3 Best Restaurants in Wells, The West Country

This little restaurant near the cathedral adds a continental touch to quiet Wells. French and Mediterranean influences are at the forefront of the lunch and dinner menus, which showcase seafood dishes such as crayfish salad, tuna carpaccio, grilled sea bass with asparagus, and roast fillet of hake with couscous. Other choices include roast duck breast with stir-fried vegetables and Lebanese spiced minced lamb. Desserts intersperse French patisserie items (like choux bun with Chantilly cream) with such enticements as affogato and pistachio frangipane and strawberry tart. There are set-price lunch and dinner menus too, including a five-course seafood menu (£65).

This vegetarian café and restaurant is perfect for breakfast, coffee, or a light lunch. Order at the counter and find a space in one of the three rooms—all simply furnished with rustic-style benches and tables and local art on the pastel-colored walls—or in the walled garden. Apart from pizzas, quiches, jacket potatoes, and house-baked rolls and cakes, the chalkboard might include such dishes as cauliflower cheese with roast potatoes and red wine gravy or mixed grain salad with roasted carrot and fennel. The whole food shop next door offers a range of picnic ingredients, too.