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Excellent Local Produce!
The New Forest has a large selection of food and wines that are produced locally. Some of these foods are produced under the New Forest Marque ® which has a well recognised logo and helps consumers identify the source of the food that they buy. If organic produce is for you then there are four organic farm shops within the New Forest National Park boundary. Locally produced food helps reduce the carbon footprint and the type of food available ranges from organic meat to organic honey.
Wonderful Local Wine!
The Forest boasts four vineyards, two in Sway and one in Beaulieu and West Wellow respectively, where the wine is eminently drinkable!
Why Not Try a New Forest Breakfast?
Some of the New Forest Hotels and New Forest bed and breakfast establishments offer the New Forest Breakfast, giving visitors to the Forest the opportunity to partake of a breakfast made up of entirely New Forest produce. There's a good supply of New Forest accommdoation serving local produce.
Fine Dining and Fish and Chips
There’s an excellent choice of places to eat in the New Forest – from hotels, bistros, restaurants, tea rooms, traditional country pubs and the more up market ‘gourmet’ pub.
Those in the search of fine dining can find restaurants with a Michelin star and awards for the best restaurant in Hampshire. In Barton on Sea there is an exceptionally good fish restaurant where you can dine on a delightful terrace overlooking The Needles on the Isle of Wight.
If you prefer fish and chips there are two particularly good fish and chip shops, one in Lymington and the writer’s favourite based in Milford on Sea. There’s nothing better than good quality fish and chips beautifully cooked and eaten out of paper whilst sitting on the quay or seafront.
Szechwan or a Sunday Roast?
There’s fine Szechwan (Chinese) restaurant in Lyndhurst well patronised by locals and curry fans are well served with good quality Indian restaurants featuring in the larger New Forest villages such as Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst.
There are pubs some with accommodation tucked away in the heart of the forest that offer wholesome and hearty meals as well as the traditional Sunday roasts.
Fancy a Cream Tea?
No trip to the Forest is complete without a cream tea and one of the more popular establishments is the Old Station House Tea Rooms at Holmsley near Burley, where the most delicious cream teas and cakes are on offer.
Dogs Welcome Too
You’ll find a plethora of family restaurants here in the New Forest as well as eating establishments where dogs are welcome such as the timeless cafe on Barton on Sea cliff top.
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