The Refectory — Restaurant in Winchester

Why use digital menus, but then not update them when you run out of the items? What is the point? We queued for 15 minutes assuming that what was displayed on the digital menu was available, only to get to the till to find loads of items were not available. We ended up with a very watery leek and potato soup (I'd have got better out of a packet) and a sausage roll. The soup was referred to as a "waste not" soup. It should have been called a "taste not" soup. If we had known that items were gone, before queuing, we would have gone elsewhere, but having spent that long and conscious we were holding people up, we had no choice. The prices charged were far too expensive, given the quality and amount of the food. Very poor experience all round and we...

I am American and visited this place in mid-January when my class went to Winchester Cathedral, so my review may not be reflective of the place now and does not fit with the horde of recent negative reviews. I had a potato and leek soup, cheese scone, and a gingerbread soy latte. Coffee and soup were pretty good, but the cheese scone was 100% the star. Out of my 5 months in Britain, it was seriously the best scone I ever had, so full of flavour and soft and crumbly in the best way. I told my group multiple times that I wanted to come back to Winchester just for this cheese scone (but I would visit the Cathedral again, it's stunning). If things have changed, I apologise, but I dream of that wonderful cheese...

When visiting Winchester city and amongst other things,the Cathedral is a must see.With it’s cafe and gift shop a short walk from the Cathedral entrance.Its a nice cafe with plenty of seating both inside and outside other in the front courtyard or lovely little back garden below a beautiful weeping willow tree with lovely flowers in the boarders.We had a nice Winchester sausage roll made with stuffing and a cuppa to wash it down,very tasty.There is a good selection of food and drinks on offer.After our snack we had a browse around the Cathedral gift shop which is in this complex.Overall a very delightful experience and a...