The best restaurants serving Other european-cuisines food in St Michael Winchester South East

Been visiting the Hotel du Vin for several years for our annual Christmas gathering with long time friends and we return year on year as it’s always been good. How ever our most recent experience was not up-to the usual standards. The service in the bar for pre dinner drinks was very slow , and we waited for almost 20 minutes for a round of drinks. The selection of draught beers was also very poor (2). The table was a large , square and well decorated but again the service was slow. When we had ordered our food the portion sizes for the starters and mains were on the small side and some of the main dishes were very over cooked ( chicken schnitzel) or the roasted cod was very small, ( we sent this back). Some of the menus supplied were not complete, with pages missing and we were informed at the time of the booking that there would be two menus to select from, including a Christmas one. Turns out it was roast turkey or nothing! All in all very disappointing, and definitely not worth the money for what we had come to experience over the last few years. Service needs to improve as does the value for money experience before we decide if we should re5urn next year.

We visited many pubs whilst visiting Winchester and TBF all were of a good standard, however, the one we kept returning to was the Eclipse. Well kept beer, good value food, excellent friendly staff. Muff said.