Ringstead, Italian Restaurant Guide

This “professionally run market-town restaurant” in a distinguished historic townhouse “delivers on its promise, with well-cooked and presented” Italian dishes, mainly fish and seafood. Previously a fixture on the pier (‘molo’ in Italian) at Weymouth, the business transferred four years ago to a landmark 15th-century building most famous as the lodging for ‘hanging judge’ George Jeffreys during the 1685 treason trials that followed the failed Monmouth rebellion against James II.