The best restaurants in Blackwater Test Valley South East

Attended for a wake and the service at the bar was impeccable. The finger buffet too was excellent and the room divider a brilliant idea. Thank you and well done.

Under new management and much improved again.

This was our annual family Christmas meal. The six of us meet up to enjoy a meal together before places get to busy, but enjoy great food. This was the third time of visiting The Hatchet at Christmas. The food and service was great as always. The only hiccup was using the third party booking system. We had booked and had confirmation email and a follow up email checking we still wanted the booking, but on arrival the booking hadn’t been forwarded to the pub. The staff were friendly and helpful to make up an emergency table for us. So I would recommend calling the pub to make your booking.

On a chilly early spring day - after buying onion sets and seed potatoes in this high quality family-run garden centre - we had an early lunch in their warm conservatory café: delicious soup, bread and particularly outstandingly yummy - and large! - cheese scones - all home made. The cheese scones are by far the best in a 10 mile radius of Romsey! The garden centre is also known locally for the wide collection of high quality dahlia plants.

Potatoes were so over cooked they were hard, the portion of beef was awful, tiny slices of very rare and hard to cut through as it was not cooked.

This place looked lovely and the staff were polite but we won’t be returning. My husband and I ordered pies and the kids had macaroni cheese with veg. Unfortunately my pie came out cold with one small piece of broccoli as the veg and some dried mash potato. My husband had a warm pie with an equally disappointing amount of veg. The staff apologised and replaced my pie with another even colder beef and ale pie that was now soggy too. I sent it back and declined their kind offer of a replacement. The children had corn on the cob that was slimy and overcooked but they liked the rest of their dinner. We did get a refund for the two cold pies. On leaving I noticed the toilets were dirty and there was a lot of dog hair all over the floors. I hope they take this review as an opportunity to improve the quality of the place.

Sunday lunch. The tasteless chewy meat -I had pork my partner beef arrived on top of a small portion of greyish mash, surrounded by a greasy, watery orange "gravy"? which was almost spilling off the plate.A very small dish of mixed vegetables. It was awful. We had lunched previously (last year) and it was really good.

We stayed in one of the lodges so we were looking forward to enjoying a nice breakfast at the farm cafe. We were told they were operating a limited menu because there was no chef so we ordered an avocado smash, sausage bap and an egg on toast. I asked if the avo smash would come with seeds as shown in the photo and I was told yes. The egg on toast came out at 10.10am and by 10.40 we were still waiting on the rest of the food. When I went to check on our order I was told “5 minutes”, which is clearly code for ‘we’ve forgotten about you.’ By the time the rest of the food came out I was completely over it. No apology was given. There were no seeds on the avocado and the staff were miserable with zero personality. Don’t bother! Save your money!

Was hoping to have lunch here as a reviewer praised it. There were four customers, it was quite dark, the tables were dirty, the floor was laden with crumbs. The lady behind the counter didn't look up from her phone. Needless to say we left. I've just read that the team there are from the recently closed, Choice Plants cafe, which was excellent. Hopefully cleanliness and service will improve. Should be a gold mine as there are caravanners on site most of the year.

Booked here for Sunday lunch. We were not disappointed. The cooking, quality of ingredients and the quantity was exceptional. We will definitely book again