Having just come back from a holiday in Lyme, just wanted to write about The Volunteer. Had a meal…read morethere and the food was absolutely lovely, very reasonably priced and of a high standard. Average price for a meal is around £8/£9 which is very reasonable for Lyme and although we have found lots of very nice places to eat in Lyme they have tended to be very pricey. This is a pub mainly with a little restaurant off to the side. It's very cosy, decorated in lovely seaside colours and has a very nice atmosphere. I would say the food is pub food rather than top of the range restaurant food (this is just an observation and not a criticism) however everything was cooked perfectly and served beautifully. My children ate every scrap of their meal and so did we. In the end we went back again at the end of the holiday and our second meal was just as good!! After dinner we ordered the cheese board with local cheeses and delicious biscuits. A great find and will definitely be going again on our next trip!.

Delicious food! We came in at an off time and it was so nice to see the chefs a work in the open…read morekitchen! The scallop appetizer was amazing!! It was all great!

We had a large group and most servers would struggle to cope with so many of us (22). Lucy, our…read moreserver was truly amazing. Food was great too and the place has a nice atmosphere. Dogs allowed in the front part (pub), restaurant in the back no dogs.

Great local pub...fine selection of ales and landlord & landlady are both very welcoming!read more

Along the front in Lyme is this fantastic pub. Full of real ales and ciders, as well as the…read more'normal' beers and spirits. Great service from more than friendly staff with plenty of seating inside and, in the warmer weather, outside. Covered area for non-smokers with plenty of room for us with the BAD habit. We stopped in for a pint and a small lunch. I say small lunch but it developed into a meal having viewed their extensive menu. We were in the main area of the bay and decided to have a treat of crab and prawns. The crab arrived filling the plate. Enough for the two of us with salad and chips (they were gorgeous). A really meaty crab, my mouth still waters. A pint of shelled on prawns rammed fully into a pint glass, with salad, butter, huge chunk of bread and Marie-Rose dip. Thinking we must get back to The Royal Standard ASAP. One problem with eating outside is the scavenging gulls. The Royal had this beaten with a white 'fishing' net strung over the outside area. A very wide mesh so you don't realise it is there and it doesn't block out the sun. Great pub, reasonable pricing and, as I have said, friendly, efficient staff.

I liked the atmosphere in this pub, and it has a great variety of food, both on the normal menu and…read moreon the specials.

Disappointing. Came here for our final night for a meal in Lyme Regis. Overpriced and charged…read moretwice! When I called the restaurant to tell them I got told to contact my bank for the refund. After spending half an hour explaining to the bank what happened they told me the restaurant should have refunded immediately over the phone. Up to 45 days now I have to wait for nearly £50! Although on the night the lovely waitress was faultless the man on the phone clearly needed a course in customer service. Do not recommend!

We visited on our first night in Lyme Regis. We arrived at 5:30 pm, 1/2 hour before dinner service…read morebegan. We had an inside table with a lovely view of the harbor. We drank Guinness and relaxed until dinner service began. Dinner was excellent and the servers very friendly. I had bouillabaisse and my wife had fish pie. Delicious. Dog friendly too.

Came with friends for evening meal. Booked and had a reserved table. The staff had masks but…read moreseemed as though very few customers did wherever they went. We all had the market fish which was halibut with various veg. plus beers to go with it. The fish was lovely both in quality and quantity and the veg was very good. The service and ambience was very good. Cost was £32 per person for main course and a couple of beers each. I would go back again

Not a particularly nice pub really. Pretty dismal interior, shabby thuggish staff and clientele to…read morematch. But they serve a fantastic pint of Doom Bar and have a terrace with a wonderful view of the blue lias cliffs to the east of Charmouth, which catch the light from the setting sun and reflect the steel grey of the sea. Nowhere else in Lyme can match it as a location for a preprandial pint or two. But I would never go here otherwise.

The sun was shining so at the last minute we headed for the coast. 4 adults arrived here without…read morebooking. We sat in the beer garden which had toys to amuse small children and lots of bench tables. We all enjoyed our meals. The service was excellent, we will return

Have found that this pub tends to cater for the holiday makers during the season and it's food…read moreoffering is mainly of the microwave variety-not very tasty or well presented. The barmaid when I visited was unfriendly and unhelpful - but that was only one member of staff! The locals that were there were likewise unfriendly and did not make you feel welcome. Not a pub I will return to or would recommend.

We had been recommended this place by folks in Woodstock Vermont USA, where we run an award winning…read morehospitality business. We used to live in Dorset and the fact that a recommendation travelled 4000 miles is impressive...but could the place deliver on a damp grey November Thursday? 13.00 struck on the town clock and in we walk to the quiet cafe bar area, to be met by some delightful staff and seated quickly, after a drink in the rather fetching contemporary bar area. Now this place is not just another seaside cafe...oh no...it's a cut above that. The art on the wall has whimsey, and the large arm chairs would be more often seen in an urban Starbucks setting. The restaurant windows all over look the bay and even on a grey November day there was atmosphere, simple jazz influenced music playing at just the the right level to create ambiance and not kill it. The location on the sea front, is a short sea shell throw away from the new beach, you do indeed have lots of sand in Lyme these days! The sea front had a make over in 2012 and now even has a very smart National Trust shop and was a real surprise. We had taken two local friends and we all ordered, fish chips with mushy peas for some, fresh mussels in a wonderful cream sauce for others and tempura battered vegetables. To drink we had Fentimans ginger beer, Guinness and water. All got 10/10. The bill 80 quid for six was very good value, and we left with a wonderful glow, to go to the gallery in the town and buy a small piece of Garry Jones art . He has an art piece on the restaurant wall....a car door...yes an actual car door with a fantastic ceramic dog leaning out of it! Priceless humour that cannot fail to make one smile. This place is a real find and a cut above the average seaside eatery.

This was the discovery of our holiday. We had avoided all week because it looks from the ouside…read morelike it's going to be a bit down market situated as it is amongst the chip shops and amusement arcade. It looks very modern and loud. It was shear luck that we ended up here as we could not get a table at our first choice restaurant. It was really good. Lovely food and excellent entertainment with a very accomlished jazz duo. The atmoshere was brilliant even though it was not full that night. Highly recommended.