The best restaurants in Winchester South East

We visited many pubs whilst visiting Winchester and TBF all were of a good standard, however, the one we kept returning to was the Eclipse. Well kept beer, good value food, excellent friendly staff. Muff said.

Unexpectedly excellent meal, we had a visit arranged for a tour of a local vineyard and stoped here for lunch. When we arrived we were greeted and shown to a table having ordered our drinks. On perusing the menu I spotted one of my favourite meals, linguine with salmon and prawns. When I queried what sauce it came with the chef came to talk to us to explain how he cooked the fish in the oven in an olive oil sauce with baby tomatoes. I ordered this meal and my wife ordered a small steak with home made onion rings, and the usual mushrooms, tomatoes and chips. When the food arrived it looked amazing and my wife immediately took a photo of the food. I can only say that I was very impressed by the taste and how well it was cooked, my wife was also very pleased with her steak and onion rings. The beer was their standard bitter and was a nice clean pint. The service was excellent and the prices were very reasonable. I would certainly come back for another lunch if I am in the area.

lovely pub but my only complaint is that legaly when a drink has been served that drink must be supplied to the recipient no matter what the time is and in the case of my visit i bought a drink near closing time and as soon as I bought that drink it was taken of me which is not just illegal but also unfair so for this reason I can not recommend this establishment at all

The home of the finest bacon sarnie I’ve ever had…just down the road from the statue of Arthur over the bridge. Great value, took the other half back there a few weeks later and the bacon, chicken and avocado was stuffed full and delicious!

England v Switzerland. Very noisy but only to be expected. Starter was slow in coming but my fish cakes followed swiftly. The soup starter, potato and onion, was delicious. Likewise the fish cakes were full of flavour and are to be recommended. The pub is not modern, far from it, but the food made up for it. I don't give five stars very often but richly deserved in this case.

We've been to Giggling Squid a few times and it's a shame that it seems to have gone downhill. We arrived on time and were left stood waiting for our table for 15minutes even though the restaurant wasn't full. Once sat down, we waited an hour for our starters which was a sharing platter, so I asked if we could have plates to eat from. The waiter never came back with them! Watching the staff, there were plenty working, but you could tell most didn't really want to be there! Food was cold when it came out and was a disappointment. The Manager was really good about it at the end and did give us 15% discount, but at the moment we probably won't return when there are so many restaurants to choose from in Winchester.

This pub proclaim on their very own website to be a ‘friendly local pub’, ‘families welcome’, ‘friendly publicans’, ‘where community comes together’, ‘you’ll feel part of the family’…which is quite frankly outrageous given our two experiences here. On the first occasion my little boy became upset in the pub (over something i cant remember- but hes 4, so standard 4yo behaviour which lasted only a minute or two). And when i came back in from the garden, I heard them laughing and one member of staff said ‘hes a brat, and his mother just cant control him which isnt my problem’. Then (heaven knows why we went back) - my friends little boy cut his cheek on the side of a bench in the beer garden - they refused to give us any first aid or call a taxi for A&E, let alone any empathy or basic duty of care. When my husband challenged the manager (Ade) and he said to us ‘if i had my way id make this an adults only pub so we dont have to deal with these nightmare kids’. I could not believe how cruel and uncaring the people working here could be. A little boy had hurt himself and they couldn’t have cared less- but more than that- they were hostile, unhelpful and offensive about the whole thing. Despite it being our local, we have not returned- and we will not be.

It's hard to write a review when you didn't get served, but here goes. We go here now and then for coffee and a Danish pastry, it can be busy but this time we found most of the tables were empty, so sat down and then I went to order. In spite of so many empty tables and plenty of staff, when I tried to order I was ignored for a good minute or so by the teenagers behind the counter. One then decided to speak to me and said "we're not taking orders as we're too busy, come back in 20 to 30 minutes". They said the same to the people behind me, so now I know why it was half empty. At least I was spared the pain of the pastries that cost over £4. It's a pleasant place to sit and watch the world go by, but never again. I don't like being told my custom isn't wanted because they can't be bothered to get themselves organised. I can see this coffee shop going the same way as the others that folded recently.

£26.50 for a day pass, although asked for £30 which includes donation. Our party was made up of 5 adults - we didn’t donate. To put into context, my husband and I have been members of Marwell in our days before our children. It holds a special place in our hearts. We moved away but always managed to make at least 2 visits a year as the children grew up & still do - the kids are now into their 20’s and often visit with us. Sadly the experience over the last 10 -15 years has progressively gotten worse. Every time we go we hope it will be better. Marwell was always at the forefront of conservation and education & had an extremely successful breeding program for the rhinos and giraffes. Much money has been spent on enclosures that didn’t work, the snow leopards, the cheeta, the walkway over the persian leopard, now cloud leopard, the new tropical house, the gibbon enclosure, kids play areas. Now it is a shell. Few animals, lots of paddocks full of weeds, & plastic bottles & little or no information. The annual membership is a steal but place feels more of a kiddies play area than a serious home for conservation and education. It’s expensive and disappointing. Bit on context - The Cotswold Wildlife Park is £19 for an adult. A much smaller facility but full of animals and information & staff happy to help and answer questions.

OMG! I just had a hot and sour soup, quite possibly the best I’ve ever had! I’ve ordered takeaway from Jumbo R2 about 15 times now and every dish has been super delicious. And they are always really quick to deliver and friendly too. Love this food 🥰

Well, the Old Tea House appears permanently closed and the village has lost a great asset and social hub . For the last year, the venue has appeared extremely confused about what it wants to be and who it is catering for. Clearly its former customer base felt the same and have stayed away in their hordes. This has been a tea room for as long as I remember- I recall coming here as a child decades ago and I think it is a tragic loss to the village. It is a wonderful spot to sit outside and watch the world go by or to sit inside in inclement weather. The best thing the owner could do for the village is to sell or lease it to someone who wants to bring the soul back. Tragic.

My brother & I decided to have a catch up chat with lunch & decided to go to the Hunters Inn. We know the Hunters Inn due to living in the area for many & he still does. On entry the staff where friendly & welcoming, we ordered drinks & grabbed the menus. Menus where clear with a good range of pub meals. We ordered waited about 20mins which gave time to chat. On the arrival of the food we were both pleasantly surprised of large to meal was for the low cost of them both being below £12. The food was hot, tasty, homemade & well presented, I have say that my fish & chips was probably the best & tastest if had for sometime from a pub or chip shop. I've been very critical of valve money & quality of meals out resently, but the Hunters Inn has definitely excelled on both of those criteria. Keep it up will definitely return when back in the area well done.

Please rethink. We are here during half term. Busy? No. One other table only yet service took too long. The higher prices don’t match the quality of the bland food. Everything we had was dry and chewy.. we did complain and got one meal refunded as it was pork belly with no pork! The kids meals were ok to be fair but the main menu was awful, pizza was bought in and dry, ham crumbled upon touch. The greens with the mains were undercooked and spikey. The menus were laminated plastic like a cafe which doesn’t match the £29 price tag for some meals. No music, weird atmosphere. Breakfast was ok, basic and warm but left a lot to be desired sadly

Bit boring. Ok burger, nothing special, It feels like a helium balloon with half the air missing. You think it must have been quite impressive at some point, but not when I was there.... Also when the restaurant has the word friendly and Phil in the title, I dont expect to meet a guy called Phil but anticipate the staff would be a bit more lively.... They were not..... On a scale of dead to TGI Fridays they were a 3......

Well said clearly on receipt espresso on the side. Obviously cannot read. Coffee was vile so returned and got snapped at. Won't be coming back here.