Dorchester Restaurant Guide

Sienna

Featured Restaurant

There are not many restaurants in Britain that have a mere fourteen seats, but for Russell Brown and his wife Eléna it is just perfect, as it means that they do not need to employ many staff. Russell had gained an excellent reputation as Head Chef at Yalbury Cottage Hotel for some three and a half years, before moving on to work under Executive Chef Peter Gorton at The Horn of Plenty, one of the South West's top dining experiences.

• Address: 36 High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £28.00, Dinner: £50.00

Alibis Wine Bar & Bistro

A modern and stylish restaurant with relaxed seating downstairs and a more formal restaurant setting on the first floor, Alibi's Wine Bar and Bistro offer a range of modern European food, veering ever so slightly towards the French way of doing things.

• Address: 35 Great Western Road, Dorchester, DT1 1UF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British, Modern European, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £14.00, Dinner: £25.00

Brace of Pheasants, The

Located in a quiet piece of a quiet county 'The Brace' satisfies the desires of those whose idea of a cosy pub with restaurant in deep English countryside, an old thatchedbuilding with log fires, oak beams and a minimum of formality.

• Address: Plush, Piddletrenthide, nr Dorchester, DT2 7RQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £30.00

Petit Canard, Le

A real little gem, set in what was formerly an old coaching inn, with classical music and candle glow as background, Le Petit Canard looks inviting before you even enter. With a mainly English-based menu Gerry Craig uses the local produce to considerable effect.

• Address: Dorchester Road, Maiden Newton, nr Dorchester, DT2 0BE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £25.00, Dinner: £37.00

Prezzo - Dorchester

Prezzo has been delighting diners for over seven years, and this Italian restaurant chain has since been able to expand throughout large parts of England with well over a hundred outlets. Interestingly, the company seeks to restore either impressive buildings or ones of local interest.

• Address: at Judge Jeffreys, 6 High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Restaurant at The Fox Inn

Keep it simple and unpretentious and you will not go far wrong. Yes, it works every time, though in truth the surroundings of this luscious 17th-century thatched inn in deepest Dorset would be hard to beat.

• Address: Corscombe, nr Dorchester, DT2 0NS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £36.00

Restaurant at The Manor Hotel

Bernard Shaw, we are told, once said "The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life". Well, yes, perhaps, but like homes they all vary, particularly when it comes to the culinary aspects.

• Address: Beach Road, West Bexington, Dorchester, DT2 9DF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £38.00

Restaurant at The Piddle Inn

The restaurant is divided into smoking and non-smoking dining areas and there are tables in the bar where guests can choose from an extensive bar menu; obviously the cost of a meal there is rather less.

• Address: Piddletrenthide, Dorchester, DT2 7QF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International, Bar, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £25.00

Royal Oak

• Address: 23 Long Street, Cerne Abbas, nr Dorchester, DT2 7JG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £39.00

Thimble Inn

Another of those quintessential English pubs, complete with thatched roof, well stocked stream running past the door and plenty of lush Dorset countryside all around. Inside the place is a mass of little alcoves and nooks in completely unreconstructed form, and long may they stay so.

• Address: 14 High Street, Piddlehinton, nr Dorchester, DT2 7TD (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A