The best restaurants serving Default food in West Dorset South West

We ordered at the counter here to takeaway and waited far too long for our food. There was only 1 person ahead of us and although the café area and terrace were busy, there seemed to be a great deal of staff doing very little. For a seaside takeaway I've never waited longer. We ordered 1 x jumbo sausage with child's chips which turned out to be not a jumbo sausage but a standard sized shrivelled up, very dry and overcooked inedible sausage. Scampi and chips - offered the option of small or large by the girl a the counter - somewhat thrown as the board did not specify a size but just offered scampi and chips at £6.90. I opted for small (envisioning oversized chip shop mountainous portions!) and was charged £6.90 as specified on the board - the portion consisted of 5 pieces of scampi and a portion of chips equal to the childs portion - disgraceful for the price. A portion of chips by the way, is around £2 so for 5 tiny pieces of scampi I was charged £4. What on earth would I have been charged for a large portion?!The cod and chips was handed over the counter by the girl "child's cod and chips?" "No we ordered an adults cod and chips and a childs sausage and chips" "oh yes sorry It is an adults portion". Well I can say with almost complete certainty that it was a childs portion and was a mistake on their part that they tried to cover up. Either that or the portions of cod here are the smallest seen anywhere on the South Coast of England. Tiny, thin and really really overcooked and dried out to a crisp. To add insult to injury, after our long wait, all the chips we were served were soggy, very undercooked and "potatoey" rather than chipped. We paid £17 for our measly lunch. After lunch we passed a number of other fish and chip outlets all of which charged around £2 less per dish and looked superior. Go elsewhere. Very poor indeed.

My partner and I went in pretty late on a Saturday night to order a takeaway, we were served by a Jazmine who was super lovely and accommodating! I really wanted a wrap which nandos no longer make but the staff did the best they could for me to have it! They were so lovely about it, especially considering how late I went in! I didn’t catch the chefs name but he was also super lovely with it! 10/10 service!

Love this place, it's always open when I need lunch and the bread is only slightly chewy. The only real downside is that Subway as a brand got rid of the cheesy bites and the sweet chili sauce, which should be a crime. Also bring back flatbread it was the best bread!!

New owners and what a great meal we had. Currently living in the Midlands and we have a superb range of great curry houses. Not often I come across a menu where I want to try such a range of dishes, it took us ages to pick our choices. They do all of the usuals from tikka Madala to Rogan Josh. In addition there are really interesting Indian dishes including lobster, squid and beef rump. The three of us chose 2 starters and 3 mains between us. The trio of chicken was delicious, even though one of them was bright green! The lamb strips were fabulous, like a minted red current jelly lamb with an Indian twist. If you like a rich slightly sweet curry the lamb and apricot could be for you. My sis had the lamb shank which just fell off the bone. Ann loved her New Delhi chicken which was creamy and full of flavour. The Naan was some of the best I’ve had, light and crisp and the mushroom rice was another triumph. We will definitely eat here again, I’m a real foodie and this was such a lovely surprise, great food, £21 a head with drinks, bargain!

I Had a family evening with cocktails to start,unfortunately they had not a clue how to serve or make these,by a friendly young girl,the food was the worst i have had for a long time,and although i told the elderly lady she seemed to listen but shrug it off with no effect,totally overpriced for what we had ,very small meals,missing the main ingredient FOOD.I hope they can improve and get a barman in to make the cocktails,they need to be shaken,not just pored!!

Had a lovely mug of tea and a delicious homemade Belgian white chocolate and marshmallow tiffin. The setting is very colonial ( is that word allowed). The staff seem tired.

Stopped in for a coffee and scone with my husband. They charged me £1 for a tiny jar of jam to go with my scone! I have never been charged for jam. It was all grotty and the scone was no good. Won’t be back.

Thought the women was very nice and the food was good. Chips could of been bigger for a large though. But overall really good

Nice clean tidy place. Friendly staff

Total waste of money, tasteless fish. Not the same as usual so maybe no fish delivery so used old frozen fish! Shame as was really looking forward to it - should have gone to king street loads better

So many other coffee shops in Dorchester better than this experience. Empty and dreadful toasted tea cakes. More like compressed sawdust with a couple of squashed flies for flavour. Terrible coffee. Not a clue

Stopped for lunch. My parents used to live about 15 miles away (they have now passed) but they took us there many years ago, The food is always great the staff very friendly, It was lovely to return and find the same quality of food and staff, Thank you for a great meal.

Disappointing. Incurs hidden charges for dogs to stay. I had checked the website and rung up to confirm dogs were allowed in rooms and for any extra charges, none were mentioned. I happily booked and paid for the room, only to receive an email stating each dog would be an extra £10. Normally I don’t mind paying extra for my dog, but the fact that they didn’t state this on their website (room said ‘pets welcome’ at point of booking, no extra charge) and i had asked over the phone about the dogs they did not declare the charges. We cannot cancel because of 2 day cancellation policy, so are now forced to pay undeclared £10 fee per dog or loose our £60 room payment. Really unprofessional and bad management. Again, normally I am happy to pay for pets when I stay as long as they are clear and upfront about charges.

my wife and i are both high standard dart players and while on holiday in the area was looking for a nice pub with dartboard to spend a few hours drinking and playing. The pub was empty apart from one local and the barlady sat on a barstool who reluctandly got off her ass and showed us to a grotty fit for bin board ! the right hand side of the bar was a perfectly good matchboard but she did not want to move a table for us to play. Left and went around the corner to the ropemakers pub where even though they where busy they asked a local to move really nice guy who we ended up buying each other drinks. Cracking pub where we spent a good amount of money and returned the following day. As for the hope and anchor it will probably be shut down or condemmed when we pass by again !

had been to food fair at near by maperton. decided to come onto west bay have been to the george before. so came again absoultly fantastic food and service. will deffinatly be back again.