Christchurch Restaurant Guide

Berties Fish and Chip Restaurant

A traditional family run fish and chip shop, combining a takeaway and thirty seats with waitress service. Most popular on their menu is the 'Lunchtime/Evening Special' - Cod, chips and mushy peas served with a drink of your choice and a roll and butter.

• Address: 331 Lymington Road, Highcliffe, nr Christchurch, BH23 5EG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Fish & Chip
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £16.00

Cliffhanger Cafe

Cliffhanger, which sounds rather like a location out of a Bond film, occupies what must be one of the most scenic settings on the South Coast, and is predictably popular at all times of the year, with opening hours from 8am to 10pm.

• Address: Waterford Road, nr Christchurch, BH23 5JA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

FishWorks - Christchurch

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If you like a really excellent, highly original fish and seafood restaurant/cafe combined with a fishmongers, then this is the place for you. FishWorks delivers what it promises, using really fresh ingredients.

• Address: 10 Church Street, Christchurch, BH23 1BW (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £27.00, Dinner: £45.00

Lord Bute Restaurant, The

A newly constructed restaurant set in attractive formal gardens right opposite the church of St Mark. A straightforward menu with few frills and well-prepared food using carefully selected ingredients.

• Address: 181-185 Lymington Road, Highcliffe, Christchurch, BH23 4JS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £42.00

Manners Restaurant

The majority of people would accept that part of the pleasure of eating out has to be the unhurried atmosphere. Some places are very good at it; others treat you as though you were a commodity on a production line.

• Address: Best Western Waterford Lodge Hotel, 87 Bure Lane, Friars Cliff, Mudeford, Christchurch, BH23 4DN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £42.00

Prezzo - Christchurch

Prezzo has been delighting diners for over seven years, and this Italian restaurant chain has since been able to expand throughout large parts of England with well over a hundred outlets. Interestingly, the company seeks to restore either impressive buildings or ones of local interest.

• Address: 3 Bridge Street, Christchurch, BH23 1DY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Quays Restaurant, The

The hotel enjoys sweeping views over the Christchurch estuary, none more so than those from the Quays Restaurant where fine dining can be enjoyed against a constantly changing background of natural and sporting beauty.

• Address: The Avonmouth, 95 Mudeford, Christchurch, BH23 3NT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Ship in Distress, The

If you wish to learn how to transform a fast-sinking old boozer into a lively, popular and much loved local take a trip to Mudeford, drop anchor alongside The Ship, and ask for Sally Canning. Crammed full of cheerful people surrounded by nauticilia The Ship's turnaround was achieved very much on the back of its attitude to decent food, centred almost entirely on the fruits of the nearby sea with the odd concession to those who must have their meat.

• Address: 66 Stanpit, Christchurch, BH23 3NA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Fish & Chip
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £25.00

Splinters Restaurant

Well located for visiting clergy, bellringers and congregations with business at the nearby Priory Church, Splinters offers a range of eating spaces, including a bistro fitted out in 1960's pine and a more sophisticated area known as the Blue Room.

• Address: 12 Church Street, Christchurch, BH23 1BW (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £46.00

Tides Restaurant at The Captain's Club

In the heart of Christchurch it is hard to imagine a much more favoured site with access to road, sea, air and town all within easy reach. Should rations have failed on the yacht just moor up at one of the hotel's private moorings, by prior arrangement, and step inside.

• Address: Wick ferry, Wick lane, Christchurch, BH23 1HU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £28.00