Victoria Inn, Burnham on Crouch: Safe bet for a pub lunch in Burnham

28th July 2014
If you ever fancy a day trip to Burnham, don't go on a Monday. They obviously get very busy weekend and need Monday to recover. One of the more popular restaurants in the town has now closed but Victoria Inn seems to be a good place for people who like drinking beer and eating pub lunch.

The menu is quite simple. It lacks some of the pub classics such as Ploughman's and plates of salad, savouries and sandwiches. But it has plenty of other stuff such as pie and chips, baked potatoes, sausages and so on. Whilst there is web-based information about the drink there is nothing to read about the pub food.  To keep it simple I chose sausage baguette.

You get quite a lot of hot sausage for your money. You can probably tell that it is not one of the rustic sausages but is more of a smooth variety. It was perfectly hot and tasty scoring and nine on the scale. They threw in a few chips as well, which was unexpected. I fancied a coffee after the meal. The best they could manage was a cup of instant. Shame on them.

My wife's baked potato was judged to be good.

The food was hot and could not be faulted, but lacked any originality or flair. Fair value.