The best restaurants in The Stours North Dorset South West

Excellent food, large portions(the gammon special was exceptionally good).Delivery to the swim by friendly staff, and two free sausages for my staffie Denzil👍🏻👍🏻. Prices are very reasonable considering the portion sizes. Cannot recommend highly enough. 5⭐️

I stayed in one of the very relaxing and quiet bedrooms for a few nights. Really clean and super comfortable. I loved the warm welcome and very knowledgeable staff. Food was outstanding and I can’t wait to return next year! I would recommend staying here, I felt part of the family. Thank you for a wonderful stay.

Exceptionally well cooked pub food with some great twists on pub faves. I had a delicious Devon beef tartare starter with wasabi mayo and crispy potato. Main was a succulent local lamb shank served on a bed of butternut risotto with mint oil and micro greens. My partner had a local sole with brown shrimp and chicken sauce with chili oil roasted jersey mini potatoes. All was perfectly presented and very well seasoned. Puddings also delicious. Poached figs with marscapone ice cream and a seeded brittle. Wine choices were interesting and well priced too. Hard to fault pub food as good at this and so well priced too. The staff were attentive throughout and made us feel very welcome.

Casual lunch with friends. Sadly, disappointed. Food appeared to have been microwaved to reheat it. Some piping hot, but some only Luke warm. Sauce and cheese flavour missing from Mac'n'cheese. No where near as I have had many times in the past. No grated cheese on top either. The place was nearly empty apart from the 4 of us there were only two other coupled and a table for 4. No atmosphere. Staff polite, but looked bored. Would be reluctant to go back again now... sad.

What a find just by chance popped in on a Sunday lunch time to find plenty of tables that were filling up fast we decided the Sunday carvery was a great idea the staff are all so friendly and happy to help what can i say about the food well the quality was amazing all cooked beautifully I would recommend this place to everyone

This was our second visit. Very poor service and restricted menu. Only came to ask for drinks order then, had to ask for someone to serve us. Not given teaspoons with our drinks. Other people who came in after us got served before us. Staff very disinterested and disorganised. I appreciate it was busy but, that is no excuse as there were lots of staff. When the food eventually arrived it was good. We were in the restaurant for 2 hours! Won't be visiting again.

Dropped in to Zero Waste whilst on day trip from London. Encountered light rain, and cafe looked inviting. Warm, friendly relaxed service, pleasant surroundings. Nachos and a bowl of delicious soup both served with generous portions of bread, must point out nachos was supposed to be accompanied by corn chips. Meal accompanied by a mulled wine and water. A pleasant lunch experience.

Always visit this cafe before any fishing trip, and sometimes after. Breakfast is freshly cooked, and very tasty. Love building my breakfast choice, abd believe me. A very BIG!! choice. See you soon.