Luzborough House, Whitenap, Romsey

The Luzborough House is a large, traditional building on the main road between North Baddesley and Romsey. It's a Greene King house and so comes with all the external fixings that you'd expect including plenty of modern signage and a very large car park. The feeling is corporate. Inside isn't quite as bad as I'd expected and while it has been refurbished in GK corporate style, many original features have been retained including leaded windows, low ceilings and beams and old fireplaces. It's a huge building which runs across various distinct areas so you can settle wherever suits you as all are available for either drinking or food. The menu is, again, corporate GK. It's unadventurous but most mains come in at under a tenner and a number of people were eating when I visited. Staff were friendly and efficient and there are plenty of them as you'd hope in such a large establishment. Beers on were GK IPA and Abbot and Flack Manor Double Drop and Flackcatcher. The latter two are brewed in Romsey and the Flackcatcher was in good nick. Dogs are allowed and there were Christmas decorations beginning to appear on my November 1st visit. This wasn't nearly as bad as expected and I'd happily drop in again for a pint of any decent guest ale.