Brightside Roadside Dining Saltash in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Stopped of for lunch here, the waitress was lovely and there was a lovely chilled atmosphere and the restaurant is layed out really well. The food and coffee were excellent

Best English breakfast I have ever eaten and great customer service. Highly recommended

We visited on Sunday lunchtime on a wet a dreary weekend but our meal and the visit definitely brightened up our moods. The staff were lovely and friendly and super helpful. The booth for our family of 6 was perfect. We hadn’t visited since the renovations from what was the older establishment on the site and were blown away by how different it is, such a great 70s style and everywhere was lovely and clean. Our meals were fantastic, we appreciated that each kids meal came with crudités and hummus whilst we waited for our mains to come out. My husband opted for the brisket burger and said it was one of the best burgers he’d ever had. Our waitress felt one out of children’s portions of chips was quite pokey so she brought out a fresh batch of extra chips which was massively appreciated. The kids all enjoyed their puddings as did we. Would definitely recommend whether you’re passing whilst traveling or if you’re local and looking for a new location to try!

Lovely food, I don’t even like pizza, but this pizza was so good. I highly recommend it. Bathroom top notch If I could, I would Six stars top notch bathrooms so cheap five stars

1st time coming here staff were very helpful and polite. It's great that they have a separate gluten free &vegetarian/vegan menu .my son can't have gluten or dairy and the waitress sorted out something that was suitable for my son .the food was lovely. The atmosphere was nice chilled and relaxing. I'm also a crutches user and there was a ramp for me to go up to get in and a fully equipped disabled toilet on ground floor. Also tables spread out so if crutches user or wheelchair you can get around easily. Definitely come here again

Had a great breakfast and our dog was made welcome with a bowl of water and some gravy bones. Staff were really friendly and the food was great. Recommended.

We have stopped here 3 times and every time we were served hot tasty food. Hats off to the chef. The place is bright and clean, the staff friendly and helpful. We can highly recommend it and will be definitely stopping off again on our next trip to Plymouth.

Great food , the staff were very welcoming and friendly. Nice relaxed atmosphere and the dirty brisket burger was excellent .

Really great food and amazing service i would highly recommend eating here. The staff are lovely here.the food is great but a bit pricey

Called in on the way past as we went home. Near the end of the day but still was made to feel at home and valued. Food was really great and quickly served by happy staff. Highly recommended!

When I went it was a quiet evening, but very pleasant experience all round!

Breakfast was nice, service was lovely. Was told a 30 min wait for food (Saturday around 2pm) but drinks and food arrived within 10 mins of being seated. Had a nice feel to the place.

Food was fresh, tasty and obviously made from quality ingredients. Staff were incredibly friendly and attentive.

Very nice food and very flavourful especially the dessert, though wait staff are a little slow but it’s not inconvenient ,a few costumers had there orders wrong but they were quickly token care of but the staff are friendly and accommodating

Extremely good staff here. Nothing to much trouble. Had lovely pizzas, served good and hot. Loos exceptionally clean and nicely decorated. Will go again soon.

Clean and tidy helpful staff great service friendly staff good food

Amazing welcome,such friendly and helpful staff,great service,lovely atmosphere,good prices and lovely food,we had the amazing burgers,

Really friendly welcome, quick service and a much needed good breakfast. I left happy and satisfied.

Other similar type restaurants could learn a lot from the Brightside team. This was our second visit and ALL of the staff are outstanding. Friendly, caring and will go out of their way to help. Ofcourse it’s part of the job but it’s a little more special. A little more heartfelt. I hope this is recognised and appreciated internally. If you have food allergies you will be in good hands. It’s the first thing we were asked on both visits. Great food and good value. Higher quality than their peers. Recommend the breakfast. Quality bacon and the Sausages are amazing. Sourdough toast. Brightside care and encourage your feedback to help them grow and improve. We will be back! Thankyou!

Cracking burgers, friendly, attentive service and all round good value for money.

It was incredible! The honey burger and the dirty brisket burger was heavenly! The service was great also and the venue was immaculate! Thank you for a lovely dinner 🍲 Would also highly recommend the vanilla and white chocolate cheesecake!

We loved our first trip to Brightside. Great food and drinks, good value with superb service. And the best avocado bathroom :-)

Great place - staff are always friendly.

I Visited today 22/11 with my partner and daughter I used to visit myself quite often through the year a few years back when it was route 38. Due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to come down in recent years due to personal reasons. We looked online and saw route 38 had gone but decided to visit Brightside anyway, for my daughters 2nd birthday. we are so glad we ate there tonight. as the food was beautiful and piping hot when it arrived. There was also a good selection to choose from. I would also love to mention a member of staff called Ava, she made sure that my 2 year old was occupied with colouring and reading. She was also very helpful with recommendations she asked multiples times how everything was, to make sure it was all okay. upon leaving the restaurant Ava again checked everything was okay, and gave my daughter a parting gift. She was so very thoughtful and it was such a nice gesture. I work as a manager in a customer service role for a large entertainments company, and I can say now I would be so happy if all our staff were like Ava. I will be recommending Brightside to any who mentions they will be visiting Cornwall I will also be revisiting for breakfast before our 300 mile drive home Sunday.

I Visited today 22/11 with my partner and daughter I used to visit myself quite often through the year a few years back when it was route 38. Due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to come down in recent years due to personal reasons. We looked online and saw route 38 had gone but decided to visit Brightside anyway, for my daughters 2nd birthday. we are so glad we ate there tonight. as the food was beautiful and piping hot when it arrived. There was also a good selection to choose from. I would also love to mention a member of staff called Ava, she made sure that my 2 year old was occupied with colouring and reading. She was also very helpful with recommendations she asked multiples times how everything was, to make sure it was all okay. upon leaving the restaurant Ava again checked everything was okay, and gave my daughter a parting gift. She was so very thoughtful and it was such a nice gesture. I work as a manager in a customer service role for a large entertainments company, and I can say now I would be so happy if all our staff were like Ava. I will be recommending Brightside to any who mentions they will be visiting Cornwall I will also be revisiting for breakfast before our 300 mile drive home Sunday.

Very nice restaurant, excellent all round 😀

Well worth the time pass. Feel like you in a different time zone from the 70/80's. Elvis is in the Building.........heartbreak hotel x

Wanted it to be more, but food is overpriced and service not great. Had a ‘Dirty Burger’ but the bap was whole meal and not particularly suitable for a ‘diner’ burger. Other meal was a big breakfast but not really worth £16. Waitresses were nice, but a long wait for food and then bill (I think one forgot she was going to get it). Overall not the best. Decor is interesting (think ‘The Shining’ or ‘Stranger Things’. Should be better than this. A diner with an average burger and an overpriced breakfast is not really on.

We were served by Rachel, who was super friendly and accommodating. Food was good but the lovely staff were the best part of the experience.

Friendly staff lovely food, will be visiting again. Xx

Well looked after, Treat for our dog, fresh water provided. Breakfast were excellent. Service to be proud of. Ani loves you guys.

We were served by Katie, wonderful service, food and prices.

We were seated and left for 20 minutes. Not what you expect Sunday lunchtime when most of the restaurant is empty

I called into bright side to ask if I could use their toilets and asked if they could do a takeaway chips due to waiting for recovery on my car and had a bad experience whilst waiting! The lady very kindly said that it was ok! On my return to order the food I only had £5 with me and they very kindly gave me a meal and a drink on the house for the terrible evening I had! I attempted to offer them the money I had and they refused. I would highly recommend this place! Absolutely lovely staff and very supportive.

Lovely place to have a bite to eat. Great layout. Service was incredible. Food blooming stunning. So yummy 😋.

One of our favourite family diners when were on holiday in Cornwall, we always pay a visit, Rachel and team are always super lovely and attentive, food is great and the interiors are Wes Anderson meets Stranger Things, the attention to detail is fabulous, including the very retro avocado bathrooms. Highly recommended ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sian our waitress was very attentive and made our experience special. Also Emily was always checking allergies which we really appreciated. Will be back!!🫶

Good quality food and friendly helpful staff. We eat at Lounge bars around the country and we're keen to try this place as it is part of that group. We highly recommend eating here. There are good gluten free options.

otherwise is GOOD FOOD but you have extra fly animals who is hungru too 😀

A nice surprise and a lot larger than the previous restaurant. Excellent service with good food. Large car park and even dog friendly. Well definitely be visiting again.

We have been here for the past 2 years. Last year we enjoyed it but it seems to have gone a little downhill since then. Coffee was very bitter and I enjoy a strong coffee. I ordered the vegetarian breakfast. 2 little strips of haloumi, potato rosti and whatever else was on. This was definitely not worth what we paid for it. My friend ordered the same and was as disappointed as I was. We will not be returning

Fantastic staff, great food. A company is as good as its staff, give your staff a good bonus at Christmas.

Great stop fabulous burgers service was excellent totally capable to cater for large numbers and a real retro feel which has great attention to detail

Genuinely the best service I’ve ever received from a restaurant, had an amazing waitress who made us all smile and laugh. Would definitely return

First time there. Fast quick service. Plenty of room where you are seated. The only problem was my coffee came out cold. They refunded me and gave me a replacement.👍

Very clean and bright. Seating is great as there is plenty of room between tables. Brightside breakfast was amazing.

This place is a little expensive, however food service & atmosphere is great. It's worth a visit

On entering the place we thought we had stepped back to the 1970's. The place looks very dated but I suspect that is by design. The staff are welcoming and the food is freshly prepared to order. We had a small cooked breakfast which was not small but was delicious. No mushrooms but plenty of bacon. Reminded me of the Little Chef restaurants. Good fir families.

Was disappointed with the food. All our steaks were over done. The coffee was Luke warm and my glass was dirty! All the staff recited the same customer service speech word for word which made everything seem insincere. The restaurant at Exeter was excellent very disappointed with this one! There was also a dirty smell by the bar. If I had smelt this first I may not have stayed.

I've lived in the US and this is the closest to an American Diner that I've had in the UK. The food is excellent 👌. All of it. I want everything on the menu every time I come. The service is always top notch (unusual nowadays) with a decent turnaround time. It's a real treat and an absolute jewel in the west country (along with their other locations on Haldon Hill and the A303)

We stopped in here on our way back from St Kew and based on the reviews we weren't really expecting much so we were really pleasantly surprised. The restaurant was clean and well laid out and they have a selection of books and toys available for children. The service was fast and very friendly, the coffee was really nice and the food was all very well cooked and enjoyable. The staff were all really nice and constantly on the move and doing something - when they weren't serving they were cleaning and checking that we had everything we needed.

Delicious food, a great place to stop for breakfast / brunch / lunch on your journey

This was a late night supper after a long drive back to the digs. The food was good and freshly made and the service cheery for a late shift 👌

Lovely staff and we really enjoyed our food.

3 girls at bar no one offered to help the place was mostly empty they wouldn’t let me sit where I wanted around the corner away from people . The chicken was so well done it was dried out and so crispy I couldn’t eat it the chunky chips were so over cooked there was no potato inside I sent them back . Got another pot not much better and they were covered in something sweet. Which was burnt all over these chips every thing so sweet and they charged 17.05 for that . I wish I refused to pay

Burgers were actually very good as was the pizza but very expensive for what it was. Drinks and sides extremely overpriced and luke warm. Service absolutely appalling hence the three stars, mostly run by inexperienced and inattentive kids. Was much much better when it was Route 38.

Beautiful big juicy burgers. Delicious. Waiting staff were very pleasant.

Children's menu was over-priced for the portion my litte boy recieved. His food clearly hadn't been freshly prepared and had been reheated.

Everything was great, even the toilets were lovely and clean

Just can't fault it. Had a few meals at bright side and the food is brilliant. Burgers are exceptional, better than a lot of burger places (get the dirty brisket or chicken mac), breakfast was good too.

Excellent atmosphere, warm and friendly service 👌...only draw back for me was I really wanted a hotmeal(rice and curry).. it was available at the time other than that...enjoyed it ✨️✨️✨️✨️💯

Big breakfast nothing like picture in menu. No mushrooms so offered extra egg or tomato. Extra egg didnt arrive or black pudding in picture ? Bacon burnt to a crisp. Sausages tasted horrible. Burger meal , cup of tiny chips burger just looked a mess. Definitely give this place a miss.

Everything was amazing, the bacon and sauages and the eggs was spot on. And the waitresses was really friendly and proper... A big 100% from me... By far better then the old route 38....

Can't fault the staff great attitude, my 9 year old insisted on replacing the naan with the curry with pancakes and they did it! All credit and it works really well, new menu item? Thanks!

Great place for breakfast!!! Great food and cool American diner vibes!!

Quirky, but all the more fun for being so. Good food, reasonable prices and great staff.

Food is lovely. Good quality sausages & eggs cooked how you want them.

We stopped here to have breakfast on our way to the monkey sanctuary. From the moment we went inside staff were friendly and very accommodating. One of my children is autistic and can be quite specific about what she needs and wants and staff were adaptable sympathetic and understanding. Food was excellent hot fresh and really good portions and quality.

Waiters are rude Lie about things as extremely lazy

Very nice, pleasantly surprised.

Just pulled in on the way to Cornwall. What a great find. Food was lovely and the atmosphere is different (seems to be a 70s vibe) but really good.

Absolutely amazing food .. the chef definitely knows how's to cook the best steak and the staff were so friendly .. definitely going again

We love popping into Brightside on our way home from visiting Family in Devon. We recently took our young grand daughter & the staff were very accommodating & friendly. When we left we had accidently left a juice bottle & a lovely staff member came out to the carpark to hand it too us. We have never had a bad experience & would highly recommend a visit.

Where Little Chef meets Stranger Things. An amazing restaurant in a great location. We visited here when it was Route 38 twice before when holidaying in Cornwall, then it was good but this is great. Awesome Interior through even the avacado green toilets, brilliant. Staff lovely and dog friendly. We visited on a Wednesday when it was Kids Eat Free after 3pm which was a nice bonus. Good portions and reasonably priced.

We stopped by for a break on a long drive from Devon to Cornwall. The place was clean and had the feel of a good old-fashioned American Diner. The ladies who greeted us and served us were lovely and friendly. We only got tea to take out as the only bread they had was sourdough, which my partner unfortunately can't eat. The food did look nice, though 😋

We stopped here for dinner one evening during our family holiday near Seaton/Downderry. We'd visited a couple of years ago and said that we wouldn't return as it was so run down, but saw that it had been taken over by a different company and had been done up we thought we'd give it another go. The interior is so much better, really good job! The staff are lovely and friendly and really attentive, the food however was pretty basic but extremely expensive. For 3 of us to eat a main meal and dessert each, plus 5 drinks it was £93! The most we've ever paid for a meal out! We'd love to return but just couldn't afford it. Big shout out to Sadie who was really friendly and recommended a nice beach for us to visit.

Absolutely brilliant food and service provided! We were on holiday and had dinner twice as was so impressed with the standard of food & service. Decor was great and added to the experience.

We've eaten here twice now, and it's so lovely to find somewhere at a service station with a gluten free menu, dog friendly and a really good menu. The staff are always friendly and knowledgeable about the menu/allergies etc - perfect for a stop off before heading into cornwall, and equally for their Tuesday pizza club in the week for locals. Highly recommend 👌

Stupidly ordered American pancakes, why do places serve these when they are nothing like the real thing. Ok you so this is the uk we serve them differently. That I can live with but over £10 for cold stale, dry, pancakes out of a packet is just wrong at least have the decency to actually make the pancakes ! They take 5mins on the hob. Gave it a try but never again if you cannot make a pancake I don’t trust you with anything else. Only gave one star as there is nothing lower.

Nice food and really lovely staff

We had a lovely meal and the staff were so friendly. They were great with our toddler! I’m also coeliac and the staff were great and I had a fantastic choice of food and it was delicious!

Don’t normally write reviews but we had a meal at Brightside earlier today. The place was spotlessly clean, the staff were excellent, the food was amazing and very well priced. We had two young children with us. The front of house staff were great offering toys and things to keep them happy. Credit where credit it due. We will 100% be back again. Great experience 👍👍

Great place to visit and very friendly staff. Great food

We loved our first visit to a Brightside restaurant. It replaced a much loved venue at Route 38 for our regular Cornwall visits. We were greeted by a friendly team who were welcoming and helpful. Food was quick and delicious. We will definitely go back next time we are in Cornwall.

After driving near enough 5 hours down, looking for somewhere to eat dog friendly on a Sunday evening without knowing the area & doing research we stopped at Roadside Brightside. The lady who served us (didn’t catch her name unfortunately) she was AMAZING! Bought our dog some treats over, bought him water, made sure we had everything we needed. She was all round just wonderful, she also just looked so happy, friendly & welcoming! We weren’t expecting Michelin star food, just wanted something yummy to feel our tummy’s! The honey in halloumi was amazing! Wonderful run restaurant & the decor was pretty cool too! Thank you!

Lovely, friendly staff. It was clean and the decor was set up like an American diner. The food was tasty, hot and thr portion size was good.

Great food and service, the staff were first class.

Fantastic service, lovely chicken burger, highly recommended!

Simple menu, has everything you’d want in a roadside diner. Incredibly friendly staff, excellent coffee!

We live local,and this the first and last time we will visit, I ordered a all day breakfast at £11.95,The toast was terrible it was like it had been dropped in a vat of oil,the one sausage was under cooked,the bacon was ok,you get beans and one mushroom,and the fried egg was over cooked.overall terrible for the money.

Very tasty food,excellent staff and very clean, good parking spaces. They don't accept Blue light,NHS or Veterans cards though

Another great experience here took family who are staying and the service and food was as lovely as ever. Rachel is the best hostess and the reason we keep going back.

Great food. Exceptional staff. Real diner experience

Fabulous breakfast and a pot of tea. Lovely staff. One of the best breakfasts we have ever had. So pleased we decided to stop off!

We'd visited previously but hadn't been aware of the refurbishment. Can't say we were disappointed as service / staff were second to none, Amazing. The food was great and well priced. Think 70s throw back, valour, flares, and your kinda in the right ball park. Free parking with good access. Highly recommend, you won't be disappointed

Wow, what a find. Our usual stop not open so decided to try here. It will now be our go to place. Very clean and tidy. Waitresses a delight. Food delicious at very reasonable prices. Best chips we've ever tried

We went in and were seated swiftly, after 15 minutes of staff chatting and not being served we decided to leave this was at around 2:00pm on 12/07/24. We were really disappointed as we love the one near Exeter.

Absolutely awful experience, food shocking compared to the old route 38, waited nearly 20minutes for my drinks order (2drinks). Certainly won't be returning.

Had a lovely cheese and bacon burger topped off with a banana milkshake, excellent, friendly helpful service,nice and clean, plenty of parking,would recommend and return.

Brilliant place to eat, staff are lovely.