The best restaurants serving British food in Poole Town Poole South West

A little port in a storm. Cosy, chic interior… good range of beers, great food and attentive staff. Dog friendly too!

Quite the innocuous pub tucked away in plain site - I think I walked past it twice before realising what it was! Anyway, a typically organised (and clean) spoons over one level wit h plenty of space to wander about in. It's good inside and I think the entrance (at least one of them) was good for wheelchair access. The breakfast was superb as always as was the wake up coffee that was essential at tat time of day. The staff were wonderful and funny (had a bit of chat with one of the bar staff - excellent chap) and the sneaky early Guinness was brilliant. Thanks guys (and gals)

Only wanted something quick and easy to eat and we walked past here and decided to give it a try. Not bad chips at all not too pricey you do sometimes get chippy's being stupidly expensive but was reasonable. Service was polite and we had freshly cooked chips so couldn't argue with that.

Turned up here around 6pm before a performance on the off-chance they may have a table, was advised by who appeared to be the maitre d’ (she carried a highly important-looking radio in her back pocket) that there’d be a table in what was a roped off semi-formal dining area around 6:15pm and suggested we sat at the bar to wait, she promptly brought over some menus… so far so good. We did this. Then 6:15pm came and went, no update, 6:20pm came and went, 6:25pm passed... no communication from the maitre d’ who stood expressionless at the restaurant desk, uninterested in any customers (even those WITH reservation were simply pointed in the vague direction of their assigned table. At 6:30pm, as we noticed that even those sat in the restaurant area were still having to order at the bar, we tried unsuccessfully to get the maitre d's attention - she continued to alternately stare motionless into the middle distance and texting on her phone. We eventually went up to the bar, just as other customers in the dining area were doing, and placed our own order to eat in the bar area - no one, neither the maitre d’ who by now was watching my OH order - or the bar staff who took the order and bar table number said this wasn’t possible. Our meal which was totally unremarkable eventually arrived at 19:10. Over an hour after we arrived, and 40 minutes after we placed our order. No apology. The Maitre d’ continued to walk around looking miserable and unapproachable. Don’t use this place. Disorganised and not interested in its customers.