Hampshire & Isle of Wight Restaurants
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The Chesil Rectory
1 Chesil Street, Winchester, SO23 0HU [Map]
Apart from the food, The Chesil Rectory's other claim to fame is to be the oldest house in Winchester - an assertion that is not hard to believe looking at the constructional features - beamed dining areas and candlelit tables that provide a beautiful setting.
The kitchen's enthusiasm for serving honest, robust British classics is evident in starters of confit of local Greenfields pork and black pudding terrine and Uig Lodge smoked salmon with herb crème fraîche and deep fried scallops. Main courses too follow suit with pan roasted rib of beef, smoked haddock and fillet of sea bass. Desserts of dark chocolate pot with milk sorbet and hazelnut crisp, and lime curd tart with coconut cream certainly strike a chord with diners.
The wine list at The Chesil Rectory is top of its range, and is matched by the prices. How about choosing a Pinot Grigio Riesling from Brazil over the customary Italian varietals?
British, Modern
£30.00£40.00
Restaurant at Seaview Hotel
The High Street, Seaview, Isle of Wight, PO34 5EX [Map]
A delightfully quiet seaside location, offering two restaurants - one contemporary, the other called, The Sunshine Room, slightly more relaxed. The menu is shared and offers local specialities from the sea amidst a good selection of well known and more esoteric dishes. Helpings are liberal. The wine list offers a good range from across the world.
No childred under 5 years at dinner.
English, French
£24.00£32.00
Loch Fyne - Winchester
Book18 Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RZ [Map]
Whilst the 42 Loch Fyne restaurants have a shared background there is a welcome degree of individuality encouraged throughout the group, which makes for customer interest. If you like wholesome, fresh and reliable seafood caught and reared under carefully controlled conditions, well presented in unfussy surroundings, and you enjoy being well looked after by pleasant staff, Loch Fyne is for you.
There is an increasing awareness of other food staples with an extended choice of meat dishes, but it is the original fare upon which their success was created that prevails. Loch Fyne kippers, a fine bouillabaisse, braden rost, kiln-roasted salmon fillet, and the toothsome oysters on ice, with a selection of accompaniments, all are to be found throughout the various restaurants, as well as Glen Fyne 21 day aged rib-eye steak and Scottish smoked venison. There is invariably a well-travelled wine list available which is sensible, both in content and prices.
Loch Fyne's greatest achievement has been to prove to a sceptical populace that chains or conglomerates can be made to work in the eating-out public's best interests.
Grill, Seafood
£18.00£25.00
The Bush Inn at Ovington
Ovington, Alresford, Winchester, SO24 0RE [Map]
English, Pub, Traditional
£20.00£30.00
Caffe Nero - Basingstoke Waterstones
35 Wesley Walk, Festival Place Shopping Centre, Basingstoke, RG21 7BE [Map]
Café
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PizzaExpress - Alresford
32 Broad Street, Alresford, SO24 9AQ [Map]
Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.
Pizza Express has gone even more Roman, and following the success of that particular example of listening to their public have introduced Romana pizzas, including the scorching Etna and the hearty Siciliana.
These pizzas are now thinner, bigger and crispier, and if that sounds like a marketing line, it is. However, unlike many such lines, this one is true, and their quality is always consistent, though cleverly they have still managed to retain a homemade feel to their pizzas.
As an alternative to pizza, try their pollo pesto - cavatappi pasta with torn chicken breast, mushrooms, red onions and mozzarella in a creamy gruyere, parmesan and pesto sauce and finished with grana padano - or the niçoise salad with mixed leaves, yellowfin tuna, free range egg, green beans, potatoes and tomatoes with olives, anchovies, capers and house dressing.
Many of the big chains have come a long way, and Pizza Express is certainly amongst them. One of the first to be quoted on the Stock Exchange - in 1993 - Pizza Express is not a franchise operation and retains tight control through its own staff.
Their wine list - though short - contains some surprisingly good offerings, especially their intense Australian Chardonnay, and a big, full-bodied Merlot from Cusumano, Sicilia.
Pizza & Pasta
£15.00£21.00
Kwai 2
Great Binfields Road, Lychpit, nr Old Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 8TF [Map]
Thailand has an enviable and honourable lifestyle built on karma and happiness among their surroundings. An independent nation founded in twelve thirty eight, its original name 'Sukothai', means 'dawn of happiness'. Ever since that dawn Thai culture and cuisine has been based on pleasure and harmony.
Thai cooking has a character of its own, much of it based on the land's abundant spices and herbs and this modern and stylish Thai restaurant is located in the heart of Lychpit and old Basing offers guests with dishes prepared using traditional recipes handed down through generations. Kwai 2 is an ideal spot whether you are looking for an intimate dinner or a meeting with colleagues or a quick bite.
Start with Thai fish cake and prawns tempura or aromatic duck with spicy and sour coconut soup, followed by red curry with steamed rice, or stir fried vegetables in oyster sauce with soy noodles.
Asian, Thai
£9.00£24.00
The Trout Inn
Main Road, Itchen Abbas, nr Winchester, SO21 1BQ [Map]
English, European, Pub
£18.00£28.00
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