Menu.
Our mission is to use sustainable, locally-sourced ingredients and to support local suppliers wherever possible. As a result, our comprehensive menu changes daily and evolves throughout the seasons.
Our creative team in the kitchen put an emphasis on simple, delicious dishes – letting the ingredients speak for themselves.
Fish of the Day.
Our fish of the day is served with the same garnish - Cornish potatoes, seasonal greens and Dorset watercress.
Plaice
Black Bream
Mackerel
Mains
For our main courses, including breakfast, view our mains menu.
Kids
Catering to all the family, take a look at our children's menu here.
Takeaway
Grab a quick coffee or a nutricious seafood bowl at our takeaway window.
Seafood served on Dorset's Jurassic Coast.
Since its inception, the Hive Beach Café has been dedicated to serving the freshest and most flavourful seafood, celebrating the sea and showcasing the rich ingredients offered by Dorset's natural larder.
We use produce from local farms and choose less fashionable fish caught daily by local fishermen, creating a menu that changes each day according to the catch.
Located on Hive Beach, we serve breakfast and lunch alongside sweeping views of the golden cliffs and shoreline.
An unpretentious, family friendly cafe.
Enjoy the stunning views of Hive Beach from our indoor and outdoor seating, welcoming both guests and their four-legged friends.
The café also offers a takeaway window, perfect for beach walkers who want a quick coffee for their stroll, or for picnickers who wish to take a delicious bowl of our dishes to enjoy while watching the sunset over Hive Beach.
Conveniently, there is a National Trust car park and public toilets located right beside the café.
"Lovely café with a nice view of the beach. The service was great and very friendly. The food was presented beautifully and tasted superb. The level of food I would expect from a restaurant."- Chris Rademacher
“Excellent cafe with stunning views of hive beach, friend and efficient staff, food is excellent and freshly cooked. Great place for breakfast by the sea.”- Mike Berry
“We were dead lucky to get prime seating overlooking the beach. Then the seafood platter came. Wow! This broke the three of us and could easily have fed 6 people. A true and rare delight the platter was a definite highlight of our time on the Jurassic coast."- Roy Hanney
“We came for a breakfast and it was amazing! They have plenty of inside and outside seating available, and the service was efficient and very friendly. The breakfasts and drinks were delicious, would definitely recommend if you’re in the area.”- Alice Main
“It was our first visit and I can’t fault the experience from food to great staff and what a location. Sea food at its freshest & best.”- Stuart Houghton
