The best restaurants in St Michael Winchester South East

Unfortunately, The Bakers Arms in Winchester falls short of expectations. The beer selection is uninspiring, with a lack of variety and little effort to offer anything beyond the most basic options. If you're hoping for a decent pint or something unique, you’ll likely leave disappointed. However, the bigger issue is the overall atmosphere and customer service. There’s an unwelcoming feel to the place, with staff who seem disinterested at best and outright rude at worst. Rather than creating a warm, friendly environment, interactions often feel like you're inconveniencing them just by ordering a drink. It’s not the kind of place where you’d want to linger. With so many great pubs in Winchester, there’s little reason to return to The Bakers Arms. A pub should be about more than just serving drinks—it should offer a welcoming experience, and sadly, this one misses the mark.

Absolute rip off. £6 for a pint of 4% beer. And don’t let them plead poverty due to running costs when they go round the garden turning all the lights on two hours before it goes dark.

Bradley was a top man and provided the best service! Quality drinks and friendly service. I will definitely be coming back

Recently went here for lunch in the bar area and had an excellent and relaxing experience. The very friendly welcome, service, food and prices were all superb. Thank you.

Great service from George who was our waiter for Sunday lunch. The food was hot, looked gorgeous and tasted delicious. Whats not to like?

Lovely traditional little pub. We visited at christmas it was lovely. The staff - Sam and Luca, were brilliant, attentive and friendly they went above and beyond with their service - keep hold of them!

Very disappointing. Expensive for what it is and seems to have gone downhill. Lovely building and environment but food not very warm, fish and chips greasy and burger very average A shame

This is my second stay at the Hotel du Vin in the last fortnight. The food in the Bistro has been consistently excellent both at breakfast and dinner. Equally so is the restaurant service which is attentive , caring and welcoming from all the staff. One member who really stands out is Alina who delivers superb customer service. Lovely very comfortable boutique hotel .

We went here with friends for lunch. They have excellent set tapas plates which we all had (from memory there are four different ones to choose from) and the presentation together with taste/quality could not be faulted. Great value for money too. Our server Ben was very attentive and knowledgeable providing great service. I would highly recommend and we will definitely be back.

Met with family in Winchester for a meal. It took a while to find a pub to get booked for 6. We had Sunday lunch today. It was brilliant! And it tasted homemade rather than from the freezer. Between us we had the nut roast, roast beef, lasagna and fish pie. Excellent and generous helping of vegetables and roast potatoes.

we popped into the newly refurbished restaurant to grab a couple of pizzas for dinner - were were told on arrival due to low staff on shift that we would be expecting a 20/30 minute wait on food which we were okay with. Seated within 5 minutes and a drink and food order taken within 15 minutes, which we felt was acceptable, given what we'd been told on entry. Food took 55 minutes to arrive and when it did, my pizza (the 60th birthday special advertised on all their boards) had 50% of the toppings missing. i informed the server as she tried to put the plate down and the pizza was taken away whilst my partners pizza sat getting cold on the table. My pizza was brought out 5 minutes later, the server said it was my pizza, they had just left some of the toppings off but this had been corrected. When i took my first bite, the pizza was stone cold - clearly the exact pizza that was taken away and not even warmed back up. noone came to ask how the food was during the meal, so we sat, an hour into our hunger eating 2 stone cold pizzas. At the end of teh meal, we waited 15 mins for the plates to be cleared so that we could talk to the server, noone came. When we walked to the till to pay, again, we were not even asked "how was your meal". Its such a shame that PIzza Express have clearly invested in a nice looking restaurant but arent investing in their staff training on how to operate a restaurant so that your diners return. The meal was so disappointing and even with a 25% off via taste card, was not worth the aprox £40 for 2 cold pizzas and 2 soft drinks. There are far better pizza restaurants in Winchester and we'll never go back.

We were in Winchester for the first time with our dog and was recommended this pub by someone local. Being dog friendly we unsure about what it would be like inside but it was a lovely clean pub which was very welcoming. The staff provided a water bowl and treat for the dog and our food was really nice! The pub itself also has a terrace with heaters which look over the river. I would definitely recommend to anyone thinking about coming here, especially if you have a dog :)

Nothing wrong with the quality of the food , the drinks were great as was the food but the price was ridiculous , £8.75 for a small toastie … not sure if I had the ends of the loaf of bread but I was astonished at the size of the toastie and having to pay £8.75 for it , like I said it was very tasty but just tiny and very expensive

Most delicious chips, fish cake and mushy peas I’ve had for some time. Piping hot, crispy, freshly cooked. Simple, basic premises but friendly service and most importantly top class chips and food.

First place is a local fish and chip shop we visited many times over the past 20 years. During that time it has been operated by various different owners/managers with varying degrees of tastiness and efficiency. Today we were pleasantly surprised to see the new owners and requested our usual fish, chips and mushy peas. We always ask for small portions, but we really couldn’t have eaten anymore of this delicious food. In the terminology of an old TV advert from many years ago, the food looked good, tasted good and my goodness it went down well.