The best restaurants serving British food in North Dorset South West

Have eaten here a few times, My kids and I love the smutty fries, and the cakes are amazing. Welcoming, friendly staff and great locally roasted coffee too.

More than just a leading Tea House, Comins Sturminster Newton is a very coeliac friendly café.  Full 5* review at CoeliacwellNES.com.  They have soft doughy GF gyoza, gluten free sweet treats and obviously phenomenal tea.  A lovely place to watch all the comins and goings, will try out the Bath branch soon!

Lovely place to stop on our cycle ride, great choice of cakes, fabulous brownies to go with our coffee, we will be back soon.

Sarah and Robin created a wonderful Birthday lunch for our family. Six of us sat down to a three course meal, the highlight being a fabulous Beef Wellington. Nothing was too much trouble and they were marvellous hosts. We cannot recommend them highly enough.

Really lovely and friendly staff; lizzie and matt were very welcoming. Explained what drinks they had and made us very wonderful and tasty drinks for very reasonable prices. Just a very friendly place that goes out of it way to give fantastic service. You will not regret coming here like ourselves who had not been here before as we are new to the local area. Hope you try it yourselves!

This café is gorgeous, and is a lot bigger than it looks from the outside, it's like the Tardis! It's very airy and has a lovely, peaceful design scheme with a variety of tables and sofas. It is very clean and well-kept, with a light colour palette that is really relaxing. I definitely will bring my laptop and work here. I don't have a dog, but I felt very welcome, and it's lovely because you get to see so many dogs here. They clearly love it. The cakes are homemade and really delicious. There are also lots of high-quality products on sale, I actually bought some raw food for my cat here as there are a lot of products suitable for both. I genuinely think this is a lovely new space for Gillingham meetups.

Off the charts. So friendly, great fun, brill staff. This pub is off the charts. Loved it

A very nice place to stay in Shaftsbury. Lovely breakfast and pleasant staff.

Great food great pub ..... ploughmans is amazing shame they don't do the sharing platter no more

This is a gem of a cafe. Small so you may not always get a seat, and as it's self run it may have to suddenly shut at short notice or not open due to staff issues. However, those little things aside, visitng and eating here is an absolute must and always worth it. The staff are friendly and the owner really loves his food and puts so much effort into perfecting his dishes that you can taste everything he puts into them. Everything is fresh and of the best quality, it's only a shame when we turn up and there are no seats, but it's always worth the wait. Well done team and keep up the great work.

Love the food and the and attentive servicing. Atmosphere was nice as well

Lovely local cafe, always friendly, great food. Lovely staff.

Love popping to Shaftesbury plenty of lovely shops we started feeling hungry so popped in to the cafe met with a smile, we found Shaftesbury a lovely friendly place i ordered beans on toast and a fry up for me 2 coffees grate price, the fry up was cooked to perfection the extra black budding was warmed through nicely and tasted amazing, on asking the lady cooking she very kindly gave me the name and three bits of pudding in a box i was really chuffed, but sadly i would say guys be car full the floor is very slippery i had walking shoes on and a stick as my legs aren't good but over all a exalent experience thank you x

Met up for a girls lunch…. A lovely warm welcome and attentive service. We all chose to share a plate of whitebait with tartare sauce- a very generous serving - crumbed and crunchy- delicious. We all had sea bass with wilted spinach, sautéed potatoes and tomatoes- beautifully cooked and very tasty. No room for pudding unfortunately!

Stayed the night here. Absolutely gorgeous food. Chef very highly recommended. The staff were very attentive and room was adequate for what we needed for our overnight stay. Will go back for food especially.