Lucky Lychee at The Green Man Winchester

29/08/2026

Charcoal-grilled Cornish dayboat hake with asam pedas, a Malaysian hot and sour sauce made with chilli, shallots, garlic, lemongrass and tamarind, developed by 👨🏻‍🍳 Dennis.

The hake is lightly brined for juicy, flaky flesh, served with sweet Isle of Wight tomatoes and herb salad. Finished with floral, citrusy ginger torch flower, fragrant makrut lime leaf and fresh lime to squeeze over and lift the whole dish.

Smoky, hot and sour, with plenty of fresh herbs and citrus to keep you going back for another bite.

08/08/2026

We’re gearing up for our busiest season and looking for new Front of House superstars.

If you’ve dined with us, you already know the kind of people we look for: bright, energetic, smiley, and hard-working. Part time roles only, 16+, attitude is more important than experience.

Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Tag them below or send them the link in bio.

06/08/2026

05/08/2026

We haven’t posted in a while… kinda chic.

16/07/2026

Our Gado-Gado is back with a seasonal twist 🥗✨

French beans, radishes, carrot, cucumber, Jersey Royal potatoes, a jammy Wi******er’s Free Range Eggs and crispy tofu, all tied together with our tamarind peanut dressing. Topped with prawn crackers and crispy shallots for crunch.

15/07/2026

We’re delighted to still be featured in the The Good Food Guide Best Local Restaurants and to be ranked #11 this year.

The recognition means a lot, most of all because it comes from you! We again received incredible and heartfelt nominations, full of appreciation for the details that we work so hard over.

We’re most proud of the young, passionate and hardworking team we’ve built over the last few years. We’ve been lucky to find brilliant chefs and front-of-house staff who genuinely care about what we do and make Lucky Lychee what it is.

To everyone who’s eaten with us, recommended us, voted for us and supported us over the years, thank you. And thank you to the Good Food Guide for continuing to champion independent restaurants like ours.

10/07/2026

NEW COCKTAILS. You love margaritas. We now have a full page of them: democracy in action.

🍉 Our watermelon margarita makes the most of the juicy sweet fruit coming out of Spain, with a hint of lychee and mint to make a fun, summery yet surprisingly complex drink.

🍊When we heard about bars making Margaritas with Aperol, we were sceptical, but it really works - you get the citrus zing and the agave hit you expect, but with a bittersweet herbal edge from the Aperol, which also gives a gorgeous orange colour

🍍 For mezcal lovers, we have a pineapple green chilli marg. The most rustic of the lot, we shake fresh chilli, lime, tequila, and mezcal hard, then dirty pour the lot into a glass so you don’t lose any of the foamy mouthfeel and chilli heat, all over cracked ice.

09/07/2026

New on the menu: Malaysian Spicy Dry-Tossed Noodles, or chilli pan mee.

A staple of Kuala Lumpur’s hawker scene, chilli pan mee is all about contrast: chewy noodles, savoury minced pork, crispy anchovies, our house-made dried shrimp chilli crisp and a soft poached egg. Mix everything together and the yolk becomes a silky coating that clings to every strand, bringing the whole bowl together.

We use flower petal noodles for their chewy bite and ruffled edges, which hold onto the savoury sauce and all the good bits in every mouthful. Our house-made dried shrimp chilli crisp adds layers of savoury flavour with a lingering heat.

Limited to 8 portions per day.

08/07/2026

We’re serving two house-made ice creams, perfect for this heat:

🍓 Strawberry from Lymington Pauline Goodall – local berries at their peak
🌿 Nectarine & Lemon Thyme – Spanish nectarines with thyme from our own garden

03/07/2026

Our signature charcoal grilled char siu pork collar is back this week with a black cherry jus. Making the most of the UK’s short cherry season while they’re at their sweet, fleeting peak.