Dorchester Restaurants

Sienna

Featured Restaurant

Sienna has just clocked up its fifth year of trading in Dorchester and continues to go from strength to strength. With cream and natural wood colour schemes, this restaurant truly lives up to its name.

• 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

No 6 North Square

No 6 North Square is a contemporary wine bar and brasserie located near the Corn Exchange in the heart of the picturesque town of Dorchester. Open all day, and with lovely outside seating, you could meet friends or have a business meeting there.

• Address: No 6 North Square, Dorchester, DT1 1HY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, 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

Beautiful hued flowers dot the sunny, white exterior of the Piddle Inn, in Dorchester, and the bubbly River Piddle that flows alongside the delightful beer patio adds to the allure of this attractive inn.

• 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