The best restaurants in Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton Mendip South West

A fantastic place to eat. Cakes are delicious and so are the breakfasts. Lucky to have this place for the community, thank you!

This is my favourite pub of all time... anywhere! Please don't change Hunters! You are amazing! An honest and genuine, Somerset gem of a place.

Great room, fab breakfast, lovely people.

Food is excellent, good value. Very hard to find a pub serving food without it being "pan fried" lots of parking great pub.

Six of us had booked Sunday Lunch at a Pub but on arrival found that they had a power cut. A call to the Old Down Inn led to our having a very good lunch there. In spite of the very short notice, they found us a table in a pleasant room with a couple of other tables and the service was excellent as was the food. We certainly intend to book there again- next time we'll give them more than 10 minutes warning!.

Recommended by a friend and Colleague to go here for a Sunday Roast. We have been a couple of times in the summer and I must say this place is an all rounder. Fantastic Sunday Roasts with an array of seperate options if you have children or fussy family members. The two hosts were welcoming and made us feel comfortable the minute we entered with a contagious smile and banter. We were served by a young waitress who was polite and patient whilst she took our order. We all tried different variations of the roast options that were available and the food was cooked to perfection. Hats off to Saff & the Kitchen Team 👏 Only one preference would be the ability to have stuffing with my roast but in hindsight the portion was more than satisfying that I probably couldn't have fit it in.

Excellent food and such good quality. We really enjoyed watching the horses wondering around. We will 100% be visiting again

Only take cash, don't allow dogs, very unfriendly landlord. Avoid

A proper classic British local pub. Wish I lived near it. Publicans are really nice people.

A nice, comfy, old fashioned English Pub with good drinks and excellent food. We stayed locally over New Year and into January and popped in for an evening meal. The staff were friendly and welcoming, we found a table near the wood burner and settled in with our drinks to look at the menu. It’s not an extensive, all singing all dancing, trying to cater for everything from Pizza to Curry type menu, which to me is a good sign. The food offering is pretty simple, English Pub grub but what they do, they do very very well. We opted for the Beef, Ale and Mushroom Pie and Local Butchers Fagotts both with Mash, Gravy and Peas. Both were excellent and just what you want when it’s cold outside.

The refurb of this place is of a very high standard and the staff are friendly and helpful. Unfortunately the food lets it down. Primarily, if you don't like burgers or fish and chips, find somewhere else. I visited with a friend and although my fish and chips were good, my friends meal was first served on completely cold vegetables. On pointing this out to the waiting staff, she offered a replacement which, we expected would be a plated meal with hot food. Unfortunately it was delivered as a pile of veg and potatoes thrown together in a tin dish. Not ideal and a real disappointment. Probably would not visit again.

Great brewery tour...the beer, food and views superb. Cannot fault a thing. The tap room was buzzing, staff very busy but welcoming. Will visit again...

Had a really nice meal here for my friends birthday. They were really attentive as well. Would highly recommend. We will return.

This place has recently changed hands and the new owners are also in business marketing wine particularly from South Africa. Our visit were was principally to collect a couple of cases of wine that we had ordered, but whilst we were here as part of our Wells mini break, we decided to have brunch having not breakfasted. Parking is not easy here, the custom seems to be to draw-up right outside on the main road, and park on part of the pavement. There is a car park opposite and to the left about 100 metres away. This café/shop serves the village of Chewton Mendip and, judging by the clientele we saw there, it is well supported by local residents. There appears to be different menus available depending on the day of the week and the time of the day. When we visited the breakfast menu was still in operation and we chose the standard breakfast rather than the larger version. We had 2 rashers of good bacon, a great sausage, a hash brown (which was a tad oily), a well-cooked fried egg, a small (but sufficient) serving of baked beans and a slice of toast made from supermarket bread. At £7.95 this represented excellent value as it was all cooked to order. It was much-enjoyed and made the better because of the sachet of HP Sauce available in the sauces selection. We also bought some good scented candles and had a good peruse of other ‘fancy good/gifts’ and the wine on sale, but in the latter we were seeing if there were some South African wine that we hadn’t tasted from our connection with the wine cellar mentioned earlier. The lady serving was very pleasant and helpful, and we enjoyed our time here.

Lovely country pub with classic pub food. Dog friendly and perfect for a post dog walk lunch and drink!