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The Queen Victoria will be celebrating a "Festival of Fish" for three days, serving seafood from a variety of local suppliers, including: Blackwater Oysters, Mersea Oysters, Maldon Oysters, Lambton & Jackson, Colchester Fish and C&M Fisheries.

Prepared by their talented team, the festival will offer an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet on Thursday 1 September and an à la carte menu, featuring freshly caught fish from around Mersea and UK waters on Friday and Saturday, including skate, Dover sole and plaice. There will also be salmon on offer from the award-winning Lambton & Jackson smokehouse, along with cod, haddock, and other catches from UK waters. Booking is essential and tables will be available for three-hour sittings on Friday and Saturday, while on the Thursday, there is a two-hour sitting. The pub will be open from midday, with last orders being taken at 8.45pm throughout the three-day event.

Landlord James Burrell-Cook said: "Fish festivals in the UK date back to the 1100s. Pre-dating that, due to their exceptional quality, the Romans exported oysters from the Colne Estuaries back to Rome. The UK's fine fish and superb seafood are, without question, cause for celebration!"

Queen Victoria has been a local public house in Maldon since it opened its doors in 1845.