swan inn in West Dorset

Traditional pub, friendly service with great food and beer.

Great home cooked food and well kept beer. Was a bit quiet as it was 3pm on a Tuesday in Novembe. The big plusses were that there was home cooked food available,lovely beer and a real fire

Only a few people there or atmosphere would be better

Enjoyed a really good meal here. The steak and kidney pie with new potatoes and veg was excellent. Nice drop of Buttcombe beer as well........

We had the crab ploughmans and the lamb shank. Both were excellent. The pub has a nice cozy feel. Love it. If we lived here this would become our local.

Great local pub, good service, lovely atmosphere. What a proper pub should be.

We were walking the South West Coast Path (short section) Called in with our dog, and we were dripping wet. Made to feel so welcome Good food but the staff made it gor us as they were fantastic.

Proper pub with great feeling and friendly staff

Stayed here for a single night. Friendly staff upon arrival was the only real positive. We were taken across the road to our room upon arrival. The rooms are in a run down house opposite the hotel, known as “The Swan Lodge”. It is badly in need of a major refurbishment and very tired, which was not what we expected for the price. I had to clear spiders and cobwebs from the bedroom and en suite shower room. Dinner at the pub was pretty basic and should have been so much better for the price charged. Breakfast was served back over at the lodge, by a gentleman who had a piece of egg on his cheek and very grubby clothes. The poached eggs were barely cooked, with runny egg white still clear. All in all a poor experience, which is a real shame as the beautiful location deserves so much more.

Lovely pub with family favourite meals. What really made the experience was the really helpful staff who helped with access into and around the pub for my wheelchair bound mum. Thanks for looking after us!

Absolutely stunning crab ploughman's. Can not fault the food or service, was a warm day so sat outside, friendly staff.

Steak and ale pie and lasagne very good

I came in for a family dinner, it's a very cosy pub with lots of photos of local life and times of what I assume to be people associated with the pub, it looks like this place meant a lot to quite a few people. The highlight for me was the dinner, I had the potato and broccoli bake with garlic bread and a salad, it took me back to my aunties cooking when I went round her house every Sunday, so it's difficult to put into words how much I enjoyed the food. For dessert we had sticky toffee pudding and a homemade crumble, both served with hot custard, as it was a chilly day that was perfect to warm us up before we left. I will definitely be back again if I'm in the area!

Vegan options was good. Vegan Pie and a broccoli sausage dish.

Very friendly and helpful staff. I had plenty of choice of vegan meals. The food was excellent and reasonably priced. Will definitely pay another visit and bring my friends too

Great place to eat lovely garden

Lovely food and friendly service. We had the squid as a starter, the leek and mushroom pie and the chicken burger, all served quickly, hot and very tasty.

We visited after a visit to both the swannery and Subtropical gardens. We recieved a warm welcome from the team and also a friendly local who was enjoying a drink in the bar. The menu has a good selection of food a lot of which is homemade. Our food arrived quickly after ordering it and was well presented and tasted delicous. We also ordered pudding both of which were homemade and yummy. The food is good value for money and the Swan offered a relaxing place to enjoy our food. It's a shame I live so far away in the midlands as this would make a good local for me. Thanks for an enjoyable dining experience

Arrived in our little campervan, popped in to check if it was okay to park up for the night, very warm, smiley welcome, no problem as long we had a meal, which we were going to anyway 😁😁 Atmosphere was warm and homely, food was lovely, recommend the dress crab ploughman and the homemade apple crumble was one of the best I've tasted. Totally recommend a visit if down this way

Were just there for a nightcap. Very nice service.

A nice pub. Friendly staff and loads of parking

Popped in for lunch after a visit to the Swannery. Staff were welcoming, helpful, and polite. Food was delicious, reasonably price and good-sized portions Recommend as a lunchtime stop off

Lovely place to sit outside in the yard and have lunch and coffee ☕️. Lovely atmosphere and good friendly staff.

The pub itself lacks soul, sorry. However, my husband's steak and kidney pie was delicious and full of good quality meat. New potatoes and a selection of vegetables was lovely. I had the crab ploughman's, delicious crab and roll but the salad dressing was too vinegary for me and a lot of pickles ( nice beetroot though.) The beer was very good. No-one asked if we had enjoyed our meal.

Brilliant evening with great food, staff were friendly and helpful and the inn itself is lovely! This was a return visit after a previous first class crab salad for lunch and I absolutely recommend a visit! 😁😁😁 Yup, I was right! We returned and the inn and staff are fantastic! The food is top notch and I can only recommend you give this lovely lnn a visit! 👍👍👍

Worth a look - just a a drink no food

Great pub. Good Beer, Lovely food. Made a group of 5 welcome.

Love this pub 🥰 Really friendly bar staff and customers. Easy parking. Took my mum for a half and a lovely bowl of soup . The pub is beautiful as is the surrounding countryside. Go you will enjoy😊

Friendly service and a very lovely Sunday lunch.

Impromptu visit for drinks after visiting a friend nearby and decided to have a meal. Vegetarian option of Leek and Mushroom Pie New Potatoes cabbage carrots peas and gravy. Excellent. Well cooked and seasoned. Not overpriced. Will definitely visit again and recommend.

Nice little pub with a super beer garden

Taking the family on a journey around Dorset we stopped for lunch at the Swan , a pub I’ve visited before but my first for food. The pub itself has such wonderful character and the staff helpful The garden was lovely and views were great We had geese join us for a while! The food was superb, a Stilton ploughman the highlight ! My wife had the tuna jacket.. which was tasty and well balanced with the salad all in a worthwhile stop if you ever visit the village

Good wholesome and tasty food, good choice, and a good price. Well packed pie, proper vegetables, scrumptious! The only thing that could improve was the cola. Flatter than the soles of my flip flops!

Beautiful village pub, plenty of seating in and out. Lovely owner, very friendly. Great meals, plentiful and good price on food and drinks.

Always a warm welcome. A perfectly poured pint accompanying a roast beef lunch. Well worth a visit

Had a lovely meal, would highly recommend. We will be back again soon . Atmosphere was quiet due to being a hot lunch time plus most of the holiday campers etc.going home Staff very welcoming and friendly 😊

We love the swan, foods always good. And always a warm welcome from Graham

Good pint of Butcombe, nice Lanlord.

Fantastic meal, lamb shanks, and mint gravy. Lovely atmosphere.

Typical pub the tourist wants. Really quaint with a beer garden. Nice service.

Good homemade food at a reasonable price. Always a friendly welcome.

One of our party had expressed a desire for a steak and kidney pie and shortly afterwards we were driving past the Swan and saw a sign with this pie advertised outside. The beer was good, the pie excellent, a ham and cheese ploughman's very generous and the baguettes just right. A good find.

Great pub, as a pub should be. Excellent service, lovely food. The menu was full of choice, and the beer garden was a lovely spot to eat

Wonderful Sunday roast. If it's sunny and a spring day, motorbike ride, lunch and beer. I don't ride a motorbike, so beer, beer, beer. It's on the road, a typical inn recommended by a local person met at an attraction during a visit. Great place!

This is a great good old fashioned pub. A good selection of beers and ciders. I recommend the Orchard Thieves, a lovely tipple. A good selection on the menu and specials board. The food was reasonably priced and served very quickly by cheerful attentive staff. A nice beer garden with views and plenty of outside seating, plenty inside too. Pool table(winner) 👍 If i lived closer to the Swan Inn i would go there every day. 🍺🍷🥃👍

Loved our tea and cake break 😋 😍 Kind and friendly service ! Would love to visit again!

Came here for a drink after a long walk, handy as the bus stop is at the pub- hoorah. We didnt eat as had brought food with us for the walk but next visit here will eat as they had decent vegan options including a delicious sounding mushroom pie - extra hoorah! All the usual HUK led draft drinks (so they too are vgn friendly) and lovely pleasant service. All good basically

Very nice pub Run by the same landlord for over 50 years.

great staff, nice location, food like warmed up school dinners.

We eat there as often as we can, iit is our Local, the staff a good fun & interact with Customers Accordingly, The Food is good honest pub food, & you gave a great selection of Drinks for every palate........ If you have not visited yet it would be highly recommended that you do... Graham Roper is the Land Lord since 1966, making him one of the longest serving Land Lords in one place, in Great Britain, if not the Longest Serving (58th Year) go grab a piece of history to add to your experience while Visiting Abbotsbury....

Enjoyed pie with shortcrust pastry,Hunters Chicken and our dog had her own meal too!😊

Lovely place! Warm and very welcoming, staff are brilliant. Food was amazing! Definitely recommend it.

We called in to the swan inn several times in 2023 every time we called in we had a great welcome and excellent food we are looking forward to going back in march

Great meal in a lovely pub, intend to go again.

A little pricey but when you see and taste the food delivered to ur table ! You are more then happy to pay the price

Recommended by our hotel we travelled out to the 'Swan' located in an attractive village, with outside seating it's a typical country pub that also serves food. You order from a comprehensive menu at the bar and service was speedy and friendly. The food itself was tasty and came in decent portions. Reasonably priced. Off street parking.

A great pint, nice friendly atmosphere, food reasonable price, quick and tasty. Thanks

Disappointing, stopped spontaneous but had read a couple of good reviews so expectations were high. My husband had the pie with fresh veg & potatoes- which he states as good. I had the lasagne which was bland, first mouthful was hot but got cooler nearer the middle, I should have complained but had eaten too much before I realised it being cold in the centre. Flies everywhere which I detest around especially when eating. Atmosphere was horrid few locals with crap music on, not a pleasant experience & wasted money, left highly disappointed.

Loved this pub, staff wonderful, made you feel welcome, would be v happy if this were my local

Excellent proper pub serving proper pub food. Great steak and kidney pie with proper shortcrust pastry . Wife had Local portland crab. Some of the best i have seen in a few years. Washed down with a couple of pints of tasty butcome bitter . Perfect pub lunch.

Nice pub garden and a very good cheese and ham ploughman's lunch

Lovely little pub with great views from the beer garden. We visited for a drink only

Great staff very friendly good food in a nice atmosphere.

Lovely garden and great friendly staff.

I really enjoyed my lasagne and my husband had a large plate of cheddar ploughman's. Unfortunately we could smell the chip oil as we entered the pub, please change your oil. Also no atmosphere as I think they must rely on customers to pay to put music on.

Popped in on a random drive through Abbotsbury and was delighted to find they were happy for us to park our motorhome overnight in their car park. We ate in their pretty beer garden and the food was delicious. There were at least 4 vegan options, I chose the Penang Curry which didn’t disappoint. Hubby had a shepherd’s pie which he enjoyed. They even sold doggy ice cream and provided a water bowl for my pooches. We will definitely be returning!

Lovely beer garden offering a mix of sunshine and shade. Extra parking over the foad and lovely view if the fields from the garden.

We finally stopped off at this lovely pub after passing a few times and saying we must try the food especially as there was a crab ploughman's being advertised, two of my favourite things together which you don't often see. There is a large garden area for sitting out, it was a lovely day but we decided to sit inside, it's a lovely old pub with character which we liked, nice and friendly too. We just chose a main course each I had the Crab Ploughman's which was lovely, nice dressed crab and a warmed cobb roll best I've had, My husband chose the sausages in rolls with onions and some chips as a side and he enjoyed his, nice proper sausages and not cheap catering ones, and my Mother had the fish goujons which were fishfinger size which came with salad and chips she really enjoyed them. We were served prompt and not long after sitting down the food came over so we couldn't fault the service and the food. We will be back again soon but next time to try the Sunday lunch.

Excellent food. Plenty of tables and garden tables too. Staff polite and friendly. Would definitely recommend.

Food great but staff bit miserable and long wait for food and not that busy

An impulse stop for a bite to eat on the way back to the campsite and I'm so glad we did (not like me to make a good decision!). Friendly welcoming staff, crackin' cop o' tea (all important to me) and the food is to die for. Served piping hot with fresh veg and not frozen (yes. You CAN tell). Will happily recomend and if passing will call in again.

Amazing pub glad we found it will be returning again, the food and staff were amazing.

Prima pub lekker eten en als hé hier eet nag je op de parkeerplaats overnachten met je camper

Good choice of traditional food with vegetables instead of all chips, had Lasagne & cottage pie with vegetables, good quality food, good friendly service, reasonably busy, will definitely go again, not over priced

We ordered coffee and apple crumble and both were quite bad. And expensive also. It is a pity because the place is pretty and the people behind the counter seemed nice.

I recommend going here, with polite and helpful staff. We didn't have to wait long for food and the portion size was good. The food was tasty, but the only reason for the 4 stars is that we thought it was a bit expensive for what we got. There was a good selection of different foods to choose from though.

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Just had lunch at this lovely olde english pub with a group of seven . Service was excellent and friendly and i had the best ploughman’s ever !! The warm cottage roll was a lovely touch too!!

Just had a great lunch with our friends and a party of 7 .Great friendly service I had a ploughmans which was the best ever !!

Nice quirky little pub to stop off

First time visit, excellent brie/bacon/cranberry baguette with fries and decent pint of Butcombe bitter. Sat and ate in the garden with lovely surrounding views.

This pubs location is amazing, especially coming from the sub tropical garden. The view of the sheep in the field is really nice. The beer is the average the food is average

I love this pub! It's dog friendly, good food and friendly staff.

Went in for a drink, it good old pub.

Popped in for dinner on a reccomendation and was not dissapointed, extensive menu, lovely location, treated my doggos like paying guests. Would highly recommend, doggos said the sausages were 5 star!

Had a couple of bagets, really tasty and value for money. Washed down by a nice cider in the beautiful beer garden

Friendly local pub. I've been here on several occasions for various events and each time the food was been really lovely. Beer garden is really nice in summer when the flowers are out. A very well kept pub, makes a good pit stop!

£50 for 3 adults one teenager ,2 rounds of drinks plus crisps says it all. Pricing themselves out of the market . Service also questionable.

Lovely staff. Great food. Highly recommended.

A beautiful pub in a beautiful location. We stopped for lunch but were really disappointed with the food. We were expecting something special which would have reflected the place and price better. Unfortunately we were served cheap frozen produce 😕.

Lovely meal at the Swan Inn, stayed in the area for a long weekend so we checked it out on the Friday evening & the place was pretty full with a nice ‘local pub’ buzz. Made to feel welcome & service, food & drinks were all good. Dog friendly inside which is a massive bonus as it was raining when we went! Would definitely visit again :)

It was very clean and tidy great staff unfortunately the circumstances we was Thier for was a wake would go again

It was absolutely fabulous visiting this pub.. Lovely place, delicious meals, very big portions, nice service, good beer. Everything was so fantastic. Highly Recommended!

Lovely evening, good food and friendly staff

Sitting in the beer garden, with a good beer and a grand view of the scenery, this place was the only place to be on a sunny afternoon. Friendly service and good prices too.

Tried the pub for the first time as we live in Weymouth. Lovely food, huge portions and friendly staff. Sat in the beer garden, felt a good old country pub. Definitely going to come back.

Stopped off for a pint after walk. Nice well presented pub. Good beer. Great beer garden. Very friendly landlord. Will go back and have food soon.

Would recommend the Swan to everyone ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC 💯

Lovely garden for a great pub meal. One of the best menus I've seen - really wide variety of options at really good prices and lovely specials too. Would definitely return.

Fantastic food and nice gardens.