Very pleasant atmosphere, very warm and welcoming staff. Great food…read more Starters we ate the scallops and black pudding scotch egg. Delicious.

great pub ,extensive menu, excellent range of beers, situated in alovely quiet part of dorsetread more

Nice service, 2 separate play parks for the kids, brilliant food would recommend for lunch or tea…read moreand incredibly hygienic restrooms.

We visited this place on a recent trip to Milford on Sea…read more This place is pine tables and wooden floor with large bar area as you walk in. Smugglers has just started doing food so they were a bit hurried and stressed. But they did a great job. There is a wood burner which is always a bonus, helps you feel cosy. We ordered vegetarian mousaka and roast vegetable pasta. Both meals were really tasty but one weird thing was the roasted vegetable pasta had large rings of leek pretty undercooked in it. Strange, it didn't seem to go with the rest of the meal. The staff were very friendly and the atmosphere was good. It was pretty busy with a few looking around looking for a table. Large car park.

Really good pork roast , service was excellent and a wonderful British pub in the new forestread more

The Turfcutters Inn is an old fashioned pub in the tiny New Forrest village of East Boldre. We…read morepopped in here on a Saturday lunchtime, mid way through a walk. It was fairly busy at the time so I guess it's a popular haunt, it certainly has the feel of a proper local. We didn't stop for lunch, just a refreshing pint and some crisps, but the menu looked like typical pub grub with a few specials on the board. The bar staff were friendly and welcoming, downsides included a telly showing Cash in the Attic or some such tosh, and grotty loos, but overall it's a good stop off for a beer and a wee!

We visited this pub/restaurant during a recent stay in Milford on sea…read more Parking is on the roadside outside the pub or car park to the right. This is a really cosy pub. There is a coat rack as you go in so that you don't have to have your coat dragging on the floor or scrunched up behind you. It has a real fire which really helps the cosy atmosphere. There are seating booths which are made to look like old stable fronts with iron bars (sound hideous but they weren't). It was October when we visited and these booths were covered with lovely fairy lights. I presume these are here all year round but maybe they couldn't wait to get the deco's up. We ordered the veggie quiche, chips, onion rings, mushrooms and garlic bread. The Quiche was homemade and really delicious. The portions were huge and we struggled to finish our food and had to admit defeat. They sold a large selection of real ales of which my partner had to test of course. I visited the ladies which were clean, and no nasty pongs (worst thing ever!). All in all a really pleasant evening.

It was such a pleasure to find the Red Lion Inn, I was on a walk through the countryside while…read morevisiting Brockenhurst. The decoration is very traditional and you'll find all sorts of antiques on the walls. The beer selection is great and I enjoyed some of the local bitters that were on tap. The food was very tasty and was your traditional pub grub. The fact that I went here twice during my four days in Brockenhurst proves that I really like this place. Would definitely return.

A proper English pub in the village of Boldre in the New Forrest. Wooden beams, open fires, copper…read morepans adorning the walls...you get the picture! It's a surprisingly large pub, although I'm not entirely sure it's laid out in the best possible way. My boyfriend and I were seated on a table that felt a little like it was in a corridor, with wait staff and customers squeezing past us on a regular basis. The food menu is big and focuses on fresh, local produce. They also have a number of daily changing specials on top of the standard menu. I went for the beef wellington, and the boyf went for the whole gurnard, one of the specials. The gurnard was apparently delicious - the boyf leaving nothing but the bones (he even ate the eyes!!). The wellington was pretty good, and certainly large. A big chunk of fillet steak, pate and mushroom encased in light flaky pastry. Admittedly, it was easier to eat when the wait staff remembered to bring me a steak knife, unfortunately, I was three quarters of the way through by this point! Both dishes came with separate veg, a great selection but looking a little microwaved. We could only manage to share a pud - we went for the creme brûlée which was good but not exceptional. The wait staff were mainly youngsters but they were friendly and efficient. The pub also has a nice garden, can imagine it would make a great place for a pub lunch when the summer eventually arrives.

Your experience at the Hobler Inn is definitely going to be a function of the mood of the…read morehost/hostess on a given evening. A large group us went here on a Saturday night and to the hostess' credit she did find us room to sit outside since they were full booked inside. The outside space is very roomy and I could imagine having some amazing times here on a nice sunny evening. Overall I was very impressed with the layout of The Hobler Inn. The food was tasty and if you're looking for a nice dinner this is a place to check out. What let the Hobler Inn down in my opinion was the lack of interest in providing any type of service to my friends and me. For example, we had to make numerous trips inside to grab forks, napkins and other basic necessities since the wait staff barely came outside. In the end we even moved all our plates to an empty table so that we could eat dessert. I'll admit that they did us a favour by letting us sit outside but the complete lack of table service was unacceptable. When the bill arrived they automatically added a 16% service charge since we were a party of 6 or more. I protested that we basically served ourselves and the 16% charge was removed so we could decide our own tip. I would go to the Hobler Inn again in the future but would be hoping for better service next time around.

A really nice traditional pub that made a great pit stop on one of our walks. We had a well…read moredeserved pint and a cheese sandwich here - it was a sarnie and a half! The bread was like the bread my mamgi would have been proud of - thick and fresh. It was served with salad and chunky chips too. There were traditional ales on offer and the staff were really helpful and friendly.

Best pub in Lymingtonread more

One of the best surprises in Hampshire, fantastic ambience, nice service and the food was just…read moreincredible. I had a lamb roast that was divide, my wife had an incredible mushroom gnocchi and my daughter had a what seemed a never end.tower of fine chicken breast, English bacon and cheese with a good portion of home made barbecue sauce. Lovely lunch in the middle of the New Forest.