Salt Bar and Kitchen is the sort of place you long to find when you're out of formal mode, maybe with the family, relaxing, where the living's easy. Looking out over Hythe Marina there is a first rate view of what's going on, and lots to do nearby in the New Forest with plenty of space and great natural beauty. All in all it is a thoroughly attractive spot to relax with either a drink or a cocktail in the lounge area of the pub or enjoy a meal in the restaurant.

Their food is inventive offering dishes such as poached baby pear, crispy duck salad and beetroot pannacotta; wild New Forest mushroom risotto finished with white truffle oil and sukura cress or seared scallops, fresh samphire grass and blood orange salad to start.

Main might include salmon gratin, crushed new potatoes and crème fraiche; supreme of Barbary duck, fig and baby plum tomato salad or supreme of corn fed chicken, spinach mash and stuffed round courgettes, whilst vegetarians are not neglected with a pithivier of brie and pistachio nuts with baby pak choi and basil infused oil.