The Woolpack in New Forest

The food was very nice, but the service we felt was 'lacking'. The menus were already on the table, so we were not informed that there was a range of specials available, but this was not apparent when we ordered. My wife walked up to the bar to get some drinks, and was immediately told to go and sit down, and we'll take your drinks order, but we couldn't choose from what may of been at the bar! Don't even ask about Mocktails! "No we don't do those!" 😞 The specials only came to light when we had to go and locate a member of staff to take our sweet order! These were on little black boards on the wall near where you come in. The atmosphere was ok due to the lack of interaction from the staff.

Simply terrific. Warm welcome, traditional setting. The perfect atmosphere. Food wow! Generous portions, pipping hot. You will be impressed. Went with good friends and family. Woolpack made our gathering perfect. Thankyou from us all.

Fantastic food. Both the mains and puddings were top notch. All very tasty and well presented. Nick was a great to. Many thanks. Will definitely be back.

Lovely staff, but sadly, the roast was rather dried up. The tiny disc of stuffing was so hard I struggled to get my knife through it. Not very hot, and the beef was tough. Roast potatoes weren't fluffy as per the description. Disappointed.

Stopped for a nice light lunch and was very satisfied with the food and service

Great food and very attentive staff in a lovely setting. Definitely will return. Thank you.

Booked a table in the conservatory for Sunday lunch. From arrival, the service was excellent. The view from the conservatory over Sopley Brook is lovely, and the Sunday Roasts are plentiful and delicious. The cheesy leeks are a lovely side dish. Can’t comment on dessert as we were too full from the roasts! Highly recommended!!

Popped in for lunch. Wife, myself, two dogs. Great food. Truly tasty made fresh on the premises.

Had set menu was ok a bit limited

Such welcoming staff and delicious food. We were there for supper with our 2 year old and the staff were amazing with her. Highly recommend this pub for the food, staff and atmosphere

Excellent beautifully presented food. Biggest slice of steak and ale pie packed with big chunks of meat. I had the smoked salmon linguine which was lovely too. Beautiful day sat in the garden sadly so close to the road traffic noise is unavoidable

We visit every year on our family holiday and always look forward to dining here, even sometimes just popping in for a drink

Very nicely presented food and tasty .but rather expensive for what we had for 4 people....Lovely thatched pub with a stream running by ...Good service

Perfect Sunday Roast with succulent beef highly Recommend.

Well in one word fantastic, the best Customer service experience I've had in a long time. I've eaten at some of the best Restaurants and there don't come close, for me that says alot.

A pub that always looks inviting when you drive past and didn't disappoint. Superb food, friendly staff, easy car parking and a really charming beer garden separated from the pub by a stream with 2 charming little bridges. Looking forward to a return visit soon.

Only had a drink views was nice but food looked expensive

Lovely pub great food and friendly staff. Highly recommend when in christchurch...

Nice pub, great place for meals or just a drink. Friendly staff and a good atmosphere.

Beautiful location, quaint picturesque period building, stream running through the garden, food looked nice, from what I saw, staff nice and functional, phenomenally bad and tasteless automated machine made coffee.

Had dinner here 16/08/24, was very good. The food was excellent as was the service. Would recommend and will be going back.

Been wanting to try this pub for a while so decided to have lunch there today - the food was average at best and overpriced for what we received.

Food was excellent and service was perfect. All credit to the owner who clearly takes pride in the standards of his restaurant and made our visit thoroughly enjoyable. Would definitely return for another meal and can highly recommend the burgers.

Brilliant food & great atmosphere & staff excellent well worth a visit I would definitely recommend

Beautiful setting food fa amd service

Great staff - even when Courtney is not there 😆

Food was fantastic and very reasonably priced. Servic was very friendly. Well worth the visit and will go back.

Lovely pub, great food, nice staff,good portions

Lovely Public House, brilliant food. Will definitely go back.

Returned today everything was excellent and spoke to the manager and I can definitely say he does read the reviews

A great country pub with excellent quality and variety of food choices. We had an evening meal on a week day. Service was friendly and efficient. Able to enjoy a leisurely meal. Dogs welcome. Would go again often.

We did not have time to eat this time but looking at the menu we will be back

We arrived on a sunny day which helped. Good beer garden by the river. Staff knowledgeable and service efficient. Good menu choice not typical English pub fare. Reasonably priced and good presentation.

We received a warm welcome from the manager when we arrived . The barmaid was pleasant and helpful.our food was very nice with very good selection of veg. The pie was great. All in all a pleasant experience and will go again.

Fantastic pub, absolutely loved the garden area, it has a stream running between the pub and garden which was really nice. Toilets were clean. The food was lovely, really recommended. Everyone was happy with their order and we all enjoyed an ice cream subday after as well. The service was lovely. Really enjoyed it here and we have recommended to family and said we would definitely go back.

Lovely meal. Burger night is excellent value and really tasty. Some great local beers and brilliant service

Haven't visited for years. We.were here on a good weather day. Good menu, good service and plenty of drinks choices. The only down side is traffic noise but good free parking.

Nice friendly pub. Staff and food excellent. Nice setting.

Really good food and value for money. Lovely service!

The best ribeye steak by far in England.

Went today for Sunday lunch, really good choice for a Sunday Menu. Great portions, served very hot and freshly cooked. I had steak and ale pie it was well worth every penny, served with fresh vegetables and crispy chips. Highly recommend.

Absolutely Fantastic experience at the WoolPack for food and drink! I've just moved to the local area and since I tried the food here Ive been back 3 weeks in a row for their Monday Night "Burger Night" The One To Have Is The "Pulled Pork"!! Mouth watering!! One of the nights I invited 7 friends to come and try the burgers as they are that amazing! Not forgetting the deserts.... They are brilliant too!! Thanks To The Team and your now my regular pub!! Can't recommend highly enough! James.

We had amazing service, the young lady was polite and chatty. We specifically came in for the Ploughman's spread, as one of my favourite lunches I have to agree, it was really great. We live 1 & 1/2 hours away. So probably won't pop in again for a while. But when next in the area will definitely come in for lunch. Thanks 😊

Walked in for lunch on a hot Saturday. friendly helpful staff. Dog friendly. Lovely food with good variety. We'll be going back for another visit. Cost about £10 for kids meal and £18 for adults meal. Large puddings cost £8-£10 but big portions.

Great food. Great atmosphere. Lovely staff. It's worth a visit!

Food was delicious, but the wait was long. Thankfully we weren't in a hurry. Staff very friendly and attentive.

Nice pub for food, nice setting. Service was quick and the food was good.

Excellent restaurant great service. Staff friendly and welcoming. Food was excellent great value for money

Lovely pub, in a picturesque village. Fabulous food and drinks one of our favourite places to eat while we are holidaying in Dorset. 😁

Great meal at The Woolpack this evening. Good portion sizes, tasty with great service too

We had a delicious Sunday roast. Was a quieter Sunday evening after an apparently busy lunch. We sat inside which has lots of character for such an old pub and really comfortable and welcoming. Staff are amazing and really welcoming. Outside seating looked beautiful next to the river. Will definitely be going back for a relaxing meal in the beer garden next time very soon!

I'm a regular of this pub for 20 years ! Love the food the service is always great ,I would recommend anyone who comes to this pub & great,staff thankyou

Great service in a great location. Food was good, with a great mix of choices.

One of the best meals I had for long time

First time coming here ( we drove just over hour to get here) and the service and food was excellent and good portions. We took our dog aswell which he was very much welcomed there. Nice big car park and there's an overflow car park too. The pub is situated in such a beautiful surroundings with a stream and you can go over Bridge as there are a few benches there. Absolutely love the place and Will definitely go back there. We give this pub 5***** and very much highly recommend here. Thankyou to the staff that served us and said our dog was beautiful ( the white husky cross dog, I'm sure you will now know who I am).

Great food, fantastic service. Not cheap but the setting, right by the river and fabulous service made it worth that little bit extra.

Friendly staff and lovely food. Lots of gluten free puddings to try. Dog friendly too. Will be back soon.

Lovely food, great service, a bit pricey though 😪

Nice big historic pub with low doors and ceilings. Barman friendly and gave me some valuable information regarding the last leg of my walk along the Avon Valley Path. Barmaid friendly and chatty and filled my empty water bottle for me...thanks both! :)

Always a lovely place to have a drink and some food.

It's a beautiful pub, with a great atmosphere and lovely staff. But the food should be better quality and tastier for the price. The beef Sunday roast was a bit too bland for £20. The vegetables, although properly prepared, it was obvious that were not top quality, but more like the value range. The meat also. The food portion was much too big. The desert was tasty, but very small for £9 and would have expected some home made custard with that, not the microwaved canned one.

This place was lovely. Great outside areas

Stopped off here on a cycle ride in the late afternoon yesterday. The gentleman serving behind the bar was clearly in a foul mood. He slammed the card reader down on the bar when it was our time to pay. Two serving staff were observed wandering around the garden with one plate of food each looking for a table on the wrong side of the stream. They were chatting away like budgerigars and seemed untrained in their jobs. Generally the atmosphere was one of staff bickering. The setting is beautiful and the food looked great, let down by poor management.

The pub is set in a good place, I went for a Sunday roast but was very disappointed in the tasteless lamb roast.

We visited last week. Good home cooked food and friendly staff. The steak pie was lovely. It would be nice to have a little more variety on the kids menu, maybe sausages or bread crumb fish or chicken instead of batter. smaller kids sandwich box would be great too as an option. Nice selection on the specials board. Lovely beer garden.

We stopped for lunch on the way back from Christchurch and hadn't visited The Woolpack for 5+ years. The staff are attentive and super friendly. The food was fab and the pudding was amazing. We had liver, mash & gravy and also the Thai Green Prawn curry. Finished off with a locally sourced Apple Cake with ice cream.

Lovely pub, great service & friendly staff, lovely. Food, I'm afraid extremely average, when there are many pubs offering far superior quality. Will certainly visit again as we often pass, but please review your food.

11 of us ate here after a 5 mile walk from Sopley to Ripley, to Bransgore and back to Sopley. Extensive menu, tasty food and good service. The pub let our walking group park here, but requested we didn’t park there, if we came again, as we apparently blocked parking spaces for other diners. Also, initially they requested a £5 deposit per head and pre-ordering of food, but this was waived (we would have gone to another pub if they had insisted). Overall, a lovely pub, good food but a shame that they’re not overly welcoming for groups of walkers.

We went for a Sunday lunch it was nice but not fantastic, my wife food as she said was not too hot but my was good, Bear was good and the staff where kind and intensive, would we go again yes most probably.

excellent home made meals fresh vegetables really enjoyed business lunch.

We stopped here for lunch during the week, the staff were friendly and polite. We hadn't booked but we were squeezed in and had a fabulous meal. Good prices and variety and they cater very well for food allergies and vegans. Definitely be back, give it a try 👌

Lovely place to have a drink and the food is fab. Their chunky chips are delicious!

Ordered the leg of lamb for £21, when the food came out it was the portion size of a starter, tiny. You could make an exception but the food tasted so bland we left feeling like our money was wasted. This establishment has hiked their prices, but skimped out on taste and portions. Again that dish cost £21! Waitress with the tattoos seemed shifty too. Very strange First bad experience at this place after coming a year ago, but definitely won't be returning.

My husband and I loved the playlist playing in the background. Very relaxing, lovely staff. Great food.

First time our Lunch Group has tried this Pub. The people were very nice and friendly, and the food was great. I had a home made pie which was thick with meat etc., others had one of the various roasts which again were very good. We will happily return for another lunch.

Absolutely fantastic pub and setting. Roast dinner was very average unfortunately poor potatoes and not enough veg!

Came here on a whim and was not disappointed. The staff were incredibly friendly, and the pub had such wholesome vibes (some low ceilings though). We came on a Sunday for a roast and it was so lovely. Really big portions, hot when it came out and the cheesy leeks were amazing. Highlight of the food however were the cheesy pickle croquettes, would go back just to have them. Would like to add the girl with curly space buns was super friendly and helpful.

Wonderful tasty food, plenty of it and a happy service too. Children's meal was pretty large too...

The food was lovely (had roast turkey) plenty of it and very tasty and had dark chocolate brownie for pud which was really nice and rich.

Excellent staff, food and value for money what else could you want...

Excellent dining and good service

My wife and I visited The Woolpack 15-3-2024 for an evening meal and a drink. Our host Nick was very friendly and was very interactive with all of his customers. The food was lovely and the portions were very generous. I would definitely recommend a visit to this pub/restaurant if you are in Dorset and in the area.

We are new to the area and trying out new places to eat and have a drink. The Woolpack was highly recommended to us. So we thought we would try it out! It’s has a lovely location in the village of Sopley by a small river. We went there for a mid week lunch in March and very much enjoyed our experience. Nick, the manager, was friendly and found us a table by the window in a fairly small, quaint room with a log burning fire. The food was very good - my fish and chips was plentiful: the fish was soft and flakey cod with a yummy crunchy batter, nice chips too.😃 All at a reasonable price. 😃😃 There was also a very good mid week offer on selected meals - 2 courses for £12. Might try that next time! We shall definitely be back! See photos.

We visited on a busy mother's day afternoon. The restaurant was packed. And though there was a small delay in getting our table, we got a great seat overlooking the river. Food was good quality and full of flavour, good choice of mains and desserts. Staff were busy but attentive. A good decision to go here.

Celebrated mother's day with a table of 8. We all had something different from burgers, roasts, veggie pasta, veggie lasagne. All excellent and well prepared. Chocolate brownie was amazing for desert. Staff are friendly, we were served by Lucy, who is lovely, attentive, nothings too much trouble, despite it being a busy mothering Sunday. Definitely return for future celebrations. Would like to try more from their delicious menu. Thanks to you all. 😊

Very varied menu. Delicious food. The staff were very welcoming.

Excellent food and friendly service, a bit on the pricey side though.

Great food, great drinks, lovely atmosphere!

Great home cooked food, quick service, friendly staff, good menu. Would recommend this restaurant to anyone as it has a varied menu.

There's a lovely ambience at the Woolpack, even on a wet, windy, and cold winter evening, with music playing in the background at just the right level. Highly recommend the Sunday roasts! Perfect and generous sized portions, full of tasty flavours. The roast currently costs £17.99 (Feb 2024), which I felt was worth the price. Good selection of beverages, food, and desserts to choose from. I've had a few meals here over the years, and they have always been very good.

Use to use this quite often a few years ago haven’t been for a couple of years. Food disappointing gammon over cooked mushroom frazzled, quite slow service, will be reluctant to return in the near future

Great traditional pub with nice food and friendly service

Lovely quirky pub ,food was lovely and staff very friendly. Great place to catch up with friends as not far from Wessex way

The food was excellent - absolutely delicious, service was spot on, polite staff and timing of food great...even our dog was spoilt... atmosphere was lovely..

We went as a group of 30+ and the attention to detail was amazing. We ordered before: some had two courses, some had three. Each course was substantial and was served to us together and HOT - an amazing achievement when serving such a large group. We have been as a couple before and will do so again. The food is delicious and Hick and his team make you feel so welcome.

We had not been here since the new owners took over so weren't sure what to expect. A very smart and cheerful manager greeted us, the pub decor is really nice and it is still as cosy as ever. As it was a sunday we chose to go all out and have the Big Daddy 3 meat roasts which were so big but also top quality food, We have large appetites but both had to leave some mains in order to tackle a dessert, again not disappointed with quality or quantity. It is easy to be put off by the prices when you view the menu but taking into account the quality and size of the meals we felt it was worth every penny and will definitely be going back to try the steak pie which looked amazing!

Where do I start! We stumbled across this hidden gem while out and about we got a table straight away without a booking and I can honestly say the BEST roast dinner I have ever had in my life myself and my partner oftern go to different pubs for a roast on a Sunday and every time we have a roast we always say it doesn't even come close to the one we had at the woolpack sopley unfortunately we live 2 hours away so can't just pop here for a roast but we can not wait for the day we return 😀

First time visiting for food. Really nice food, really nice service, nice atmosphere couldn’t fault it. would definitely return.

Booked for a combined anniversary/birthday celebration. Arrived on a cold night, but were warmly greeted by the owner, and show to our table not far from the open fireplace. We ordered our drinks, and after they had come (quite quickly) we ordered food. Chris started with the Pean and Ham homemade soup - a bit bowl, and a nicely warm section of baguette. He couldn't eat all of it, as he wanted to leave room for his mains. I had the Nachos with melted cheese, salsa, sour cream and bacon bits. If I had not have very hungry, it would have done for a mains! Both reall good, hot and filling. For mains, Chris had a Cheesburger and fries, whilst I had the Sirloin special (blue), with peppercorn sauce. I can honestly say that it was one of the best steaks I have had - it was definately blue, but was tender, melting in the mouth, and was really tasty. The chips were thin chips, but perfectly cooked, with a bit of seasoning. Chris's burger was juicy, and properly cooked, and his chips were as good as mine. The only complaint? that he had was that he could have done without the sliced gherkins, but that was trivial. We didn't have room for puds, but the selection seemed quite good. One thing was that they were very hot on allergies - making sure that they were known and worked with. All in all, and excellent night and meal, and we will be going back when the sister in law comes down for her birthday! As a side note - the door into the main pub opens inward, over a step. Although there are signs indicating this, they are not noticeable enough for someone who has vision problems, especially when they use a stick to get about.

Fabulous example of an English country pub