The best restaurants in New Forest South East

Moved to Lymington 8 months ago and the food was delicious. Past 3 times we've been food hasn't been worth the price.

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Excellent food and very affordable.

Really nice, perfectly cooked fish and chips.

Staff are very rude and aggressive and always frustrated with the customer. A definite lack of customer service, everything is too much trouble. If you request anything they ignore you. It's always the same old faces that behave that way and no one at Head Office is aware so they get away with it. When you have bad service there take the time to write in if you're taking the time to write a review and perhaps they will train staff how to be polite.

We chose to stop here specifically as there was a rapid charger for our EV. The grounds are relaxing and quiet. The conservatory restaurant had a good atmosphere and the service friendly and courteous. We had the Gnocchi and Ploughmans for lunch. Both were very tasty and well presented. Puddings were light and refreshing. Prices are not cheap but good food is worth paying for. Having tried out the restaurant and general ambience we are very likely to arrange a weekend break here soon.

Good food . Nice staff and excellent service

Probably the worst chippy meal I have ever had. Gravy was microwaved. There was enough salt on the chips to kill a thousand slugs and the steak pie was cold in the middle. How bad was it, well my dog refused to eat the leftovers and he normally eats anything and everything.

Very nice and cosy pub. Food was nice and staff very courteous.

Last minute choice not booked , treated like regulars . Top quality food freshly cooked Will return

Visited today for the Christmas menu. What a fantastic meal. Quite honestly the best and most perfectly cooked Xmas dinner I’ve had in many a year. The service was superb too and so friendly. Loved every moment.

1 = poor 10 = excellent Welcome 6 Atmosphere 8 Cleanliness 5 Speed of serve 8 Attentiveness 6 Food quality 6 Value for money 3 Drinks 7 Friendly enough welcome, the albeit seemed they were not ready for service on time. I ordered the ribeye steak medium, the other dish was sea bass, with dauphinoise. The food arrived in good time, hot and plenty of it. The veg cooked to perfection with a slight crunch, the chips pre-salted not sure about that and straight out of a freezer (why waste time making them), albeit I’m sure McDonald serve the same ones! The sea bass tasted fresh and had a very delicate balance of flavours and reasonably presented. Dauphinoise, poorly done and not well presented, looked like microwave mash, mostly bland (I make way better). The steak was rare (not medium), not rested and slightly tough in places. However and was seasoned well and had a really good flavour. No wine offered to complement the meal. Desserts… Wow just wow, taste was great the perfect amount in richness to compliment a meal. Over all, as nice of a place this is, it is very over priced serving, basic pub food…

En route back from Southampton we broke our train journey home @ Brockenhurst and dropped into the Forresters for a couple of drinks - Saturday evening husell and bussel - a busy local with atmosphere - great for a drink and being near to station was really handy.

Amazing place to stay or celebrate an occasion super friendly staff very attentive great attention to detail through out. Defiantly recommen.

Food was OK, varying from excellent to not so great. Manager was awful, refusing to correct bill for voucher which said 25% off total food bill, suggesting that the terms and conditions might have stopped the desserts being included. I had used screen shots of the original, and somehow cannot find the original, so she said that the terms and conditions excluded screen shots (am I that unusual that I don't read all of the small print of an apparently straightforward offer). I was in a good restaurant today, where they made a little error, and when I asked to pay the part they had not charged, they said they had excluded it because they had messed up. I asked for nothing, and their customer service went beyond the reasonable. Yours was the opposite.