Dorset Food & Drink Guide 2016 | Page 17

FOUNDER MEMBER Hive Beach Café H MENU ive Beach Café, a family owned business on the beach at Burton Bradstock on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, has been serving locally sourced high quality food for more than 20 years. With sister café the Watch House along the coast at West Bay (aka Broadchurch!), there are menus that change daily to offer the freshest locally-caught fish and seafood from across Lyme Bay and the South West, using environmentally friendly fishing methods and day boats. hristmas is coming. Be prepared. That’s the Open year round and on summer evenings, theyitare great only way to make through this festive season places to take in stunning views across Lyme Bay and enjoy of food relatively intact, according to the chefs spoke to (p.39). Now, as much as we love farmhouse breakfasts, lunch, seafoodweplatters, dinner, coffee, Christmas ice cream or a homemade cream tea. – it has pigs in blankets for a start – if you’re cook in your At both cafés you can enjoythe thedesignated delicious range ofhouse, cakeswhat should be a sugar-dusted dream of a holiday can quickly turn and sweet treats freshly bakedstressful in their artisanal micro-bakery enough to disintegrate your paper crown with at West Bay, including the “waggalicious” homemade fearful perspiration. There’s lotsdoggie to think about. From treats. (Did we mention the cafés are dog friendly too)? what to serve on the big day (turkey? goose? beef?) to whichBay, potentially torturous method At Burton Bradstock and West the Hive range of you’re using to cook it, the decisions come as thick fast as the crowds of jams, chutneys, condiments, fudge, biscuits, beer and and cide