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Restaurant review - Bistro, Stanwell House, Lymington

Rating: 2

August 30th 2011

Friday evening and we’re having drinks in the conservatory, Stanwell House, a chic, boutique hotel in Lymington.

Scoffers guide: South

Rating: 3

May 17th 2011

Foodie news and tastes to try...

Scoffers guide: Wessex

Rating: 2

May 17th 2011

Foodie news and tastes to try...

Scoffer’s guide

Rating: 2

March 25th 2011

Foodie news and tastes to try.

Jacks, Kings Hotel, Christchurch - Restaurant Review

Rating: 2

March 25th 2011

Kings Hotel is stunning; an elegantly symmetrical Georgian property in a near perfect location looking out over Norman ruins adjacent to the river Avon in Christchurch...

Branksome Beach - Restaurant Review

Rating: 3

March 25th 2011

Spring has arrived so we celebrate by visiting Branksome Beach which reopened in the evenings last month...

Bellini’s Southampton - Restaurant Review

Rating: 3

March 18th 2011

Bellini’s, a new Italian ‘restaurant and lounge bar’ just off Southampton’s Oxford Street...

The Marine, Milford on Sea - Restaurant Review

Rating: 2

March 18th 2011

Spectacular is the only word to describe The Marine’s location…

Scoffers Guide - Bournemouth

Rating: 2

March 18th 2011

Foodie news and tastes to try from the Bournemouth area...

The Bell Inn at Brook - Restaurant Review

Rating: 2

January 21st 2011

The Bell Inn is a pretty, garlanded Georgian property in a less visited corner of the New Forest; minutes from the M27, but miles away from anywhere…

The Oxford Brasserie in Southampton - Restaurant Review

Rating: 3

January 18th 2011

It’s always encouraging when a restaurant is so busy that reserving a table becomes a form of negotiation. We agreed Tuesday and by the time my friend Liz and I arrived, Oxford Brasserie was loud and lively...

Fishy Fishy Poole - Restaurant Review

Rating: 2

January 15th 2011

Dermot O’Leary of X Factor fame, along with two of his closest friends, James Ginzler and Paul Shovlin, recently opened their second Fishy Fishy restaurant in Dolphin Quays on Poole Quay...

Thirty Three at Canford Cliffs - Restaurant Review

Rating: 3

January 12th 2011

Thirty Three is so much more than a restaurant, it’s a meeting place, replacing what used to be the ‘local’, where you can enter alone, spend the evening and not feel out of place...

The Green Man Winchester

Rating: 2

November 11th 2010

Local restaurateur Jayne Gillin, has waved her magic wand again, this time over The Green Man, on Southgate Street.

Wickham Wine Bar Wickham

Rating: 3

November 11th 2010

It may call itself a wine bar, but there’s something of the old-fashioned tavern about Wickham Wine Bar and Restaurant, on Wickham’s charming market square.

Harry’s Bar Canford Cliffs

Rating: 2

November 11th 2010

At night the entrance to Harry’s Bar is lit by two dramatic flares, the door opens onto an intimate and cosy bar lit by low café lights, sparkly fairy lights and candles on pine tables.

Restaurant Review: Canopy, Penn Central Poole

Rating: 2

May 20th 2010

At first glance Penn Central is just a lively, buzzy bar, great as an after work meeting place or for an evening with friends. Upstairs, however, in the rooftop, is the Canopy restaurant: an intimate rendezvous.

Restaurant Review: The White Horse, Romsey

Rating: 2

May 20th 2010

The White Horse is a surprise. The traditional market town inn exterior gives nothing away, but stroll down the coachway and through the entrance and you discover that the White Horse juxtaposes chic urban bar Tudor drawing room and French brasserie

The New Beehive Canford Cliffs

Rating: 3

February 1st 2010

The New Beehive, a bar, restaurant and hotel that’s described as ‘one of Poole’s best kept secrets’

Mango, Southampton Restaurant Review

Rating: 2

February 1st 2010

Cocktails and curries in an oriental beach café