No.1 Cocklesheds

Amazing staff went out of their way to change our table as was hot in the window. Lovely food.

Had an amazing lunch, good service and wonderful atmosphere recommended

Lovely food and venue and was well looked after .

The food was phenomenal. We had prawn pill pill for starter and popcorn cockles. I had sea bream for main and it was just fantastic. Beautiful setting aswell. We will come again next time we are in Southend.

Nice food, presented well. Friendly and helpful staff. Clean toilets.

Went for breakfast 👍 great food lovely staff will visit again

Waitress very nice there was no rush as we were not ready to order. Food very nice I had the Salmon atmosphere very good lovely position

Amazing food. Very helpful and attentive staff. Would definitely recommend and will be back soon!

The staff were lovely. With the exception of the cod and chips, the food was lovely.

A great menu, especially good for food limitations. Good and friendly service.

Service was very slow as only 2 waitresses doing about 20 tables but the service they gave was great food was very good on the whole I think it was just bad management off the work rota

Service was extremely slow! Only 2 waitresses for a busy Saturday summer evening! They were trying to manage everyone but forgot orders and which people had been seated. Food was good, very fresh and hot on service to us. Just service in general was very slow and poor.

The atmosphere was great ! The starters were fab then the mains came and it all went downhill from then as chicken burger was very dry , chips were dry and cooked from frozen it seemed ! Prawn linguine had no taste and I could I could have cooked it better ! I mentioned it to the waitress as we had left most of our mains on plate but she didn’t seem interested . Don’t think I’ll be returning again with friends! Dissapointing to say the least !

Good was amazing, service was exceptional, whole experience was delicious. Lovely afternoon early evening with family.

Food was ok service was very poor there was one Girl Alice who was working her socks off everyone else can’t see why they was there, it took half an hour to get our drinks to our table we started to order two at a time. There was dirty glasses all over the bar and no one cleaning them.

Level of service very good. We had a nice table inside with a pleasant breeze. The food we ordered was lovely. However, if we were to visit more frequently (this was our first visit as a test run) we would find ourselves running out of food and wine choices as the menus' were fairly limited. Too many mains based on pasta or noodles. We liked the starters menu and enjoyed four dishes as a shared Tapas style starter.

Food was great but the worst service I’ve ever had. Sat for 20 mins without a menu, didn’t bring one until we asked, waited 45 mins for drinks. When waiting staff went to take the menus away we said wait we want to order food, they slammed menus down and walked away.

Menu was good with a variety of dishes. Staff were cheerful and attentive. Lovely to sit in the outside area and look over the estuary. We were bought vouchers as a Christmas gift and had not been here before but we will definitely be back..

My favourite restaurant in Old Leigh. Food fresh and plentiful. Excellent value for money. Can never fault the service - attentive but not rushed. Menu to suit all tastes

Our 1st visit and we were impressed. Great vibe and fantastic meal. Staff were excellent accept for 1 who was unhelpful and lacked the attitude that the others had ...

Arrived to table with crumbs all over our chairs , had a broken glass served to us on table and starters was over cooked.

Friendly staff, lovely setting on a sunny day! Def recommend

Staff are lovely. Great location. Food was good. I would visit again

The restaurant was great. No delays, food good and service very quick.

The staff are friendly. Seated on time and the tapas was lovely, however, my pasta was bland and the prawns were tiny and overcooked and the salmon was dry and tasteless. I would order tapas again for sure but not the main menu.

Excellent food service setting. Only setback seated near table where backing chair refused to adjust her seating so one of us rather cramped

Waited too long for our drinks after asking two people three times, our food was finished before finally our drinks arrived.

Very friendly staff, food lovely my only gripe would be. We sat inside and as the outside was busy, we felt we were forgotten, had to ask to order more drinks. But I would defo rerun and hopefully get a seat outside next time

Amazing food and service, very friendly staff. Will visit again soon

Really lovely place - waitress was great and very attentive, food was delicious, music great and views beautiful. Great spot! Only slight knock down on review was quite expensive vs other local cafes/restaurants.

Excellent food service and location . Only slight niggle is that it was very busy and the music was competing with the noise of the customers . Maybe turn the music down on busy nights

Expecting some great food looking at the gallery pictures but very average. Thai scotch egg wasn’t runny. Whitebait was good however, Salmon and prawn linguine small flakes of salmon and the tiniest prawns we had ever seen. My rib eye wasn’t a great cut of rib eye and wasn’t cooked very well so a bit chewy and sinewy. The staff were great very friendly.

Great food, great staff. Brilliant place to eat and drink.

Brilliant and attentive staff. Amazing food we had a great time

We were a party of 5 and the food was amazing and came out quickly Staff were really friendly and did a great job. The only downside was it’s very noisy when all the tables are full as they were today and we had to raise our voices to hear each other. Better acoustics needed!

Good food and good service. It felt very warm in the restaurant to the point of feeling uncomfortable.

Staff attentive but not intrusive , food absolutely spot on . We had 6 dish’s for our tapas, really good selection . We will be back

Wonderful food and great setting. I would really recommend it.

Food, atmosphere and service were superb. We live in Leigh and this is our first visit here but will definitely be back!

Food and service excellent staff very professional and a lovely atmosphere.

Having booked and adjusted dates & times vis the app. We got a phone call nearer the date & a request to pay a deposit because there was more than 4 of us. This wasn’t a problem. We arrived and was a little disappointed that the table was not laid up and we were not advised that we would be on a high table/bench. Having said that the staff were amazing and the food excellent. It was our second visit and would definitely recommend.

First time visiting and to be honest we won't be coming back. Lovely atmosphere in the restaurant. Service was extremely slow but it wasn't an issue as we were having an evening out. The food though was just ok. Nothing outstanding. It wasn't bad it just did not wow me.

This is only the second time I’ve been here, but it won’t be the last. It was very quiet with gentle background music. Staff were attentive without being obsequious and the food was superb. Premises are extremely clean and although a little on the expensive side, it’s worth every penny. Went with two old school friends to celebrate our 70th Birthdays, and we weren’t disappointed. We all had a Tapa as a Starter and shared, then all had different main courses. Food was very well presented, very well cooked and portions were extremely generous. We were only disappointed that we didn’t have any room for a pudding, A lovely experience; thank you to everyone involved in making it so enjoyable xxx

The weather was beautiful so we sat outside. The food was amazing, service was fast and staff were lovely. Good value for money. Will definitely return

Food was lovely, although had run out of a few of the tapas dishes that we was going to have. Good service. We would come back.

We had a wonderful evening. Food was delicious and the atmosphere was amazing. Good value for money and great service.

A most delicious meal. Very enjoyable afternoon! The skate wing and sea bass were absolutely scrumptious!

Lovely tapas and cocktails! We had a great evening, thank you

Amazing location, weather was wonderful and service and food great.

Love this place I came a few weeks back and had a lovely meal with my sisters. So I came back today and again I wasn’t disappointed the food was lovely.