06-07-2025
The 21 best restaurants on the Isle of Wight
With more than 50 local food and drink producers on the Isle of Wight – from jams to tomatoes, meat to cheese, ice cream, beer, wine and gin and, recently, whisky – chefs are spoilt for choice when it comes to sourcing their menus.
The island has a handful of excellent restaurants that offer everything from fine dining to wholesome locally reared and produced dishes. Seafood is an obvious highlight, but mixed among the handful of high-end establishments are several outstanding options in more informal settings, from pubs to seaside shacks.
All our recommendations below have been hand selected and tested by our destination expert to help you discover the best restaurants on the Isle of Wight. Find out more below, or for more Isle of Wight inspiration, see our guides to the region's best hotels, bars and pubs, things to do and beaches.
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Best all-rounders
Bonchurch Inn
You'll find this former coach house in an old stableyard complex tucked away among the folds and hairpin turns of Bonchurch village. You feel as if you are stepping into the 1930s with vintage panelling and seating divided by frosted glass. Thanks to the pub's long-term ownership by the Besozzi family, the menu, from crab bruschetta to pizza, is dominated by excellent Italian food. The menu describes the lasagne as 'life changing' – mouthwatering and worth lingering over – and it is.
