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Bill's - Braintree

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Bill's - Braintree

The restaurant is located in the heart of Braintree’s busy shopping area, handy for taking a break any time of day. From booths to larger sharing tables, Bill's is open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in between. Bill Collison, founder of Bill's, opened the first Bill's in Lewes, East Sussex, in 2001. Built on the same site where Bill had been running a successful greengrocery for several years, Bill's Café & Produce Store, as it was then known, was an instant success. The aim was to make a place that was colourful and exuberant, with dishes that were really tasty and also made you smile, that put every day and unusual seasonal ingredients together and gave everyone lots of ideas to take home with them. The team at Bill's baked, cooked and served deliciously different food, hung skeins of raffia from the ceiling, stacked towers of produce for people to buy and hired lively, enthusiastic staff to look after their customers. They wanted Bill's to be somewhere that really celebrated food and was welcoming to everyone, a place that felt like the next best thing to home. Breakfast at Bills is a great way to start your day; from a humble bacon or sausage sandwich to a bells-and-whistles super classic great British breakfast. Weekends are a different story, time to kick back and turn breakfast into brunch, complete with newspapers, freshly squeezed orange juice and plenty of tea or coffee.
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Facilities

Alfresco Dining
Alfresco Dining
Child Friendly
Child Friendly
Parties Welcome
Parties Welcome
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Free Wi-Fi
Free Wi-Fi
Business Meetings
Business Meetings

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Customer Reviews

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Coffee meeting

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by Oanh on 12 Aug 2023
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I had a pitch meeting here and the ambience was perfect for my one to one presentation over a relaxed coffee. I pitched about Return Ware, a reusable container service to eliminate single use packaging. And I couldn't help to notice whether Meanwhile would also be interested in switching to reusable cups? I'd love to explore this further with you. Please email me if you have a moment to chat. www.return-ware.com. My meeting here got me the partnership with Nostos! Thanks for the coffee. Oanh Brophy

Nice place but it gets SO loud when fully busy

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by Neil B on 08 Aug 2023
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Meanwhile is a great place for a coffee meet up with a friend or two. But when it's full (like at last night's "Monday's" event it is very echoey and people's voices get louder and louder in an attempt to hear each other. It gets deafeningly loud, my ears were ringing all night. Please consider a bit of sound damping for Meanwhile.

Pulpo Negro Pop up at Meanwhile

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by Pip on 08 Aug 2023
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First visit to Meanwhile last night, as I was told that Pulpo Negro was cooking. I am a regular visitor to their tapas bar in Arlesford, so couldn't pass up the chance of sampling their food on my own turf and introduce some friends to their offerings. Great evening, food was up to its usual high standard, service from Patrick from Pulpo was excellent, great vibe in the restaurant which was surprisingly full for a Monday evening. Will def book up, for one of the upcoming evenings.

Pulpo Negro pop up

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by Rose on 08 Aug 2023
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Exciting flavoursome food. Great service team.

New menu? Tiny portions

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by Leon on 16 Jul 2023
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We had breakfast before an event last year and it was good, so we thought we’d come again. We ordered breakfast hoping for a hearty meal before a lot of walking, and the fried polenta dish came and it was tiny! We ended up getting food from Tesco over the road! :( It would be great if you could indicate sizes in some way. Otherwise the dish was ok.


Address

Freeport Braintree, Charter Way, Chapel Hill, Braintree, Essex CM77 8YH

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Phone

01376 349079

Hours

Monday - Saturday
08:00 - 23:00
Sunday
09:00 - 22:30

Cuisine

British


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