The best restaurants serving Other cuisines food in Boldre and Sway New Forest South East

We ate here whilst staying in the area for a few days. Between us we had gammon, burger and local sausages with mash. The food was delicious, generous portions and great value for money. The staff were friendly and welcoming and the venue was cosy and tastefully decorated. We can’t recommend The Ferryman highly enough and would definitely visit again when in the area.

Great place with great food to share with family and friends and also great nights when concerts are playing.

When we arrived we were taken to our table,there was no room to move , they had crammed the tables so close together that you couldn’t get out of your chair. We asked for a table with some room as we had a pushchair with us, but no. After an hour waiting a staff member came to take our order, not a lot of choice , some of us had the trio of roast, sounded lovely, when the dinner turned up it was disappointing, the stuffing didn’t taste or look very nice and as for the veg well, not the usual Sunday veg, it turned up in a small dish for 3 of us , there was red cabbage , courgette and carrots. The puddings not nice either, waffles hard you couldn’t cut , cheesecake which tasted like it had loads of gelatine in, and the treacle sponge pudding usually is a light brown colour,well it was almost black and tasted of black treacle, not nice. We didn’t have coffee, wasn’t asked. Staff not friendly , never asked if we wanted any more drinks, if our dinner was ok, we had to keep calling them over. Wouldn’t go back .

My friends and I visited on a Sunday afternoon from out of town at a local’s recommendation. I loved the atmosphere - lots of plants, lots of seating. There weren’t many customers, so it wasn’t loud. We were hoping for afternoon tea, but sadly it is not available on Sundays. Some of us got the Sunday Roasts instead. More in our party (of 10) would have liked to try the Sunday Roast, but they only sold it to some of us due to limited staff & presumably limited ingredients. The rest ordered sandwiches. I’m sorry to say I was not impressed with the starter or main course (the meat, potatoes and vegetables were a bit dry), but I did enjoy the crème brûlée for dessert. Afterward, we visited a gin distillery around the corner. They allowed us samples, and I was impressed with the flavor and smoothness.