The best restaurants in New Forest South East

April 2025 Apparently under New Management. I look forward to reading some recent Reviews. --------------------------------------------- Over a year ago, So disappointed....... Ordered a Chicken Kabab with salad and garlic mayonnaise, and chips. It comes home and it transpires that instead of it being Chicken, with Salad it's Lamb. This isn't the first time this has happened either. A while back a Chicken Kabab was ordered, and all that came was just a Salad pitta Bread, and chips. Suggest you double check that you have the right food when ordering from here.

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.

We called in for a quick snack. The place had the usual things. The sausage roll was nice although perhaps too much pastry.

Try the fresh soup ,and take some lovely fresh cakes home with you nice place to stop for lunch I go regularly

Brilliant food. You could tell the chef was enjoying what he was doing, came out and opened the door for me on my way out. I can't fault any of the food.

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!

Ordered online a takeout delivered to the house, arrived on time, hot, good quantity and quality. All what you you would expect, nothing more or less. Would I use them again? yes.

Slow. No not up to slow, but slower than slow. Coffee & cake OK.

Hilarious , first time I’ve had to pay for gravy because they don’t give enough and the chef reason because we have to buy the jug it comes in and they get broken every week so it’s to cover cost not the cost of the gravy ! Why not just put enough gravy on food instead of serving it so dry it’s not nice without enough gravy. Or even just put price up by 50 p an serve enough gravy . Other customers also raised this when we were there. The carrots an broccoli were dried out an reheated . Mash was dry as anything shame as the rest was nice. Never before have I had to pay for extra gravy because you don’t serve enough in the first place. Bar area lovely warm but the back room is too cold for comfort in the winter months.

A lovely pub with an extensive menu set in beautiful grounds.

Only 7 customers sitting down at the moment. No queue at the till, however EVERY table has dirty cups and plates on it. Two staff on, but no clearing done in last 30+ minutes while I have been here. Needs a firmer hand from management.

Amazing service and great pizza

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 🙂

Nice historic pub with both indoor and outdoor seating available. Good portion sizes and service, with multiple vegetarian options available. Free Car park available in the back. Adequate toilets. Recommend prebooking during busy times as most tables are reserved when we were there.

Would like to thank all of the staff. We got there earlier on the 12 April we stayed in our camper van in their carpark, booked a table for evening meal with a few drinks which was very nice,compliments to the chefs,we also booked a table for breakfast at 9am on Sunday this also did not disappoint, ill be honest I have a few full English but this was the tastiest breakfast ive had. Thank you Jolly Sailor. We'll definitely be returning. Paul and Annie.