The best restaurants in Lyme Regis West Dorset South West

Popped in for a quick coffee. A break from the rain. Friendly service and great coffee, just the job. Food also looked good.

Great staff interesting place fab music small brass band

After a gorgeous meal in the summer at the Garden Table we came back to the regular indoor part of Lilac for dinner and were once again very impressed. The depth of flavour on offer is what stands Lilac apart from other restaurants, along with an interesting and wide-ranging selection of cocktails and drinks. My one suggestion would be to expand the rather meagre ale selection: Gyle 59’s local Thorncombe offerings would fit in well here, with their Nettle IPA an able accompaniment to the regular nettle dishes on offer.

Ci ha attratti la piccola fila davanti alla vetrina dalal quale servivano le commesse, i colori dei vari fudge e il profumo. Deliziosi!!! il sapore autentico evidenzia gli ingredienti semplici e freschissimi. Ci tornerò di sicuro!!

Amazing food, lovely service, can't wait to go back. They have a wide range of food and the queues aren't long. Definitely recommend!

Great choice of sandwiches, salads & got drinks. All freshly made with quality ingredients. Lovely owner & staff. The best crab sandwiches in Lyme Regis. Full of filling & totally lush.

Excellent toasties, pastries and coffee and a sausage treat for the dog. Lovely seating area along the promenade with fabulous sea views.

Sunday lunch was not very good. Waiter ate food and drank at the bar constantly. Emptied bins and didn't wash his hands. Chef sat at the bar in between orders. Food arrived and was tasteless, meat tough and when asked for cranberry sauce the waiter arrived with a plastic tub to serve it!

We all had hot baguettes-sausages and bacon freshly cooked, the baguettes were very nice. My Daughters enjoyed their smoothie and chocolate milkshake. Service was good also.

Great setting but let down by food preparation and wooden cutlery. Yes, the setting is fab overlooking Lyme Regis beach. However, the food prep was disappointing given the high prices. I spent over £15 on 2 teas, a sausage roll and a cake. The sausage roll was good quality (award winning bought in from elsewhere) but they microwaved it to warm it up - a travesty and soggy pastry. And the soggy sausage roll was served alone with no garnish or anything else on the plate or any offer of sauces etc. The cutlery was wooden disposable which just sets my teeth on edge. The tea had too much milk put in it - no choice to do it yourself - a mug of milky tea presented, yuck, not my cup of tea! The waiting staff were pleasant enough but not exactly enthusiastic or bothering to check all was well. Give the high prices, I won’t be back. They’ve got such a fab location and have bought in higher quality food, what a shame they have ruined it with poor food prep, crap utensils and disinterested staff.

We chose this outlet for a fish and chips lunch as it indicated that it does gluten free fish and chips. This turned out to be fish without the batter when we had hoped that they used a gluten free batter and a separate fryer. I hope that they don't just remove the batter after cooking as this will lead to problems over the GF description if experienced by someone with full Coeliac disease. So far as the general standard is concerned I have had better crispier batter with the same for the chips and the mushy peas are a sloppy mix, with far better and the Red Lion Beaminster

fabulous fresh fish served by terrific young staff who cant do enough for you.. one of my very favourite places to be.

I thought we should give this place a try having read the reviews......all I can say is that we must have gone to a different place than they all did. Yes the 'owner' is a nice chap but the other two members of staff were somewhat less engaging. First of all please be advised that the novel aspect of this place is that you get to pour your own beer from taps set into the wall.....initially great fun but this soon turned to frustration as it is virtually impossible to get a full pint as the beer (when we went) was far too lively meaning that you seem to pour away more than actually goes into the glass. .....and there were no staff on hand to help out . So on the night that we went all 3 tables had folks sitting there with half full glasses, each taking turns to revisit the taps and attempting to top their glasses up. Personally I made 4 trips and am convinced I never actually got a full pint......and by the way the beer is pretty good but at £5 a pint is somewhat overpriced....presumably because most of it end up on the floor hence they have factored into the price a huge degree of spillage As regards the food we ordered 2 meals which were both supposedly based on tagliatelle pasta.....both arrived with spaghetti and no comments or excuses were provided. As spag bol goes my dish was underwhelming....cheap, yes but not what I had expected nor wanted. So if you want to pay £5 a pint and spill beer over your shoes and then pick something from the menu which might appeal but acknowledge that something different will most likely be presented then this is the place for you!

Wonderful Sunday lunch, between Xmas and New Year

Excellent service, food and lovely location. Highly recommend.