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Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Milborne Port

Hardens guides have spent 33 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.

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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

“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

For a “very good French meal” (chef Paul Merrony trained at Le Gavroche no less) that’s “relatively inexpensive and with personal service”, try this bistro-with-rooms – “the exemplar of a local restaurant”, where the “fantastically fresh food” (ranging from ratatouille to rillettes and rabbit blanquette) makes you feel like you’re in France only “without the ferry journey”.

Price*

£49

££

Food

Very Good

Service

Very Good

Ambience

Average

4. The Queen’s Arms British, Modern restaurant in Corton Denham

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

“An absolutely gorgeous building (a former school, very similar to a church)” that has won beauty awards from Condé Nast Traveller plays host to this “upmarket rural” restaurant by Luke Sutton, who honed his craft at the acclaimed L’Ortolan in Berkshire. A number of visiting Londoners feel the “well-executed” modern British cooking is rather “hyped” and “expensive with a capital E, even for Sherborne”. More positive reporters would say that just highlights the “remarkable value” set menus (three courses £29 per person), and if you’ve change to spare, you can visit the equally glamorous bar on the mezzanine.

Price*

£88

££££

Food

Average

Service

Good

Ambience

Average

6. The Plume of Feathers restaurant in Sherborne Half Moon Street - DT9

2023 Review: “It looks and sounds like a pub”, but this “lively and friendly” old inn opposite Sherborne Abbey “is actually an Italian restaurant providing small plates by the score”. The menu includes a “stupendous choice” (including pizzette and pasta) “using local and Italian ingredients” and it’s very easy to assemble an interesting and varied meal with “dishes to suit all tastes”. “The main difficulty is limiting yourself as there’s so much to tempt!". Top Tip – Rapido lunch for two at £14 per person, served weekdays.