The best restaurants serving Other cuisines food in West Dorset South West

We Visited this pub twice recently while we were staying nearby. The food was excellent, plentiful and well presented. The menu was very varied and they also cater for vegan and gluten free guests. I have an unusual food allergy and they were excellent in telling me what I could eat. The lovely Trish who was part of the management was really friendly and made you very welcome and was happy to chat away even though the pub was very busy. I would highly recommend this pub for good old fashioned fayre at a very reasonable price. It’s worth booking in advance as it was very busy both nights we visited. It’s worth checking their website because they have special nights with various discounts.

A lovely lunch, luckily we found this one for lunch, only looked for it as I noticed the Sign a bit further down the road. Really good food. It was lovely and quiet for us, but I guess on a busy day would be just as nice as the food is good so this is what matters. Thank you so much. We were passing through Dorchester a few days ago and will certainly visit again.

Village run shop/cafe. Has all the basics and a lot more besides, a small gift area, local artists paintings, Saturday morning egg and bacon baps, quality seasonal local produce. A very friendly atmosphere like the village shops of 50 or so years ago. Well worth a visit!

Love it! One of our favourites! Never disappoints!❤️

Delicious Gelato, friendly service, excellent value, beautiful decor!

Cosy restaurant, fresh fish, generous portions and great service - thank you Maisie ☺️.

I had the Marie rose prawn salad which was delicious - fresh and tasty and the bread was so good. My partner had the weekend special smoked mackerel sandwich on white sourdough. I tried some myself and it was mouthwateringly unreal. And now he won't shut up about how it's one of the best sandwiches he's ever eaten!

Lovely atmosphere and good service

This beautiful enticing building from the outside caught out attention so we popped in. We didn’t eat as we had just eaten elsewhere but wished we had. It looked an interesting menu. We did have a mooch around the shop though which was full of lovely gifts and homewares. We will be back next visit.

Experience started off well - can't book dining online so e-mailed request and ended up having to phone - conversation was very friendly and welcoming. From then on it went down-hill. I have some restricted mobility and walk with a stick. Arrive at front of pub and realise its a steep flight of stairs to entrance. Manage up that, holding on to railing. OK welcome when we got in - we were early for our6pm booking but no problem although we were told kitchen doesn't start till 6 (says 5 on website). Where do we sit - here or upstairs - where's the toilet - upstairs - OK we'll sit upstairs. Two young kids around the bar (owner's presumably) - we order drinks and have to start carrying them and menus up steep and narrow stairs to the next floor. Has an eclectic look to the room, plus an external covered patio area. Everywhere has dirt / dead flies and isn't appealing. By then all hell had broken out in a very aggressive domestic back downstairs in the bar - manager and staff (wife?) - all about whether glasses were dirty - this had started in front of one of us while waiting for drinks to be poured - manager part poured a coke held it up and said glass is dirty - poured into another glass and said this one was dirty too - but then proceeded to fill the glass up and hand it over to the customer. The staff member (wife?) denied they were dirty and said she had cleaned them. As we sat upstairs the row just got louder and louder - and was clearly in front of the kids as well. We were the only customers and sat debating to order or to go. The argument suddenly stopped. We were feeling decidedly uncomfortable - no one came near us at 6 to see if we wanted to order. We decided to beat a retreat quickly and went back downstairs to pay for our drinks. The manager did ask us if there was a reason why we weren't staying - we didn't want to get into a conversation about the the appalling behaviour so just left.

Stayed here for the night over the big Christmas weekend, very comfortable, clean room, I would definitely stay here again. We didn't eat here as we had a table booked elsewhere.

Fascinating place and an amazing array of goods from the past and also have a nice lunch

On a cold windy day we had a very welcome warm up with a cup of tea and a pastry .

On entering the pub we were shown to a table in a cold room. We ordered three roasts as it was Sunday lunch . I asked if the beef was rare ,the waitress replied of course. On receiving our meals she commented that the beef wasn’t as rare as usual. The beef was overcooked and dry and the accompanying vegetables of broccoli and cauliflower were watery. A tiny pot of horseradish sauce arrived so we asked for another. For dessert I ordered Dorset apple cake and cream, and three coffees to follow. The coffees arrived before the dessert and the apple cake was very disappointing tasting more like old fashioned bread pudding. The experience was mediocre at best and expensive