The Happy Cheese in New Forest

Fantastic service, the pub was absolutely rammed but in a nice way it was a good atmosphere. Loads of staff so it made no difference. There was a big group of us but we was not made to hurry and felt welcomed. Lots of stuff for the kids such as ice cream, sweets and they seemed entertained with the play area. Food came out fast and was lovely. We was never waiting long at the bar, glasses and plates cleared fast too. The only thing I did have to wait for was the toilet they are bit small for the amount of people but it wouldn’t put me off and I look forward to coming back. Been in many quieter pubs and not had service half as good.Recently had to cancel a large party booking with sort notice they was ever so good about it too.

We had lunch with friends at The Happy Cheese on Tuesday lunchtime and thoroughly enjoyed it. We had 5* service starting with a cheerful and friendly greeting at the door. The waitress was superb ... even when we asked her to give us another 5 minutes to choose what we wanted, she returned again at just the right time. The menu was a good range of traditional pub grub and sandwiches at reasonable prices. Our food was delicious, hot and fresh. Instead of a dessert we opted for the coffee and cake for £4.50. Brilliant! None of us have visited this pub for decades but we will definitely be back.

Lovely setting, lovely staff. Food was honestly just ok. Not to be nasty, but the sort of thing that could be made at home easily. That was salsa topped chicken and rib combo was not special and fairly expensive. Otherwise a nice visit. Worth a visit for a drink though!

We had a lovely meal, celebrating a birthday. Max was amazing. Super attentive and couldn’t do enough for us. He made our visit a special one. It’s one of our favourite places to eat. Food was delicious. Well done Chef

The Happy Cheese came to our rescue at just an hours' notice when a nearby pub we had booked for a family party had a power cut. They managed to accommodate & feed 30 of us on a Saturday night & did so with smiles & good humour, turning what could have been a disaster into a night to remember. They let us decorate & personalise their function room & brought drinks to our tables all evening - thank you team Happy Cheese for saving our celebration, we'll be back to see you again!

Any one looking for a good country side family pub and restaurant in New Forest, this place is a must visit. It attracts both adults and kids through the quality of food they offer, delicious desserts and pleasant ambience. We have tried Breakfast, Lunch and mostly Dinners - they never failed to impress.Had just one poor experience with a staff in the pub may be because of the the crowd and demand but that's OK.

Great place what a find we travelled nearly an hour away to visit, after friends said have got it was and we wasnt disappointed. Fantastic portion sizes, the only till I will say we needed to stay longer to make room for desert. We will be returning very soon

This place, oh my god... its absolutely amazing! THE FOOD!!! - 5 stars for quality, freshness and quantity. The setting is very cute and tidy, the staff are very friendly.Absolutely in love with this restaurant!Shout out to Fiona our server 😊

We stopped in for a quick drink today on a walk and it's a lovely pub! Very friendly staff, good selection of drinks and a nice garden to chill out in. Didn't eat in there, but the menu looked really good and the food other people had seemed nice.

Avoid - Avoid - Avoid !You really have to read through the one star reviews here to get a real picture of what your visit would be.All of them are quite detailed as well and I concur in every word.The service is atrocious, we walked through the entire pub and waited at the entrance to be seated, but *no one* ever came to check on us.My wife then noticed a sign at the front that said you could order online and we were happy to do so, so we just found an empty table and tried the QR code sitting on the table.Now, they don’t have an app like MyPub or Young’s, they just have a poorly configured payment platform.Here’s where things went from bad to worse, when I made an order on the website, filling in my address and card details, my card *was charged* but the website reported that the billing address was incorrect and it couldn’t proceed.So I tried again with a different card, - same outcome.Now, I sincerely hope these pending transactions would not go through in the end, I asked the staff to check on this, but I don’t have any confidence that they did.Otherwise, I’ll be having a long conversation with my bank trying to charge back these payments.At this point we already we on the edge, but being in the middle of nowhere with no other open places around we wanted to get our food anyway.So I had to go the bar and ask a waitress if they can take our order, the waitress reluctantly agreed.Several minutes later, the waitress came over and took our order and we began our wait, which took quite a while.First, the drinks came and with the drinks, came a card machine and we paid for the entire order.I explicitly asked for a receipt given our troubles with their website, which turned out to be very prudent.At least 40min later our food arrived, a small creme risotto covered in dried parsley that tasted like a cheap soup cup, that you poor hot water in when no actual food can be found. And a disappointing carbonara, with no parmesan or any taste at all really. Sprinkled with the same dried parsley.Now, we live in the capital and prices at this pub were not that far from a normal chain restaurant, but the food and service quality for this money was unbelievably poor.I wish this was the end of our experience at this pub, but it wasn’t.When the food was brought, I asked for another Guinness for my wife and they assured they would bring it.This they did just a minute later with a card machine and asked if we were ready to pay *for everything*, the number on the bill was indeed for our *entire order* including the food and drinks that we *have just paid for* already.Now that’s where the receipt I asked for came in very handy.After pointing out their mistake, they did adjust the bill to just include the additional Guinness and said they were sorry for inconvenience (I doubt they are).All in all, this a badly managed place with awful service and poor quality overpriced food.The only good thing to name is that the pub is quite pretty from the outside, which is probably how they lure their customers.