The Potting Shed Hyde in New Forest

A real hidden gem ! WONDERFUL FOOD

A rather excellent flat white; a delicious slice of millionaires shortcake and a fresh cup of Earl Grey. A lovely, relaxed mid morning break after a walk in the Forest. Thank you.

Best rarebit I've had. Not a long wait despite being busy. Dog friendly,we like.

Coffee stop, fairly busy on a Sunny October lunchtime. Indoor tables were pre booked so we sat outside, plenty of beaches outside and seating in the polytunnel.

Can get busy but plenty of outside seating, including undercover. Great food, fish finger ciabata butty recommended.

Great place. Lovely staff. Will definitely be back.

Very busy so slightly confused service But very helpful and open to questions about their curry evenings

Amazing food and pleased they was able to fit us in on a busy day they had planned. Only downfall was on arrival the lady said sorry your parked in a disabled bay (by looking at us presuming none of us are disabled - not every disability is visible!) so we then corrected her and informed her that yes a disabled badge for our son

Lovely little place to stop for coffee and cake.

Hi all we had cooked breakfast we were amazed with the breakfast really nice and looked amazing it made eating there really great I must thank the staff fore making us so welcome when we booked we said about myself using a large powered wheelchair when we arrived staff had put a lot off thought where we sat really great full many thanks andy

Wonderful tucked away forest eatery. Breakfast lunch & dinner served. Fresh food in large portions. Service quick priced reasonable. Also, outside eating. Dogs allowed.

We had two scones with jam and cream and two lattes and for some reason we were charged £22.80, very disappointing to be ripped off so badly!!! Spoilt our holiday!

Love this place ! Never disappoints - we popped in for afternoon tea , beautiful homemade scones and clotted cream - great service , great venue , AMAZING food and good value 👍🏼

Fantastic breakfast and coffee, super dog friendly too. Couldn’t fault our food, just perfect! 🤩

Fantastic find whilst on short break. Great prices, food quality and service. Highly recommended. We will be back. Do reserve if you can especially at weekends as understandably very popular.

Lovely café. Staff are super friendly & helpful. The food is very fresh & yummy!

Great place to have lunch or tea and gorgeous cake 🍰

Definitely worth booking a table in advance! We were incredibly lucky to get seated having just wandered in from the rain. Super quick service for extremely good tea, coffee, soups, cakes etc. The seasoned fries are particularly great.

We went there for breakfast. There was 5 adults and 2 young children. I thought the food was average and very expensive . It came to over £101 for 4 simple mimi breakfasts, 1 yoghurt and fruit and toast. The children had pancakes. It was much too expensive in my view. The service and staff were good however we had to sit outside under a polytunnel in the poring rain and I have to say, it was not comfortable. The seating is hard and old and the tables don't look very clean. I'll be honest, the food was nothing special and I'm not sure I'd be happy to recommend it.

The place is idyllic, we ordered coffee and breakfasts and they came very quickly (I think we beat the rush as it got very busy soon after we had finished eating)! Beautiful outside seating adjacent to a herb and veg garden. All the staff were verybfriendly

Lovely little find. Good coffee, great cakes. Can't wait to go back there.

I arrived at The Potting Shed Cafe at 9am on a Sunday morning just as they were opening up. I was extremely surprised to see that all the inside tables had already been reserved but fortunately, the kind hostess was able to find me a seat and table. Apparently, it's really advisable to book a table at the weekends as this place can be very popular. I ordered the full English breakfast with a latee and two extra sausages to take away (the dogs). The service I received was very friendly with a minimal wait for my food to arrive. I have to say that this was one of the loveliest cooked breakfasts that I've had in a very long time and it's the reason why I feel that a good review has to be posted. The fried eggs were fresh, and the sausages were extremely good quality and not your everyday cafe bread tubes. I would thoroughly recommend this cafe without any hesitation and I'll be returning soon. Well done!

Amazing as always! It is just our favourite place to come for lunch. The food is always outstanding and the service fantastic. It is so nice to be able to bring our dog and that she is welcomed as much as we are! We will see you again soon, Roger & family!

What a lucky find,been there a few times now great food and friendly staff. Also sell Downton ale which is a bonus..highly recommend.

Tapas Thursday - simply great! Fab food, decent wine, great staff and all for a very reasonable fee. What more could you want?

We have visited The Potting Shed a number of times and it is just such a lovely place to go! Carrot cake is to die for and Sandwiches are so delicious. Dog and children friendly. Good baby change facilities. Staff are always super friendly and attentive. Highly recommend booking as gets very busy!

Fabulous lunch, sandwiches are fantastic. Also proper tea!! tea strainer provided🤣 Staff are helpful, friendly and the service is quick. Surroundings pretty too Thoroughly recommended

Such a nice little cafe to stop at on our bike ride. Places to park bikes, sit outside with very good coffee and fresh cake! Friendly staff (:

Having lived in this for 60 odd years, I just found this little gem. We will return again as its so nice.

Great find. Lovely breakfast. Even better when you can site outside in sun and enjoy your food.

Visited on our way home after visiting Lyme Regis. Wanted somewhere for cream teas and normal lunches. Beautiful polytunnel to eat in, perfect for a scattered cloudy day about 16 degrees, any warmer might be too hot in there! We had a scone and an awesome Budda bowl - just excellent! Worth the detour! Our sausage dog monty was also made very welcome

Great little cafe tucked by a garden centre on the edge of the New Forest. Worth the detour!

Food was amazing and really really tasty, best breakfast. Lovely service and good atmosphere highly recommend

Excellent lunch, with great choices for my vegetarian daughter

Excellent coffee, great breakfast, friendly staff, thank you all very much!

Nice find on our Fritham bike ride. We had the vegetarian breakfast which was a very good quality. Friendly service. We got in as a two around 10.00am but already tables were being reserved.

A delightful place for a bite to eat or just a coffee.

Very frendly place and great food

Fantastic little cafe and garden shop in the new forest.

A lovely find while staying in the area. I would recommend booking as it's clearly popular. We had the cow burger, Spinach and Falafel burger and pie of the week. It was all lovely and generous portions too. Nice to see a good range of food suitable for vegetarians. Service was excellent and friendly too.

We had the Thai Prawn curry and Beef Rogan Josh and both were not good. The former was a glutinous cornflower paste base and insipid. The latter was a watery beef stew with added red chillies. Sadly we had already paid a deposit. We explained our view to the co-owner who seemed surprised By constructive feedback. Fortunately we did not pay the balance of the bill. A shame as we need good local eateries

This is a little gem of a place. In the New Forest in a relatively small village. It's rustic and apparently in the summer there are outside seating and eating areas. However this was my Mother's day present from my son so we were sat inside. It was a lovely varied breakfast menu with some really nice variations. The staff were all lovely and friendly and welcoming. The food was delicious with a lot of local produce. Families were enjoying themselves and it's dog friendly too. The toilets were lovely and clean and there is ample parking. On site there is some plants and a country store. Not only that but there is a very nice farm shop there too. We had never been before but are definitely going back 😁......thank you all for a lovely time.

Excellent place. Only discovered it towards the end of last year but now one of our favourites, Good food, excellent staff and nice atmosphere. What's not to like! You need to book though to guarantee a table.

So chuffed to have found this place, on our break to the New Forest. Food and drinks were fairly priced and delicious - produce was local and amazing quality. And it is dog friendly too, so we were able to bring our young pooch too. Fab find.

Brought lawyer here to discuss my divorce proceedings, and we were completely blown away with the food. We spent most of what was “meant to be talking” eating. One of the tastiest lunches had, with little work done as a result. Highly recommend the chicken burger, with paprika seasoned fries. I don’t know how they do their coleslaw, but it was so delicious, we kindly asked for more. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (As you can see, we didn’t leave a morsel)

A great find! We had a very tasty lunch here during a cycle ride in the New Forest. The food and drinks were great, atmosphere lovely, service quick and friendly. Thankyou.

Delicious food and good atmosphere.

Could not fault the dinner and service here. Curry night was a little Indian oasis, full of culinary delights. Thank you Terrice and Marcus for your friendly hospitality. We shall definitely be coming back again soon

The most fantastic breakfast! Lovely staff and atmosphere. Lovely will shop at the same location with local produce and garden centre. Highly recommend and will be going back again

Lovely, buzzy place. Great cake

Went there in July 23. Pre booked and mentioned wheat allergy when booking. On the day they decided they were busy and point blank refused to serve anything to anybody with allergies.

Great food and service, piping hot and fresh.

The Potting Shed is a hidden gem! It's so lovely here, the staff are wonderful and the food is always great. I've been here a couple of times now, most recently for Christmas carols with a live band, mince pies and coffee - it was fantastic and the band were absolutely superb!

Cute country tearoom. Perfect for lunch or tea. Tasty food. Good service.

Great food, dog friendly and nice farm shop! Bit drafty in the cafe when staff are going in and out to the outdoor seating and leaving the door open. Apart from that it was lovely!

Ruined breakfast for me! Now anytime I go anywhere else I wonder why I wasted my time/money, lovely breakfasts and more importantly very consistent!! Would recommend but don’t want it to get busy!

Staff at the Potting Shed are always so friendly and welcoming. Usually go for breakfast which is delicious, particularly the mushrooms but had lunch today and it was equally tasty. I’m always recommending your lovely cafe to others, thank you.

Staff were helpful and friendly found us a table in the warm. Not the easiest place to find, use sat nav but worth the effort.

Our first visit here today - definitely won’t be the last! The food was delicious, the coffee strong & the toilets were clean! Everything I need in a lunch with my girls! I wish I’d photographed the food, but I was more interested in eating it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Amazing food for breakfast and lunch. The curry night was a sensation but the recent Christmas evening we enjoyed was the best!! Devoured every mouthful. No one will be disappointed eating here! 😋

This was a last minute decision on a cold and wet November Sunday. The inside space was full so we braved it out in the poly tent with a few blankets from the car! It was cold but it was dry inside and there was a charm to the place which meant that we felt warm. It was also very kind of the staff to bring us free hot chocolates all round! We actually noticed that inside was noisy, hot and a bit smoky from the cooking, so we were perfectly happy in the tent. We all really enjoyed our food and between us we had tiger prawns, cow burger, rarebit and pie of the day. The chips/fries were a highlight, but it was all good and reasonably priced. Wherever I go I check out the cappuccino. This was good. I like the coffee strong and could take it stronger than was served here, but nonetheless, this was a good coffee. If I had any suggestions for the team it would be to fully enclose the polytent, put some throws/blankets out there and make full use of it!

Last minute booking for eight breakfasts and allowing two well behaved dogs in too ! Proper full on English washed down with a decent cuppa. Pity I don't live closer ,I'd be a regular !!

Excellent food and the staff are very friendly and efficient. Very dog friendly.

Super unfriendly staff! Really cold vibe, I wish I took notice of the other reviews - noting the comment left on someone’s previous review I think you should pride yourself on something else as friendliness is not your forte!

Because of the attitude of the staff we left immediately after sitting down. Seems as though a few others have commented the same. I'd go elsewhere as there is plenty of better alternatives nearby. Shame as the decor and menu look good.

Second visit, this time for breakfast which was as good a breakfast as I've ever had. I'm not sure what my expectations were, but what arrived was incredible value for money. I'd describe it as really "clean" and well presented. Two eggs, sourdough, local sausage (amazing) two bacon rashers, black pudding, beans, hash brown and incredible mushrooms that stole the show. All for under £12!!! That's a £25 breakfast in most London hotels - I was genuinely surprised at how cheap this was. Great staff, great venue and lots of smiling faces - even on the many dogs that also like to visit. Well done guys you've got a little gem in the Forest.

Fantastic, really lovely place to relax and unwind, surrounded by plants, shrubs and flowers, and run by caring, helpful and talented people. Delicious all home-made food, good vegan/vegetarian choices, a (meat) burger & trimmings TDF, excellent Welsh rarebit & gorgeous sarnies, etcetera. Breakfasts totally awesome, NOT to be missed, booking essential. Well done Lydia, Terry and your amazing Team. 🤗

Loved the pannini. Coffee and tea were good. Prices are a little high but quality is great. Not far from Hyde where you can often see deer and horses.

Great find - all the food and drinks were absolutely delightful (cow burger, dirty fries, sausage ciabatta, kids pizzas). Maybe slightly on the pricier side but the quality is superb so worth the extra. Kids loved running around in the gardens. Highly recommended

Great service Delicious coffee Tasty Dirty Fries

Arrived here today after visiting the area. Wow what a beautiful place. Food was amazing service was quick. Staff very friendly. Will definitely visit again soon.

Excellent service , very helpful. All tables reserved but they offered us a table for an hour and as we only wanted coffee it was much appreciated. Lovely coffee and delicious flapjacks 😀

Dog friendly, cyclist friendly, just friendly and lovely tea and cake.

Probably the best breakfast I’ve ever had! Great place to eat, very friendly staff with nice little shop next door! Returning for lunch tomorrow! Favourite cafe of our whole holiday in the New Forest!

Lot of noise dogs here today...owner's at fault for not taking them back out to their cars.

Very nice stop off after a long walk in the New Forest. Great cake and coffee.

Love this spot. Dog friendly 🐾 the staff are great and the menu is lovely. It feels like it's away from huge crowds but cosy. Loads of seating, the parking is easy but you don't have to pre-book but you might at well, if you have the option.

What a lovely place! We'll be back! ❤️👍

Excellent cream tea and friendly service.

We arrived at The Potting Shed today believing we had a booking for Afternoon Tea through Groupon. It transpired that we actually were due at The Potting Shed in New Milton but after being assisted by staff there to contact the other Potting Shed (& using their phone too to sort it) we decided to stay and enjoy Afternoon Tea with them instead. So glad we did! Delicious sandwiches all freshly made, huge scones perfectly baked with clotted cream and jam and four massive cakes…all scrumptious (although we needed to take home with us)!! Lots of fresh tea to wash it all down. Just perfect and a belated birthday pressie for a dear friend! It would appear many (like me) confuse the two Potting Sheds…take care when reviewing!! This Potting Shed has not disappointed us on previous visits either!

Excellent barely covers it, two visits within two days. Lunch burger mouth watering as I type, Big breakfast was just manageable quantity, quality. Makes me hungry just thinking about it. Another reason if needed to revisit the New Forest. Going back to both in November...

Great food good price felt we had value for money. Would recommend

Delicious breakfast in beautiful country surroundings!

What an excellent find, tucked out of the way but obviously well supported by people who know it’s there. We only had a pot of tea and an Americano ☕️ but the coffee was lovely. Cakes looked wonderful, but we had already eaten. Highly recommended 👍

Excellent, high quality food, especially given the location. Lovely atmosphere and good service.

Outstanding, definitely will be back.

Great breakfast. Garlic butter mushrooms are a little different but superb. Best crispy hash browns I've had anywhere. Eggs cooked perfectly.

It's a beautiful cafe we really liked it. £12 for a sandwich seemed a little insane. When it arrived it was a big ciabatta that was really lovely so although still a little expensive it did fill me up. I'd definitely visit again but I think the prices keep it so quiet there.

Great place for breakfast or coffee

Very greasy for my liking but my husband loved the big brekky.

Only had coffee's here,but a good place to go.Always busy and best to book if you want to eat there.

Excellent brunch with coffee...sausages particularly good. Make sure you book in high season though

We had a family brunch there. The food and the service was good, with a nice atmosphere. Good location, handy for heading out for walks in the New Forest.

This is our favourite place for coffee and cake. Also, for breakfast, which is fantastic. The staff there are always friendly and helpful. And it has a really good atmosphere.

Lovely food, friendly cafe and good atmosphere with attentive, polite staff we will be back….thanks for a great breakfast

The children’s burger was sadly exceptionally dry and seemed over priced. We did mention this to a waitress but were told ‘the chef airs on the side of caution’. We would not recommend The Potting Shed for young children

Great little find lovely food and service

Wonderful place for breakfast and the cakes looked divine. Sadly, we weren’t able to sample the cakes due to the attitude of the senior member of staff. We arrived, sat down at an empty table, ordered our food and advised the senior member of staff (possibly owner?) that we were at table 500. She took the order (and our money of course) and we waited for our food and coffee. The coffee arrived and then some time after a member of the staff put ‘reserved’ signs on the two tables connected to ours and asked the people occupying the other end of the tables to move . We were not asked to move. Then a few of the eleven persons who had reserved the tables arrived and told us that there wouldn’t be room for us as they had pre booked their meals. There were no spare tables for us to move to so I said that we would move once one did become available. Unfortunately, our food arrived before there were any spare tables. At 11.27 (and I assume the table was reserved from 11.30) whilst we were still eating, the senior member of staff (possibly owner) came over and, rather rudely in my opinion, told us that the table was reserved and tried to accuse us of sitting there knowing it was reserved. This could have been handled in a much more sympathetic way - I completely understand that mistakes happen and had the staff been up front with the issue at the start and helped us to find another table - we would have been totally accommodating but to actually accuse us of wrong doing is totally unacceptable. On a positive -the breakfast and coffee were lovely!

A lovely spot.. I don't know what special treatment is afforded the chips but they were fabulous.

A great hidden little gem. Just had Sunday lunch with friends here. First time visit after recommendation from in-laws. Buddha Bowl very good and tasty, very good and tasty Burgers, Fish finger flat bread very much enjoyed. All washed down with a jug of Pimm’s. It would of been rude not to have partaken in the great looking cakes…so we all did. We will all return.