Our Food & Drink

With both an award winning restaurant and wine cellar, the food and wine at the Alexandra ensures a dining experience to remember. Our menus change with the seasons and if you'd like a taste of the sea, look no further than our door step. Utilising the bounty of Lyme Bay and the finest artisan food producers of the Southwest, we invite you to take in panoramic sea views and great food.

Fine Dining

With both award winning food and wine, the Alexandra Dining Room ensures a truly fine dining experience. Our totally indulgent 7 course seasonally changing ‘Tasting Menu’ is an exceptional experience for anyone with an interest in great food. Served in our elegant dining room with attentive service using only the finest ingredients.

Casual Dining

Lunch in the Orangery, Afternoon Tea or Cocktails on the terrace gazing out to the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast as they turn golden in the sunset, it really is a view to remember. We are open daily to enjoy locally sourced food in a relaxed and informal setting. A unique setting for meeting with family and friends.

Afternoon Tea

One of England's finest traditions. Afternoon Tea at the Alexandra is the perfect way to enjoy the gardens and views from our Orangery or from the Terrace in the warmer months. With a variety of teas, a delicious selection of sandwiches, homemade scones and tasty treats, afternoon tea is simply one of life’s little luxuries.

Sunday Lunch

Our Sunday lunches use only the finest seasonal ingredients to celebrate this truly British Institution. Using local farmers and producers at the forefront of the menu, our relaxed Sunday lunches offer the perfect excuse to get your friends and family together.

Bar

Our Bar is open from 11am until late. Choose from an extensive wine list, a bespoke cocktail menu and a selection of local and international spirits and mixers. Drinks and cocktails are also available on the Garden Terrace until late.

Private Dining

Be it a seaside view party on our garden terrace, a birthday party, anniversary, lunch or private dinner, whatever you’re celebrating, we can happily accommodate parties from 6 in our private Look out Tower, to 100 in our Ammonite restaurant and Orangery or our private Chapel.

We have the perfect setting for breakfast, morning coffee, light lunch, afternoon tea or evening dinner.

Our Menus

All menus are subject to change due to market influences and seasonality.

Breakfast is served in the Dining Room and in warmer months on the Garden Terrace from 8:00am – 10:00am

Morning Coffee is served from 10am – 12:00pm daily in the Orangery, sitting room and garden terrace – which has fantastic views over the Cobb harbour and out to sea.

Enjoy Lunch in our beautiful Orangery or on the garden terrace. Lunch is served from 12:00pm – 2:30pm.

Afternoon Tea is served daily on the garden terrace, in the sitting room or the Orangery. Served daily from 3:00pm – 5:30pm

Dinner is served in both the Dining Room and Orangery from 6:30pm – 9:00pm daily. Providing a selection of delicious dishes from a daily changing menu according to what’s in season and at its best. Children’s supper is served daily at 6:30 pm in the restaurant, garden or your room.

Food Glorious Food

At the Alexandra Hotel we are passionate about food and believe that eating is one of life’s greatest pleasures. We embrace the use of carefully selected local and seasonal quality foods to enable our chefs to create the most delicious dishes from our kitchens. Our local heritage as a historic fishing town results in an abundance of sensational local produce and we want to give all our guests a true taste of this in everything we serve.

When sourcing our food, we look for produce which stands out from the rest – from local farms to artisan producers from across the Westcountry, we are excited to share our food story with you. As a result of this our menus may be subject to change due to seasonal availability.