The Wykeham Arms

Food

We started off with some Multi-grain bread with fruit. I have no idea what the bread is, but it was very yummy. Out of the 4 starters, I could only eat one, plus they were pretty boring anyway, so we ordered the Prawn and Lobster Salad with Marie Rose Sauce to share. This too, was not very interesting, basically some prawns with thousand island sauce. It was nice enough, but just something I could have thrown together myself.

Another long long wait for mains, but at least it was worth the wait. Slow Roasted Top Rump of Beef served with Roasted Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables, Yorkshire Pudding and Gravy - nice and raw, juicy, boring vegetables, with quite dry potatoes, but good sauce with lots of gravy like flavour. Roasted Leg of Lamb served with Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted Potatoes very juicy, but raw and fatty, so I couldn’t eat much :).

We had to go for dessert as you needed to order at least 2 course. The Sticky Toffee Pudding with Toffee Sauce was very boring and too sweet. I didn’t enjoy it at all but Slokky lapped it up. The Lemon Posset on the other hand, I couldn’t get enough of. Really beautiful. Lovely creamy lemon cream paired with raspberry coulis. Just like eating lemon curd, only better. And it even came with a little biscuit on the side.

Rating - 7

Atmosphere

Another pub consisting of lots of small rooms, mismatched furniture, and crammed with all sorts of odds and ends. It does give it that sort of charm. I especially like the old school desks they have used as tables.

It was very busy so late for Sunday lunch, with lots of big groups.

Rating - 2

Service

Service was mostly great, except for the newbie, who asked us who was having soup, when none of us ordered it. It took so long for our food to arrive, we waited nearly an hour between entrée and main, and the fact that I didn’t order any mains didn’t help. After our mains though, dessert arrived in about 5 minutes…so maybe they needed to start a new roast.

Rating - 2

C-factor

£15.50 2 courses, £19.50 3 courses. Not cheap, just about right I would say.

Rating - 1

Brownie Points - 12

Info

75 Kingsgate Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9PE
Phone +44 (0) 19 6285 3834
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