Castaways in Purbeck

Mass produced supermarket food warmed up and put onto plates. That’s it. It’s not terrible but it’s not good either. The service is friendly but that’s about the only positive.(Edit) the owner’s kindergarten level name-calling and passive aggressive, puerile responses to people really speak volumes about their nature and attitude.

Fantastic meal, staff were lovely, very polite

Excellent service, super friendly and efficient staff and a lovely atmosphere. The food was homemade and very good indeed the portions very generous. Will definitely visit again.

Absolutely wonderful meal here for our last night in Swanage. Friendly service. Beautiful food.... and super dog friendly too. Big bonus!

What a lovely place to eat! We had the friendliest service and truly delicious food. It's excellent homestyle cooking, which really hit the spot after 2 days of fine dining.

The food was fantastic, honestly the best dinner avaliable in Swanage. The service was topped off by the brilliant waitress, Maddie, a real asset to their team. 10/10

We had a lovely family meal here. Our vegetarian curries were delicious. Service was spot on and the touches for the children were great with them having smaller cutlery and even some jellies for Halloween on the way out. We would definitely recommend.

Booked our meal easily enough. Menu had a great selection of meals along with the evening specials. Although busy service was very efficient.

Friendly service and good food with gf and portion size options. Could do with plastic screening as the tables were too close together and too close to the entrance and walkway.

This place should live up to it’s name and cast itself away.The staff are friendly but have a lot to learn and the atmosphere is at best a tarted up greasy spoon café so you would forgive it thinking the food will make up for it.Unfortunately, the food would be the same if you went to a supermarket with a uni student and asked them to create some dishes for you at home. Everything is either store bought and microwaved or plopped on your plate, lacking any sort of visual pleasure or presentation. Whilst there’s no complaints about the servers who are trying their best, as a basic restaurant rule, customers should be informed if the kitchen has run out of food on the menu when the customers are given menus. This did not happen. Eventually when we did order (with our waitress constantly running back into the kitchen and being informed that cod fillets could not be grilled as they would crumble -what??) we eventually (after much yo-yoing with the kitchen) ordered a cheeseboard which was filled with bland thin slices of cheese, tuc and ritz crackers and a tasty but alas watery and therefore messy homemade chutney (this sorry sight was £7!) Our mains were another sight for sore eyes. The hunters chicken was swimming in out of the bottle barbecue sauce and served with a dollop of cheap supermarket out of the tub coleslaw. The tuna, which was on their specials board described as grilled tuna with prawn and herb lemon sauce with new potatoes and fresh veg, arrived dry and overcooked, with a watery-oily sauce, sad overcooked prawns and a pinch of dried herbs. Meanwhile the potatoes and the veg were again out of the packet supermarket pre-prepared veg and microwaved, insides raw.Huge portions is no indication of good food nor is how quickly the food comes out. If anything it shows that they want to get rid of the food and dish it up quickly because there’s not much cooking involved.Don’t go here and pay £15 a plate at this joke of a restaurant when you can ask your teenager to make it for you at home.Please take your money and your tastebuds to a number of other worthy establishments in town and see what good fresh food is about, just remember to pre-book!