The best restaurants serving Asian food in St Bartholomew Winchester South East

What a find! We were so lucky to have stumbled apon thus restaurant whilst visiting the Christmas markets. Delicious, freshly prepared food and excellent, friendly service.

Looking for a light bite at lunch time and found Marse. We all had the combo bowl, every different item was delicious and we all struggled to find a favourite. On balance mine was the summer roll. We managed to sit outside and the service was with a smile. We will return next time we are in Winchester, it was a real flavour treat.

Had a meal Saturday lunchtime between Christmas an new year. We had not booked but we were given the table in the window. The food was great as always, you can really taste the depth of the spices in the curry. We had a chicken tikka jalfrezi and garlic chilli chicken tikka, I would recommend both. We also had a portion of their great onion bhajis.

We went for lunch on a Saturday (the day being important) and ended up walking away without even reaching our table. We'd booked a table for 2pm on the understanding that the restaurant would be open all afternoon - I've cut and pasted the following from their website 2 minutes ago ...... Saturday - Open All Day 12-10 pm We arrived 15 mins late, for which we apologised, and were told that the kitchen was closing shortly and we'd have to be out of the restaurant by 3pm as it closed at that time on a Saturday. So that gave us approx 30 minutes to order, eat and pay. That obviously wasn't going to happen so we left and found somewhere else to eat. This clearly isn't the first time this has happened as the lady on the reception desk told us she's told the owner several times that the website opening hours need changing. The booking system also seems to allow bookings up to 2.4 5pm on Saturdays, so something really is amiss. If we'd made a special visit to Winchester just to eat at this restaurant we'd have kicked up more of a stink. As it was we were just really frustrated and annoyed at having to find somewhere else last minute.

It was nice restaurant and tasty food. Friendly service and like the feel of the place. I would go again and recommend to others.