The At The Lifehouse - Tendring

The most delightful food, we were there for a spa package deal and had absolutely no faults what so ever when it can to the food. Caring and considerate staff who checked in on us.

Great food and very friendly staff. The restaurant decor leave a lot to be desired it reminded me of the canteen when I was at school. Everything else was perfect.

We were given a gift voucher for afternoon tea at the Lifehouse. While the staff were very pleasant, the experience was a disappointment. The sandwich selection was uninspiring, mini rolls of egg mayonnaise, and another of ham, a cucumber sandwich of more thick-cut cucumber than bread, and a small piece of smoked salmon and cream cheese on rock-hard sourdough bread. The cake selection bore no resemblance whatsoever to the photograph except for the macaroon. The scone per person was hard on the outside as it had had been overcooked. The tea selection was very good and well presented and you were offered as much as you wanted. Having experienced high tea in several other places this was a poor comparison in quality and price.

This is our second visit to the lifehouse spa the first being February 2022. When we visited in Feb 2022 we had dinner included in our package and when we arrived on the first night we decided to book a table for the second night. The food was awful, very bland and not what we was expecting at all all three courses we didnt enjoy and we left very disappointed and we cancelled our table for the second night and booked the bell pub just 10 minute walk away. We visited again this week as a last minute change of plans again booking our meal at the pub as reading reviews we saw nothing had changed. We did however book breakfast and lunch at the spa and both meals we were disappointed again over cooked breakfast and the lunch was so bland and ingredients had a texture and taste like cheap tinned food. I would recommend the spa experience but dining wise avoid this place and go to thorpe where there is a few pubs to choose from.

Because of my health problems and also being vegan there wasn’t much I could eat.so I ordered from the sides but couldn’t eat much of it as it was covered in oil.