The Avenue
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"Elegant setting for confident modern cooking."
Overview
Named after the mile-long avenue of lime trees visible from the dining room, Avenue Restaurant at Lainston House Hotel makes the most of its magnificent countryside setting. Surrounded by mature grounds, the dining room has plenty of period charm with wood panels, comfortable chairs and fine tableware. The highly skilled modern British cooking sticks to the seasons, starting perhaps with pigeon on toast, parsley, celeriac, Medjool date and Madeira sauce. Venison loin, beetroot, onion caramel and duck liver sauce is a full-flavoured main which might be followed by coffee and chocolate mousse, pickled cocoa nib, Pedro Ximénez and banana sorbet.
Ratings & awards
3 Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence
AA Notable Wine List
Our inspector loves...
The Avenue - Fine dining with hybrid a la carte/tasting menu format
Seasonal Focus - Dishes utilise what's best in season (some ingredients from the walled garden)
Attentive Delivery - From the friendly and knowledgeable team
Great Wine List - Carefully put together with global spread and sommelier on hand to advise
The Wellhouse - An alternative setting for more relaxed and casual dining
Features
- Opening Times
- Open all year
- Facilities
- Seats: 60
- Private dining available
- On-site parking available
Also at this location
Hotel
Lainston House
AA Quality Assessed
3-Rosette restaurant
Breakfast Award
- Afternoon tea
- Civil weddings
- Dogs welcome
- Electric vehicle charging
About the area
Hampshire’s varied landscape of hills and heaths, downlands and forests, valleys and coast are without rival in southern England. Hike across the chalk downland of the north Hampshire ‘highlands’, meander along peaceful paths through unspoilt river valleys of the Test, Itchen, Avon and Meon, or explore the lonely salt marshes and the beautiful medieval forest and heathland of the New Forest
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