The best restaurants in Puddletown West Dorset South West

lovely place to relax and have a delightful tea, they also have some delicious snacks, I myself enjoy the custard buns 😋😋 beautiful decorations and delicious drinks!!!

Stunning location by the old radar station selling drinks, light bites and ice creams and perfect after long walk up Golden Cap. Very friendly and helpful staff. Only negative is that it usually closes at 16.30 and after getting back from the Cap might be closed so sometimes feel bit rushed to get back in time.

Experience started off well - can't book dining online so e-mailed request and ended up having to phone - conversation was very friendly and welcoming. From then on it went down-hill. I have some restricted mobility and walk with a stick. Arrive at front of pub and realise its a steep flight of stairs to entrance. Manage up that, holding on to railing. OK welcome when we got in - we were early for our6pm booking but no problem although we were told kitchen doesn't start till 6 (says 5 on website). Where do we sit - here or upstairs - where's the toilet - upstairs - OK we'll sit upstairs. Two young kids around the bar (owner's presumably) - we order drinks and have to start carrying them and menus up steep and narrow stairs to the next floor. Has an eclectic look to the room, plus an external covered patio area. Everywhere has dirt / dead flies and isn't appealing. By then all hell had broken out in a very aggressive domestic back downstairs in the bar - manager and staff (wife?) - all about whether glasses were dirty - this had started in front of one of us while waiting for drinks to be poured - manager part poured a coke held it up and said glass is dirty - poured into another glass and said this one was dirty too - but then proceeded to fill the glass up and hand it over to the customer. The staff member (wife?) denied they were dirty and said she had cleaned them. As we sat upstairs the row just got louder and louder - and was clearly in front of the kids as well. We were the only customers and sat debating to order or to go. The argument suddenly stopped. We were feeling decidedly uncomfortable - no one came near us at 6 to see if we wanted to order. We decided to beat a retreat quickly and went back downstairs to pay for our drinks. The manager did ask us if there was a reason why we weren't staying - we didn't want to get into a conversation about the the appalling behaviour so just left.

We booked the tribute night here to see the Neil Diamond tribute, which he done brilliantly, the second half was taken up with him doing Dean Martin, Elvis, Jim reeves and Jonny Cash to name a few with jokes and impersonations thrown in,a great evening with singalongs and lots of laughter. Thanks to Colin Naish for the superb three course meal, and a big thankyou to Steve for organising and all the staff for looking after us. Looking forward to the next one.

Went here with a group of friends for Sunday lunch. The waitresses were lovely and friendly but the food was disappointing. We all had the roast which is the only option on a Sunday, the veg was bland and under cooked (parsnips seemed like they had just been boiled and were hard), potatoes were also hard and hadn't been roasted for long. We had to ask for more veg as there wasn't much initially bought out for the 6 of us. All in all the roast was not the best and we would not visit again for the food. There was no cranberry sauce for the turkey and it took ages for the vegetarian gravy to arrive and by the time it did my friend had eaten her meal. They had no fresh coffee, only instant and no dairy free milk. The cakes for pudding were OK but not amazing. Like I said the staff serving were lovely, I am aware they are under new management so maybe it is just teething problems.