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We had a meal here a few days ago and it was utterly brilliant! Excellent service, lovely setting, and delicious food. We will 100% be back and thoroughly recommend.

This is a little known secret of the Purbecks, every bit as good as the best hotel restaurants in Wareham and Corfe that are more expensive and much harder to book. The dishes on the simple menu are all first rate (well done, chef!), wine choice great, service excellent and the terrace view outside on a summer evening to die for. In the winter, snug too, with a fire in the lounge for those who arrive early.

Lovely food and wine Had lunch here, goats cheese salad and a pastrami sandwich. Both were delicious and accompanied with a glass of Lyme Bay sparking

Popped in here whilst visited the cove for some fudge and to have a look at the “dolls house”. A very cool little house which they have turned into a shop.

Great pub, brilliant food and beer, good atmosphere. Close to lulworth cove and castle, would highly recommend

Excellent service with good vegetarian food and a perfect view!

Visited today for the first time to eat, only having visited prior to this for the garden centre years ago. Really enjoyed our meals of scampi and chips and quiche and chips. The chips are lovely and chunky, the little chopped salad lovely and crisp and tasty. Scampi very nice too. Had a try of hubbys quiche, which was very tasty too. Good sized cappuccino each too. The staff were really friendly and are a good team, who seemed to enjoy their work. We also used the farm shop for some treats, and the other shops for a new watering can, and a birthday card for our daughter. Will certainly return and hope to visit to do the walk round the grounds. All in all, a good few hours spent.

Staff had no understanding of allergies and service in general was extremely poor. We walked away before ordering as did those behind us in the queue who overheard the service we received.

Terrible and would not go back. Tables outside were not being wiped down or cleaned between customers and the plastic wicker chairs were all broken and horrible to sit on. All the food came out to find they forgot to put my food order through, so had to sit and wait and by the time it came out my husband and kids has finished. And when it did come out it was the biggest disappointment, DO NOT order the warm chicken and bacon salad with honey mustard dressing, it's basically a bowl or shredded iceberg with some sweetcorn and cherry tomatoes and a bit of onion thrown in and a measly few bits of chicken placed on top, with a pot of mayo in the middle, £14 for this is ridiculous. I must say though as don't like to be too critical on a small business, my husband said the crab burger was lovely. I am all for supporting small businesses but I would never return here.

Absolutely shocking dog feeces all over the garden horrible stench of dog urine up stairs in the bedrooms it's absolutely shocking AVOID AT ALL COSTS NOT WORTH THE MONEY

Came for lunch for a family members birthday. Walked from Durdle Door down to Lulworth Cove having booked 3 tables for the 16 of us. Food was delicious and staff very friendly. Would certainly return in the future.

I spent a night at the Castle on a short walking break with a friend. Being hungry after our walk we were early coming down to eat, but were taken straight to our table. I chose two starters and a portion of truffle fries, and everything was very good .The loaded hummus with fried sprouts did sound a bit eccentric, but was delicious….I’m vegetarian, and it was my favourite course of the meal, and very generous. The roasted beetroot, pear and goats cheese salad was good, and the fries really tasty. Being pretty full after all this I finished with an affogato and the mini doughnuts. On a busy Friday evening service was friendly and attentive. Breakfast next morning was good, a big bowl of granola, yogurt &fruit compote followed by poached egg on sourdough. Thank you for a lovely relaxing stay with great food, and I hope to be back very soon.

Visited this cafe today and the service was really bad. The lady serving us was very rude. The order took over 1 hour for fish and chips and panni’s. We ordered for two adults and two kids. Really wasn’t worth the wait when it arrived. Over priced , poor service and not clean. Not sure what the hygiene rating is but the place wasn’t clean. The lady that took my order was extremely rude and questioned my son on why we needed four dessert spoons after we ordered desserts and refused to give us more than two dessert spoons and asked us to take the wooden ones instead. Very old behaviour. We also noticed that a lot of people that arrived after us received their order before us. Would really avoid this place as the food was average but more importantly the staff were not helpful and rude. Disappointing as we wanted to buy a painting inside but due to the poor experience decided not too.

Thought we'd give it a shot to have real seafood, not fish and chips. They do have real seafood, but a very limited menu, and the chef seems to be a bit afraid of spices and salt. Fairly bland food overall, though the balsamic reduction on the veg was nice. It didn't help that when we asked for salt (there was none on the table) it exploded on the side of my wife's plate. Luckily, most of the salt explosion stayed on the side, leaving just enough on the food to make it OK. I didn't argue the bill, but I also don't think I'd return.

Had the scampi and chip’s special was absolutely lovely and good value for money £12.95, staff were so friendly also, throughly recommend it.