The Castle Inn — Restaurant in East Hampshire

Hi, We went here on Sat Night of a quick drink and a meal as we had the “January blues”.

We pre-booked a table for 19:45, but when we arrived, we found only one other table eating. My wife and I ordered our meals and after a short wait they came out. I ordered the £12 “Fish & Chips”, found the meal was served on a luke-warm plate with almost cold chips, and the fish was over cooked and very small portion, not a good start. My wife had ordered the £19 steak, she found a steak that looked like and the same size as a “beef burger”, again with almost cold chips & plate. We eat our meals, paid the bill and left.

Please understand that the food was of good quality, but it was the way it was cooked, presented and served that really let this place down. It really is basic to serve the food hot and on a warm plate, even if it’s small portions.

We both said that we should have gone down the road to “The Harvester” where we would have got a better / hotter meal and a...

after travelling 22 miles to get to the castle we were greeted and shown to our table. The seats were dirty and very uncomfortable. We were offered drinks which came out a few minutes later. We ordered our food and waited which isn’t a bad thing at least you know it is being cooked from scratch. Three of our party ordered fish and chips the other ordered a ham dish. Well the fish and chips came out over cooked and so were the chips the ham was sandwich ham out of a packet. The service was absolutely terrible. We were not offered anymore drinks or asked if everything was ok. Our plates were collected and that was the end of any communication from the landlady. We didn’t even get the chance to have a desert. We were very very disappointed and will certainly not be making the long trip again. Once again very very...

My son booked a table for 6. 4 adult ,2 children, a week b4 mother's day. We arrived 15 mins early, asked to go in other bar as the table was still occupied, 45 mins later we asked if table was ready, they were cleaning it a third time by now it was 4.30. They didn't know what was going on , another table of 8 people had been waiting 2 hours and still not been served. We spoke again to the bar staff. Said we we're leaving, she replied ,we'll get a table as soon as we can. What and wait 2 hrs for our food that hadn't even been ordered.. I've never given a bad review b4, but honestly it ruined my day.. They need bar staff, that know what their doing. As for the cook, over 2 hrs for the other table? And still no sign of a starter.....