Cosy Club
24 Springfield Rd, Chelmsford CM2 6JX, United Kingdom
4.3
360 reviews
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PFJG+XJ Chelmsford, United Kingdom
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Monday: 9–23
Tuesday: 9–23
Wedneasday: 9–23
Friday: 9–1
Saturday: 9–1
Sunday: 9–23
Tuesday: 9–23
Wedneasday: 9–23
Friday: 9–1
Saturday: 9–1
Sunday: 9–23
Venue/atmosphere/service – 9/10
Food 5/10 (but 8/10 for the Dirty Chicken Burger)
This is a lovely place in terms of décor/style/layout/character. You really feel you are going out for a treat evening. The décor and atmosphere makes the place feel classy and the waiting staff are great – friendly, helpful and efficient.
Drinks – we had four cocktails (see photos). Cocktails looked great but with the English Garden cocktail it was hard to taste the gin. Raspberry and Vanilla Martini got top marks and Mojito was fairly standard.
Food – between us we had Olives and Sourdough Sharing Bread to start, followed by the Seared Seabass, Sunrise Bowl with Avocado, House Beef burger, Dirty Chicken Burger, two small plates of Bang Bang cauliflower and Fried Halloumi as our mains.
Starters - The Sourdough Sharing Bread was warm and delicious with salt scattered over the top. The olives are very plain and somewhat harder than I would have liked.
Mains - The Seared Seabass with noodles was lovely but both people in the party thought it was let down by insufficient noodles. The Sunrise Bowl wasn’t listed as a “light” dish so I was expecting a more substantial main course salad– there was too little rice and very little avocado (two pieces underneath the salad). The dressing on the salad was tasty but too much of it given the lack of rice etc to soak it up – I was left feeling hungry and price for the salad was relatively expensive for what it was. The House Beef Burger and fries were fine but nothing special and over-priced (better off with Byron burger). My daughter was expecting to have more food than she received with the two sides of Bang Bang Cauliflower and Fried Halloumi eg the cauliflower she said was delicious but only 3 pieces. The person who had the Dirty Chicken Burger was the happiest and said it tasty and huge and very enjoyable.
The place itself is nice, and the staff we spoke to seemed nice and friendly - the let down unfortunately was the quite long wait for food (an adult brunch breakfast, a kids sausage and chips and a portion of chips). It wasn't incredibly busy or anything, but it was clear that others were having similar wait times. With two small children a long wait for a not overly complex food order wasn't good enough. (Most restaurants would also aim to get kids meal out ASAP or ask if we wanted them out ASAP). To add to this, towards the end of the brunch I realised it didn't actually arrive with everything it was supposed to... bit late by that point..!
The food itself was good (scrambled eggs in particular was very nice) but as mentioned above the other bits let the side down which is a real shame.
Staff is very friendly and considerate and I believe they are the strength of this place.
The breakfast was fresh, warm and delicious but I think more options must be added like Salmon, meat and chicken (halal) to drive more traffic.
I really enjoyed my visit and will definitely visit again.