The New Forge - Réservation de table

The restaurant was warm and pleasant. Dated decor but not shabby and was clean and well kept. The service in our area of the restaurant was perfect. The let down was the quality of the food. Although fresh ingredients were used it was lacking the quality flavours associated with Thai food. The food seemed to lack spices. A lot of it was greasy and flavourless. The chili dip was very standard and tasted identical to a shop bought sauce. The experience was further let down when the restaurant began to empty of customers the staff begun their own loud entertainment, eventhough there were still diners at some tables. They were shouting across the tables to each other as if the place was empty. W...

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Really good food and excellent value, service was acceptable. My only gripe with the place was that they’ve painted the beautiful old beams orange. Most people wouldn’t notice this I suppose but being a builder that specialises in preserving old buildings it irritated me! I get that the decor is supposed to oriental but there are ways to do that without striping the character out of what was a beautiful building. One day this place will change hands and some poor ****** with some taste is going to have to strip all that paint off. But I suppose to most people this is a minor detail other than that it was a lovely meal.

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Lovely staff, although not on the button and an odd menu. Prawn cocktails and chicken satay just confuse me in a starters menu. The Thai dishes that we went for were so lacking in flavour and sorry to say, everything. Ate half of it as we were hungry, but this is not Thai food. Not sure if they have thai staff, as they’re knocking out English meals and a few thai dishes thrown in. Not for me

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First off ….. Hands up !! We are food snobs my husband is a chef and we have previously owned our own fine dining restaurant. We ALWAYS eat at Colchester inns , we have done so for 18 years. So today we had a Carvery at The New Forge we courted there 32 years ago when it was The Greens We were both really pleasantly impressed!! The service was brilliant Réservez une table maintenant

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Very noisy . We ordered lunch from Thai menue. Mine was just onions, no vegetables and 3 giant prawns that were uneatable. My friends came with only some of the mixed fish. They had to cook/heat the rest and bring it in a separate bowl. Very disappointed and not worth the price. The only good thing was the staff were polite.

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Staff friendly enough but having eaten at many Thai restaurants I feel that there are better ones in Norfolk, the salad tasted musty and the quality of my starter and main dish was pretty poor, I’ll stick to Thailands in Thorpe, may be a tad more expensive but it’s worth the money.

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Tim still grafting away had a lovely carvery today served by a really nice young man the staff all work so hard the meal was spot on as usual we had table 6 nice and bright as sun was going down through ajacent window, Thankyou Tim and all the staff at The Forge

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Quality all around really. They was so so busy. We will certainly/definetly be coming here some more as it is on one of our special routes Réservez une table maintenant

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We come here yearly for our work Christmas Party. Tim and his staff are very lovely and the food is very nice.

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Lovely food, nice options Good prices Clean toilets Ample tables and carpark spaces Lovely staff

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