The Antelope Inn in North Dorset

Great atmosphere, would have preferred more choice of beer. Good place, dog friendly.

Excellent location for this quaint historical pub nestled in the Blackmore Vale. Inviting interior with multiple fireplaces and cozy snug. Chess nights, darts, billiards and skittle alley all offered for those looking to game. Excellent rotation of quality beers on tap, plus bottles beer also. Generous selection of all other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. What makes this place is there beautiful beer garden with wooden furniture and unbelievable sunsets. A great place for all ages, families and friends.

Lovely place to have a drink and very welcoming

The Antelope Inn was closed for refurbishment.

Great little pub with a nice beer garden. I

Lovely pub 👌 was a nice and friendly place to have a drink or two 😀

Play Chess here on Wednesday evenings, very welcoming. Happy hour for drinks before 7pm

A wonderful local pub, very nice outside area. Currently doing mostly Tapas style food. Also do a few open mic nights as well as having the occasional band performing.

Great afternoon, the young lady running the bar was brilliant. When in the area, pay visit great pub games table skittles, Bar Billiards, darts Poole & a skittles Ally

No food was being served so that was a shame

had a great burger n chips for lunch. served by really helpful and friendly staff.. exactly the sort of pub we would love as our Local..

Played chess in the garden great night out.

Very cozy and authentic atmosphere, friendly service and several good options for vegetarians

Slow service (over 30m from ordering to receiving food, then the meals for our party arrived over a period of about 20 minutes). Dirty glasses, found something unpleasant stuck to the inside of mine at the bottom. Would go here for a drink, elsewhere if I wanted food.

Absolutely fantastic pub. Great beer and brilliant atmosphere. Landlord super friendly and accommodating. Even opened early to let us watch the women’s World Cup on a Saturday morning. Thanks Hayden!

We had a really nice meal here recently. The staff were very friendly and welcoming. The food was incredible. It was all home made and absolutely delicious. This pub is a little gem!

Very good overall, food was of good quality and well prepared. Prices were good value too.

Brilliant .. and Morris Dancing on 27th May!!

Our group of four booked lunch on the May bank holiday and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The food was great, the service friendly and welcoming and the venue beautifully presented in a comfortable olde worlde, traditional pub style. Equally agreeable was the garden, laid to grass with handsome, well made, timber furniture, free from concrete and plastic. Well done to the owners / managers for presenting a real English country pub.

Beautiful country pub, friendly atmosphere and staff and great food 😀 😋 👌

Great place..friendly service..

Warm and friendly pub, with good beer and I'm looking forward to trying out their menu. 😊

First visit Very local to Henstridge Friendly staff and clientele Well done Well worth visiting Thanks

Friendly staff, warm atmosphere.

Very pleasant and cozy country pub with a decent selection of beers, open fire and, on our visit, a pleasant and lively atmosphere

Turned up and terrorised the bar with 6 kids (your welcome). Staff were friendly and beer was good. They have bar billiards and bar skittles 👏👏

A lovely little pub, with incredibly friendly and welcoming staff - the food was quality too. I highly recommend this place.

Nice gig, music a little loud but a good night, well done Antelope and well done band

Live music tonight and full of fun & seeing people enjoyong theirselves

Had a great evening at this lovely rural pub. I had scampi and chips and it was the best scampi and chips I’ve ever had and I did not have to wait long for it despite it being a busy night. Staff are friendly and I was made to feel welcome.

Great location, happy hour so nice cheap drinks and curry truck outside! Perfect evening.

Nice place, nice and quiet surroundings.

Slight revamp behind the bar, new staff & pub puppy but still as ever... Great village pub with nice sunny garden. Dog friendly, family run, super friendly, great beer. What more could you ask for!

Wonderful warm welcome on a wet Night! Lab loved the fire, we loved our meal and chatting to the staff!

Friendly local pub well worth a visit

This was easily the worst food experience my partner and I ever had, and it's not even close. The drinks were fine, no complaints there. We were tucked away from the rest of the pub, which I didn't mind all that much but it did make the place feel more like a locals place. I ordered a burger that was literally just that, a burger bought from a supermarket and put in between a stale bread roll. The coleslaw that came with it was a teaspoon's worth out of a pot and the chips (the highlight of the meal) were simple oven chips that were somehow either overdone or still frozen. What was even more ridiculous was my partner's meal, 'chicken pebbles with soured honey' which constituted five deep fried miniature chicken nuggets with some sugary liquid which apparently people are meant to pay a fiver for. The garden salad was just as ludicrous, a smattering of lettuce, carrot and radishes that came straight from a bag with some kind of invisible dressing because it was non-existent. To top it off, it took nearly an hour for it to be served. In summary, I cannot stress enough how awful it was and I shan't ever be visiting The Antelope ever again.

This pub should not be serving food. We had what was without any doubt the worst food experience we've ever had in the UK. My partner's "beef burger" was just that: an overcooked dry patty on a stale bun with nothing else. The chips were half raw. The most interesting items on the menu were unavailable so I ended up resorting to "chicken pebbles (5 miserable tiny chicken nuggets) with "soured honey" (ketchup). The "dressed salad" was not dressed at all and looked like it came out of the bottom of the vegetable drawer. Our dog could have cooked us a better meal than this. Never again.

We had failed to book in advance and, though they were busy, the Antelope Inn accepted us at short notice. The menu was extremely limited but the food was thoroughly enjoyable (as was the banter with the staff). Would really recommend this very traditional pub. (One other observation: shouldn't this pub be classed as being in Hazelbury Bryan rather than Sturminster Newton?)

The Antelope Inn accepted us without a booking (even though they were busy) - the first thing that impressed me. Not a lot of choice (with the food) but what we had was really nice. Staff was lovely too. A really good traditional pub. Thoroughly recommend it.

Cheese burgers and chips for lunch in front of a lovely warm log burner on a cold autumn day. Everything was excellent from the food the drink the old country pub and the very friendly and helpful owners :)

Went for lunch on a Saturday after a recommendation from a friend and was not disappointed. Beautiful old pub, sympathetically restored serving very good food and beer.

Lovely friendly old traditional pub, great atmosphere, food and wine, stayed here for one night in our Motorhome, very accommodating, wish all places were this welcoming.

Lovely locals pub in the heart of Dorset.

The food was very good and a very reasonable priced. The staff were also polite and friendly. Our dog was also made very welcome.

The Antelope is a beautiful village pub which exceeded our expectations. We booked the skittle alley for an anniversary celebration, it was a brilliant space for a family gathering. The skittle alley and pub was clean and decorated tastefully. We are a family of 14 so ordered a selection of tapas as well as burgers for the children, the food was fresh and delicious and presented well. Good value for the quality of food. Rhiannon, her partner and team were impeccable, nothing was too much trouble, we felt that they made our parents anniversary a special one to remember, we would highly recommend a visit and can not wait to return.

Unusual to get tapas in an old English country pub but more surprises lay in store , speedy service , chess night , and other bar games ... nice pub indoors and out .. well worth a visit

The best pub food I've ever had. Had beef & Guinness pie and it was to die for. The gravy was especially delicious. Great selction on tap, something for everyone behind the bar. Gorgeous outdoor seating and lovely interior.

A lovely atmosphere and the staff and locals very welcoming

Great atmosphere lovely staff and management, had a good time . live band called Buzz

Interesting tapas menu, with eclectic influences. Lovely beer garden, friendly.

Lovely beer garden, brilliant service from Big Ash!! Highly recommended

What a find! Attentive staff Table of 8 and a baby was not a problem Each and every tapas we picked was delicious and believe me there was a lot. Although the South African sausage was a big hit with me. We asked for the tapas to come as and when it was ready which kept a steady flow of food. Beautiful garden. Lots of parking A little gem, keep it up, delightful

We visited on an evening of our holiday. Beautiful pub and garden, staff were very friendly and attentive. The tapas menu was really good, lots of different choices available to cater for everyone. Was nice to go to a country pub but have a completely different style of food available to a usual pub menu. We were a table of 8 and considering the amount of dishes we ordered the food came out very quickly. Would definitely recommend if you are in the area.

Nice drinks nice food nice staff Lovely evening

No hot plates on arrival of food, poor choice of food selection on menu slow wait for food Poor signage to pub

Consider, lockdown requirements. The Antelope has made sensible adaptions to accommodate. Good Real Ales, Excellent selection of Gins and Rums. Very Friendly Family Run. Good seating options. Great heart of the village pub.

We had two lovely meals at this pub. Menu has a good selection of tapas and a some other pub basics. We had lovely service, great food and beer. Friendly management and staff made the evening

Good food, pleasamt staff and a comfy place to relax by the fire.

Excellent pub grub and really friendly and attentive service. Love this place.

Nice tapas style menu plus a couple bigger bites. Great service and tactfully encouraging clients to stick to the rules. Very affordable prices

Warm and friendly welcome, attentive service, nice tapas! Will return to try full menu. Beautiful garden.

My favourite pub in the area! Lovely outdoor seating area. Friendly staff, dog friendly and lots of nice beers on tap 👌

This place exudes quality and great service. Will go back for more than a lovely cup of coffee

Great hospitality despite the current Covid conditions requiring outside catering.

We popped in one Saturday lunchtime in September and had a great time. Very conscientious staff and the food was excellent. The building has been refurbished and looks good.

Lovely cosy pub. Covid-19 compliant. Friendly staff and locals! Food was tasty too.

Highly recommend, fantastic tasty food, excellent service and plenty of parking. Friendly and professional family run business

Stopped on our way home. Wonderful clean, warm, traditional , friendly pub. A+ food. No complaints only compliments for ever dish ordered.

Very clean , nice customers and land lord

Limited menu at this stage but nice surroundings and lovely people

We stopped off for a quick drink before we continued onto our overnight stay at a local holiday cottage as we were a bit early for check-in and we glad we did. The staff were amazing, very helpful. All the right pandemic precautions had been put in place even introducing theif own method of track & trace should it be needed. It has a lovely grassed garden which made it difficult to move onto our final weekend accomodation rather thsn having another drink. Would we returm. YES

Fantastic village pub! Beautifully refurbished during the lockdown with well kept beers and good food. Greg, Rihanna, Ash and Hannah are welcoming and friendly. Well worth a visit.

Nice atmosphere, friendly Staff, great food,

Nice little pub in a lovely little village

Haven't been here for a few years and was very pleasantly surprised. It now has a very comfortable feel as you walk in with a good ambience. Very welcoming staff and a good selection of ales. Very minimal food selection (just burgers last night) but they were enjoyed by all. would willingly return.

Drinking and food coming back soon

The new landlord is revamping the interior and it's looking lovely and rustic (December 2019). It's a very welcoming atmosphere with a nice selection of beer and cider on draft.

Great ambience, new owners so will only get better

The new landlord was very welcoming

Fantastic Pub! Warm , friendly and supportive people whose only interest is too see you happy.

Friendly pub, but unfortunately they don't do food anymore.

Nice pint,lovely landlady,proper local.

Wonderful friendly traditional local. An important asset to the village. Centre for many community organisations. Skittle Alley, Music sometimes and good Ales!

Shame they don't do food. Beer was good tho!

Staying about 15 min walk away and called in after a day out. What a fantastic atmosphere. No food, but landlady ready to book a table for us at a local restaurant she recommended. Great selection of drinks including a superb Cornish lager. Couldn’t fault this pub at all. Would use it regularly if this were close to me.

Wonderful traditional village pub

Disappointed no food available when sign advertised bar food.

Lovely country pub - friendly staff.

Called in for a drink at lunchtime. Super friendly welcome and this really is a lovely pub. We sat outside in the beer garden and enjoyed the views and sunny weather.

Good pub, just wish they still did food, but the staff are seasoned professionals and the ales good

Friendly staff and reasonable prices. The pub is a great find.

This place is just for drinks only and sells crisps ect beers and other drinks. Nice relaxing place for a drink staff friendly and helpful. As a visited to the area they help with places to visit

A simple drinkers pub, doesn't do food. But friendly allows dogs a good sound pub. In a beautiful location.

It’s a lovely old pretty pub in a small village setting with plenty of room inside, or weather permitting outside. Unfortunately they no longer serve food & the bar staff are young & inexperienced. Definitely not the pub it used to be that’s for sure!

Staff are lovely, great atmosphere. It's not a gastropub as doesnt serve food!

Lovely little garden. Some of the clientele were a bit dodgy.

Visited this lovely pub to meet a friend. All I can say this is what a pub should be like. In my eyes this is what a rural country pub should be like. Staff were the best and friendly. Will most definitely have to come back here. Thanks for the warm welcome.

Este es mi local y recientemente se ha expandido. El personal es generalmente agradable, amable y servicial, como los lugareños. Sin duda uno de esos bares donde todo el mundo va tranquilo cuando un desconocido paseos. Justo enfrente del campo de críquet tan práctico para los jugadores y espectadores por igual. El bar y los aseos están siempre limpias y ordenadas, y hay una buena variedad de bebidas, incluyendo cervezas 3 Hancocks Doombar, y, Tributo, que parece bien cuidado. De hecho nunca he visto un huésped aunque ale. Bastante grande jardín de cerveza al lado y un callejón de bolos. Amplio aparcamiento. Los precios son promedio. No hay mucho de malo excepto que he dejado que sirve comida. De lo contrario, es un lugar agradable para tomar una copa, aunque tiene limitado el almuerzo de apertura.

Lo que un pub. No es a menudo que sentir tan bienvenidos. Señor señora tierra y tierra son bastante especial. Todo el personal es muy envolvente y hacía todo lo posible por ayudarte. Definitivamente. volver a decir hola. Si estás en la zona, te recomiendo que vayas echa un vistazo. .

In this day an age what are the chances of a rural pub surviving in they do not offer any food what so ever??