Food and Drink

The head of a catering company which has built a strong reputation locally is soon to open a new restaurant in New Milton.

Mabel’s restaurant at Shallowmead Nurseries in Boldre is set to reopen with a new management team.

Chef and restaurateur Bradley Green is taking over the restaurant at the five-star Lord Bute Hotel in Highcliffe.

The site transforms into an Ibiza-style courtyard tapas restaurant over the summer months.

He hasn’t pulled his punches.

The Gun Inn at Keyhaven has become a focal point of its coastal community hosting live music nights, quizzes and community events since reopening.

Avon Beach has a new mobile coffee outlet, and its owners say its carbon neutral design is the “first of its kind in the UK”.

A fruit farmer in East Boldre has launched a product he believes is a “first for the UK snack market”.

The recent launch of The Priory Restaurant has certainly brought a touch of glitz and glamour to Christchurch’s dining scene.

Lyndhurst’s Lime Wood Hotel will become a mecca for live music and foodie fun as the popular Smoked and Uncut Festival returns next weekend.

A Lymington pub will host its first festival next week – promosing a “beer extravaganza” featuring a packed live music programme and delicious food.

Two music stages will keep the toes tapping this weekend when Highcliffe Food and Arts Festival returns to fill the village centre.

Huge crowds took advantage of the warm bank holiday weather to visit Christchurch Food Festival over its three days.

One of the highlights in the foodie calendar is back this weekend and is expected to attract thousands from all over the UK

Lymington’s popular seafood festival is set to return this summer with a new fine dining restaurant experience led by celebrity chef Alex Aitken.

THE general manager of the newly revamped Cat & Fiddle pub at Hinton has declared he wants the venue to be “the most loved country pub in the area”.

The best of local produce is being promised ahead of the inaugural New Forest Food Festival set to be staged this summer.

Homegrown produce will take centre stage at Beaulieu’s BBC Gardeners World Spring Fair with culinary chats hosted by BBC food presenter Chris Bavin.

THE Lamb Inn at Winkton has been taken over by well-known chef Colin Nash, who ran the kitchen at The Three Tuns pub in Bransgore for 16 years.

With its fundraisers, free use of facilities for good causes and regular events, it comes as no surprise a Lyndhurst pub has won another award.