The best restaurants serving British food in Downland East Hampshire South East

We held our wedding reception here, on can not recommend it enough, Simon and the team were amazing with a professional can do attitude delivering the wedding of our dreams. The value for money is in the setting, the layout, flexibility and the extra touches already in place to make the wedding go well. We loved all the fairy lights, barrels, easels and decor all available for us to use included in the hiring fee. The quality of all the food, service and team were first class. The reception was even packed up for us to collect which made it so much easier to do the following day!! Thank you to everyone at departure lounge for achieving our dream wedding!

Could not fault anything, from start to finish, would definitely return...

We got here during a walk around the area. Chawton is lovely, as is this little cafe and we both really enjoyed a coffee and cake which was pretty reasonably priced actually. But the service was appallingly slow. We arrived around 4 p.m. so it was quiet, although there were a couple and a single lady ahead of us queuing up for a drink. We all ordered tea/coffee and a cake. It took 20 minutes for us to get our order... So 3 orders served in 20 minutes - sorry, that's too long! There was one person doing the coffees and serving the cakes and three around the back, doing who knows what? Well they did appear to be examining their phones a lot... Half the cake displays were empty so the lady in front of us asked if there was anything left. The person doing all the work looked under the counter, where I guss they keep records of cake sales or something and announced to the bunch at the back that they needed more cakes out front. After a couple of minutes, someone came round with replenishments and disappeared again... Why weren't the cakes sorted out before then and why weren't there two people working out front? I appreciate that people can order hot food at this place so they need staff round the back, but when we got there no one was doing that. We really enjoyed our drinks and cake, but the service was pretty rubbish to be honest. Someone out the back should have helped the poor lady out the front doing ALL the work! Maybe it was below their pay grade? I would still recommend this place - as long as you are not in a hurry - hence the 4 overall...

Lovely food, atmosphere was amazing. Staff went above and beyond ❤️

We went for one of the midweek roast events and what a disappointment it was. There was a very lukewarm welcome when we arrived and we were directed to the table with a point of the finger. The food was served quickly and just plonked in front of us. There was no asking what we’d pre-ordered so two of us got the wrong meals. This was rectified when we told them. It was hot but was very mediocre. I think my lamb died of old age. I couldn’t cut it, it was that tough. The potatoes were OK, the peas were peas that had once been frozen, carrots overcooked, the gravy was like water, the parsnips were OK and the saving grace was the cheese sauce on the cauliflower/brocolli. The Apple crumble was nice but again just plonked in front of us. The custard was lumpy. How much was all of this? It was a whopping £25 a head without so much as a jug of water on the table. It was daylight robbery. We wont be back.