The best restaurants serving British food in Winfrith Purbeck South West

We booked here because of the great reviews and were celebrating our friend’s 40th wedding anniversary whilst on holiday locally. To say we were disappointed was an understatement! It was a quiet Saturday evening but we were surprised when we asked for another drink and was told the pub was closing - it was 9.30pm. Food was at best average and rushed. It’s a miss for us next time.

Myself and my wife stayed at the Frampton Arms because we wanted to visit monkey World which was amazing visit to see all of the rescued monkeys but the review is mainly for the stay at the Frampton Arms we stayed there from the 26th August 24 to the 30th of August 24 to start the receptionist on arrival was very professional polite and friendly which was a fantastic start to the visit the room was very spacious and well presented cleaned to a very high standard every single member of the staff members were very professional polite and very helpful and friendly we had all our meals in the dining room and I must congratulate the chef's the food there was to a very very high standard excellent size portions excellent choice of meals and very tasty we could not falt the food in any way it was quality ingredients and cooked to a very high standard in fact i would go as far as comparing the food to a a al cart restaurant in all the places we have eaten the Frampton Arms meals beats them all hands down its a wonderful place to stay and every member of staff work extremely hard to a very high standard they are all very professional polite and very friendly we are already looking forward to going back there for another visit it was our first visit there we enjoyed the stay there that much Myself and my wife will definitely be making it a regular thing to visit the Frampton Arms as much as we can in future plenty of places to visit monkey world and the tank museum is not too far away from the Frampton Arms the beaches are a bit of a drive away or you can just walk across the road to the train station which you can get to all the places you want to go you could even get a train to Southampton Harbour and get a hovercraft to the Isle of Wight for the day if you wanted we highly recommend the Frampton Arms for a visit if you want to have a nice quiet and relaxing break and be well looked after it's a young team of staff members but they are very good at their job nothing is to much trouble its a continental breakfast in the mornings plenty of choice and tasty its also dog friendly if you have a dog we can't wait to go back and will not think about staying anywhere else when we go to Dorset we are impressed with everything about the Frampton Arms we whould give it 5+ stars if we could fantastic break and fantastic service job well done all round many thanks for the excellent 4 day break

The countryman has done a complete turn around in over a year. It's fabulous. It's best to book. Especially for carvery on a Sunday.

Lovely find! Visited the red lion twice whilst staying in the village in an air b n b! Lovely relaxed atmosphere……friendly staff and great food and drink! Very dog friendly and frank the sausage dog enjoyed his visits as much as his owner!