Forte Kitchen
78 Parchment St, Winchester SO23 8AT, United Kingdom
4.6
494 reviews
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3M7P+58 Winchester, United Kingdom
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Monday: 9–16
Tuesday: 9–16
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Thursday: 9–16
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Agne who organises the private events was absolutely great from our first visit, replying quickly to our many emails and not blinking an eye when we turned up on the morning of the wedding with bags of decorations - nothing was too much to ask.
The space itself is beautifully decorated with flowers and candles on every table - it has a lovely feel.
We had a drinks reception with canapes leading into a buffet - the food was absolutely delicious and the staff working that evening were thorough and attentive throughout.
We used both the White and Black rooms and were really pleased with them both - there was more than enough room for all of our guests (48 people) to take a seat to eat as well as enough room for a dancefloor and mingling by the bar.
If you are looking for a beautiful, classy but relaxed venue in Winchester you have to check out Fore Kitchen!
We also booked to go for breakfast the next morning and 25 of us enjoyed a tasty breakfast together which was the perfect end to our wedding.
We were a party of 10 who hadn't booked, and arrived for breakfast at 9 am on a sunday. We anticipated not being able to sit together at the same table. We ended up sitting on 2 tables of 4 and a table of 2. The issue we had was that the table of 2 was behind a wall cutting us off from the rest of our party. Had the restaurant been full this would have been no problem, but there was only 1 other person in our section of the restaurant. There were a couple of reserved tables of two, and a reserved larger table, but apart from that all the tables were free. No one arrived during the time we were there and we left at 10.20. we asked several times if we could move the table of two or change to another table and absolutely no effort was made to accommodate us. In fact it felt like the more we asked the less chance there was of moving. We thought we were being polite and friendly, not demanding. It put a real dampener on our experience as we couldn't be with or talk to the rest of our party.
I had the ham, egg and chips the chips OMG were very good. My better half chose the mushroom and poached egg on sourdough toast which I'm assured (as not a mushroom lover) was also exceptional.