The best restaurants serving British food in Forest North West New Forest South East

Met for a family gathering, came from Essex, London, Devon. Had a brilliant time, the food was excellent, rooms clean and tidy. Staff are a credit to the business. Will be back in the summer for another gathering. Thank you so much.

We are regulars for lunch on a Sunday and the Carvery is brilliant, however other menu limited. The soup off the day has been mushroom for out last 3 visits (don't like it).. The table and chair arrangements today were awful. We were packed in like sardines. Couldn't hear ourselves talk and could hear everyone else's conversations. Sat nest to a large table of 12 with 3 huge, hairy, very smelly, muddy dogs. The smell was overwhelming and not conducive with the eating area. The pub was cold on arrival and 2 tables complained and came in from the conservatory. The food off menu limited and boring, though fairly good quality. The desserts again same old, same old... Sorry Old Beams, we won't be back for a while now.

Lovely big pub with nice outdoors area but service very slow and half of us had delicious food and the other half not great vegetarian option.

Lovely pub food in the heart of the new Forrest. Friendly service, I rushed and very pleasant atmosphere. You are made to feel welcome on arrival and who can forget the gorgeous Pub Labrador, Guinness

Really disappointing - and very expensive for the quality they are serving up. We came here after reading good reviews, when we arrived the car park was quite empty on a Saturday night and we should have taken that as a sign. The food is very expensive and incredibly overpriced for the quality - dry and not fresh fish & greasy chips. We left almost a £100 lighter and feeling very disappointed - we could have spent half of this and been more satisfied elsewhere. I would suggest avoiding.