The White Star Tavern, Dining & Rooms

Named after the famous White Star Line shipping company that used to set sail from Southampton, this stylish gastro-pub with rooms is set in cosmopolitan Oxford Street. With two AA Rosettes, the restaurant provides modern British cooking typified by smoked salmon fish cake, buttered spinach, watercress beurre blanc; free-range Hampshire pork belly, champ cake and cider gravy; New Forest strawberries with vanilla ice cream, black pepper and balsamic. Watch the world go by from the pavement tables, or stay a little longer in one of 13 smart and comfortable bedrooms.