1912 Brasserie Hobure Naish in New Forest

Great sandwich and great coffee. Service was exceptional and welcoming for our dog too. The Vanilla Bun was a great way to end our time!

Live locally was a nice sunny evening so my partner and I decided to walk around to our local pub for dinner/ drinks Bar staff were lovely and polite very welcoming had food which was ok not exceptional had a nice evening until leaving when the landlady was stood in the doorway sparking up a cigarette looking us up and down giving us dirty looks for no reason whatsoever ever Not very welcoming as a landlady…..

Took 1hr 10mins for our meals to arrive and over 10 minutes to tell me they didn't have the meal I'd ordered. When the two kids meals arrived they both had no peas and we were then told they could have brocoli instead. The 6 adult meals arrived 5 mins later but one steak was rare (asked for medium), they brought another which was also undercooked so brought a third which was well done. By then we'd all finished our meals (it was around 1hr 40mins after we arrived at this point). When the bill came we'd been charged for everything which we queried with the manager who finally deducted the steak but left us paying the 12.5% service charge. Very disappointing experience. Update: After I posted this review, the management got in touch to apologise and said they had looked into the issues. They acknowledged the problems and offered a voucher as a gesture of goodwill. I appreciated the follow-up and hope this was an isolated incident, as the response showed they do care about customer feedback. We're looking forward to going back with our family who live locally and have said they've not had a bad meal there before.

I've visited the Happy Cheese quite a few times over the past 5/6 years, unfortunately on our last visit the place has started to look abit tired and run down. The staff are always very friendly but the drinks we had weren't great and did put us off eating there! It's a real shame as it used to be so good.

Absolutely fantastic meal, booked ahead as we knew it would be busy due to the great reputation this classic old pub has. A lovely table had been set up in the sunny courtyard, which we sat at after ordering 2 thirst quenching pints of Inches cider (did have a laugh with the bar staff🧐). From the specials board, we shared the garlic Crevettes (didn’t want to be shellfish🤣),…fantastic served with bread to mop up the sumptuous buttery goodness. Having seen the schnitzel go past earlier, my better half decided on that with myself choosing the cod loin from the special board. Both were amazing in all aspects, with special detail taken enabling the seasonal flavours to flourish throughout. Special mention for the black garlic aioli served with the cod 🤤 Absolutely stuffed we had a DJ Steve (private joke:didestive ) of Calvados with the merry landlord, who like myself and girlfriend are allies of the LGBTQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈. I would highly recommend a visit this beautiful pub in the New Forest coastline.