The Knowhere Guide

Eating and Drinking in Clacton, Essex*

Clacton, Essex Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• mcdonalds, kfc, favourite fried chicken n various chinese takeaways
• kebabs rule. marvellous!
• Macdonalds, Wimpy, KFC, plenty of fish and chip shops.
• "CHISH AND FIPS" is dire MACS is the pits Chinese takeaway "The Tasty House" in St.Osyth Rd. would be good if it was not full of chinks!
• Bodrums great after a few drinks cos u don't taste the rat in your burger and you can often annoy the staff
• Georginas..........simply divine!
• Mainly fish and chips using frozen not fresh fish. Theres is an idetikit Tescos,Somerfield and so on.
• We now have finally moved into the 21st Centry and now have a nice new Kentucky Fried Chicken, and that crappy shed near the Moon and Starfish that sells the traditional cockney delights of jellied Ells and other sea food delights. Not recomened when on the piss
• Moon and Starfish does good pub food! Give it a try! I can live there!
• Moon and Strafish does really yummy pub food. Try it sometime!
• The Royal Hotel always cooks up a delicious treat
• "Oh well, this is different. You say that if I get this shop off your hands, you'll let me sell cakes in it rather than the chalk and cheese your selling here already? You say that you can't seem to combine the two markets? Too different you say? oh go on then". Thus was born "Graham Bennets Cake Shop" in 1707. It's still there too
• MARVELOUS. One can say no more marvelous! The chips, whenther open or wrapped Marvelous, are of the highest quality marvelous!
• The best place to eat is definetly Food Express no questions asked you always get loads and it always tastes great.
• Of course, the splendid Criterion restaurant, where you can always (in the summer) get a tasty bit-o-fish. Yum yum. Or the Dive of course. But beware of the owners.....
• Where else? McDonalds. Oh yes, and Favorite Fried Chicken
• Food Express and Marvellous give you food poisoning, and the bloke in Marvellous is great
• One of the best restaurants/cafe is opposite johns chip shop in Rosemary road where you can sit on settees (just like central perk in friends) great food and real coffee and cappuccinos chill out zone. funny colour though dayglo Yellow!.
• Best Chip shop is John's on Rosemary road. Truely the best chips I've ever eaten.

Pubs

• All pubs are bad, but "Tom Peppers" is the worst. I'd rather not talk about it.
• latest in pub for the sheep!! is the light'ouse open, airy and full of tack!!
• "The Lord Henry Winkler" is a themed pub, themed on a Happy Days theme. It was opened by Cleatus Forrester, who plays Al in the series. He died son after. Friday night is Hula night. Saturdays is Fire night and Sunday afternoon it's shut.
• Robert Burre, Robin Hood, Ship, Queen's Head (all in Great Clacton)
• Pubs to go to are Tom Peppers, The Cockney Pride and The Kings Cliff.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• beesons brassiere is really nice in the high street
• Tigers coffe shop on Jackson road is guaranteed to be full of grade A retards of all shapes and sizes from 9am-5pm.
• Cafes and Coffee shops: Go to Walton.
• Madhatters is the best cafe ever!!
• None the whole place is crap and should be bulldozed into the sea apart from that brasserie place on the high street
• This Cafe in Clacton down Orwell Rd.once owned by a weird pair next to a launderette.I ordered in 2001, a chilli and rice then noticed the chef running towards Tescos to buy an ultra cheap tin of chilli and nasty boring rice.Trying to disguise the aformentioned items under his armpits as he walked through.The meal was as tasteless and cold as his culinary imagination.
• mad hatters cafe for the big fry up
• I've been to a few but they are all run by dodgy fat women who probably spit in the pies.

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Last updated: 2006-10-19