The best restaurants serving British food in Christchurch South West

Amazing home cooked food, incredible value. I do not know how they do it but this place beats any gastro pub far and wide. Incredibly good. My wife wanted to take Mike the chef home!

Bought a sausage roll and potato and steak pasty out of the hot cupboard,from their stall on Lymington Market. £8.75...! Both were not up to temperature; luke warm at best. Sausage roll had stale pastry and salty sausage meet; Pasty was 90% potato. Crooks....should have gone to Greggs

I organised my daughter’s baby shower here and was so pleased with the outcome. There were 28 of us and we were looked after so well by the team! The decor was just how I wanted it to be and the food including vegan and gluten free, varied and very good! MAW is the perfect place to hold a small function and I cannot recommend it enough. Thank you so much! xxx

Haddock and chips with a huge pea fritter. Awesome! Enough for two pensioners. £9.05 Absolutely delicious.

What a fabulous place for a private party! Wonderful atmosphere, the staff were so warm, friendly and extremely helpful, they couldn’t have been more accommodating. We had our own caterers on this occasion The whole evening was a great success! Thank you to all the staff

Lovely food and great service from Phil and the team for our dinner after our spa day. Would recommend the cherry Bellini!

All the food we ate was excellent as per usual & is still great value.

Ok booked here for an anniversary meal. On entrance no greeting from boy staff. Never asked for our reservation and just sat us down. The place was empty with droll music playing from the 1920’s unfortunately unless I was in my 90s I already hated it. The waiters who were very young and experience were nice enough but needed an older head to guide them. Ordered a flat glass of champagne £18 per glass how they can justify that I don’t know. Looked at the menu but was put off by the whole atmosphere so left after a glass of fizz. Can’t comment on the food unfortunately but if its as uninspiring as the restaurant we’ve dodged a bullet. Maybe need to look at a few other places in the area to see how service is done. Very poor I’m afraid. Would not return!

Después de explorar los lugares de interés y dar un paseo por la playa, decidí que me apetecía un café que me tomé en una mesa exterior con espléndidas vistas al mar. El café era muy aceptable y estoy deseando volver pronto.

Well kept beer. Friendly staff and a pub 🦜!

I’ve been here before and had a really nice beef stirfry, one of the specials. On this occasion we were very disappointed. I had a baked potato which was very dry and flavourless. My friend had leek and potato soup, which came with a piece of sourdough bread. It was really thick and gloopy and she was unable to finish it. It’s also quite pricy. The menu is quite limited. They do daily specials but none of them appealed to us. There’s a large free car park that serves the parade of shops so that’s a bonus.

Had a lovely lunch today. The service was excellent and the food was very tasty. Nice to see some different items on the menu.

Friendly, efficient staff, good size portions of well cooked food. Will recommend

We have been to the Captains Club many times over recent years. This recent stay was great, staff very friendly and helpful. Spa was lovely with nice warm pool.

Had a fabulous meal at this lovely restaurant. It is such a friendly, busy and vibrant restaurant with a great atmosphere. The food was fresh and very tasty. Service was really quick and smooth allowing us to enjoy each course with no rush. Great choice of drinks and we definitely would recommend and will be returning very soon.