The best restaurants serving British food in Christchurch South West

Asked for a cappuccino with no chocolate, but received a milky coffee with chocolate on it! I was told that I should have specified! Asked for no black pudding, but received black pudding! Asked for toast for myself and my friend. It all came on one plate! I know it wasn't expensive, but that shouldn't mean low quality service. The food was actually not too bad, albeit not very hot.

Amazing little bakery in Highcliffe. Fantastic variety of baked goods (including an outstanding vegan cookie) and bread. The coffee was also wonderful. Definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area!

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.

A quiet evening but we went in there and I ordered a banana rum punch. It had very little ‘punch’ about it. The glass was full to the brim with ice and what cocktail that was in there was very weak. The barman was pretty disinterested. I won’t be trying that bar again!

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

the fish and chips were excellent and a good size the service was good i popped in as i was in the area and used to live not far from the chippy im glad i did

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.

Really welcoming local public house. Set on side of road with space out front. A great atmosphere is obvious as soon as you enter.. Nice longe bar with very friendly bar team. Restaurant style room set at end and enclosed garden at rear. Good variety of food on offer as well as a variety of drinks. Reasonable prices and clean facilities a bonus.. Fast becoming our local too.

Love this cafe. Great food and atmosphere.

Great restaurant good food lovely people 😁

Top tier chippy , offers gluten free products Always busy

First visit to this location, we had a lovely afternoon tea. Great location with a view of river. Staff were fabulous and very friendly. Only slight gripe was there was no soya alternative for my coffee,only oat milk which makes coffee taste like poridge( in my opinion) and at £25 a head thought there should be a few dairy alternatives. However it was a lovely afternoon tea and I would definitely recommend.

A great locations and a nice looking restaurant and bar but it fails to deliver. Ages waiting to be served a cocktail was followed by a quite average meal. Very expensive Tempura Prawns were more like average size prawns in batter. The sort you'd buy in a bag from a supermarket frozen aisle. The Steak Frites was an average small chewy rump steak - need a lesson from Cote to see the sort of steak this should be (wide and thin). The white wine was ok, the standard red almost undrinkable. Service was pleasant but there is no reason to return.