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

Disappointed to discover they have closed their indoor seating area, for good it seems, and only offer take away service. Which for disabled persons, means struggling with your food and drink to outdoor only benches some 20 yards from the cafe entrance.

Great environment, lovely meal, accomodating and friendly staff, me and my friends have been going here for years and never fails us.

In a lot of ways, it’s a brilliant cafe, mainly because of its lovely community feel - it feels like a central hub for the community. Unfortunately, there are two major issues that let it down: 1) Extremely long queues and long waits to get served 2) Consistently unfriendly, unengaging, rude staff who ignore any attempts at a greeting or conversation, bark questions and instructions at you, and then ask you to give them a positive rating on the app “so they get paid more.” I don’t know of a cafe with more of a community feel, and at the same time, deeply unfriendly, sometimes quite rude and aggressive staff.

Terrible terrible service by the lady. 6 of us ordered food, and one couple wanted to share a pot of tea and cake. Met by the lady with no you’re not allowed to do that. I dare her to smile once in a while as well, would not go back and would not recommend to anyone

I live locally so have visited before, taking various friends and family as the setting is so pretty and the walk from Beaulieu a pleasant way to work up an appetite. I've never found the pub at the Master Builders to be anything other than expensive, sometimes grubby, with a very limited menu and overall a not very customer focussed experience, but I've never got round to reviewing before. And always hoped it might improve! But enough is enough.....today we ordered the tomato bruschetta , which, for 10 quid, one might have thought would be a teensy bit more interesting than a chopped tomato on a piece of dried toast. ONE piece of toast...an uninspired tomato...no hint of the promised balsamic dressing that I could discern..no apparent olive oil rubbed into toast. Awful. Eat here if you are on a diet and want to feel ripped off. Better to take a picnic and sit on the tables down by the river. This pub leaves a sour taste and treats customers like idiots.

Ordering was slow.No hot meals or soup on a cold day. Hardly any mugs, no saucers .Six pint carton of milk for your tea.Onlyvstayed because we were so hungry.Wouldnt bother again.

Brought my mother in-law to look at plants and have a spot of lunch as Debbie's have a cafe. We sat down around 12.30 so just at the start of lunch and went to counter to order food and drinks. Well we encountered a young man with very limited service experience and not very helpful. We started to order and then quickly told only 2 portions of soup left and 1 jacket potato and it was only 12.30. well the food came out quick but sadly I had to send my Cheese and Beans jacket back as the beans were lukewarm. When the food was brought back there was no apology and just handed to me. As a manager in the hospitality industry I was not impressed and to top it of the bottle of Mayo was incorrectly dated as per EHO and product guidelines. I would avoid eating here.