Pubs & restaurants in EssexEssex, England

9 pubs and restaurants in the Albion Guide across Essex — see the full pubs and restaurants directory, or everything to explore in Essex.

The White Hart Inn

Island village pub on Mersea, listed among Britain's 100 best.

A country dining pub in the cottage village of Herongate outside Brentwood, with rolling farmland on the doorstep.

A well-known village dining pub at Clavering, long run by the Oliver family and the childhood kitchen of chef Jamie Oliver.

The oldest pub in Old Leigh, a low-beamed waterfront bar opposite Billet Wharf where drinkers spill onto the cobbles above the estuary.

A rambling Grade II listed inn on Burnham-on-Crouch's quay, its wooden jetty and window seats looking straight out over the moored yachts.

A characterful waterside pub at Battlesbridge, tucked among the antiques centre's old mills at the head of the River Crouch.

A 15th-century coaching inn run by the same family for generations, a Good Pub Guide fixture in the hilltop village of Horndon-on-the-Hill.

Built on the site of a 13th-century chapel and licensed since 1556, said to be the oldest licensed pub in Colchester.

A colour-washed 15th-century coaching inn on Dedham High Street, all beams and log fires in the heart of Constable country.