Loch Fyne
18 Jewry Street Winchester SO23 8RZ
This upmarket fish restaurant, part of the successful nationwide chain, occupies one of the city’s most atmospheric venues, a former jailhouse dating from 1509, with wooden beams throughout and, upstairs, an original fireplace. Tuck into shellfish and oysters, or kippers and salmon from the smokehouse at Cairndow. Produce comes straight up from the port of Southampton and is always freshly caught, while other ingredients are locally sourced as much as possible. With a top position in the centre of town, Loch Fyne is the spot for a fine dining pit-stop amid seeing the sights of Winchester.