Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Wyke Regis
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Wyke Regis restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 8 restaurants in Wyke Regis and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Wyke Regis restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Wyke Regis Restaurants
1. The Seaside Boarding House Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Burton Bradstock
Cliff Road - DT6
“Exceptional fish soup and good fish specials” help win praise for the cooking at this contemporary dining room with outside terrace on the Jurrasic Coast. There are niggles in reports on diverse grounds, including some who find it “overpriced for the quality”, but even a diner who said “service can be slow” thought “it doesn’t matter when you are in such surroundings, with vast sea and coast views”.
2. Billy Winters Bar & Diner
Fish & seafood restaurant in Wyke Regis
Ferry Bridge Boatyard, Portland Road - DT4
Billy Winter's is the brain child of Nigel Bloxham, chef proprietor at The Crab House Cafe, Weymouth. Billy Winters is a rustic/beach diner/bar sat right on the beach with beautiful views overlooking Portland harbour. Billy's serves up authentic, quality and artisan food with ...
3. Crab House Café
Fish & seafood restaurant in Weymouth
Ferrymans Way, Portland Road - DT4
“A fantastic place to spend a sunny summer afternoon with a plate of oysters and a bottle of something fizzy in a stunning location” – but also “worth a visit even in winter” – this seaside café has “excellent views” over Chesil Beach via large windows and its big outside area, and provides “seaside casual dining with some of the best fish dishes anywhere” (making it one of the top-100 most commented-on restaurants outside London in our annual diners’ poll). “Family-run, with sustainability as its core”, it offers “a brilliant treat every visit.” Top Menu Tips – “brilliant turbot ‘wings’”; “fantastic fresh oysters from the beds outside and very good crab”.
4. Catch at The Old Fish Market
Fish & seafood restaurant in Weymouth
1 Custom House Quay - DT4
“The very best meal I have enjoyed in the last year!”… “Exceptional” – chef Mike Naidoo’s sustainable seafood restaurant on a mezzanine in the waterside Old Fish Market has proved a “brilliant addition to the Weymouth food scene” since it opened three years ago. The “exceptional” dayboat catch is translated into set menus, with the £45 four-course lunch itself a particularly good catch from the (slightly bewildering) array of menus, with different options served early evening, midweek dinner (six courses) and Saturday dinner (eight courses). One visitor in particular went a bundle on it this year, in the shape of The Times’s Giles Coren who, in his March 2024 review – “reeling from the quality” – thought it might just be “the best restaurant in the world”… “omigodomigodomigod”.
5. Al Molo
Italian restaurant in Weymouth
Pier Bandstand, The Esplanade - DT4
This spin-off (est. 2022) of an Italian in Weymouth’s art deco Pier Bandstand has an intriguing setting itself, occupying one of Dorchester’s oldest (timber-framed) buildings – a former lodging of ‘Hanging Judge’ Jeffries, a much-feared enforcer during James II’s reign. They’ve “worked hard to give it some atmosphere – difficult in such a huge ancient building” – and the “welcoming” team “serve well-presented, good food” reprising the fish-centric ethos of its predecessor.
6. Yalbury Cottage
French restaurant in Lower Bockhampton
“Big meals” made from prime British ingredients cooked in classical French style, “friendly staff” and a “lovely, sensibly priced wine list” is the winning recipe at ex-Four Seasons exec chef Jamie Jones’s restaurant with rooms – a spacious (much extended) former shepherd’s cottage in the heart of Hardy country (the village of Lower Bockhampton is called Mellstock in ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’). This may be about to be a case of ‘all change’, however – the business was put on the market in 2024 as a going concern.
7. The Thimble Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Piddlehinton
14 High Street - DT2
Michael Trawicki’s “popular thatched pub” serves particularly “good pub food in a nice sunny dining room” and there’s also a beautiful garden in summer. It’s not an especially ‘foodie’ operation but attracts consistent praise in our annual diners’ poll as one of the area’s better eateries.
8. The Club House
British, Modern restaurant in Dorchester
Beach Road - DT2
The “perfect location” overlooking Chesil Beach, “knowledgeable and friendly staff” and “delicious and changing menu” tick most of the boxes at this Art Deco-style seaside venue with plenty of outdoor seating – although a significant minority reckon it’s “disappointing compared to previous visits”.
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