The best restaurants in Blandford Old Town North Dorset South West

Amazing food service brilliant all n all fantastic evening Simply a must Ambiance perfect a must if your in blandford Jerry and his team are the perfect host for the special occasion

We came for coffee in the morning, and liked it so much that we came back for lunch. Lovely staff, and the food was delicious. Can recommend the Welsh Rarebit and Chicken Gyros!

Can't recommend No.8 Cafe enough. Friendly staff. Nice inside and out. Off the East Street so nice and secluded. I had the Little Breakfast - which was enough and very tasty. Every element well made and sourced. I especially like the mushroom with thyme, cooked for a perfect amount of time and not swimming in butter like usual. Bang on! Had a really nice coffee too. Go!

Excellent food freshly cooked, we had a cheese and chutney panini, salad and chips and a Happy burger, salad and chips. Large portions and delicious. Very clean rural cafe. Lovely large oat latte’s.

Best breakfast around by far , big portions cheap prices good quality good staff and loads of stuff to chose from

Really lovely and friendly staff; lizzie and matt were very welcoming. Explained what drinks they had and made us very wonderful and tasty drinks for very reasonable prices. Just a very friendly place that goes out of it way to give fantastic service. You will not regret coming here like ourselves who had not been here before as we are new to the local area. Hope you try it yourselves!

Popped into this café for a coffee stop during the afternoon. I had previously visited maybe a year or two ago but the inside was not as I remembered it. It turns out there has been a new owner hence the changes. Whilst I didn’t eat this time, looking at what’s on offer, I will be back. Oh, and the coffee was great btw.

Good food and delivery was quick. I put the wrong postcode in but luckily found us anyway

This is a gem of a cafe. Small so you may not always get a seat, and as it's self run it may have to suddenly shut at short notice or not open due to staff issues. However, those little things aside, visitng and eating here is an absolute must and always worth it. The staff are friendly and the owner really loves his food and puts so much effort into perfecting his dishes that you can taste everything he puts into them. Everything is fresh and of the best quality, it's only a shame when we turn up and there are no seats, but it's always worth the wait. Well done team and keep up the great work.

We enjoy the food but unfortunately won’t be ordering from them again as this is the second time we’ve waited over 2 hours for delivery.

This is purely a complaint on delivery. Not eaten the food yet. Driver put my food on floor and walked off before I got to door. From him ringing to me answering was no more than 25 seconds. Don’t ever do that again!!

Excellent service and very good food and drink served at table by very friendly and efficient staff would recommend to everyone

We held our daughters baby shower for 25 people here at the weekend, Alex put on a superb buffet and drinks (non and alcoholic). So helpful in letting us set up the room beforehand with a balloon arch and arranging a few tables. Everyone commented on what a lovely venue and how nice and friendly the staff were looking after us all afternoon. Alex and his teams award winning cocktails are a must to try,

We popped in today as our usual cafe was closed! I can see now why we don't visit the black cactus. This isn't the first time, but the two members of staff, who weren't busy dealing with lots of customers, weren't the most friendliest unfortunately. I completely understand they were writing the memo board and sorting that out, but I don't understand why they cheerfully couldn't have explained they would be with us in a minute. There were no happy faces etc. Then the flap Jack's we had weren't the best, but you win some and lose some. When it came to leaving, it was like we weren't even there. No goodbye, thanks for coming, nothing, and to reiterate, they were not busy serving customers. I'm sure many people have had great service there, but unfortunately we have not. So we won't be returning.... Shame!

I am absolutely gutted that this place has closed. It was my go-to curry house for a sit down meal. Many, many thanks and my very best wishes for the future must go to Somok Ali.