The best restaurants serving British food in Poole South West

Was quite sceptical after reading the derogatory reviews, but had no need to worry. Picked up two large haddock with chips at the time ordered. Quite delicious fish, one of the best I have eaten. Will definitely return.

So-so disappointed, we went there as it was a friend’s birthday and had pizzas but they were as tough as old boots, the knives would not cut through the base, when I tackled the waitress she said it was the way we cook them! I’m 75 so had many pizzas in my time and this is way down my list. The sweet course was nice but at £9 + the slice of cheesecake is the smallest I ever seen and they didn’t even give you a fork so had to use my finger to get it on the spoon. What a let down for a high class area!!!!

Only went in for a quick drink . The atmosphere was so good and the staff were very nice and polite so I decided to have lunch which was well prepared and tasted delicious. The whole place was really clean including the toilets. I will definitely be going again for dinner in the evening because the menu looks really good. Thanks for a lovely experience

I cannot belive that the coffee machines (yes all of them ) are still not working after a week . We lose out on the breakfast deal becouse you have no coffee. All they have to offer is tea.

Bit like a crèche. Cheap beer and average food.

My nephew and his friend went to this pub on NYEs. They were asked to leave for causing a disturbance by an unofficial contract member of staff, who would not explain what they had done wrong or let them back in to collect a coat and mobile phone. I took my nephew back the next day to collect his coat and phone and ask what had happened for them to be asked to leave. We were given the coat, but no phone. The license owner was uncontactable and the manager on duty had no idea what had happened or where the phone had gone. Since then I have tried to get more information and understanding of what happened, but with very little success. The licensee has been absolutely no help at all and not made contact with me or been available to discuss compensation for the phone being taken on his premises, whilst he was in charge and for letting a non authorised contract worker throw someone out of the pub with no explanation and refusing to let them retrieve their property or get it himself. I am going to escalate this with the brewery who manage this pub and share my disgust in how these new owners are managing their pub My husband and I used to use this pub all the time when Anna was the land lady, but not sure we will be going back in the future.

Great service, a sweet lady named holly was very nice to everyone present and another man I believe his name was Dave was very nice to us and even offered us a free drink as we had been in a few times before, definitely going again

The Sunday lunch was delicious and very generous. I would highly recommend as the service was amazing too. My husband had the aubergine lasagne which was cooked to perfection

Lovely stop off on a very windy and cold Valentine's Day. Purchased the apple cake, carrot cake (very generous portions I may add) which were delicious 😋 with a latte. Lovely staff and dog friendly, been before so happy it was open during winter period.

Disappointed with choice of hot food for lunch on a chilly cold December . Rolls etc so cold in chiller - soups as usual, so modern unappealing to older people like ourselves. Tasteless beigel , tasteless coffees and the cakes not very exciting. Will not return - will make sure we eat before we get there. Very disappointing.

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.

Booked a table here as we were going to a Valentines Concert at Lighthouse - we have always tended to do this as there is nowhere else within easy walking distance and it means we can be sure of a parking space if we arrive a couple of hours before the show begins in the theatre. The day beforehand we were sent an e-mail to say the menu was a special valentines one, and although the food on offer wasn't our favourite food we decided to stick with it. I might also add that with the booking comes an instruction to say that we can only have our table for an hour and a half. We arrived ten minutes early and saw that there were already two other couples seated, so we went in and were shown to our table. We chose our starter and main, but decided not to order a third course until we'd finished our mains, in case we were too full. The first course arrived very promptly, and was good - and this, combined with the fact that they had obviously made an effort to make the restaurant look cosy, lulled us into a sadly short-lived sense of security. I repeat that we had been told our table would only be available to us for an hour and a half, so after waiting another twenty minutes for our main courses, during which time we were fairly certain that we saw it being delivered to another table, I alerted a member of staff and said I thought we might have been forgotten. Off she went to the kitchen, and within a couple of minutes it arrived. So far so good, sort of. Our waitress was apparently new, and only on her second ever shift, according to what we heard her telling other people. This does not excuse the fact that an hour and a half after we had arrived, by which time we should have been leaving, she had managed to completely ignore us even when she went to adjacent tables, so we were left for almost half an hour staring at our uncollected plates and with no opportunity to order a sweet or coffee. Eventually we were able to attract the attention of another member of staff and explain that we had been ignored and that it was now too late for us to have a sweet or coffee as the concert was starting within a short time. She was extremely apologetic and spoke to the person I believe was in charge, coming back to tell us that we were being given a 10% discount for the appalling service. That was kind of them, but it was also the last time we will ever eat there. It has had various incarnations over the years but there have always been problems of one sort or another, and frankly we have had enough. This place could be a little gold mine if it was run properly, but...