Nana Rose Carvery - www.nana-rose.webs.com

Well ive been going to nanna rose for quite a while now for my lunch and the carvery is great and now they have a new menu with hunters chicken and there special sauce which i would recommend even there beer always taste great better than my local bar overall I love the place and i wouldnt change a thing keep up the good work.

We often go with our girls and always had great food,fresh and plenty of choice,fantastic staff they carnt do enough for you i love the place nicely decorated and im always recommending.

This was the second time in this carvery and the last. When you enter the restaurant you order your drinks at the cage bar and pay for your food. My wife had a small bottle of coke but was not offered the bottle as they are not allowed into the restaurant, why who knows, if there not allowed why have them there? She had to drink some of her drink at the bar and ask for the remainder to be poured into her glass.

You get your table and queue for you food, when they remove the covers you then get your first glimpse at the food. All the meat was dry and overcooked on the outside and raw in the middle, the veg was dry and overcooked but try the next container the veg in this one was undercooked, its like a very bad episode of cant cook cant cook.

It may only be £4.99 but you get what you pay for, for the sake of a few miles up the road at Basildon or Brentwood you can get a Toby carvery which is so much better.

This place is great value for money and the food was really lovely, choice of Gammon, turkey, beef or chicken - with lots of lovely fresh vegetables and the Yorkshire puddings were giant! The food was wonderful and you can go back for more veg if you want.

Unfortunately the service was very slow and the staff did not seem to know what they were doing. The only thing that would put me off going back to this place is the wine – the cost for a bottle is £12.95 (which is reasonable) BUT it was absolutely disgusting and was only 7% proof, so not a proper wine! They did sell a small (one glass) bottle but that was £3.50 and it was only an ok wine. Our friend had a gin and tonic – it came with no ice or lemon!

Mama Rose serves great food but they need to improve on the service and the drinks side of things – then this place could be absolutely great!

Firstly I like to point out this is my local carvery and I love going there !!! The the last review I just see must be smoking crack !! U can not qet better value for money elsewhere fact I've tried !!!! And secondly all there vegetable are from our local farm all fresh and best around !!! The service is very welcoming and pleasant !!! I am always pleased when I go there and never had a bad word to say about the place !!! You can't beat there delicious home made yorkshire pies,,, just like my nan use to make !!!!!! U really gotta try it for yourself ,,, it really is worth trying out !!!! I heard there starting a cockney pie, mash and liquor all made at the restaurant !!! I can't wait for that I love pie and mash !!!!!

You can't say I wasn't warned. A group of us booked our Christmas dinner at Nana Rose (Lodge Lane Grays) for £20, but a friend had already said that his friends had walked out before. I had a open mind though! The first thing that hit me on entering was a stench of cabbage water and I noticed that the restaurant was nearly empty. A girl nearly pulled the Christmas tree over and was generally misbehaving. I got there early so enjoyed a pint from the bar (it had bars to it)! The food was already out and had obviously been there a while. Well over an hour later we had our starter. Two of the starters were already off the menu despite pre booking!. Sad looking coated mushrooms and a piece of limp lettuce and pink tomato! We were expected to applaud the serving staff and shake the entertainer's hand. He started singing before the main course! When it came to the main course I made my excuses and left! God alone how long the sad looking food had been out by then! I am so glad I didn't stay for the main course as the food sounded disgusting from what someone who stayed an ate it reported! The seating at the table was so cramped we had to ask for an extra table and there was no excuse for us to be cramped as the carvery was nearly empty! Two very sad looking Christmas table decorations were on the table and one was falling apart! No crackers or party hats! The entertainer had the cheek to ask if we were celebrating anything. I said yeah, Christmas! I'll give the place 3-6 months! Avoid like the plague!