Roydon Marina Village ★★★★☆ 4.5 (190 reviews) TripAdvisor Open daily 9am–9pm Canal-side all-day dining, great beers & marina views
★★★★☆ 4.0+ (newer venue) → TripAdvisor
Roydon Marina Village’s Boathouse Café Bar charts a course through the Stort Navigation’s locks, where fresh, locally sourced repasts—from breakfast baps to evening roasts—dock for leisurely luncheons or twilight tipples. This waterside waypoint, with its 190 TripAdvisor moorings, anchors Essex’s canaline cuisine, blending boating vistas with bistro breadth for a menu that navigates from light bites to hearty hauls.
The decked terrace overlooks narrowboat flotillas, within a bar that charts craft lagers and lockside wines alongside smoked salmon platters or canal carpaccio. Seasonal shifts steer the specials, whilst live lute-like lounges liven the locks.
Roydon, Essex CM19 4RT, along the Lea Valley. Open 09:00–21:00 daily; 01992 462290. Marina moorings and menu manoeuvres manoeuvre access.
Boathouse’s boat in Roydon boats from its navigation nexus—boating to the Nazeing’s nurseries or the Harlow’s harbours—where café courses currents. It boats Essex’s watery weave, a boathouse of buoyant bites.
Boat your Roydon repast rigorously. For reach, reach with lock ladders or the Rye Meads’ reserves. The Boathouse Café Bar boats as a canaline captain in Essex’s pub captaincy—a dock of delightful draughts.