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

Great breakfast with great friendly service. Good veggie options and tasty cakes. We got there at 10:30 on winters morning. Place filled up quickly so recommended booking if you plan to go any time later.

Bloody brilliant. Food and ambience superb. Service with a smile. Superb plaice and monkfish Thai curry. The desserts are all made by the chef. We had a pavlova but look forward to coming back for the chocolate torte. Very underrated restaurant of the highest echelon.

Lovely café, serving very good restaurant-quality food. The people in the kitchen know what they're doing! One of our favourite places to eat in Swanage. Lunch is served 12pm until 3:30pm, can be worth eating a bit later to avoid the rush.

We are regular visitors to the Seventh Wave restaurant. The food, large fish and chips was as good as ever. The fish was haddock in a lovely batters with good chips as well. The service was good and very friendly and the meals nice and hot. All in all the standard of this unpretentious restaurant remains very high. There are many restaurants that would do well to come here and see how it should be done. Another point is that they do not add a service charge on the bill. There is a tip jar on the counter and if you do come here then please consider using it.

They managed to fit us in without a booking and had a lovely meal, one fish and one steak. Delicious. We asked about booking for another evening but unfortunately they were closing that evening to retire!

Poor cooked breakfast. Despite asking for well done bacon and sausage it arrived undercooked, for me, with cold beans. Nice mug of tea and pleasant staff however much better breakfasts available elsewhere.

Had breakfast here twice. Very nice full English breakfast, very reasonable price and quick service. My review would have been excellent but the cafe seating area needs cleaning (dusty and dirty round the counter and skirting under the windows) and a small overcharge on the 2nd visit. With a bit of attention to the little details this place would be even better.

We enjoyed an excellent evening meal there, the pulled pork in cider was amazing my husband had the pulled lamb ,the staff and service were brilliant.Thank you for a very nice evening

Lovely Chicken and bacon pasta, beats some Italian restaurants we’ve been. Service brilliant, ambiance lovely. You should give a few tips to the pub with a similar name up the road! Would definitely be back if we are back in the area.

Excellent food, exactly what I wanted and more than I expected. Lovely staff and a great little pitstop, can’t recommend enough

This has to be the best restaurant in Swanage. There are no end of fish & chips and burger places in Swanage but if you want a high quality meal, home cooked with excellent ingredients and a feeling of ‘class’ then this is the place for you. The food is reasonably priced too and cook by the owner. Book a table to avoid disappointment and the house specialty is the local Purbeck pie. An absolute gem.

Lovely laid back atmosphere with views over Swanage Bay to the chalk cliffs and in the other direction to Swanage's Victorian pier. On a cold day it was a warm welcome, and good to get out of the cold. Great food -especially my Dorset cream tea, and my wife indulged in a very large cake. Nice place, good staff and plenty of seating with that view.

We visited a couple of years ago and had the best burger we had ever eaten so when we arrived yesterday it was with intrepidation as we thought it would not be as good again. Menus change, as do staff, but we were so happy that it was as good as we remembered. The chips are so unusual but so delicious too. Huge thank you to all the staff.

Recently taken over, but the staff were very attentive, nothing too much trouble. Food was amazing definitely will be revisting . Keep up the good work .

Ordered 2 haddock, the battery was hard and overcooked, difficult to cut and the fish was dry, chewy and there was hardly any flesh , very disappointed Purchased 24/09/24 7pm