The Bakers Arms in West Dorset

Always feels like a nice proper old school local pub. Definitely worth a visit, and there's also a nice little beer garden if you look for it, for when the sun's out

Great old fashioned local pub. Great atmosphere...Good prices, a warm welcome from Ray and Kay, the hosts...

Great place, we go after badminton.

Lovely pub that actually used to be a bakery. The original ovens and tiled wall are still part of one of the walls. Friendly service and good ale.

We had the best time ever. food and service were excellent. DEFINITELY COMING BACK

Greatt little pub, fantastic food and plenty of ales on tap. Service was fab too !

Very very rude staff. A 5 minute walk to the pubs in town will allow for a more pleasant experience.

Lovely local pub, good selection of beers and spirits. Really friendly staff and happy to help out. Nice beer garden out the back. Proper old style pub. Thank you for a great night. Meat draw was great fun and lots of prizes

Its a very nice old pub but, the service was terrible. The food was warm, had to wait a very long time for the food and the staff are not that nice. Just terrible.

What a little gem of a pub. Its immaculate throughout, has some great history from being a bakery and we really enjoyed our brief visit chatting to the locals. Some fabulous Ales on tap too!

Great pub very friendly staff and the landlord Ray and Kay were very helpful and friendly, told all about the local area and were to visit , clean toilets , good beer and nice customers who were mostly locals . Will definitely be back .

No dogs allowed.. not signposted, and you can sit out in the beer garden with those who come out for a smoke.. also rubbish beer selection. I'm pretty sure every other pub in dorset is dog friendly.. so go there instead.

Such a fantastic pub! Ray & Kay clearly take in.looking after this beautiful pub. It's history and interior decoration is fantastic with a great variety of drinks.

Great proper locals pub! Excellent landlord/landlady, great atmosphere, friendly staff!

Can't understand why this place gets 5 stars, every time we go in there staff are rude, don't respect veterans or fellow pub traders. Better pubs in dorchester selling a better range of beers and wines and shock food which this place doesn't. Oh and you have to catch them on a whim when they choose to open. Worst pub I have ever been in.

Never been treated so badly as a veteran of the Royal Navy. Very misogynistic my wife felt very uncomfortable with the attitudes of other customers.left very quickly.

Small locals pub. Great beer. Friendly staff

Lynne and John are absolutely fantastic hosts. They made us feel at home as soon as we walked in the door. What a fantastic pub, can’t wait to visit again

Great pub , bit of a walk from the High street but worth it . Looks nice , friendly staff , courtyard out the back & good drinks , it's a shame I didn't have longer here but I had a rather tight schedule.

Lovely corner pub, good selection of beer. Do a tasting paddle for £3.50 if you'd like to try different beers.

Lovely real pub, beautiful outdoor area

if you want a true English Pub. come here. it's history in the making xxx

A great local pub with a friendly atmosphere. Service was good. Let down by only 2 of 4 real ales being available and those 2 not being particularly good.

Amazing pub that just runs on drink sales! Just like stepping back in time to when I was a teenager just starting to use pubs!! Nice atmosphere and nice couple who run it.

A beautiful and cozy place..very homely

Great little local. Friendly bar staff and Some nice real ales. Would recommend

Very busy due to a christening but warm welcome and top beers available. Great local pub

Friendly staff, nice pint, comfortable seating.

I'm not local but when I and some mates turned up to watch the rugby we were treated like locals! Staff couldn't do enough for us to get a table near the TV screen and adjacent to the bar! Fabulous little pub, wonderful atmosphere and a great selection of well kept session ales. Absolutely loved it!

Great small friendly pub, great choice of beer and cider, lovely landlord

Lovely little pub, good beer, great staff. Would recommend!

Excellent pub with friendly staff and customers. Real ales are kept beautifully.... beware though... it's never 'just the one'.... always good fun!

Brilliant pub... you never just have the one! Friendly staff and customers... real ales kept superbly.... Just a great boozer....

Gaz loves this place, basically its his front room and who can blame him? Lovely local pub, nice decor and a warm welcome, but be careful Gaz's card doesn't work in the machine, so an offer of a beer is a broken promise 😢

Such a lovely welcome, first time I have been on and would certainly love to come back, really well kept beer, the lady with long brown hair behind the bar was so friendly and gave great service. Also one of the cleanest pubs I’ve ever been in you can really tell it’s looked after and cared for!

Came in for a drink with my family, had a lovely evening everyone is so kind and ray and Kay were very very welcoming would defiantly recommend!

A warm welcome from Ray and Kay and bar staff . Good pints of ales Very clean and comfortable.

We couldn’t have asked to find a better pub. Amazing beer, wonderful service …. What more do you need?

Friendly family pub. With out door nice surroundings. To enjoy food and drink .

Ray,Kay and all there staff are friendly and extremely welcoming. The cleaniness is exceptional. A lovely warm and welcoming pub. Highly recommended.will definitely return.

Delightful and very well kept traditional corner back street pub. Now a Marston pub but still managing to have a fairly wide selection of ales as the display of pump clips shows. Originally a bakers the original oven doors are still in place. Outside there is a small, tidy garden with fig tree and grapevine. There is also a covered seating area and a separate smoking area.

Great place good ale great landlord

Excellent pub you must visit to experience 😀 this great pub 👍

Always a joy to visit the Bakers, lovely atmosphere, great drinks and always feel welcome. Thank you Ray & Kay and all our staff x

Nice local. Made very welcome and decent beer! Recommended.

Great local pub. Welcoming and friendly staff.

Really friendly local pub. Great range of real ales. No food.

Lovely bar, nice homely feel and well kept beers

Nice pint of Directors, good atmosphere, good banter with bar staff. Great to see the attention lavished on "Bridge Cat", by just about everyone that passed, from the window. I'll be back soon.

Quick drink only. Nice garden and v relaxed feel.

The best pub from miles around. A classic pub where you can go for a great pint and tonput the world at rights.

Very nice. Friendly staff,clean tidy, nice snug,and we can't forget the clean toilets nice scammpy fries

Great cozy local pub! Great selection of real ales and friendly staff .

Has very rude staff, i was very disappointed! Quite squashed inside. Nice outside area but has a lot of smokers. Does have a system to have social system. Allows dogs. Not any social distancing outside :( Lots of scaffolding. Not a place to take kids, right next to a road so us very noisy. Also the outside area has people walking past. My lemonade was good.

Lovely good old fashioned pub, love it,,

Very British pub in Dorcester. Kind bartender:)

Good pub with nice outdoor area and great atmosphere.

Really nice pub with lovely courtyard garden area. Spot on landlord who served me even though they were not officially open. Thank you.

This is a superb little pub off the beaten track in Dorchester but well worth the visit. Stopped by at lunchtime and found a superb selection of Real Ales on tap. The atmosphere is lovely and old fashioned in what was previously a bakery. Although they wouldn't normally do lunchtime food the landlady was kind enough to make us some toasties. Certainly will be going back there again!

wish this was my local but thankful im not one of the home owners over the road. lovely beer on tap and a sweet and helpful young waitress who was more than happy to help with everything

Me and my partner have started to visit this pub in the last year. It is on our road so very convenient. We have always had lovely service from a nice young man who is friendly, recommends us beer and treats us very well. We have really enjoyed coming here. However, this evening we decided to visit the pub which we really love for the evening. We sat down at the pub and in under 2 minutes of us being in there the landlady asked us if we were having drinks. As we obviously were, we said yes but we are just deciding as we wanted to try something new. While we were discussing what we would like she interrupted us and told us that we are either ordering or sitting and taking up space. Bearing in mind, there were only 2 other groups of people in the pub so it was reasonable empty. Her tone was extremely rude and disrespectful. We decided we could not stay after being spoken to in this way. After recounting the event to my mother she stressed that she has had previous bad experiences there. We are very sorry to have lost an establishment which we have been enjoying and supporting. Every one of our neighbours on Monmouth road will also be sad to be informed of how this pub treats its locals. What a loss! Its saving grace is that it has a smashing young man who is usually there, its a real shame that the service of his colleagues is not up to his standard.

Excellent pub with very good food.

Traditional local pub. Getting rare in the modern age, priceless. Good food, good beer, good atmosphere.

Fantastic. Lovely friendly pub, patrons, and staff, with great selection of real ales. Decor is absolutely top-notch, the beer garden is a very nice combination of patio and grassed area. Highly recommended!

Great little pub with authentic features as the origami bread oven. Good food

What a great pub friendly pub landlord good food definitely won't be last time I visit the Bakers arms when I'm in Dorchester 😁 .

Lovely atmos and service. Trad pub.

Very nice corner pub. Marstons/Ringwood. Beer always in great condition.

Friendly staff with good food and average selection of drinks! Nice small pub with good atmosphere!

The cosiest pub in Dorchester. Love it!

Proper. If you like pubs, check it out.

A lovely pub and very peaceful and good variety of drinks available. Cant wait to sample the menu.

Good honest friendly local no frills bolder. Love it

Lovely quiet place with ample room. Cosy little corners to hide in. Great outdoor seating. Facilities clean. Staff very friendly and accommodating.

A quiet Monday evening, but an excellent pub. Good beer.

Amazing place. So friendly, great service good food, Ray and Kay you are awesome. XX

We booked for a group of 11 for an evening meal The landlady was very welcoming and gave us time to choose our food requirements and when the meal was erved it was excellent pub food . and good value for money.

Dropped in on the off chance for a couple of pints in Sunday with my wife. What a wonderful pub. A welcoming landlady who made us feel at home straight away. Great service, nicely priced. And as the pub filled up it had a real home from home feel, where regulars came over and chatted to us and made us feel welcome. Truly one of the nicest pubs I have been in.

Surprise meal for elderly mother. Lovely location. Minimal wait for food even though it was very busy. Attentive friendly staff, highly recommended. We will definitely be returning for a future visit.

Comfortable, though at times somewhat unfriendly pub. Reasonable prices for good beer, much better to visit with a few mates than your wife :-)

Never been there before but very welcoming and homely

A brilliant find. I've been driving past this place for 15 years and always promised myself I'd have a pint. Never did though. Until now. Stupid, stupid me. It was a buzzing, full and cosy pub. Beer was great and so was the wine. It had a sunken snug with chairs and a sofa and felt just like pubs used to do before the breweries ruined them all. Even the smokers area was pleasant. Well done to the licencees. I'll be back. Even though it is 3 hours from my house!

I was one of three blokes stayed a night at a Bed & Breakfast in Dorchester. We asked the proprietor to direct us to a 'well kept-real pub' with a proper landlord and and a selection of real ales. Without hesitation he sent us to The Bakers Arms. We had a great night and I am sure that anyone else who goes there will have a similar experience.

Great ambience landlord Ray fantastic host. A must for a visit.

12 miembros de la familia habían viajado de Kent para asistir al funeral de un familiar en la localidad. Habíamos elegido para comer en la panadería los brazos, ya que éste era el local del hombre que había fallecido. Cuando llamé para reservar una mesa (lo que resultó ser) encargado nos explicó que no estaban abiertos para la comida en la noche. Sin embargo, más adelante en la conversación se dio cuenta por qué estábamos en la zona. Ah, no te preocupes, no siendo un "día abierto" para comer dijo, ven, nos volveremos a ordenar algo. No como me dijo. Y hicieron exactamente lo que dijeron. Era de primera clase, muy abundante, y la hospitalidad era genial! !Gracias a todos. Una pena nuestra razón para visitar.Espero que nuestra próxima visita será de carácter más alegre.Gracias de nuevo.

Los panaderos de armas es uno de los pocos restantes en pubs locales adecuados Dorchester. Siempre hay una buena variedad de cervezas de calidad en el grifo marston, con una buena selección de cerveza y sidra. Los precios son muy competitivos, especialmente durante la hora feliz! Ray y Kay siempre ofrecen una cálida bienvenida y hay bastante a menudo al azar música/caridad/noches de concurso. Vale la pena probar si buscas un buen local.

Vine aquí una noche para cenar con mi pareja después de oír algunas cosas y tengo que decir que es una de las mejores pubs en los que he estado. La gente era precioso y la comida era fantástica! Los terratenientes eran fantásticos y muy acogedor y, sin duda, merecen tener el pub del premio año! Sin duda volveremos:).

Closed at lunchtime, no notice, then following day kitchen closed. Landlord rude and sarcastic to my 87 year old mother. I works advise avoid at all costs.

Fun pub with bakers oven still in the bar! Friendly locals. Good place to watch sport

Small Cosy pub with nice food and great atmosphere...

Absolutely spotless and named Marstons pub of the year, a great pint kept here and food excellent at very reasonable prices. A real locals pub and hard to leave due to excellent atmosphere. Also very warm welcome for passers by whom I'm told do not want to leave either!!! Fabulous!!!

A traditional local pub serving Marstons beer and a range of guest ales. A selection of pub food is served at luchtimes and in the evenings. Ray and Kay always offer a warm welcome to one of the few remaining traditional pubs in Dorchester. 'Happy hour' is on Tuesday to Friday from 5.00pm to 7.00pm!

Fantastic, warm and friendly "proper" pub! Great range of drinks available including real ales, ciders and shorts! It's a pleasure to call it my local

Fantastic 'proper pub' serving quality real ales. I've always had a friendly and warm welcome from all the staff and other customers. The hanging baskets are a great colourful addition as well!

Lovely quiet pub with great real ale