The best restaurants serving British food in South East

Cant complain. Quick stop with the family. Everyone smashed it and carried on with the park. No issues.

Live music, particularly the open mic, drew me here. It's a friendly, locals-type pub, with interesting food and great live music.

Bill arrived at the end and they’d added on a bottle of wine that supposedly I had but definitely did not. I queried this but they refused to take it off and we had to pay. The server would have known we never had a bottle. Really dishonest and won’t be returning.

This was the worst Christmas lunch in my 86 years,having to pay the full amount of the bill in advance,regardless of the standard of food I found very strange,then to be told by the manager that it was company policy,I had to accept . The starter was good,but as I had Sea Bass as a main and could not cut it,I turned it over to find that it was still frozen and uncooked.By the time that I found a member of staff and complained my families dinner were cold.They then replaced the fish with Turkey but got only from the man in charge that they would reimburse me for the fish. I have been back twice and the Manager {Sam} offered me two Sunday Carveries as compensation.Having spent £320 for 4 mealshttps://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/UserReview-g503821-d529369-Alton_House_Hotel-Alton_Hampshire_England.htmllus drinks that was not acceptable,as I often use their carvery,and have used the hotel for over 50 years. Never Again.The Manager has not answered my e mail and obviously has no hospitality skills. Please Mr Bailey replace him.

We've been here several times for lunch and we will not be coming again. Expensive food that's not that good. It does look much better than the old cafe that was there before but that is all I can say about it.

Owner lied about what pizza he does. He told us it was the same as the photos on just eat and what a silly lie that was. He then went on to take the payment first. As i turned up to the restaurant i collected the pizzas and opened the boxes and they looked nothing a like the pizzas we were told that we ordered. I then respectfully asked for a refund as not only did he make the wrong pizzas he lied. He then went on to be aggressive and rude by demanding theyre not different and if it is becasue “the basil isnt on top”. He is a rude old man who is a liar and im warning all of you to not order anything from there!!! Photos to follow: Do not order from here. Honestly the one star rating is generous

I read the review of the golf course below from 2017 but nonetheless looked forward to my visit. I have too say that whoever designed the golf course did a great job and the layout is impressive. There were also a few greenkeepers out on the course keeping the bunkers raked etc. Overall though the condition of the course was disappointing with a capital D. The tees and fairways were scruffy and the first cut of rough poorly kept. The greens however were decent with few pitch marks thereon. The trouble with Merrist Wood is that it lies in the heart of rich golf territory but has clearly made a conscious effort not to compete with the better courses nearby and alas it shows. In the clubhouse the lights didn't work in the toilets and still didn't work four and a half hours later with calls into question the quality of the facilities management. Food and drink was competitively priced and of acceptable quality. Having played over 300 courses in the UK the big question is would I return? Despite the great layout the answer is very unlikely. Very nearly rated poor.

Unfortunatley the meal we had on Friday night was terrible. They had got part of our order wrong (although they didn't tell us, we could just see them having a heated discussion at the door) so, when we eventually got our food the fish had clearly been sitting under a heat lamp for 20/30 mins while they cooked the other dish. Obviously you can't do that with fish so it was very dry, a bit cold and served with some chewy pasta. Rather than offering a drink or something on the house they just said 'oh'. Given they knew they had made an error and still chose to serve substandard food rather than cook it fresh, they made no attempt to rectify, I genuinely don't understand how the chef was happy to let this go out the door. We didn't bother with dessert and didn't go back. Poor food and below average service.

Decidí reservar una merienda por la tarde en el hotel, con mi amigo como regalo de cumpleaños. Realmente me hubiese gustado no haber elegido este hotel. A su llegada, había confusión sobre mi reserva, mi nombre, y si tuviera un vale o no. No tenía ni idea de qué se refería, pero luego nos sentimos decepcionados de que quizás había una oferta especial que tenía perdimos. Los bocadillos eran todas las tartas eran rancios y hard rock, no fue sin duda recién preparados. Los bollos, que llegó más tarde y la taza de té eran tanto agradable. No nos dieron servilletas/servilletas y tuve que usar el mantel para limpiar nuestras manos, hasta que pudimos encontrar a alguien para pedir algo. Me parecio muy corto de personal. Pedimos un vaso de agua fría, pero nos dieron agua caliente en teteras en vez, tardó media hora para finalmente conseguir el agua fría. Fuimos a pagar, pero no había personal por un buen 15 minutos a preguntar. Ciertamente no es el de alta calidad que cabe esperar de un lugar elegante como este. Es una pena que fue tan decepcionante y mi día especial fue arruinado! Estoy seguro de que hay restaurantes mucho mejor calidad!

We had some small plates for dinner as we had a large lunch. We had squid, some mushroom arancini and bruschetta. All were good size for starters and very tasty, especially the arancini. Service was excellent and staff are very friendly. Fairly small menu but what they had on offer looked good and our food was good value.

Very poor food cold smelly staff did not care waited a long time they did not want us there the table cloths were not clean there was food on the floor

Food was delivered. My son found a long grey hair in his battered sausage underneath the batter. The food was awful normally ok. We phoned the take away to speak to someone they didn't care less about it. Just said ok bye. NEVER use them again...now both kids are complaining of stomach pains and visited toilet..

Had a chicken and salad baguette and a southern fried chicken and salad baguette excellent food and good service definitely be back for a different one next time im in whiteley

We decided to go here for coffee and cake on our way home. It is clear millions of pounds has been spent on the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre, and it is in a stunning location with fabulous sea views. It was a beautiful warm sunny day in the school Summer holidays, and should have been full, but I can see why no one would want to return to the Cockpit Cafe, given the dismal range of cheap bought in cakes they had on offer. There were 3 full cakes on display, 2 were gluten free and 1 was vegan, the plastic wrapped Bakewell tarts were also gluten free. Now given that this probably represents probably less than 5-10% of the population, it begs the question why these were the only cakes on offer? There were 3 staff behind the counter who seemed to have nothing much to do, why not bake a couple of fresh cakes and some scones every day, then the place might become more popular and get repeat visitors. Ask each customer if they would choose vegan or gluten free options to give them an idea of how in demand they actually are. The coffee was also very poor, a definite non repeat, though we did enjoy wondering around the Battle of Memorial Flight grounds in the sunshine.