The Black Horse in Test Valley

A group of us played skittles at the Black Horse. The buffet lunch provided for us was excellent. The skittle alley was great. The staff were welcoming, very helpful and friendly.

A true country pub with good beer

West Tytherley is deep in the Hampshire countryside. Whichever way you come, it's a picturesque drive. From the outside, The Black Horse looks as if it's going to be a very posh venue. However, inside it's a proper old English country pub. We were greeted warmly by the landlady. It was a very hot day and she suggested eating under the gazebo in the courtyard. The menu was nice. We had the Steak & Ale Pie, Mushroom Stroganoff, Hickory Chicken and Chicken Fajitas. All of them were very nicely cooked and prepared by the landlady. It was real home-cooking. We all had Apple & Blackberry Crumble to finish and it was also deliciously home-made. We were made to feel extremely welcome and really enjoyed our visit. We look forward to going again.

This is a lovely pub. Food was great, & well served. It left the bar service a bit slow. The whole area suffers from a lack of phone signal - the pub needs wi-fi for customers.

Excellent service, food and the locals are super welcoming!

The pub is really “Old School” floors at differing levels in the ground floor and a bar that has a great selection of real ales. The staff were great with the smiliest barman I’ve met, despite being inundated with unexpected walk ins we had good friendly service with a ready smile. Starters were shared deep fried mozzarella sticks with a salad. Mains were a mix of a cheeky grilled chicken chilli and tempura prawns (tasty) fat chips and slaw, plus scampi with fat chips and peas and the biggest chicken burger with chips and slaw. Puds were a home made apple and blackberry crumble with custard and a treacle pudding, we shared! Portion sizes are good, prices are sensible. Atmosphere is a time warp Silas Marner old England and well worth a visit. If we don’t, we’ll lose these lovely old pubs. It’s out of the way, that’s part of the charm……..

Good traditional pub. Fine ales and good food. Good garden eating area too.

A beautiful, traditional pub with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. We arrived early on a Friday evening for a bite to eat. The pub itself is very typically traditional, in keeping with the area and very charming. The land lady whom greeted us, showed us around and directed us to available tables is an absolute delight, she was happy to engage in conversation and we felt really comfortable there. We ordered, starters of mozzarella sticks and tempura prawns and then Pie and Mash (steak and ale) and the 1/2lb burger, just what was needed on a cold and wet dreary evening. It was comforting and delicious. Very good value for money and really enjoyed, it is what you would describe as traditional pub fayre. Lots to choose from on the menu, it's not overly large however specials and children's options available. Really enjoyed the whole evening.

A lovely, cosy pub in a perfect quintessentially English village. The Rare Breed is a great drop, the Guinness is well kept and perfectly served and the burger is delicious. Great pub grub in a warm, friendly atmosphere.

Had their fish and chips was really nice.

Great wee pub set in an idyllic village. Good cider and a skittles alley for a bit of fun. 😁 Great for a teams night out. Hot bar food as well 👍

The landlady went above and beyond to make our group feel welcome in this homely pub ... she even offered to do four shuttle trips to take us all back to the accommodation we were staying at for the weekend, as she was concerned about the foggy conditions for our walk back.

We had a great meal and the landlady was so accommodating, as my brother was late!

Incredible all over , can not fault this place and the lady that owns it is extremely hard working ! Plus the dog Tilly is the best 🐶 we came across it after doing a local Geocaching loop! I read a review stating that the building was a little "tired" in which I had to laugh the building is over 400 years old 😂 Personally I thought the building was beautiful and very well maintained , they even have the added bonus of a skittle alley out the back. Definitely worth a visit if in the area!

Lovely dog friendly pub with friendly staff

This is a country pub that is quaint. Its a little tired, however, the staff are welcoming. The food menu is limited

Great pub, super beer & great atmosphere! Very welcoming!

The BEST charming, old school traditional English pub. We ate the giant Yorkshire pudding with homemade sausage and an incredible homemade pie with roast beef inside and amazing chips and gravy. What a lovely experience for our first night in this lovely little hamlet!

Really nice food, pork belly was delicious and the rhubarb crumble excellent.

Lovely food. Roasts are very good quality, tasty and good size. (Be even better if there was a plant based option). Vegan Mushroom Bouginon was nice also. Went with a group of friends. Would recommend for Sunday lunch.

Friendly atmosphere good food great cider @ a good price.

Really liked it , wonderful owner and staff, great service and drinks. Proper village pub.

We had a lovely welcome and dinner at the Black Horse yesterday evening. Thoroughly recommend the pie and chips, last night the pie was steak and ale, it's been a long time since I've had a pie as tasty. Also want to thank the owner for her sterling efforts to reunite with my bag, I hadn't even realised it was missing! Thank you again.

Great welcome in this lovely pub. 5 adults and 5 children spent a great few hours here using the skittle alley and having a great family lunch for a birthday. Good food and service. We hope to do it again in the future.

Had a light lunch with my Dad here after a walk from Broughton, lovely staff and great lunch.

My partner and I had a lovely visit to The Black Horse whilst on a trip to West Tytherley. We stopped in for dinner and a drink. Staff were friendly and helpful and were very accommodating when I asked to substitute a menu item for a vegetarian alternative. We both thoroughly enjoyed our dinners! It was a cosy atmosphere and we enjoyed our time there. I would recommend for some nice pub grub if you are in the area.

Really nice pub Great service and brilliant food I highly recommend

This is a great pub, lovely historic building with character, situated in the most beautiful village. The staff are great, and Lynn goes the extra mile to provide lovely home cooked meals. I can recommend the fish & chips, superb!.... and the pies!

Fantastic community feel village kind of pub. Lynn was absolutely lovely, and the barman was very friendly. Really good atmosphere. I'm GF DF and Lynn was really helpful with the menu. I'd love for that to be my local! They even had a cribbage board! (I won)

We were so disappointed with The Black Horse, we had booked a table - we walked in, no one greeted us, the barman didn’t even acknowledge us! We then found and introduced ourselves to the land lady who said we could sit anywhere. We found the restaurant area and waited for 10 minutes to be brought menus or be offered a drink and no one came! We left and no one even commented!

Lovely olde worlde village pub .Very welcoming and friendly. Good outside space . Food reasonably priced well cooked and delicious .Can recommend

The staff was lovely but the food was not very average and the pub was not the cleanest place. We asked for a highchair and they kindly gave us one but it was full of cobwebs The giant Yorkshire pudding with sausages was nice but the rest,nothing to repeat

Lovely village pub. Turned up for lunch on the off chance as was near by. Friendly staff, food was lovely and great childrens menu. Can’t fault our visit.

Lovely burgers eaten in the garden one June lunchtime. Friendly landlady and good service. No frills, but we didn't want any. Good food, good price, in a relaxed and friendly setting. Just what a village pub should be

Three of us turned up at the Black Horse on a day of walking and finding wonderful wildlife a few minutes after they had finished serving lunch - completely our fault, we lost track of time and certainly hadn't thought to book ahead! The wonderful landlady took one look at us and offered to make us lunch if we made our choices quickly - which we willingly did. As a result we sat in the sunshine in the delightful courtyard, consumed a couple of pints each and enjoyed freshly prepared and excellent pub food. The chips were perfect! It was such a kind and happy experience, and quite made our day!

Great beer, and we were given a very warm welcome by the owners and regulars alike

Good beer, nice staff but food was very average. If you want a drink it’s the business. Skip the food though.

Great atmosphere and great beer

Nice pub. Didn't try the food. The barman was friendly, but laughably slow. I'd hate to be waiting for drinks when it's busy.

Visited with a large group, very friendly welcome plenty of choice beers and cider and a very tasty curry. Skittle alley is in excellent condition.

We had lunch after a 6 mile walk around East & West Tytherley. The beer was excellent, well kept. The menu was extensive and included a good selection of favourite pub food. I had the spiced chicken and tempura king prawn which was great. Others had various dishes, all of which were well received. A perfect way to end an enjoyable walk in the Hampshire countryside.

The food was excellent 👌. Lin the landlady is wonderful 😊

Very friendly and homely, amazing staff

Really friendly village pub, the bar tender appeared to know the majority of personal in there.

Fantastic service and food. Very friendly staff and even our K9 boy was treated to a biscuit.

Great refurb - light and airy. Well kept beer and simple (but tasty) menu. What's not to like!

Hostile atmosphere and not worth the price from what we saw. Only went in to check the menu, then the owner pulled in and started having a go at our family for loitering.

Food was beautiful! The cajun chicken is so good..love this place for food.

We called in last Sunday afternoonon the off chance that they might be doing food, as many pubs in the area stop food after 4pm on a Sunday ( I have no idea why!). Initially, they sadly had to say no, but just as we were in the car thinking about where to try next, they ran to let us know that they could accomodate us, which was excellent. The menu is not large (a very good thing), and all is home made. The beef burger is stunning. Obviously home made, almost no fat or filler, just good meat, served with the best chips I have had in ages. Crisp, light and piping hot. My partners spicy chichen burger should have simply said 'a full breast of chicken, well spiced and cooked to perfection and served as a burger' as that is what it was, Add great ales and lovely people, and you are on a winner.

All good, lovely pitchers of Exmoor Gold ale, nice chunky chips, effective if somewhat Kurt service at times from Ken!!

The heaters worked brilliantly! The beer was even better.

While this great trad village local is closed to visits because of COVID, Lin and Ken are doing excellent take-away meals. We had a steak and a burger, both excellent. They phone up just the right amount of time before it's ready to collect, so you arrive to chips and onion rings as hot, crisp and fresh as if they'd been served in the pub. Great job under the circumstances, although we're really looking forward to the time we can eat in!

Village Pub offering a large choice of takeaway food. We elected for Fish & Chips, mushy peas & coleslaw. We rang the order through, then Ken (landlord) rang us to say when it was ready. Easy to pay contactless - outside the pub (sadly!), food piping hot and delicious. Nice treat and change from home cooking on a freezing evening. Reasonably priced, well cooked and maybe lockdown not so bad after all....

Our local pub is hard to beat: open fire, friendly locals, delicious food, ales and wine and internet connection despite the rural location. You might even get a wolf whistle from Alfie the parrot. Covid secure with distanced tables and waitress service. Dogs welcome and wellies too.

Came to The Black Horse on a recommendation. It is a lovely local pub with a brilliant atmosphere and lots of lovely dogs to pet. I ordered a pie and it did not disappoint. Was a great pub meal and the staff were very attentive 🙂 would recommend this to anyone in the area!

Another fabulous night at The Black Horse. Vibrant and welcoming atmosphere and great to see all the proper precautions for Covid19. Felt safe and relaxed. Add to that the Cajun Chicken and Tempura Prawns were amazing although the fish and chips is always a winner too.

Great food tonight at the Black Horse. Good to see it busy on a Friday night. Always very welcoming and fun.

One of the best Sunday roasts we’ve eaten and fantastic, friendly service. Will definitely return again soon!

It was our first visit for a family birthday and we weren't disappointed. Such a warm welcome, great pub grub and such fun using the skittle alley. Looking forward to visiting again! 😁

Absolutely cracking sunday roast. Great service and best food we've had in a long time. Highly recommend.

Friendly homemade food! Couldn’t recommend this pub more. Service was incredibly welcoming and the food was fresh, quality, homemade food and very accommodating. From the tikka masala to the pie of the day It did not disappoint.

We order a takeaway from the Black Horse (our local) for the family at least once a week, now that lock down has stopped any meals out for so long. It has been a very welcome change to have someone provide for us, especially as we have no access to supermarket delivery slots! Good variety, plenty for the vegetarians and the steak is delicious. Highly recommend.

Knowing that it was my birthday recently, the owners of the pub let me choose what I would like them to cook for my husband and myself which made me feel very special. The food was beautifully cooked, from the seabass to the steak. The puddings were tasty and I blew out the candle they had put in my pud and made a wish that we would soon be able to eat actually in their lovely pub.The reason for only 4 stars is simply that we had a take away meal rather than one in the pub, but I am sure that when we can go and eat in, I will be able to give the top rating.Thank you

We arrived after a very muddy walk. Welcomed by very friendly staff who forgave us for our muddy boots!The selection of ales is great. Ex or Gold, yums.Claasic Sunday roast, well cooked and presented and served by very lovely staff.Such a change from chain pubs.

Despite being a quiet time we were assured that food was available and it was! Well cooked and presented food. The menu is quite short (which is a good thing!) and there were specials (Chicken and asparagus pie and 2 sorts of curry). There was a good range of well-kept beer too. A great way to end a busy day!

We had just attended a funeral in the village and needed a warm up and a place to gather thoughts before travelling home. We were welcomed warmly from the moment we walked in. The other people in the pub were also keen to talk to us and extend the welcome. Nothing was too much trouble and they even stayed open for us to finish up drinks. Warm welcome, very accommodating, quintessential old English pub with a delightful old fireplace with a hot real fire. Just what we needed. Thank you

I recently visited this lovely pub for a skittles night with some friends. We had an excellent evening with some great food and an even better host. If your looking for something different to do i would highly recommend

My wife and I regularly go to pubs for an evening meal, usually on a Thursday or Friday. One of our ways of deciding if we will come back is to try their steak and chips, with salad or tomatoes, onions etc. We both enjoy a nice steak cooked as we have ordered it - a little less than medium. And are more interested in quality than quantity - a 170 grams/6 ounces is fine for us. Equally importantly we like hot and crispy chips that have been properly cooked. I am v pleased to report that we had our steak and chips a week or so ago at The Black Horse in West Tytherley and the streak was v good - tender, juicy, well cooked. The chips were outstanding - the best we have tasted in the UK in a long while, so 10 out of 10 for the lady who runs the pub with her husband and cooked the meal! We would thoroughly recommend that you make the trip out to West Tytherley to the Black Horse - particularly if you enjoy steak and chips!

We visited The Black Horse a couple of times while on holiday nearby. We found everybody friendly and welcoming towards us and our two large dogs. We didn't eat there but the food did look good. We have booked the same holiday next year, so we'll be back.

Nice people. Standard pub fare.

Now with new tenant landlords, this is the perfect local - Friendly staff and regulars, well cooked simple food, good value and no noisy slot machines etc!

Very nice people. Good value for money food. Very helpful.

Really friendly staff. Excellent food. Really good service

Sad to see this was closed. I wonder why. I can understand they may need to justify some footfall to stay open, and we were there on a Thursday. But closed on Friday lunchtime as well !! What's going on.

The Black Horse has always been a great local pub, and one of the reasons we came to live in this village. With Ken and Linda, the new managers, it’s in great hands: I’ve just had a great rump steak for lunch, and as ever, a great atmosphere in our lovely local. Recommended.

In short a very hostile atmosphere from the ‘regulars’, all old white men. If you are brown or black i would suggest going to another pub somewhere else.

Staying at Downs View Dairy, so a short 1.5m walk. Good selection of classic pub food and managed to fit in 4 adults and 5 kids. Overall a nice lunch.

Welcoming pub with a good atmosphere, service and food. Had a good meal here. Very nice sausages and mash. Dog friendly and a good crowd in.

Found the Black Horse by chance after driving through the New Forest on the way home from Bournemouth. We stopped for food and they were serving lunch at the time. They had a good choice on the menu and some great looking options on the specials board. We had our dog with us and as it was a nice day, decided to sit in the garden. The pub was bustling on Sunday and we were made to feel very welcome. The dog was also welcome inside but we wanted some fresh air.

Great food, great beer, friendly staff. A lovely little pub.

We enjoyed two meals at the Black Horse in West Tytherley, both in the bar area rather than the dining room.

nice village pub and local shop next door

Went for Sunday Lunch. 6 adults , we all had different meals and all had clean plates and there was good servings aswell . The service was excellent . Deffinatly worth a visit.

We turned up at 2 and luckily they were still serving food. Friendly pub with plenty of choice on the menu and quite a few specials. Me and hubby both had pie, game pie and a chicken pie. Both were very tasty and the portion was a good size.

Lovely country pub serving good ales and good honest homemade food.

Lovely friendly staff and customers

Friday evening walk to the pub. Smashing meal! Great atmosphere and very friendly staff. Food was also delicious and prompt. With trivial pursuit cards on each of the tables there is great entertainment for all the family to join in on! Finally and most importantly, there is a good range of beers and ciders on tap

Dog friendly, good well-priced food, kind and conversational local people - the perfect local. Usually something going - a quiz, morris dancers, always a nice evening

Quaint pub, rural location, very quiet place and friendly staff

West Tytherley is a secluded and pretty little village but the Jewell in the crown is the Black Horse. Vanessa and Nathaniel are the most accommodating and friendly landlords you could ever wish to meet. Nothing is too much trouble and their warm welcome is second to none. The food is always cooked to perfection and excellent value for money and will even do baked beans with the scampi when you have a fussy daughter They are kid friendly and dog friendly and all are very welcome. This is a great pub and you won’t be disappointed!!!

This is a lovely friendly local village pub. Had a lovely evening meal here on the Friday 27th April. Lovely friendly service, great food, i recommend, chilli night in which they had a lovely log fire, cosy.

Fantastic traditional country pub set in beautiful quaint surroundings of typical English village. Well kept ales and food priced fairly for a good wholesome meal.

Great atmosphere, friendly staff and good home cooked food

I phoned and booked a table a few days in advance. It ready and waiting for us when we arrived. Normally we go to our local The Silver Plough in Pitton. This was a wonderful alternative and we plan to go back very soon. We were warmly welcomed into the lovely bar area. The atmosphere was friendly and we enjoyed watching the logs burn in fire...nice and cosey!

A great traditional village pub with friendly staff and always a fantastic selection of well kept real ales.

Great food. Very welcoming pub for kids and dogs if you have either or both. Still has the feel of a traditional pub. Great ales and customers expect a bit of village quirky. Ladies toilets could definitely be improved. Can't comment on the men's.

Great little boozer out in the sticks with a good selection of ales and European lagers. Friendly staff, an open fire and a delicious game pie. Food is hearty and really tasty rather than fancy.

Really delicious home cooked food. Always some very tempting specials, and they really know how to put great combinations of yummy ingredients together. Lovely old pub, with open fires and friendly staff.

Friendly, cosy rural pub with great food.

we contacted Nathaniel and Vanessa 5 weeks before our big day after another local pub let us down.