Best Pubs in Havant

Lovely atmosphere, service and food. A great place to stop for a drink or food after a walk in the New Forest.

Pork belly was excellent and others enjoyed soup of the day (tomato and courgette) and squid starters. The only disappointment was a macchiato with a lot of foam but less than one mouthful of coffee. Out of a mix of starters, mains and puddings for 7 people, this was pretty negligible. A really great meal with friendly staff in a nice, calm setting. Would highly recommend.

Despite being very full (and noisy!) my wife and I had a really good meal. Particularly impressed with thr delicious pork belly … will be returning for more memorable meals soon!

Things did not get off to a great start on a few counts: 1 - The table had a QR code for menu and ordering at the table. But upon using this, the website did not respond. I went to the bar and raised this with a waitress and she said, "yes, sometimes we turn that off", which makes no sense. Why would you just turn that feature off? 2 - So I ordered drinks at the bar in person, and they did not materialise. I went back to the bar after 10-15 mins to query this, and I had to give my order again. I think there may have been a new-starter there, and we all have to learn somewhere, so I did not give them a hard time over this. 3 - The guy taking my food order asked if I wanted to run a tab, which I did as knew we'd order more drinks. But then a waitress said that they don't do tabs, there was some discussion and it was deemed I was not able to run a tab. That's pretty ridiculous to be honest, if you're voluntarily disabling the QR code self-service, then not allowing customers to run a tab, it's just causing customer inconvenience. After this, things picked up and our food orders were taken promptly, the food arrived in a reasonable time, and the food turned out to be pretty good. Putting aside the new starter matter - as it would be unfair to mark the place down due to a training item - the service re. the QR code self-service and not running a tab needs resolving, but other than that, this was a pretty good experience and all of us enjoyed our food and had a nice evening.

Service was excellent and food was lovely. Have eaten here quite a few times