Our recently refurbished café, kiosk and shop is next to the beach car park.

The café offers a range of hot and cold snacks and drinks, so if you fancy a warming soup after a bracing winter’s walk or afternoon tea with delicious hand-made cakes do call in.

The menu has been developed in consultation with visitors but we are always keen to hear your views, so please complete a suggestion slip when you visit.
Download the café menu 87kb pdf

Next evening event

Occasional evening events held in the café - to be kept informed of these please email lepe.enquiries@hants.gov.uk.

We are taking part in the Hampshire Food Festival by having an evening of Fishy fare at Lepe.

Join us on Wednesday 17 July at 7pm for a fish preparation demonstration followed by a fish and chip supper with views over the Solent.

£15 per person, booking essential, call 023 8089 9108 to reserve your place.

Shop

The shop is in the café, and is well stocked with books, toys, gifts, cards and artwork.

We sell things to help you get the most out of being outdoors - from maps, buckets and spades, dog accessories as well as a range of gifts and WW2 memorabilia, there is also plenty of ideas to keep the kids occupied!

Lepe Country Park Gift Packs

Ideal for schools and other group visits. Available to order, please give 7 days notice.
Please note colours may vary.

Exhibiting now

Mal Phillips

Mal Phillips is a painter living in the New Forest who is inspired by land, sea, history & industry.

Mal who has almost retired from his industrial work for the fifth time, has paintings in private collections in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Libya, Qatar, France, the USA and throughout the UK. He has exhibited paintings wherever he has lived or worked as an engineer, including London's Mall Galleries.

Mal´s projects have produced paintings ranging from a few centimetres to many metres in size, in a wide and unusual variety of media. His business cards for example are all hand painted and laminated. There must be thousands of these simple watercolour sketches out there.

Mal has developed a rapid working method. This has been used to produce hundreds of sketches offshore in the North Sea & the onshore oil fields of Abu Dhabi. There is not much time to sketch on a helicopter flight, or whilst being driven across rough desert tracks. Cameras are also not allowed in the oil fields, so you have to learn to draw very fast. This style has evolved and been shared over the years, with Mal continuing to work ´on the hoof´ in sometimes busy and occasionally precarious situations.