The best restaurants serving British food in Swanage North Purbeck South West

We love visiting Swanage and have found this gem of a place. We first went here in the summer and enjoyed fresh crab baguettes. The food is excellent with fresh produce and a great choice. This time we had granary baguettes freshly made with ham, salad and chutney. They were delicious. The owners are very friendly too. We will definitely be back for more. If you fancy something different from pasties or fish and chips then the Purbeck deli is the place to go.

What a little gem. Home cooked food, the very friendly couple / owners looked after us beautifully. The food was beautifully cooked, full of flavour and well presented. Great value. Loved it.

We never got to experience this cafe. We got there on 27/9/2024 having travelled specifically to eat there based on the positive reviews, I also checked their website/facebook page and there was no announcements about closing. Their page says opened till the end of September and as this was the 27th and a glorious, warm and sunny day we assumed it’d be open. I also did ring the mobile number during the morning (we were getting there for lunch) but no one picked up, I assumed they were busy. Unfortunately one of our family members suffered an injury going down to the cafe so the whole experience was tainted and hugely disappointing.

Excellent cooked fish and chips and a cup of tea

Ordered main meals and drinks for 4. Asked for either sliced bread or bap burger bun in the side, which I was happy to pay for. They refused. They did have them in stock for breakfast sandwiches and burgers but wouldn’t sell me any. Very annoying. Burgers and fish and chips ordered was quite tasty.

We bought this as a belated birthday gift for my MIL, after the last couple of years we were very much looking forward to it. Unfortunately, as we arrived we were told that we would be stationary for the majority of the meal as the driver had been working all day and will now be over hours. We stated that this is not what we had paid for and all we were told was “they were trying their best”. We were fine with accepting that it would be a diesel train instead of a steam train due to the heatwave, but to sit in a hot carriage with a view of Swanage’s finest COOP was not the experience we were expecting. We feel poor planning by the organisers if they are reliant on only 1 or 2 drivers for an event that had to be booked months in advance. We spent over £200 for this much awaited birthday gift and the only compensation we got was just £10 off our bar bill. Would not recommend this line. Also, do not choose the crumble, it came burnt and is served dry with no cream/custard/ice-cream.

Proper old school fish and chips by the sea. Golden, crispy chips, and well cooked fish in a tasty batter. Sensible portion sizes. Great views from seating outside.

Enjoyed a nice casual lunch in the conservatory area, food etc was good but wanted to give a shout out to Brad. Efficient friendly service is an increasingly rare thing these days but Brad's service and attention was impressive - thank you!

Delicious Sunday Roast, very tasty and good value, I had the Beef and my partner had Turkey, friendly and helpful staff.

Very good Sunday dinner. Good service too. Just a bit cold, there is an open fire but we were early and it hadn't warmed up. Would go again but maybe a bit later.

wasnt impresses. ordered medium haddock mushy peas mug tea. seeing as its a sit down restaurant i was amazed when my meal came in a cardboard box with wooden cutlery also haddock was small in no way was it medium size, but to be fair it was tasty and well cooked however i would not visit again.