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Eating and Drinking in Brentwood, Essex*

Brentwood, Essex Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• BAGELS AND BEYOND!!!!!!!!!!!! One at the start of ingrave road(high street side) one far end of high street(macky dees side). Also try the chippy on ongar road
• New Pasta and Pizza restaurant opening in Crown Street (Use to be Swints/Gallery)
• Good old Shenny Tandoori - big "Bo Selecta" to Manik in the Takeaway & also "Oh Yes" in the Kebab Shop!
• There are numerous fast food joints, KFC, NcDonalds, Burger King etc and other such as the ifsh andchip shop, kebab places and the Bakers Oven!
• Schorr shopping centre Black Adder official restraunt
• Star burger (Shenfield)
• Cafe Rouge, a great Italian place opposite The White Hart, Pizza Hut, Pizza Express, Cafe Uno - quite a few places really.
• McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Dominoes Pizza, Pizza Express, Chinese, Indians, and little posh (expensive) eateries!
• The petrol station is the main place to buy hot snacks. If you want anything they haven't got, then go home.
• Loads of restaurants opening up, Cafe Uno, Cafe Rouge, Pizza Hut, Pizza Express. The usual McDonalds, Burger King, KFC etc, etc....

Pubs

• Hollands - reason being is that its not in Brentwood and is too far away for people from Harold Hill to come in and smash up (like they do with everywhere else in Brentwood). The Litten Tree is the worst - Bouncers are more up for a fight than the punters in there. The Hutton has to win the award for "Most Gypos/Mingers in one area" though. Shame the carpark isn't bigger for their caravans.
• Pubs, oooh, I dunno if we have those, oh yeah wait, there is the Charles Napier, then the White Hart, errmmm, oh and the Fire and Firkin, the Littern Tree, the Hobgoblin, the Artichoke and then the best apub of all, the Castle!!
• They've started I.Ding the Castle but not in the daytime when everyone from my school goes up there - just to play pool mind.
• Lets get more trendies into The Castle on Ongar Rd.! Ban the grungers!
• Alma Arms Navestockside, 18th century freehouse, serves delicious home made food every day,just 2 miles from town centre and nestles deep in rural countryside,worth a visit.
• We are now spoilt for choice. White Hart is for the under age, the Littern Tree is for all the poser people, the Hobgoblin is a relaxed older crowd, the Firkin is undefinable and to enter the Swan you need your pension book. The Castle is still to be avoided and the artichoke has given up and turned into a restaurant.
• The Hobbit's Pony's head
• The white Hart, or the Brewery Tap, definitely not the Artichoke, which is for the teenage drinkers
• The Hutton in Shenfield. Totally kicks donkey, the place to be on a Saturday night, sometimes there's even more than 10 people there!
• The White Hart (on the High Street),quite dressy and the bouncers are nice, although they look intimidating. Just opened this year, the Fire & Firkin nearly opposite The White Hart is really great and you can quite often find the bar staff on the tables! Soon to be opened - the Global Netcafe - set to have quite an impact. The pubs mentioned are the most popular, although if you fancy a quieter drink there's some good pubs in Shenfield - the Green dragon, the Hutton and the Eagle and Child. Also a nice quiet drink can be found in the villages on Ingrave and Herongate (about a mile away from Brentwood High Street) in the Boar's Head, the Green Man, the Olde Dog etc.
• Castle (x-biker pub, trendies invaded, Boooo!) - Busy White heart (specialising in Friday night fights) - Busy Fire and Ferkin (new one) - Very busy at the mo, only got in once!
• There's the green man, which is packed in the summer
• A couple of wine bars - Parkers down by the station (think it's still called Parkers - owned by Paul Parker), and Hollands down by Shenfield station (owned by Pat Holland - late of Leyton Orient, come on you O's).
• Lots of little country pubs
• The Castle down Ongar Road has gone downhill - used to be a really divy biker/ goth/punk pub - then the trendies discovered it, did it up and it's just not the same.
• The White Hart in the High Street is pretty good - can't move on a Friday or Saturday night - used to be TJ's but was shut down (v. dodgy dealings going on).

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• Not the same since the Bakers Oven and Martins were shut. You could always guarantee a seat in there for about 3 hours and go boy spotting whilst trying out your new make-up purchases (nothing like a bit of Twilight Teaser on the back of the wrist!)
• Cafe Rouge and Caffe Uno are the main two for when you are feeling like a capuccino and being intellectual!
• My mother always goes into Pizza Express and just orders coffee they must be so pissed off with her by now
• The Cup of Boast Starbucks
• Cafe Uno

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