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

A disappointing experience : Our drinks order was initially wrong, they missed off two of our drinks and brought three glasses of water, for a table of 5. We never did get the last two glasses. The food then arrived and we were also served a wrong dish that went back to the kitchen. The food was okay, but the brioche sausage bap looked a bit dry. Everything else was okay. When the bill came, they had added a 10% optional service charge, and our group decided to pay individual amounts of what we had, including our own tip values. When we had all paid and went to leave, the waitress came up to us and said we had underpaid by £4. I saw on the screen that the service charge was still included in the total, so I explained that if she removed it, she would see we have actually overpaid and the overpayment is a tip, just not the amount they requested. She didn’t seem to understand and insisted we paid. My friend ended up just paying the £4 in the end as we were holding up other customers. This isn’t amount the value of money, it’s the principle behind it. We are people that do like to tip appropriately and adding an optional service charge is something I would expect from a restaurant serving a full menu (starters, mains, desserts etc), not a café that provides light bites. I’m afraid I won’t be back for a while, I don’t want to feel like I can’t go there for a coffee without being asked for extra money!

I found Piecaramba on google when looking for a non-boring place to eat given that we were only visiting Winchester for the day and i didnt want to go somewhere that i could just go whilst at home. Piecaramba did not disappoint. I booked a table and the staff were prepared, very welcoming, warm, friendly and just very tentative to what we needed. The restaurant itself doesnt look much from the outside but is bursting with personality inside and the food is exquisite. The fact that i was able to play the original playstation (which i very much played in my youth) with my kids while having pie and mash (not just a standard one either, really flavourful) and a cheeky spritzer was just amazing! I felt so at home here. Really cannot emphasise enough how much i loved this place, gutted there is nothing like this where i live. Really recommend. My kids had the best day! Thankyou.

I've been here a couple of times for special occasions and my partner decided to treat me to a nice lunch. They have a pretty reasonable lunch menu for £19.17 for 2 courses. It's quite a small menu but the food we chose was excellent. My partner had the bang bang chicken skewers and chicken in a white wine sauce. I had the mozzarella salad to start followed by the vegan curry. The food was pretty good, although some of the green beans in the curry were a little but hard. As it was Halloween I just had to try the scary pumpkin desert! It was huge actually so enough for 2 of us. It wasn't listed on the menu but I had seen it advertised on the website and they were more than happy to oblige me. Overall a really lovely meal, just a few little touches missing from when we had been previously, they didn't offer to hang our jackets and there was no white table cloth on the table just paper placemats. This didn't take away from our lovely experience but just little touches that set the Ivy apart from other restaurants. With the set menu and a couple of drinks and coffee with desert the bill came to around £80. Quite expensive for lunch but a nice treat. Top tip.... its so worth joining the executive club and down loading the app as you collect points and get money off and special offers.

Service gone downhill. Dont clean the tables or remove dirty cups promptly. They dont bring your order to table, no service, very poor. Cups of coffee have shrunk in size. Will not have coffee there again. However purchased a loaf of bread which was excellent.

Excellent except for one failing- we asked for twin i.e. separate beds but we're given a double bed. Otherwise it is a very good hotel with helpful staff and we would thoroughly recommend it. Location is brilliant.

Watch sport here with family and friends. Great atmosphere and lovely staff. Well priced drinks and food. Highly recommend.

Amazing place for a drink or a spot of lunch. Terri and Jess on the bar are so welcoming and check to make sure everything is ok. The food is amazing as always and you need to try the onion rings. The history of the pub and the decor inside is beautiful

Popped in for a quick pint ended up having a venison main, a match for any other offering winchester has, truly superb…..

This lovely pub was the destination visit for a wonderful birthday meal, as always, beautiful plates of food, excellent wine choice and friendly attentive staff. Cannot recommend this pub enough.

We had a lovely time in the pub yesterday and were amazed how quickly our drinks were served. Spoons is known as a great value pub but we didn't realise what a nice atmosphere it has during the day. The chips were great value, if a little soggy... We wanted to thank our server Poppy - we thought she was very polite and also super efficient at clearing our table.