wait for food. Staff very friendly and helpful. Thank you x
We went here as part of my Birthday treat and i have to say from start to finish it was fab . We entered the Crown and was made very welcome and although we hadnt booked a table they managed to sort it for us ... the waitress was worth her weight in gold and the food and drink was superb ... many thanks all for making my birthday treat memorable x
I had been recommended here by a few friends and I have to say I was not disappointed. Excellent food and the staff were lovely. I celebrated my birthday yesterday there and I got a card from all the staff, Such a special touch. I will definitely be back myself and be telling people to go!
What a little jewel this pub is. Welcoming attentive staff and friendly locals makes this one a must do. Of course Hestons menue from the teo restaurants is just lovely and the food is excellent.
Went there for the Sunday Roast and wow was it worth it! The beef was tender and perfectly cooked. The potato's were the perfect constancy. The vegetables were simply prepared, yet fantastically executed. Can't fault it. Staff very friendly and provide a warm and informal vibe, yet remain professional, so keep you both at ease and give you the feeling you're in great hands.
Already want to go back. Thoroughly recommend!
First visit to The Crown after living in the area for 26 years, amazed, lovely garden, Devine burger and friendly welcoming staff, can't wait to visit again to try the rum punch
Never ever have any disappointment from customer services to quality of food. So lucky to be our local restaurant. My guests from abroad loved it for the freshness and creativity on food. Italian manager is so fantastic to organise a table for me on such a short notice.
Best fish and chips ever. CO2 in the batter makes amazing tall, light, and crispy crunchiness. I also hate mushy peas. Except for Hestons. I want seconds.
I love everything about this pub! It oozes 16th century charm and has bags of warm, friendly character - exactly as a local pub should be. The food is PHENOMENAL. The Crown Burger and Guinness Ice Cream take you to another world! The new Garden area outside is stunning. Can't wait to go back :-)
I can’t not wait to come back! I had the best fish ‘n’ chips I’ve ever tasted, and can I please get the recipe to the braised red cabbage!? Cheers from Oslo.
It never lets you down. Great food, cosy pub, good staff. It's become our family favourite.
Pauline Jimmy O'hara Hannington
+5
Was absolutely amazing we stopped off for lunch as we were staying at the Oakley court Hotel Windsor and decided to try as it looked very quaint we were not disappointed staff were very friendly and helpful I had king prawn cocktail my husband had smoked mackerel on toast with permenta tomatoes and chips so delicious I have never seen such a big prawn cocktail well worth every penny will be visiting again.
Fantastic staff, friendly atmosphere and amazing food.
We had a table booked for 12, but due to traffic we arrived an hour late. My daughter checked if we could still have lunch and has we had an appointment 40 minutes later we would have to have something really quick. The waiter did everything we could to recommend and get us our lunch out quickly. The food was lovely and the service was brilliant, will be going back and definitely stay longer
Fantastic, they even had soft herring roe on toast as a starter which I've never seen served anywhere before, plus amazing stone bass and to top everything the chocolate parfait with honeycomb and chocolate oil was out of this world.
Dorthe Fladholt Nielsen
+5
Beautiful food, great service and a place we definetely will be back to😊👍🏻
Beautiful food with superb service - a "proper" gastro pub. Expect nothing less of Heston! 😀
A fantastic place made very welcome food absolutely stunning
Birthday lunch & truly wonderful. Glass of bubbles whilst we chose & had celeriac soup (so gorgeous), belly of lamb (divine) & chocolate parfait with honeycomb which was sublime. Such wonderful food, lovely friendly service & at reasonable prices. Will definitely be back.
awesome bar experience me and my friends had... it was one of my best day of my life.... so good experience ... the vibe,feeling,atmosphere ... everything was well planned and awesome beer...
A restaurant by Heston Blumenthal, of course the food was going to be great. The third of his restaurants in Bray, this is more the ‘casual pub’ vibe. We managed to walk in without a reservation on a weekday but it did get busy later in the evening. Steak and bone marrow for main, every bit rich and tender you could want. For dessert we couldn’t decide, so in order of Best first; bread and butter pudding - something so simple executed so so well the caramelisation on top finished it off perfectly. Chocolate Cranachan - based on the Scottish dessert this was all bits delicious, creamy, and rich. Rhubarb cheesecake - again very well executed, something simple done well. Make sure you don’t skip dessert when you go here !
Decided to drop in for a meal with an old friend at this famed establishment by Heston Blumenthal. Looks like a really old place with lots of wood, low ceilings and felt very warm and cozy. Had to wait for our table as we were early and had some beers at the bar. A very small menu of about a dozen items and just a couple of options for vegetarians. We stuck to multiple appetizers and they were simply superb. However what we didn't quite enjoy was the pushy service trying to get you to order lots, order fast and get out of there - inspite of the place being half empty when we exited. I guess the Heston name allows them to treat their patrons any which way they like.
Ok. It isn't The Fat Duck, but is owned by Heston and I was expecting to be blown away. The location is lovely and is a centuries old coaching inn and I recall it from my days of living in Bray in the early 1970's.
4 of us are a good pub meal ( the Prawn Cocktail and chilled cucumber and pea soup were very, very good) but the Sirloin steaks weren't notable apart from a beautiful Marrowbone sauce. And at £29 not a cheap steak. An enjoyable evening but in someway I felt it should have been more, given the ownership.
When it was announced that Heston would be taking over the Crown, it was met with some degree of resistance by the local community as this was he last remaining standalone boozer in the village. The fear was that the boozer would be converted to yet another gastropub serving food which would be unrecognisable to the locals. Furthermore, Heston already owns a gastropub some 50 yards down the road (the Hind’s Head) serving his modern reinterpretation of classic English dishes.
Very Good!. We were staying in Bray and visited The Crown several times for drinks and dinner.Great food, good service and a nice outdoor dining area.
Heston + Bray = Delicious food, yet still at very reasonable prices. We visited the Crown at Bray at 18.30 on a Saturday, on the off-chance of getting a table (they keep a few back every day), and struck lucky.
We were absolutely delighted with the quality of the food - the Hereford Steak with Bearnaise sauce was faultless, and the fries, well, they really *are* perfect, as Heston set out to prove.The Loch Duart salmon with spicy tomato and pepper (and fennel?) sauce was also excellent, and the child's fish and chips had the best batter we've ever tasted (we all had some!).
If you need smaller portions for children, just ask.The staff were very accommodating.
The ice cream with peanut brittle and a little pot of hot salty caramel were delicious.
The prices were comparable with other gastropubs (around £90 for a family of 4 having two courses with wine). Certainly no evidence of any "Heston tax" - but plenty of evidence of his influence in the quality of the food.
We'll be back.
...I simply couldn’t help but peruse the menu as I walked past, a string of four words beckoning like beacons to a seat at The Crown. Ever the tight space with history seemingly well preserved despite controversy amongst locals who continually lament the loss of a patina of smoke and the cheap drinks of days past it was once again to warm pleasantries that I breached room’s cusp and with
But in terms of general enjoyment of the food, I’m a simple girl at heart and love a good pub meal.
Beautiful pub with huge garden and nice courtyard. Amazingly friendly service. Brown bread with crispy, seeded crust (and foamed butter) was fabulous. Nice marmite butter. Fabulously crispy fish & chips with fab chips. Rest of food and drink nice but not quite as fab - but all in all a lovely meal in beautiful Bray
Nice pub in Bray. Have an outside beer garden at the back through a courtyard type thing. Recommend going outside when weather is nice. Food was good too... had snacks... Black pudding Scotch egg was delightful
Interesting old pub dating back to 1380, making it the oldest building in the village. Nice selection of beers with plenty of seating inside and outside in the large garden. Good food selection and friendly staff. Expanded by incorporating old buildings on either side.
The Australian in-laws loved the experience. The photos and decor is great, love the exposed beams.
Food is good but it is getting expensive for a "normal pub". (I know it's a Heston pub :))
We were a group of 10. A very old and charming place. The service was quite nice and in a perfect speed. Never had to look for waiters, they appeared frequently and were very nice and helpful. I had the beef tartar as Appetizer which was hand cut, fresh and overall nice and recommendable. Not on the top range but good handwork. The burgers I found quite normal and not exciting. The buns seemed to be home made, but I had a quit dry one. The meat was not that good to be honest. Cooked medium but tasted not as expected. I would not order again. As dessert, we got the Creme Brûlée. Well made and delicious.
Fantastic garden, very helpful and welcoming staff, food was lovely but the main was very small. Four of us ordered the same meal as it looked delicious, unfortunately mine was but portion was tiny and I left hungry even after cheese and crackers, although the others were a fair size.
Next time I'll try something different as what I had tasted so good.
Jenny Racławicki (jennyfromtheblock)
+4
We were looking for a nice pub to have dinner and we found this as we were nearby. Classic, nice ambience and traditional except the Fish & Chips. I always order fish n chips when I am in an English pub as I know I won’t get disappointed… unfortunately I was. Although we love Heston Blumenthal but the fish n chips was just not for me. They made it too gourmet that I didn’t enjoyed it much coz the portion was a bit small for me, along side was the peas and tartar sauce served in a tiny bowl 😩- the portion of the fish was just not what I called traditional. Overall, everything else was awesome including the Bavette Steak which the kids indulged as well as my hubby enjoying his Crown burger. The staff, bartender were nice and friendly!
Very tasty, good beer, veg portions are good. The lamb was divine, felt that the starters should have been better for the price. Or a bit cheaper Had the prawn cocktail and the eel with bacon jam. Staff were excellent and friendly. Obviously not the cheapest place but we had a great evening.
Our party of 7 chose various meals although not all of them are listed on this page. All meals were very tasty, piping hot and beautifully presented.
The restaurant was busy but fairly quiet as it was a Tuesday.
The garden area was was lovely with conformable seating for many. Unfortunately we couldn't make use of it after our meal as it was raining when we finished our meal.
Definitely a place to go back to. Great for families and they cater for dogs too, proving a number of water bowls and fresh supply of water.
Fantastic little find this was, a real old traditional style pub with extremely low ceilings, a truly fabulous atmosphere, we enjoyed a three course lunch, the Irish lady who looked after us was really good, fully explained the menu and recommended dishes for us.
Very enjoyable, we will return.
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