Sandbar

Sandbar brings beach café-bar energy to Weymouth Esplanade, making it an easy fit for coffee, breakfast, lunch, or a more relaxed drink with the sea right there doing its usual show-off routine. Dogs are welcome inside, so everyone can settle in together without the pavement-waiting shuffle.

The menu covers hot drinks, breakfast, lunch, and evening food such as pizzas, deli boards, and nachos, which gives it a flexible all-day feel. The location is doing plenty of heavy lifting here too, because anything on the Esplanade immediately benefits from that "we may as well sit and look at the sea a bit longer" effect.

It's the kind of spot where sandy paws are understandable, the views slow everything down, and nobody has to choose between the dog and a decent coffee by the water.