This new pub on Headley Common comes from the team behind the two-Michelin-starred Midsummer House in Cambridge. Spread over two floors, it includes a bar with open log fire as well as an alfresco terrace and serves a modern European menu.

• Opened: 1 May
• Owner: Midsummer House Restaurants
• Head chef: Scott Wade
• Manager: Oliver Barker
• Capacity: 180
• Food: includes salad of scallops, pea shoots and toasted cashews served with curry vinaigrette braised veal belly with samphire, parmentier potatoes and jus parisienne chicken and morel cobbler and pear and apple crumble with vanilla ice-cream
• Prices: £27 for three courses excluding wine
• Address: Headley Common, Great Warley, Brentwood, Essex CM13 3HS
• Telephone: 01277 216104
• Website: www.theheadley.co.uk
• See a map of The Headley here