The best restaurants serving British food in Sparsholt Winchester South East

The Little kitchen Bistro recently catered a funeral I attended in Shawford. The company is so professional & efficient. Every morsel from the samosas, the mango chutney & sandwiches to the lemon meringue pies … It all looked like something from Alices’❣️Wonderland. I shared a mini victoria sponge & I don’t even like cake. Thank you for making everybody feel at ease on a beautiful summer’s day in an English garden. 🪴

We thought it was good but no more. The staff were very polite and attentive. Excellent sourdough (although would of been nice to be included on a £49.95 for 3 course lunch) and cracking pigs in blankets. Cured trout was a lovely light starter. Beef fillet although accurately cooked lacked the wood fired characteristics. A fillet really doesn't have enough time to get flavour from the wood fired oven due to its size. Other larger cuts of beef with some fat would be a better choice. Accompanying veg were ok but the cauliflower cheese again lacked any of the advertised 'wood fired' flavour and cheese sauce a little thin. We also thought this recently when dining in the Avenue restaurant what a shame there are no real local sparkling wines listed. Yes Ridgeview is in Southern England but some 70 miles away. You've got excellent quality producers like Black Chalk, Hattingley Valley, Louis Pommery, Raimes, Candover Brook and The Grange all within 10 miles.

This place is a hidden gem! Came down to visit Winchester for the day, decided to take a punt and drive out the city for breakfast and was not disappointed. The food was fresh, well presented and the coffee was great too! Max who was our waiter was amazing, so friendly, great sense of humour and extremely professional. I would highly recommend this place!

The Tom Hamblet Menu was incredible. The whole evening was devine. The food was sublime, service incredible and ambience was great. I would recommend for any special celebration.

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.