Amazing experience and food. I had the best meal I have had in a while here and I loved every bit…read moreof it. This made my week long travels worth it and would recommend this to anyone. I had crispy fried pork belly as an appetizer and fish and chips. And for desert I had a rhubarb tart with homemade ginger ice cream. Heavenly

Hidden inside a cathedral, the restaurant really has a unique design to it. I loved the interior!…read moreEspecially having dined in summer, we had the light shooting through the mosaic windows, giving off a warm, cosy ambiance. The food was gourmet but not entirely to my taste. The fish cake my father had was really good as well as the chocolate brownie/cake dessert my mum had was exquisite. The one thing that did bother us was the lack of ventilation which made the open plan kitchen a little unsuited for this kind of spacing. So the whole night we did have the smoky smell accompany us, and made sure it infused into our clothing after we left.

Visited for dinner with colleagues and what a great night. The restaurant is located in the upper…read moreportion of a deconsecrated church and looks wonderful. A high arched ceiling and red brick walls offer an impressive backdrop to some excellent cooking. The food is modern and well presented. Each of the starters and mains have a selected list of accompanying sides. Two sides are included in the menu price and I agree with the concept that too many different tastes can obscure the food. I had pea and ham soup with bread and blue cheese which was excellent. Similar to my mother's own recipe and given piquancy with the blue cheese. This was followed by buck breast with a star anise jus and home made chips and a portobello mushroom. The service was also excellent, if I'm honest we kept the staff waiting far too long after dinner and yet there was no hint that they wanted us to move on. All in all an outstanding experience. Not cheap but not expensive, well presented with courteous and friendly staff. I'd highly recommend it.

We wanted a decent cocktail and we got one. For a Friday night it was a bit dead but the cocktails…read morewere excellent and the decor soothing and very plush. Lots of early bird offers and even waitress service if required. Not too keen on the sound coming out of the speakers being different to the video playing on the tv screens but thats the only negative point.

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Lovely little pub , its Ringwood Brewery with a full selection of their real ales available and I…read morefound it in great condition condition . Lots of wood furniture and stripped floors . If you like your pubs bohemian you will like this . They also have papers and games .

Great pub this one, especially if you enjoy a pint of real ale. They have the usul fare on lagers…read morebut the have a good selection of hand drawen real ales from the Ringwood Brewery, names like Old Thumper and 49'er both delicious and more than capable of reducing me to a mewling kitten the following morning!!!! Go easy on these two! The pub is not huge but can attract some of the more interesting people from the area and by that I mean interesting, this is a great place for a conversation with a stranger. Never miss the chance to visit here whenever we are out in Westbourne.

Our lucky little find in Bournemouth. Super amazing owner was so friendly and generous to us out of…read moretowners. Ordered cheese bread, gnocchi and cannelloni. Decided a Cesar salad was a good addition. And yes it was. It maybe helped that we hadn't eaten all day, but this was warm and perfect for our hungry tummies.

My husband and I went to Pinocchio (Italian cuisine) and we expected good Italian-style food…read more Unfortunately the experience was way more than disappointing. Starters were small in size, but nice. After the starters, we got 2 pizzas with dolcelatte cheese (sweet blue cheese), but the dough was exactly like Pizza Ristorante, the frozen pizza you buy at the supermarket. We were told it was hand-made, but the dough was 100% frozen. Also, those pizzas were pretty small. Obviously, we sent them back and tried some pasta. We ordered linguine with salmon (there was also cream and tomato). The pasta came too soon, and this is not a good sign of fresh food. Once again, this dish was very low quality. The pasta was over-cooked and the tomato sauce overpowered the salmon, which you could barely taste. The tomato sauce didn't taste fresh, at all. The whole dish didn't. We were also told that the salmon wasn't fresh (local). We just ate the pasta because we were pretty hungry and it was late for us to leave and find a better restaurant. The original total (without the 50% discount from the government and including 2 glasses of wine) was £53.50! Luckily, thanks to the government discount, we paid £33.50. Nevertheless, the quality of the food was really low. Service was nice, but the food experience was a big disappointment.

Once a run down old hotel, this place was bought about two years ago…read more Wow! What they have done with it! A quite trendy place to go now, although the car park is not the biggest in the world. There is some street parking nearby though. The Cow has one Michelin star! Quite a coup! The chef has done wonders and together with the new owner has turned this place around - and I love the name too! The menu is locally sourced and they use seasonal vegetables and products. It's going to be hard to keep me away from here for too long!

We were served a tasty meal but I found the presentation to be poor and the whole experience…read moregenerally uninspiring. We ate as a large group on a Friday evening when the pub was generally full of people on nights out. As a place to eat I would suggest that the cow is better placed as somewhere for lunch, not dinner and especially not dinner on a Friday night. My starter of black pudding with bubble and squeak bacon and a poached egg was delicious. However my main course of fish pie was poorly presented and the accompanying vegetables were soft and the portion was small. The pie itself was tasty but the whole experience was let down by the poor presentation. The meals of others in my party looked good, especially burgers and steaks - if I go back I'll be sticking to those.

Having lived about 10 metres away from this place as astudent I can confidently say this is one of…read morethe best bars in the area, it has really chilled and relaxed feel to it and the staff are really friendly. There are discount offers on regularly both for food and drink and a range of events such as open-deck and mic nights. It must also be mentioned that they do the finest Mojitos in town.

Pretty good Allround, bit pricey and a bit small but relaxed and easy going. It's a Student Bar…read morethrough and through