Jolly Sailor - New Forest

We visited here due to the water shortage at home, making cooking and washing up tricky. From arrival we were made very welcome. The menu had a great choice on it and at reasonable prices. The sausage and mash was really nice and ideal for a cold day. My husband enjoyed his chilli. The chocolate bread and butter pudding was amazing and loads of custard too. The pub had a really nice feel to it and we will definitely come back soon.

Amazing Find ....lovely pub .. super friendly staff (and locals) food was great as was the service ..definitely recommend

Disappointing food, sent lamb shank back twice as tough as old boots!! Was offered an alternative, but my husband had finished his meal by then, so I had given up! Clearly not homecooked food, at best it is 3663 or similar.

Fish and chips a 2 pints nearly £40 . More batter than fish , as spoonfull of peas and 11 chips . Wow won't be going there again £20 a person !!!!!

Some years ago my brother his wife moved from the 'bright lights ' of the Winchester environs down to Fawley on Water-side... and has never been happier..! As I now begin to wind down from what was a fast-paced media career, I must admit I now look forward to popping down to visit them when time permits, as I find that edge of The New Forest, with the myriad villages that inhabit the side of Southampton Water down to Calshot, rather quirky as, to me, it has all the feel of a place that 'time happily forgot '.. and I love it! I especially love it when my brother suggests a relaxing wander down the hill from his village to nearby Ashlett Creek and The Jolly Sailor pub that awaits us at the end of the single-track road.. ending in what is effectively a small inlet that I am told was once Southampton 's original port way back in the mists of time..! A smashing wee pub in the traditional sense of the word, the treat for me is sitting outside on the pub 's expansive green with its many tables overlooking the aforementioned Southampton Water and the maritime too-ings fro-ings of a very busy commercial cruise liner waterway, with a Guinness or cider in hand. Though I 've yet to experience a meal from what is to my eyes a good-looking 'pub-grub ' menu, I am pleased, having made my hour-long drive down to this neck of the woods, (and with a return journey beckoning at day 's end), that along with all their traditional beers ales on offer, they now have 3 non-alcohol bottled drinks on offer! Once a poor relation in the brewing world, (and sadly tasting as much), the non-alcohol industry has finally pulled its socks up and though 0.00 Guinness, (my go-to choice when I am driving and can 't indulge my love of tasting differing ciders), is not yet available at The Jolly Sailor, I was offered a Thatchers alcohol-free cider.. and though my initial reaction as that life-time cider drinker was 'you just can 't have a non-alcoholic cider, that 's an alien concept.!! ' ... it turned out to be very palatable and as close to a 'proper ' cider as I 've had!!.! So armed with a bottle of Thatchers 'Zero ' in the afternoon sunshine of a Friday afternoon in late May, I enjoyed a very pleasant hour on pub 's green with my nearest dearest chatting, enjoying following the cation on Southampton Water and generally enjoying listening to a number of happy young families getting stuck into their delicious-looking pub lunches! Situated where it is at the bottom of the hill, I certainly felt I was miles way from the hustle bustle of life, and with the warm welcome proffered by the bar staff, I am very much looking forward to my next Thatcher 's ' Zero ' down in Haslett Creek.. a location that feels as close to being away on a vacation that I have experienced within such a short radius of my own home..!