The Jolly Sailor, Old Bursledon

Excellent food, well presented, and generous portions. My daughter is Vegan and there is a choice of vegan dishes. Friendly very helpful staff , will definitely go back soon.

beautiful pub in a beautiful location and staff very pleasant, but eating was a disappointment. 28 for a hard steak and 7.50 for a part of the chocolate brew. will not return.

beautiful location at the river hamble . constricting parking and a steep step from the road to the traditional waterhouse. great eating good beer in a wonderful environment. well worth getting there.

It’s been a while since we last visited here and it was a place of which we were rather fond. Service was prompt and we ordered just a couple of starters and sides. My mushroom starter was poorly presented and was largely a piece of...soggy bread with a few slices of mushroom in a slightly insipid sauce. My wife was found of the chilli prawns but the current portion she felt rather measly for 9. Much better though were the tempura battered onions. We just had soft drinks and noticed nobody asked if our food was ok. We left rather disappointed.

Visited for 40th birthday. Great location and then it goes down hill. 'T' the manager is irritating and rude, threw the menus onto the table. I had phoned earlier to change table from 5 to 4. I actually spoke to him but he denied it....He is false and fake, other tables were saying similar. Food was poor, no bowl given for shells of mussels, fish was swimming in grease and sticky toffee pudding was like rubber. A good pub has been totally ruined by poor management, poor food and the need to get as many covers out as possible with quality suffering. The outside are was untidy and dirty. Not very welcoming. The one positive note ..Poppy our server. She was professional and courteous. Manager t...

Had a meal here with friends. Table was booked for 7.00pm and we arrived on time. Service was friendly and food was OK. Nothing to complain about, but nothing special either. As the evening progressed the restaurant became fuller and more stuffy. Covid is still...with us but tables seemed too close together and there was no ventilation. By 8.50 pm we had just finished our desserts when the waitress announced that she wanted the table for another booking. We left without having coffee. If you only have the table for a limited time you should be advised of this when you book. I doubled checked the confirmation and it was not mentioned, nor was it mentioned by the waitress when we arrived. I wo...

I decided to bring my Portuguese free to the jolly sailor. we ordered garnel, mosquitoes. and squirting, fish cake! and salat . we had the muddles and asked if it was a bowl of milk and muddle without taste, then. we order the fish cakes that were hard and tasteless! I try not to say my commentary in a disgusting way!!!. but was not accepted. I feel that the kitchen really needs attention. the pub was not busy for a Friday night. we then went after the payment of the bill, we were both still unsatisfactory and decided to go to the talisman pub in the parktor. personal very friendly and great menu .very tasty I would just recommend and be able to visit the pub as if I am free. but very disapp...

we have a few weeks ago for coffee and cake (tremendous worth at 3.50) and stained mushles on the menu not many pubs have this article. my wife had the warm beet-root-flafel salad. my muddles were not very big, but. when they were delivered to the table, they came with a disc burned sourdough toast. How can a cook imagine that a guest doesn't complain about it? I got and then I got an unburned, cold toast. I complain again and our super server ell has a warm clean sourdough toast. we have also divided chips and brought the small deserts and coffee to the conclusion. together with drinks and drink for ell who gave excellent attentive service, the bill came to 51. I have given a “very good” ra...

So its a bit of a mission to get there, but the views are well worth it. When we arrived it wasnt clear, a sign say see our host if you would like to be seated, but no host outdoors, after a 5 min wait...we asked a waiter who said go inside, so we were blocking the entrance not knowing if we were in the right place, no host, lots of waiters, not one hello, not one thank you for waiting, another 5 mins have passed and a host arrives, it wasnt a warm welcome, more so a rushed one. We were able to sit in the front, with uninterrupted views and that was spectacular. Our server was happy, welcoming, kind and accomodating. The food took a while to come out (we had a cob, there was a misunderstandi...