Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Milborne Port
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Milborne Port restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in Milborne Port and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Milborne Port restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Milborne Port Restaurants
1. The Cross Keys Hotel
restaurant in Sherborne
88 Cheap Street - DT9
2023 Review: Well-located in the centre of the town on ‘The Parade’ – this old inn wins praise for “good pub food with some more adventurous items” and “community-minded owners who have become part of the town”. The latter are Mo Gherras and his family, who put their savings into the place in 2019, the pub having lain vacant for a number of years.
2. The Green
British, Modern restaurant in Sherborne
3 The Green - DT9
2024 Review: “Great modern European food using locally sourced ingredients at very reasonable prices” again wins praise for this local fixture. Chef-patron Sasha Matkevich grew up in south Russia but has lived in England for 30 years.
3. The Newell
British, Modern restaurant in Sherborne
Greenhill - DT9
“A remarkable place, not even in the centre of a country town” – a converted pub-with-rooms where Australian husband-and-wife team Paul & Tracey Merrony run the show, “she front of house, him in the kitchen”. “A wide range of French-style classic dishes are chalked up on the board” and you’ll find “different variations on these dishes when you visit again”. The “top quality ingredients, deliciously cooked” offer “extraordinary value for money at £28.50 for three substantial courses. What’s not to like…” – indeed a couple of best meals of the year are reported here.
4. The Queen’s Arms
British, Modern restaurant in Corton Denham
2024 Review: This “newly refurbished family-owned pub with rooms” – originally a mid-Victorian cider house – in a “lovely village” near Sherborne, makes for a “perfect stop-over en route to Devon or Cornwall”, with “agreeable service” and “reliable food including interesting fish dishes”. Co-owner Doune Mackenzie-Francis has a foodie background as a former marketing manager for Leith’s School of Food & WIne.
5. The Clockspire
British, Modern restaurant in Milborne Port
Gainsborough - DT9
“The stunning building” – a school built in 1854 that looks like a church – underpins the appeal of this bar-restaurant deep in the West Country (part of the swish rural group incorporating The Woodspeen). Reports lacked the inconsistency of last year’s feedback, with stronger all-round praise for its high quality, if rather ambitiously priced, fare.
6. The Plume of Feathers
Italian restaurant in Sherborne
Half Moon Street - DT9
A menu of Italian small plates confounds expectations at this traditional Grade II listed 16th-century pub opposite the Abbey, where West Country ingredients are converted into a very wide choice of pizzette and pasta (all made in-house). You are advised to order two to three dishes each. Top Tip – Menu del Giorno lunch for two at £16 per person, served for tables up to 6, available Tuesday to Friday lunchtimes, 12pm to 2pm, and on Happy Wednesdays (4th Wednesday night of the month).
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