Oak Inn

If I’m honest, this pub could have served us the most horrific food in the world and we wouldn’t have cared as long as they let us in, to sit at a warm table and hide from the constant rain!
In the end the food was actually half decent (we had pheasant, steak and ale pie and venison between the three of us) and it was a really lovely lunch.
The décor is typical of a traditional pub, the clientele mostly locals, some families, lively but not overwhelming.
The service was spotty in parts — oddly worse when the place emptied out — but pleasant and responsive when asked.
I loved the teapots, cups and tiny milk jugs served on little trays with a smidgen of cake to make you smile. And the sticky toffee pudding was damn good too.
If I am ever passing through the New Forest again I would most certainly stop here, even if it was wasn’t pouring outside!

Lovely pub which the service was excellent as so was the food. The pub itself was nice and clean and had lots of character probably the best pub in the new forest. ¹⁰⁄₁₀