The best restaurants in West Purbeck Purbeck South West

We booked for a meal for 14 for a friends 60th Birthday. Despite traffic problems and some arriving later than expected the team delivered a seamless service and went above and beyond to provide a beautiful dessert for our vegan birthday girl. I can't recommend this place highly enough

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.

Superb location, fantastic food and fabulous staff. A wonderful inn to relax and unwind in. Nothing was any trouble - our dog was welcomed too.

Great location, staff and cake. But TERRIBLE coffee. (As previous visit) if you could fix this, you would make me very happy!

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.

The best Mint Choc Chip Ice-cream..... that is not green! As well as other great flavors, Jake's has a plethora of flavors' but this topped the bill.

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.

The food and service at this beautiful country pub were outstanding. The best pub food I have eaten in a long time and definitely the best truffle chips I’ve ever eaten. All staff were really friendly and helpful. Will definitely make this a regular eating spot.

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.

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.

We'd read the mixed (mainly bad reviews!) before camping at next-door Primrose Fields and couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised. The family that ran the pub were lovely; warm, welcoming, accommodating and friendly. It was a super hot day and I didn't fancy a hot meal which is all they had on the menu - so I asked if there was any chance of a sandwich - no fuss, no bother - I wasn't made to feel difficult at all! Sandwich was big and delish; tuna crunch with salad on fresh tiger bloom and a side of tasty chips. The rest of our party had a mix of burgers, scampi, more sandwiches (I set a trend!), all of which were very well received. Not a morsel left. After lunch, I went to see if they might have any ice creams, and very kindly, they sold us six cornettos which were evidently from their family supply - I was really impressed with their above and beyond attitude. In addition, the pub garden is lovely; big mature trees, a wildlife pond, big lawn with sun and shade seating options, mini play park for the kids - all set way back from the road so you really feel you're in the middle of the country. All in all, it felt more like going to someone's house than a pub which I really liked. Would definitely recommend to any campers or passers by.