The best restaurants in Lyndhurst New Forest South East

Lovely pub, friendly staff. Jacket potato was delicious.

We went to this lovely pub today as a family catch up. We were advised, when booking, that it would be busy but we decided to book anyway. We were warmly greeted by their staff and shown to a table by the window. There were 9 of us plus 2 dogs. Lovely atmosphere and the food was excellent. We will certainly be returning.

Lovely pub - caters for everyone. Large seating area outside with a large tv. Nice restaurant space indoors as well as a separate bar area. The food was presented lovely and tasted as good as it looked. Reasonably priced too. Staff were friendly and attentive.

Wont come back here again strange guy here, and others. Well glad they have gone, and the guy lost his job there, dread to think what he will be like elsewhere.

My band played a gig here. What a great pub, superb staff and clients.

What a family what fantastic produce...I drove specially from London to buy a Chicken Borcalli Pie, and Sausage roll, and a delicious Carrot cake....Thank you madame and daughters .....stay single......

Wonderful food and beautiful garden. Dog friendly and brought mine over a water bowl.

Just tell the staff to stop interrupting us while eating just to check if all is OK. If we have a problem we can soon call them over.

Great ice cream here with lots of flavours. It is also a coffee shop and the cakes looked good. However for an ice cream whilst walking around Lyndhurst this place is a good choice.

Truly awful - and no suitable toilets. The food we were served was below average, the coffees were unfortunately not good at all. The service from the woman running the cafe was disgraceful. She seemed off from the outset, and was downright rude in the end after one of our group was reduced to tears by her behaviour. Most importantly the toilet was not suitable for visitors to use, you have to squeeze through the kitchen which is open to the seating area to get to the toilet, which is extremely close to where food is being prepared and completely inaccessible for anyone with mobility issues. The toilet door did not shut, so the woman who runs the cafe had to slam shut another door in order for there to be any privacy (and any level of hygiene), which then resulted in one of our party being trapped inside the toilet unable to get out. When another member of our party was eventually able to force the door open from the outside and the person who was trapped was understandably shaken at the experience, the women running the cafe had the nerve to tell her to calm down, and then denied having said anything at all. All in all it was a horrendous experience, no redeeming features - this unfortunate situation could have been helped with a kind manner but instead was made much worse. Avoid. We will be making a formal complaint to the food standards agency. A bizarre and upsetting experience!

We hadn't eaten in the Fox and Hounds for a couple of years as our last experience wasn't great. I am pleased to say we gave it another go. They even did their set menu on a Bank Holiday Monday. We all had 3 courses and all were very good. Delicious home made soup, 3 different main courses and treacle tart and sticky toffee pudding. However without doubt the stand out dish was the caprese salad. It was soooo good! Also a massive shout out to Rebecca, a true hospitality professional and a credit to the Fox and Hounds. We will be back 🙂

Visited on the 14/5/25 very welcoming, had the smaller chicken and mushroom pie and it was delicious, wife had ham, egg and chips, chips were very thick and also delicious, spacious garden and undercover eating areas as well inside which was very delightful, if we down in Lyndhurst again this is where we are eating 10/10.

Nice locally sourced produce and friendly staff. There is a choice between the main menu and the classic menu which you don't see on the website, the pies are amazing.

After a 3 night booking I would just like to say that it was really disappointing to hear the hotel would not refund any money after having to leave a day early due to an emergency at home. The reason being we paid by secret escape vouchers given to us as a present for our 70th birthdays. We therefore feel there was less respect and courtesy as a company from the hotel depending on how you paid. Secret escapes informed us the hotel refused to refund any money. We will not return to this hotel and will pass on information on our media and family posts.