The best restaurants in West Purbeck Purbeck South West

Food was delicious, fresh and full of flavour Very lovely lady working there as well 🤗

We visited to celebrate my aunt's birthday and were thoroughly impressed. All three courses were delicious and our waiter was excellent and very friendly.

A chic hostel with a warm welcome, beautiful rooms and a very good breakfast

We had coffee here at the start of our visit and called in on the way back to the car for another coffee as it was so good. Also, the young man serving was so friendly and refused to get flustered when he was the only person serving and there was a a big queue.

We sat outside so placed our lunch order at the bar and paid for it in advance (also added a tip which was a mistake). The waiter wasn’t particularly friendly. I asked for the kids meals to be served first and ordered starters and mains. Everything came together which was unexpected and the waitress made it sound like it was our fault, because we sat outside. She gave no apology and even asked if we wanted cutlery with our food… the attitude was terrible! Scallops starter was great but everything else was average included the catch of the day (overdone) which was served with a sauce that looked like vomit; the mussels were tiny and the sauce had absolutely nothing special. The only positive we found was the location and outside views. Another seaside restaurant which doesn’t care about customer satisfaction because you are unlikely to come back in a hurry… shame that they ruin a nice family meal which ended up costing £125!

Has gone down hill. Have been coming to the boat house for a couple of years so on my vist to Lulworth Cove on the 22nd April 25, thought a coffee and full English would be nice, how wrong could I be. The coffee was awful and the breakfast was worse, over cooked and very greasy. Felt very rough the drive back to Portland until I finally got ho e and we'll let's just say it didn't stay down. Sadly this will be my last vist.

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

The Fish and chips were excellent all cooked fresh. The portion of chips was huge. Highly recommend. A free sausage for our dog was a bonus.

The room with the balcony was, clean, inviting and the bed was very comfortable, the rain shower was was lovely. The view from the room looked onto the Cove, so very picturesque.

Although most of the serving staff were lovely, one was a little unhappy when we asked for a water refill when they just wanted to take like dessert order. My wife's main arrived a good 5-10 minutes after everyone else's. As she was just having a starter as a main, it may have been nice to offer a free drink or something to make up for the mistake.

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.

Really lovely experience here, lovely staff, we didn’t have a table booked and we came with our 1 year old daughter they had tables fully booked for the night from 7pm onwards and they let us get seated straight away and did our food order so quickly so we could eat inside with our baby, they were so helpful and told us which table to sit in with the latest booking so we had time to feed our daughter inside, massively appreciated this and all the staff were so kind and helpful