Lyme Regis: a real taste of the Dorset coast with an exciting new food scene

A thriving artisan quarter and inventive restaurants have injected new life into this genteel seaside town famed for its fossils and literary hauntsLyme Regis’s charms have always been resolutely genteel and old-fashioned, from its sedate regency seafront to its fondness for fossil shops and all things antique and literary.It is a seaside town that has never felt the need to play to the hipster crowd, thanks partly to such distinguished and familiar history: home to 19th-century palaeontol