The best restaurants in Stour East Dorset South West

Found by chance as we were looking for a coffee stop. Very good coffee. Yummy looking Homemade cakes and scones (the homemade sausage roll looked yummy too and almost as large as Cornish pasty). Highly recommend a visit.

Love the fact this is owned by the villagers, and it shows. Good is really good, service is attentive and friendly and the beers are too notch and always changing. Will be frequenting more often for sure.

Not my first and certainly not my last visit. The place doesn’t go from strength to strength, but what they do do is maintain their already high standards and consistently improve, particularly in terms of new menu items Standout item today was the humble sounding Cheddar Cheese Croquettes. but beautifully presented and with a triumph of a marmite influenced crumb- they were delicious with a glass if an excellent Primitivo ! Another highlight worth mention was a truly top class Spanish Grenache at the price of many a much poorer wine Cannot close without my compliments to front of house service levels

Excellent in every way. Stopped her for lunch The staff were friendly and welcoming, a small but interesting menu selection. Tasty, generous portions. Unfortunately no space for a pudding, they looked very good. They were quite quiet which surprised me for such an excellent venue Good car park

Really good pub and the food is awesome

I took my family for a meal on Sunday it was my wife Birthday as well as Mum’s day. We was welcomed and showed to the table. 4 had Sunday roast and 2 had ham egg and chips. The roast was great. I looked at the Ham egg and chips and asked how was it they said nice. But I could see they was just trying to just be nice. I thought it was just a some ham out of a supermarket for a sandwich. I asked for bill and payed it. When I got home looked at it again and their was £17 service charges on it I know it’s my fault for not checking it properly. But £17 is not right when it is a pub. Also no one come over to ask how the food was we had to ask for more drinks. I think they was more interested in the next sitting. What a shame as the roast was great. So watch out for the service charge!!

Booked a table for two we were taken to a table shown a specials leaflet with about 8 items on it 7 were crossed off, ordered 2 drinks and given the main menus not told if any of the meals were sold out, drinks arrived were asked what we wanted to eat I chose a steak pie none left I said I would have the pork belly none left this was only 7.15pm, only spicy food left or fish & chips so ordered the fish & chips nearly an hour later my meal arrived, the pub was not busy. We ate up asked for the bill waited, 15 minutes later asked again finally got the bill I usually give a tip not today would not eat here again

One of the worst English breakfast that I have ever had. The fried eggs were rock hard on all three plates so consistant, and when my wife cut her egg in half oil ran out and smelt bad. The beans and bacon was cold . 2 young waitresses more concerned with playing with their phones then clearing up or serving anyone.