The best restaurants in Brockenhurst and Forest South East New Forest South East

My friend and I visited Esme's for breakfast during our stay in Brockenhust to visit the New Forest and Hampshire County Show. I enjoyed a very delicious cooked breakfast on both days and my friend was tempted by toasted teacakes and toast with jam. Had some great chats with Storm and her colleagues! On our final morning, we were tempted to take home some deep filled chocolate cookies which had just been put on display on the counter....scrummy! Lovely display of other cakes and bakes too, but the cookies were definitely a winner. Looking forward to returning again next year!

Breakfast experience was great. Service was quick. Delicious food see photos . We stop here on our way to the ferry for the iow so much better than McDonald’s guys.

Really nice menu, sensibly priced and great service. The Philly Cheese Steak was faultless! Will certainly visit again. Highly recommended.

came here for my birthday food was delicious loved it 🙂

Freshly cooked and excellent as always.

Excellent long weekend with family. Hotel, grounds & staff are all fantastic

Fantastic restaurant in a lovely hotel. Very covid safe. Staff friendly and helpful. Food delicious. Highly recommended.

We had afternoon tea with gin and tonic. We arrived late but the team were happy to accommodate us and still serve us afternoon tea. No one came to see to us - we were sitting out of the way and late. Really impressed that after this slight hiccup the manager came over to apologise. The service was excellent. The food delicious, especially the warm and fluffy scones. We enjoyed different treats overlooking a lush and cozy garden. Recommended.

Fantastic service and food, nothing too much trouble, highly recommend.

Having stayed a couple of months ago, lovely hotel, strange that the hotel doesn't provide Dinner on a Monday evening, also having to pay an extra £12 for a full breakfast of which was unremarkable

Amazing food, service and made our night!

EDIT TO THE BELOW REVIEW We went to Steffs kitchen again on Wednesday last, and what a shocking difference. They were busy as usual, but we were completely ignored at first, and the empty table still had the previous occupants cups and plates. After 5-10 mins, my mum went to move just the first cup to a much larger empty table, out of our way, only to be scolded like a schoolchild by the blonde older waitress, as she had just cleaned that table. Yes she had, as she walked past our dirty table several times in doing so. I tried really hard to be nice to her regardless of this, it's not the normal attitude in there. When I did indicate that we were ready to order, we were told in a very cross mumbled way that she wouldn't take our orders yet as she had to take them in the order of arrival. We felt so cross as we had actually been there before at least 4 other tables, we watched them arrive for goodness sake! With hindsight, I don't know why we kept quiet, but we didn't feel like a scene or burning our bridges. They were just the tables we could see from around the corner, there may have been more arrived later and served before us out of our line of sight. Finally, this still abrupt lady came for our orders, my continued smile met with ice. I ordered 2 teas and our meals, to which she said there was a long wait time. No wonder really, we had been bumped right down that list already. She went away to the kitchen and came back saying it was now a 40 mins wait. Our teas had arrived so we paid for them and said we would just drink them and go elsewhere for lunch. We honestly felt like errant schoolchildren and were very poorly treated. We won't be back, it was the worst treatment. She should have said something like "I have to take orders in sequence of arrival, unless I have it wrong?" To allow us to say, yes you have this time, we arrived while those tables were empty and actually watched them arrive to the whole establishment after us. We don't expect to be told off and treated like interlopers. Very disappointed and luckily we found a lovely pub just up the road with outstanding service and far nicer. old review: Always great meals here and absolutely brilliant service always. They have never been a let down and we have always had lovely food here. No reservations, just find a table inside and the ladies will find you and take your order. It's all so efficient that you won't be overlooked.

Nice decor and ambience but service was a bit hit and miss. They seemed to be struggling with a half filled restaurant. Friendly enough though.

Popped in for a coffee, good service and with a smile.

We came for a pre booked Christmas meal the food was very nice of what we had but was missing a few key elements such as no yorkshire pudding and no stuffing .we was told if we want more veg to just ask but when we did there was none so just had roast potatoes and I'm sure was microwaved .nice food but over priced for what was served