Brewhouse & Kitchen - Dorchester in West Dorset

Ellie was super helpful and friendly! Great customer service and very knowledgeable. I would defiantly recommend...

Nice pub, spacious, greeted upon arrival with 'would you like water' which arrived quickly, we then ordered and not too long a wait. food was good especially the chips. Staff very nice dreadful coffee sadly

Had supposedly haddock fishcakes but never found any fish, just potato. For £15 2 'fishcakes' on a bed of lettuce leaves and quarters of sun dried tomatoes it was disgraceful and vastly overpriced. And, had to pay £4.50 for a portion of fries!! Will definitely not be going there again.

Friendly atmosphere and fab food and drink

Really good beers, if a little expensive. The food is pretty good too. Update: popped in for a couple of happy hour drinks, which, along with the provided board games, made for a nice way to spend an hour or two of an afternoon

The meal was excellent value and the staff extremely helpful at all times. Highly recommend

We went for a gin tasting session and lunch. We weren't sure what to expect and we were very happy with the experience. Steven, was our host, and spent a good hour and a half with us. He explained the history of gin and then took us through tasting 5 different gins, neat, with ice and with a little tonic. We really enjoyed it, fantastic. The food was also very good. Homemade burger and fish and chips. I thoroughly recommend this experience, I am going to book the ale tasting experience. Many thanks to Steven and the other staff.

Great night doing the beer & whisky pairing experience. Father & son outing. Our host Stephen was excellent very knowledgeable who explained in detail the 5 cask beers to taste along with accompanying whisky’s. The experience also included a meal & a tour of the microbrewery. Only the two of us on the experience this time but can be more people. Well worth the money for an enjoyable night out.

Great night doing the beer & whisky pairing experience. Father & son outing. Our host Stephen was excellent very knowledgeable who explained in detail the 5 cask beers to taste along with accompanying whisky’s. The experience also included a meal & a tour of the microbrewery. Only the two of us on the experience this time but can be more people. Well worth the money for an enjoyable night out.

Could do with another veggie dish.

Very welcoming and accommodating, slightly limited menu but no big deal as plenty to choose from, great service! A++++++++

We had a booking for the Beer masterclass and I must admit my expectations were low. Thought we’d get a typical “this how we make beer” with a couple of glasses. Really pleasantly surprised by the explanation of how they brew, some of the challenges, and 8 different ales and lagers - all very ‘craft’ with good explanation of the characteristics and how they managed them. Steve the manager was excellent- very engaging and knowledgeable, patient with questions and cheerful. A real credit the business. Learned a lot and enjoyed myself and will certainly look these puns up and make a deliberate choice to visit them - in Dorchester or wherever they open next. I had a great time, topped off with a burger. Would definitely visit again.

Had a great day on the brewery experience. Ian was very informative and good fun. Great beer and a good day out, thoroughly enjoyable.

Excellent experience from start to finish great service and food 10/10 compliments to the chef and well done to all that served us on the day!

Decided to come to brewhouse as it was close to where we needed to go. We sat outside in the sun.. there are loads of choices on the menu but I decided to go for the bang bang chicken wrap.. The chef came over to speak to me and my friends as I had some questions about the ingredients that was in the dish and Shaun was very helpful and attentive. Made it easier to go for what we wanted too.

Lovely spot for lunch with friends. Chef Shaun was very helpful with some dietary requirements that were needed Would definitely reccomend

Fantastic food and a nice cosy atmosphere

Had a lovely lunch here last week, staff were all friendly and gave great service. The food was top notch, couldn’t fault it. Will defiantly be back again :)

Best beer in town. Always a smile behind the Bar.

Really awful food. Cheap, bland and tasteless.

Met up with my wife and her work colleagues fir an early evening meal and a few drinks. The service was good, efficient and very friendly. The food was served quickly, it was hot and plentiful.

Vegetarian burger was not available, only told when trying to order. Drinks took far too long to arrive, gluten free menu was given to one of our group as she is gluten free , she asked for a pudding on there which was bakewell tart & the server told her it was not on his machine!? After a long conversation I had to suggest the server go & check with the kitchen . Honestly you need to give better training to your staff on how to provide customer service. Disappointing & would avoid

Just started using the brew house, We love it,Rory is a super star.

Great place, good food and the beer excellent! I recommend the Sunday Roast!

Great place, good food and the beer excellent! Service was slow on arrival but everything went fast after our order. The menu is varied and interesting from starters to main courses. I recommend the Sunday Roast! Will definitely be back!

Bobbed in for a drink & asked for an alcoholic free lager. Luckily they had one on tap but had to wait whilst the barrel was changed. Consequently, my pint had a watery taste to it. I asked for a replacement but instead of getting a courteous reply I was told that alcoholic beer tastes like that. No hint of an apology. I insisted on getting a replacement pint which I eventually got, still no apology from the (head) barman. This time the beer tasted fine. Luckily I won’t need to go back. Poor service and poor customer relations.

We were really looking forward to our lunch. Unfortunately it wasn’t great. We had the roast dinner. Looked amazing. Lovely big home made Yorkshire but I’ve never known any roast dinner to have any sort of spice to it! Also when we left we realised we’d been charged for the kids roast that was supposed to be free. Place is lovely. Would go back for a drink but don’t think I’d eat there again.”

Food came out cold and felt as though was cooked in the AM and reheated for us this PM, parsnips were hard, some potatoes were black, shouldn’t have been on plate. Butternut squash did nothing the dinner. Today’s prices for a roast I would have paid £8.95 instead of £18. Wouldn’t go back! If I could give less than 1 star I would!

A nice setting, friendly staff and excellent food and drink.

We stopped here on a busy Saturday lunchtime as a party of 6 and were seated quickly by a very helpful and friendly waitress. Food was pretty good, although the chicken schnitzel was rather well done. Lovely atmosphere and staff.

Food came out cold and felt as though was cooked in the AM and reheated for us this PM, parsnips were hard, some potatoes were black, shouldn’t have been on plate. Butternut squash did nothing the dinner. Today’s prices for a roast I would have paid £8.95 instead of £18. Wouldn’t go back!

Me and my dad did the brewery experience yesterday with Ian. It was brilliant definitely would recommend for a must do. We had a lovely bacon roll and coffee to start are day. Then Ian there head brewer. When through the day what we will be doing. It was an amazing experience to see what happens in making. We had lots of drinks to and a lovely lunch. Ian was a brilliant host an DC made a day brilliant thank you

Lovely witch service, Rory and Speed (sp?).

£18 for a rib….. dry and tough to chew. What a rip off. I expected a small rack of ribs that had been cooked in a sauce to make it moist….. replaced by a macaroni cheese that was poorly seasoned and had a tasteless cheese. I’ll not be dining here again. There are better outlets 2-3 min walk away. and the waitress was too busy on her laptop and talking to friends to be really bothered. Fortunately the waiter was much better at service…..

Really lovely pub with very helpful and friendly staff. Watched the Euros final in there - great atmosphere.

Lovely place to stop for a beer, enjoyed following the Euros here. A big range to choose from from stouts to ciders and everything in between.

Nice bar, friendly staff, and a good atmosphere. Excellent beers too.

We came into the bar last night for a beer and was greeted by Iqbac Ahmed. I'd like to draw your attention to his incredible professionalism, and service. quite outstanding. He was very knowledgeable about the beers, very helpful and very in and polite. He was fun to talk to and made a massive effort which i felt necessary to inform you of. Please pass on my thanks for a stunning job he did in making us feel welcome at the brewhouse. Richard Budd

Very very meat heavy food menu, barely any vegetarian options let alone vegan.

Awful place , after having to choose twice a different drink and dish as apparently when waitress comes up (after while ) you hear - sry we don’t have this or that anymore/ well why is there foods and drinks on Menue if not served anymore ?! Food absolutely over priced and blunt

We stopped by on the way through Dorchester and we were not disappointed. The beer and food were delicious. The wife and I had a roast which was lovely and the others had different burgers all lovely. It all arrived at the same time and was to a decent standard.

Very nice evening made very welcome by our host Charlotte during a busy time due to the Euros. Maybe they should provide more chips with the meal than I have fingers on my hands. Otherwise excellent

Ate there two nights in the row, thought the food for a branded pub was really good, i had the ham croquettes each night, the beef burger and the beef pie staff very helpful, especially young Sam, given the right encouragement for progression I am sure he could go far and be an asset to your business

Friendly staff nice atmosphere good choice of beer

With all the emphasis on under sering on pints in the news. You would think thatvpubs would be hot on it today. But unfortunately the brewhhouse in Dorchester is still persistent at serving less than a pint of beer. It may well be tasty but it would be good to actually receive a full pint. They are always bad at serving a full pint.

Really good deal on Mondays. Burger, fries and a pint of craft beer. Very enjoyable.

A great lunch with friends, good food, friendly staff and excellent service. Will definitely visit again

Beer ok, food absolute garbage. I had the pork belly, it would be better used as a doorstop it was so overcooked. Wont be going there again

Brilliant pun run by a great Manager and staff

£6.20 for a pint of lager, hmmm

Visited on a quiet Sunday night in April but food and service were top quality. Great beer as well.

Friendly and efficient service with a great atmosphere, what’s not to like!

As a former employee of The Eldridge Pope brewery for 20 years i have to say the beers that i sampled were excellent.

Lovely venue for a get together of old workmates. Friendly staff and all our food was served at the same time (11 of us). Limited vegan options. Choice of 2 main courses and no dessert. Wasnt busy which is what we needed. We made our own atmosphere.

The food was nice, we each had a burger and really enjoyed them. Unfortunately there was no atmosphere at all, we were there at lunchtime. Although the staff were friendly no-one seemed overly happy so there was no real feeling of being welcome. We went elsewhere for a drink after lunch.

The food was terrible, shouldn’t call themselves Kitchen. No atmosphere as it was empty apart from us. What a shame it obviously has potential

Dog friendly, which was nice. We had fish and chips and pie and mash. It was not great. The pie was a generic, mass produced one. The mash was gloopy and heavy. The veg was kale on its own. The fish was small and greasy. The chips were undercooked. If you want good pub food, find somewhere else.

Very poor food offering not much in the way of choice, Service was not great took time to even be acknowledged. Cider was good but whole place was dirty and outside broken glass everywhere

Chips were made ahead and was served cold

Very accomadating staff to my dietary requirements.

We had such a wonderful meal… and that was all down to Charlotte. She was so attentive to our every need and always with a smile on her face. The world needs more Charlotte’s in this industry! Highly recommend the “Bang bang chicken” - delicious.

Went to dinner with my mum, the food was good but the thing that made our night was our server. The card said Challotte (could be Charlotte). She was so smiley and friendly. We would have liked to tip her specially but we weren't allowed unfortunately. Whatever she decides to do, I am certain she will go a long way. And good luck to her. Really lovely young lady, made our evening.

Despite being the busiest time of the week early on Saturday evening the Assistant Manager was brilliant and accommodated the end of my guided walk superbly giving us three tasters of the current brews as part of the Brew Dorch Festival. The group stayed for a meal as well and warmed up after a very wet walk around the town.

Unfortunately, I gave brewhouse another chance, and the ladies' toilets were disgusting. Water all over the floor, toilet paper all over the floor so there was none to use

updated, looked after by the team on most recent visit, as always tbh, great beer as ever!

Very nice food and good service, would go again.

I love this pub, it is beautiful, but I have to leave a review for the poor service I received recently when visiting with a friend who had come down for a few days break. To be left waiting at the bar for 10 minutes, because the barman was on his phone, is unacceptable. What makes it worse is that when he eventually got off the phone to his mate, he greeted us with "What do you want?" I know it was 12pm and it was empty, but it still isn't the point. This is a great pub which has clearly been let down by its uninterested staff...maybe that was the reason why it was still empty when we left at 2.30pm. Sad...I doubt I will return.

We had a very enjoyable lunch. The staff were polite and attentive. The food was good

Positives: Really grateful to be accommodated as a big group with kids when everywhere else was packed! The food was alright as pub food goes and a lot of choice. Negatives were really the service. The menu and table told us to scan a QR code, but confusingly a waiter turned up to take our order just as half of our party had started to order on the app. We explained that it might be easier in terms of splitting the bill if those of us that had started continued to order on the app. He took the others’ orders. He then returned abruptly saying “who ordered this beer on the app we don’t have it”, which was frankly a bit of an odd approach and pretty rude, making it feel like it was our fault the menu was inaccurate…. Then the food came for the members of our party that had ordered via the waiter, but the app orders didn’t arrive at the same time. I asked the waiter, who just said “well it’s because you didn’t place your order with me so it’ll come out at a different time”. He seemed pretty surly and rude again and again it felt like the poor service was my fault. Surely it’s common sense that a bunch of orders from the same table should come out within a reasonable time of each other if they’ve been ordered at basically the same time………. Also, why didn’t he tell us that when we were ordering?! Thanks again for accommodating us but the guy serving in the restaurant needs a bit of help with his customer service skills I think. I don’t usually complain about this stuff but I felt like it ruined what was otherwise a nice evening.

Service was terrible. Waited 10 minutes to be seated and it wasn’t even busy. Then when seated it took an age to be served. Food turned up with stuff missing and warm at best. Desert was even worse…. Should have gone to greggs!!!

Worst pub I’ve ever been to for service. Arrived three staff members behind the bar chatting ignoring customers. Drink accidentally spilt no one offers any help or blue roll just stood watching looking us up and down. The rest of the staff are stood outside smoking. I don’t recommend for food or a quite drink

We came in to try the 5 plate sharer but when we tried to order on the app it wasn’t available. It did let us order 3 plates though and we included the pork carnitas, but after about 10 minutes we were told they weren’t available. By then it was too late to cancel and go elsewhere, so we substituted with the calamari which was ok. However the beef was cold, the skin on fries also lukewarm and had no skin! Horrible burnt bits in there. The pretzel was definitely not freshly cooked as described in fact it had been microwaved to death. The toilets need a good clean and the whole place smells damp. Service was ok, nothing special. First and last visit.

Came here for lunch and was told food would be a 20 minute wait. We said no problem but when we went to order, suddenly kitchen’s closed as it was “too busy.” Though looking around, it isn’t really. The atmosphere is great and the staff are lovely. The kitchen must just be understaffed. 😞

Great food, very reasonable price for the quality. The Beer was also good, tried two IPA’s and they were lush. The service was outstanding!

We had our work's Christmas do at Brewhouse & Kitchen Dorchester and had a great evening. The food was really tasty. The service was excellent - considering how busy the pub/restaurant was with lots of large groups, the team did an incredible job to get the food out hot and keep on top of bar service and clearing tables too. Only small gripe, we were positioned pub side rather than restaurant and under a speaker so the loud music on top of the general noise made it difficult to hear/chat across the whole table but at this time of year you expect it to be lively! Overall a really enjoyable evening.

When we entered at lunchtime we were the only people and even later there weren't that many, so not the greatest atmosphere. The food was fine; we had various burgers and a Mac'n'Cheese. The service was OK; your indian bar man clearly didn't know where the Framboisen bottled beer was. It has a PINK label, as the belgian beer is flavoured with raspberries. Perhaps it was his first week? He took our order and brought the food. MY gripe was the bill. It had an automatic 10% charge added. This took our lunch for 5 to over £100. There was no option to remove the service charge, or alter it. For goodness sake, you are only a pub! I do give tips in a restaurant for excellent service, in cash, directly to the person serving. Could I have the £9 back? I doubt it. Won't be back. Ever.

Went here for a Christmas do (15.12.23) after not going to this pub for nearly 3 years. The pub kindly cheated EVERYONE who ordered soup out of their "toasted focaccia" and then didn't give me my dessert! I had to catch a bus, so couldn't complain. Please don't go here. Original review from 2021 (and I still stand by it): Sometimes the food is good and sometimes the food is bad. Most times it's mediocre. But it's always more expensive than it should be. I was very surprised that the olives and bread starter was just a cheap and chewy baguette that could be purchased from Asda. The beers are also very expensive. However, they usually have some fantastic guest beers from Germany and Belgium on draught. But they will be nearly £6 per pint.

I had a work Christmas meal here last night. On arrival, the establishment was crammed with so many people that there was hardly anywhere to stand or sit. It was far too noisy and busy to feel comfortable in, and people had to shout to one another to be heard. The starter I had was mushroom soup, which was nice enough, but was supposed to come with toasted focaccia - which it did not for myself or anyone else from what I could see. After telling the young waitress this, I received an apology, but that was it - not even a deduction from the bill. The main was venison and beef shin, which was very nice, although the portions, particularly vegetables, were severely lacking. One colleague had to wait for more than 10 minutes for their main to arrive, at which point most other people had finished eating. The dessert was blackberry and prosecco cheesecake, which was basically just a vanilla cheesecake with some berries on top. Each course took far too long to arrive, with very delayed wait-times in between. With an unexpected mandatory tip to pay, three courses that made up a sub-standard meal came to £32.94 (including the deposit), which I found shocking considering the quality and quantity of what was provided. My advice would be to go elsewhere if people are looking for good food, as well as service.

Work Xmas meal - Food was good. Desserts too sweet for many. Starter was very good. Main was delicious (Festive Burger). The only downfall was the space. We were 10 people and were literally crammed into a tiny space right at the back of the pub. It was too loud (they did turn the speakers down after a while) but the space we had was unacceptable. The table was for 6 people, not 10! If someone wanted to get up, everyone had to get up as there was just no space at all to move or breathe. Would therefore not book this again for a Work Christmas meal.

Saturday lunchtime in a large room. Our party, 10 of us, were for most of the time the only diners. Service was courteous and prompt. Drinks were fine and beer of a good std. The steaks were of a good standard and cooked well as were the fries. Everything else was pretty poor. The Buddha bowls were mushy, the avocado rubbery and very much past its best as was the hummus. The Mac and cheese was a grey congealed mass which for one of our party was completely inedible. The classic case of ‘can cook a steak ok’ but can’t do anything else well. We chose not to complain but certainly won’t be going there ever again.

Food very good, service excellent and the wood burner lit... so we had a very good lunch - thank you..!.

Excellent service and great food.

Menu description sounds amazing! Unfortunately, food was terrible. We visited at around 12 lunch time, but the food looked and tasted like they air fried it :/ would not recommend! Great beers tho!

Great atmosphere, bar staff friendly and very helpful. We visited for Sunday lunch - it arrived in good time but was luke warm at best. Don't think anything was seasoned when cooked, bland. Advertised as pork loin and crackling - no crackling in sight. I would visit again for a drink but would certainly not for food - awful.

Food is average. Beer is decent. Quiz host is shambolic. Bring back the oldd quiz host.

We came here for Sunday roast and the atmosphere was lovely. Reserved a table, no problem. Ordered our food and drinks from the qr code, great. Food and drinks arrived. Food....only just warm enough and the gravy was very bland. A bit disappointing all round. Went to order dessert and told it was a 40min wait so left. It's such a shame because the staff and atmosphere was great..

Did a Whiskey and Beer matching evening, hosted by Ian Gosney, Absolutely fabulous, Booze was lush, Food spot on and Ian was brilliant Love Dorchester 🫡

Slow, bored service, taps with no product, unprofessional dress for bar staff

The pub was lovely, staff were kind and helpful. I ordered an IPA which I didn’t like as the “close to” lager they had had all gone. I didn’t enjoy it and they freely changed for another at no cost to myself. We have 5 tapas plates and fries. On the whole the food was tasty although I think the food could have been hotter. The prawns there were only 4, that I think is ridiculous. The brisket wasn’t very good and quite basic. The focaccia bread wasn’t toasted and had large amounts of pesto smeared over it with couple of cherry tomatoes sliced in half and placed on the top, not very nice at all. The nacho was great and the halloumi fries good.

Great service and their work space deal (lunch and soft drinks) is good value.

Really disappointing. Booked a table on a Saturday night for a friends birthday meal, the table was booked for 14 people luckily only 12 attended at 7:30pm unfortunately due to the weather conditions a few were a little late. We managed to order our food at roughly 8pm ish we were told there would be a 25 minute wait which I thought was good considering we didn’t pre order. Mains were nice everyone felt quite content a few went for small dishes so they could have a pudding. Plates were cleared just after 9. The waitress came back to report that the chef had shut the kitchen so would not do puddings. I could not fault the waitress one bit bless her she tried her best she would definitely get 5 stars! But we were unaware the kitchen closed at 9 and still have not been able to find this written anywhere. Unfortunately we were devastated, the plan had been to have pudding then continue with a few more drinks but at this point we felt almost unwanted. Considering the chef knew we were still eating and we were a large party why did they close the kitchen before finishing our table very upset overall really.

Took my Dad here for his 79th birthday. The staff were amazing, friendly & knowledgeable in their drinks & menu. My Dad was offered a free flight of drinks which was a lovely birthday gesture! Trinity was especially lovely & friendly, she even wished my dad happy birthday when we paid the bill & left. A lovely evening with amazing food & drinks!

Staff very friendly, food was very nice and we didn’t have to wait long for it.

Not as good a meal for my large family party as a year ago. V. nice waitress & waiter - starters arrived promptly, but we waited a long time for the main course. Unfortunately not all of our varied choices were up to scratch. My steak pie's pastry was very hard (overcooked), whilst my mash was cool and kale cold. Another in our party with the same dish had to send it back as the pie's centre was cold. Others having fish and chips said fish was nicely cooked, but much smaller than a year ago and that the chip were a little soggy. In contrast all puddings were excellent. Disappointed and unsatisfied..

Did the brewery experience day, really enjoyed it, Ian the Brewer looked after us very well and we tried all the beers throughout the day, most of which were very good

We came out this evening for a meal while my partners dad was down visiting. Having enjoyed times in the past here, we thought it would be a nice place to go. In fact it was pretty awful. We ordered 3 steaks, 1 rare and 2 medium rare. Upon service we received 1 blue 1 rare and 1 medium- when we queried this we were asked if it was ok to fry the steak some more or cook a new from fresh. We chose to just put the same steak back in the pan … yet it came out one end well done and the other still blue! Which was more than disappointing. Consequently one ate alone. Overall we had a very unsatisfactory visit. The steaks we had consisted mostly of fat. And they were predominantly served with chips and 3 small cuts of lettuce. The staff paid very little attention to us during the time there. Plus when it came paying and we gently raising an issue… we were greeted by incompetent bar staff who didn’t acknowledge what the actual issues were. We certainly won’t be re visiting and our only recommendation would be to stay well away!

This was a lovely venue, and the service was great. Most of the table enjoyed their food. I think we were unlucky as the fried items with both the starters and mains we all overcooked/burnt. Would go back again though, just maybe order something not fried.

we enjoyed our burger and flight of ales

Had a week's holiday in Dorchester and visited 3 times for evening meals. Good menus selection, not just the same old pub menu. Enjoyed the beers brewed on site. Would recommend.

Great selection of beers and ciders, including a superb range of low to zero alcohol options. Sadly the food was extremely disappointing. The burgers were cold in the middle, very small chips and the battered onion rings were so undercooked they were soggy in the middle. We'd be back for a drink, but not food.