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We provide unbiased reviews of restaurants, pubs, wine bars, & other eateries mainly within Hampshire UK. Set up by four friends, we decided to create a fun site about our favourite occupation, lunching together. We are neither gourmets nor wine experts, we just enjoy sensibly priced good food and superb service!
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Some friends (also LWL card holders) and I have found The Old Forge at Otterborne consistently good recently. Excellent food, good service, no rush, and a very pleasant ambience. On recent visits it has been buzzing at lunchtime. We would be delighted if it could be included in your discount list – from what we have seen recently we feel they are very deserving.
We decided to try the Olde George Inn Sunday evening 7-08-11 as we were in the area. Now this place advertises itself as “Superb A La Carte”
So after looking at the menu we decided for starters to have warm salad of chorizo, squid and Piquillo peppers £6.95.
Chicken liver and pistachio parfait with red onion marmalade and toasted sourdough £6.75.
Well apart from the tasty Chorizo nothing about this dish was exciting and it was served in a nice chipped bowl with smear marks, mmm. I did point out to member of staff about the chipped bowl.
Chicken liver was tasty and the plate was covered with smear marks.
For mains we ordered Trio of fish served with twice cooked chips, pea puree and caper mayonnaise £14.50
Harriott’s 21-day aged Rib eye steak with a wild mushroom gratin, rocket salad and twice cooked chips £18.95
Once again our food was served on plates with smear marks on and even all the glasses and cutlery had stained water marks on.
So what did our mains deliver, luke warm food, nothing exciting or tasty apart from the chips and the caper mayonnaise and another CHIPPED bowl.
So the description “Superb A La Carte” well in my opinion they are no where near a “A La Carte Restaurant”.
Poor food, poor service, plates covered with smear marks, chipped bowls, do I need to say more?
Total score 1/5 and that was for the chips and caper mayo.
£53 for 2 people in a “Superb A La Carte Restauruant” I probably would have had better food, better service and cleaner plates in a transport cafe. If you do visit this place, then that’s up to you.
Martin & Sonia, thank you for the entry, sorry to hear of your experiences but please do tell us where the Olde George Inn is?
Ye Old George Inn at East Meon.
Martin & Sonia, should have thanked you before for all your excellent GB entries on the site as well as on here! They are really appreciated, more please!
brasserie blanc winchester .3courses£15*00 dont bother,cutlery returned as dirty . my husbands starter was large tomato with lettuce from a packet .mains no better his fish was all bone my salmon was hidding and microwaved pudding were good for a top eatery its poor
Mr So in Winchester now Acer & Bamboo
Mr So in Jewry has been a regular Saturday lunch haunt of myself and my wife for many years. We were very surprised on our last visit to find that it had changed hands. It’s now the Acer & Bamboo although it still says Mr So outside. So I guess the change is recent.
The management has changed, so has the waiting staff and the menu. Our favourite lunch menu – the fixed price Dip Towe – has gone but there is an exciting new lunch menu at similar prices. Two courses for less than £10. The rendang was exceptionally good.
The only drawback on our visit was the service. Food took a long time to appear which is not good for a lunch time service. The staff, probably new, were not very attentive and kept disappearing. They certainly did not take the main dishes away quickly and then immediately suggest desert. Also one of the staff didn’t really speak English which made ordering difficult and certainly would not permit any questioning of what the menu meant.
However, having said that we’ll go back and give it another go. Hopefully it’s just teething problems.
Tom’s Deli in Winchester, St George’s Street
There is only one place for Italian coffee in Winchester and that is Tom’s Deli. Cappucino and panatone for £2.95 – can’t be beaten.
Tom’s Deli used to Winchester Newsagents and has been run by Tom Romita for more years than I care to remember. Originally it was a newsagents with the distinction of selling a wide range of foreign papers. But then Tom added an Italian espresso machine in the corner.
Tom went on to stock panatone and then panini and then fresh pasta and Italian cheese and Italian biscotti and so on. It’s now had a makeover so that the food and drink side is the majority and the newspapers are in the corner.
Tom also runs The Abbots Mitre in Chilbolton with Sam La Gumina.
Lunch today, after visiting the craft & design street market in Winchester was at the Cathedral Refectory. Excellent home-made venison pie! It’s not quite your elegant lunch venue – a bit more like a cafeteria and it is self-service – but for food quality, value and convenience it shouldn’t be overlooked.
The Cathedral Refectory sounds wonderful and we keep hearing good things about it so must go soon!