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One night stay with dinner and breakfast. Friendly, efficient staff. Helpful and attentive without overdoing it. Fixed a minor problem in the room instantaneously.

This place is a beautiful venue and been before for afternoon tea but it’s gone very down hill. Staff were terrible need some Training in hospitality and dealing with customers and issues. I can see this has been a trend by reading other recent reviews. Hopefully the owners read this review and start dealing with the issues as it’s such a shame. Waiting hours for afternoon tea which never arrived ended up leaving. Didn’t get the correct drinks and no one can back to see if we were ok etc I really hope you can turn things around as otherwise don’t know how you can keep going as is

ah what an awesome venue for live music and great food, never disappoionted and bella is the perfect host/barperson Joe +Tracy

Delicious food! I ordered online and it was ready when we arrived, piping hot. All the dishes we had were lovely and it was reasonably priced. Will visit again when we are in the area.

We have had a lovely picnic while some had teas and cold drinks which were served very quickly. They had many tray bakes to offer. And a large variety of food for anyone. Including dog ice cream , would come again

I wanted to try the New City as I have never been there before, and always use Chinatown opposite. I was disappointed with the food. The pancake rolls were greasy, the pork dish was packed out with vegetables, as was the hot and sour soup. On a positive note the crackers and the rice were good. I will carry on with Chinatown as the food is much better quality.

We have been a few times but the resturant has had a re-furb and the new owners are very friendly and there was no rush at all with ordering and the food. Varied menu and lots to choose from even a set 2 course menu for lunch. All the food came out hot and even if my starter came out a bit later than the others it was not a problem. The portions are very big and they do offer for you to be able to take food home if you should wish. The only thing is there was no toilet paper in the ladies when I went so i went in the disabled but as soon as I spoke to the owner this was rectified. Will definately visit again.

We had fish and chips from holbury and dibden purlieu, last night we went to blackfield and they were the best I've tasted for a long time and value for money.

I have used this pub occasionally for years. Had some very good times there and always enjoyed the real pub feel. Unfortunately this time, wow, what a difference. I had my go to meal of gammon, it was OK and that's not what I normally say after I've eaten there. Don't know what happening but would not recommend this place based on that. My friend had prawn tagliatelle main served very poorly in a pudding bowl. Sorry that's not acceptable. Half a dozen prawns and some pasta at £18 was very poor.

Reservamos una mesa para 5 adultos. Nos dieron una mesa junto al fuego que era perfecto. Desde el momento de nuestra llegada todo el personal era amable. Todos elegimos diferentes comidas y pudimos adaptar nuestras comidas a nuestro gusto. Nada era demasiado problema. La comida era excelente (5 platos vacíos). Lo recomiendo encarecidamente.

Disappointed to discover they have closed their indoor seating area, for good it seems, and only offer take away service. Which for disabled persons, means struggling with your food and drink to outdoor only benches some 20 yards from the cafe entrance.

Quite disappointed that my lunch had to come from the kiddies menu, you would have thought that in this age there would have been a vegetarian sandwich choice!

21st Century but wifi never works! I am told it does but that the equipment requires wifi and none left for customers! This is frustrating when one needs to catch up on online tasks while having coffee. As no signal in New Milton, it is even more necessary. Tables also not cleared and hard to find a clean table! Such a shame as staff are very pleasant but obviously overworked! The coffee is decent but if there was a Cafe Nero in New Milton, I would switch!

No options labelled on menu for vegan customer. Cheese scone did not taste of cheese and was under cooked and tasted disgusting. One small crumpet £1.30 and had to pay extra 50p for small jar of jam to accompany it. Fruit salad £3.50 and hardly any fruit in small dish. Would not choose to eat here again. One good thing, the coffee was great!

Normally love they're food, unfortunately tonight after being told hour to hour half for delivery we waited over 2 hrs 45mins Food wasn't as good and luke warm . Disappointed