The best restaurants in Purbeck South West

Wow. I had lunch there today with 2 friends and then returned with my daughter for dinner. It was amazing both times!!! ( not good for my diet). The service was great. Lovely, polite attentive staff. The food was great quality and beautifully cooked. The best bread! The view is out of this world and I felt as though I could be in a place say in Barbados 😂 I go to a lot of good restaurants and this is up there with the best. Tables not too close to each other and each has a great view of the sea. I cannot wait to return sometime.

Not the best experience we’ve ever had for sure. Booked a table for a Sunday Roast as we’d been turned away on Good Friday as they were fully booked. Our table was booked for 6pm & sadly by then they’d already run out of Roasts; so they obviously do a good trade or perhaps not enough prep, anyway we ordered from the varied menu & were looking forward to it. I’ll start with the positives, I had the locally made Faggots with Mash & Gravy which was great with lots of flavour, just a shame it came with what I guess is the left over veg from the Roast supplied as an accompaniment (Broccoli, Carrots & Cabbage (the latter being very stringy, almost a theme, you’ll see 😉). My wife had lamb chops which they kindly did with chips for her, sadly when they arrived (with the same left over roast veg side dish) they were very very small/thin lamb chops & it turned out one of them had string attached still, although I’m not sure why a lamb chop would have string on it 🤷‍♂️ We brought this to the attention of the waitress who wasn’t at all worried, good job it wasn’t my meal I’d have been insisting on sending it back, but she who must be obeyed didn’t want to make a fuss. I love me a good dessert & I had the Spotted Dick & Custard from the specials board, sadly it was just ok, I’m guessing homemade as what little fruit was in it had sunk to the bottom. All in all a bit of a disappointing experience & even though we get a discount because we were staying at Whitemead Caravan Park we will not be returning to the Ship Inn during future stays.

We had 3 meals that were really large and well cooked lovely food.

Came here for the first time , you have to enter your number plate when you get inside . The pub itself was nice , very varied people from bikers to grandmas . Menu wasn’t the biggest or most varied but saying that what we had was lovely . Very affordable for 5 of us it was just over £100 ! That’s drinks mains & desserts .

The pulled mushroom roll was so good, definitely recommend it

I don't understand. Super-looking pub, great staff, nice food (even if menu is a little short on choices). But only open 3 nights a week? It deserves better!

Went in for breakfast, and I had a very enjoyable breakfast, full English. My only comment was that the sausage was bland, but would definitely return.

We called in for an evening meal and straight away we were made very welcome & special & Lizzy our host couldn’t have done more for us it felt like we had known her for years

Great pub! Just walked in to a welcoming reception and was served a great pint and smokehouse food - beef, pork - delicious. Dog friendly. People friendly. What’s not to like!

Lovely friendly pub, staff are always helpful and welcoming, the food is good and they offer a range of entertainment over the weekend and regular quiz nights etc during the week.

Excellent service, really friendly staff and lovely decor. Nice food but overpriced in my opinion. Their automated telephone booking service unnerved me and nearly put me off, to be honest, but overall I'm glad we went. I'm not sure we'll go again as there are other restaurants which are less expensive and just as nice.

Easy to book via mobile. Got the time we wanted. Our server was Chrissie and we were very pleased with the food we had and the service was great. A very friendly team all round. Thank you 😊

After a 4 hr drive, we were looking forward to a drink and maybe something to eat, Open till 19:00 on Sunday it said ! 6 people got there at 16:30 ... CLOSED. We were going to meet 5 relatives there this week but won't bother now. If you can't be bothered to be open as advertised, we can't be bothered to give you our money.

Fabulous stay on the campsite adjoining the pub. Lovely dinner and fabulous breakfast in pub. Welcoming host and staff. Could not fault it. Will stay again. Brilliant base for amazing Dorset walks. The Jurassic Breezer bus stops right next to the pub if you want a ride back.

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.