Captain Morgan in South Hams - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Ahhh man it pains me to write this one but gotta be honest on it. It used to be superb like really but now it’s just resting on its laurels of location and somewhat, reputation. The staff are like gen z or whatever and struggle to keep up which could be a training issue, I don’t know. The food is okay but it’s not good and there are things that just shouldn’t happen like oh we have run out of ketchup like wut just send someone up to the spar to buy some, think! I had to go to my car to get some packets of ketchup for my son, like seriously lol It used to be great, the location is still great but the food and service… it’s a gamble. Maybe try one of the new places on island street and see if they’re better.

Has always been the place for breakfast especially for the locals. Very disappointing, although eating in tea came in a paper cup because the staff said they didn’t have a suitable cup. Pancakes came, zero presentation just 3 small ones slapped on a plate, crazy considering the price they charge Great location spoilt by a total lack of love and care and thought. Could be a wonderful experience with an owner who cared Try the Salcombe Coffee Co. So much better

I'm afraid this cafe is a really overpriced let down in comparison to everywhere we have eaten breakfast in Salcombe and surrounding areas. £44.30 for 2 adults and an 8 year old! Cheap food products, not very well cooked and all served in a rush rush attitude. When I told the all very young and not very bothered staff that the table wasn't clean and had food on it they said "oh dear that's a shame!!" Then I went through 4 or 5 sets of self service cutlery that most definitely had not seen the dishwasher recently! When our food came the £2 mushroom side order was literally 3 mushroom cut in half and the toast was wrong type on all orders. Butter was in the foil wraps and was liquid you may as well poured out of a jug! The £5 milkshake was just watery cheap choc milk in a very small cup and the worst priced I've seen all holiday! Also cant remember the last time I was ever charged for tomato sauce sachets! If you are looking for even a modicum of decent breakfast go and find somewhere else. AVOID!!

Excellent sandwich, prompt service, good coffee.

This place used to be the best breakfast in Salcombe by far, but sadly no more. The hatch service was a back log of people trying to order and those trying to collect their orders. Some of the menu wasn’t available and they had run out of ketchup. Staff were rude when we asked a question. Bacon was under cooked and the bread was thin slices.

Love this place, always come here for an English breakfast everytime we go to Salcombe. Staff are lovely, friendly and always smiling. Ideal location next to a car park and the waterfront! We reccomend the captains breakfast!

Lovely coffee. Staff friendly & helpful. Lovely views

If you want heavily fried food then you may like this place, but we did not. The bread was dry, the scrambled egg juice was excessive making the plate and bread wet. Especially compared to the other choices in Salcombe, this was a complete let down. The staff however were absolutely lovely, very helpful and brought the food out quickly.

As in other comments about this place, rude staff, even made fun of my friend and then the coffee was awful. Plenty of others lovely shops you can get great service from. Terrible!!

Very unfriendly to be honest. Quite sticky and cramped with dirty menus.

The food and the service here at Captain Morgans is second to none, Emma is an absolute delight. She is great with the customers and always makes you feel welcome. Thank you once again for amazing service and delicious food. See you again soon

Some cold food and missing items. Great atmosphere though!

Great breakfast at Captain Morgan's. Greeted warmly & everything served swiftly, was very tasty!

great bacon sandwich which is stuffed to the brim. staff dont greet guests at the takeaway spot, i stood at the window and just watched them cooking, it took 5 minutes before someone acknowledged me. It was quiet in the seated area. It was a very awkward experience. Please address this as it's a shame to have such prime location but no real interest in clientele

Below average quality, expensive

So Saturday Morning just past - our Crew from Lyme Bay Boats visited Salcombe in conjunction with The Wolf Rock Boat Company. It was hacking down not the best day for sea trials on Wolf Rocks line of boats. All was rectified when we went for Tea/ Coffee and bacon butties on their infamous granary bread - Tea : - I was asked if I’d like white milk? The two beauties serving were in pink attire … white milk … ? No I’ll have pink I replied.. The two beauties just couldn’t work it out. !!! These lovely Ladies that work at Captain Morgan’s managed to quell the rain with their cheeky gags and smiley faces .. - So a must go to place Captain Morgan is… - The Cheeky Girls … I’m going there again - it’s worth the parking ticket!!! Lots of Love to you both Jamie Lyme Bay Boats

The breakfast was delicious and the tomatoes were really lovely! It was right on the harbour and had a nice view of the sea!

Lovely view! Coffee is great and the breakfast was really good too! Veggie breakfast comes with bubble and squeak style sausages and the tomatoes really are lovely they aren't lying!

Might want to remind the lanky man-boy who lingers behind the counter that when he rudely remarks on customers we can all hear him quite clearly. We ordered take away sandwiches (nice sausage but crap bread).. we sat down to wait for our order when the irritating skinny dude loudly says to other staff...they've ordered take away and now they're sitting down inside like we were making some big mistake.... we're we supposed to order our food and then walk away without it???? There were no other customers (unsurprisingly) so I'm not sure what he was grumbling about...I called to him we're waiting for our food but he ignored me. Food was mediocre place was a mess inside. Needless to say I won't be returning

Well I have to say, we went for breakfast and we all had something different and I have to say that all the food sent out was beautiful and very good quality, poached eggs was delicious and the Captain Breakfast wow to dead for

CAPTIN MORGANS WHAT A PLACE, impeccable service from start to finish! Would 100% recommend to all. Food was awesome and best tea ive had in salcombe.

The best breakfast I’ve had for a long time, at a very reasonable price. I ordered a Captains breakfast which was delicious and too big to finish. My friend ordered the Avocado with Poached Eggs which were cooked to perfection. The staff were very friendly with great service. Both our coffees were lovely. Overall I would highly recommend for a breakfast in the sun overlooking Salcombe. 5/5 stars from me.

The Food was atrocious, the smashed avocado on sour dough wasn’t presented on sour dough( although still charged for) which I wasn’t Informed of until after i received the food. When I dared question It I was told ‘no one received sourdough with their orders’ as though that was somehow acceptable. The scrambled eggs weren’t mixed correctly and were runny and vile. The price of £11 for what I received was insulting. Me and my partner agreed the service was abysmal and the food was somehow worse. The attitude of the owners was woeful and overall I’d I could rate this 0 stars I would. Foul from start to finish. I demanded a refund which I received. The blasé arrogance of the staff was as confusing as it was disappointing. The older ladies prepping the food who I believe to be the owners treated myself and others with contempt and utter disdain. The worst attempt at food service I’ve ever experienced. Mind blowing considering the location. Anyone with half a brain or a modicum of respect for the customers hard earned money could turn this pit into a gold mine. Abhorrent, avoid like the plague.

Absolutely the worst breakfast we have ever had. Cheap eggs, no sourdough bread, no chilli flakes in the meagre spread of avocado £9, total rip off. Very rude staff member. Awful coffee. Avoid at all costs.

Very big standard food, extremely over priced. Good location.

Best brekkie in salcombe! Had 2 captains breakfast and could barely finish it was so massive. Ideal spot for breakfast before a day out on the water in sunny salcombe. Couldn’t recommend highly enough!

Best price fish and chip in salcombe and wonderful veiw and nice breakfast would go back anytime 5/5 from me

Extremely slow service, extremely overpriced poor quality food - £8.00 for a prawn sandwich containing limp watery prawns, a small amount of lettuce and a smear of marie rose sauce. A waste of money.

Ordered a breakfast and a bacon roll. Roll was a sandwich when it came and the bread was mouldy. Tea was hot but you can’t really get a herbal tea wrong. Husbands breakfast looked ok.

very expensive, next time I think I'll bring a picnic with me, and save a fortune.

Cold food. Tiny portions. Excessively expensive. Rude server. Nothing to review. Was an awful experience and will never return. 0/5 stars

A real shame to see some negative press recently. We had a couple of absolutely delicious bacon sandwiches here last Thursday, lots of thick cut fried bacon and lovely fresh bread for £6 each. Well worth the money. Service was excellent, the only reason I've given it 4 for atmosphere was due to the vulture-like gulls waiting to steal our food - sadly out of the control of the café staff..

Great place great food. I see someone complained about the price of the fish and chip and portion size in the daily mail how sad some people are. When you break the price down it’s cheap. Try breaking down the costs 1 cost of materials ( fish, potatoes, oil, flour for batter) 2 staff cost (not just wages but NI contributions from employers cost) 3 council tax, (biggest rip off ever)4 gas, electric,( again biggest rip off) 5 rent or lease 6 property up keep (maintenance) 7 cost of equipment and maintenance of equipment. 8 the price you pay includes VAT which is collected at no cost to the government 9 accountancy costs. Just a few over heads I’m sure there is a few more on top of that. if you think its expensive think again or if you can’t afford to eat out don’t eat out, oh and I’m a customer I enjoyed my meal and left a tip or the staff because they gave good service and the food was up to my standard. Thank you everyone for making my meal so good

We wanted a reasonably priced fish and chips and found Captain Morgan's Cafe on Fore Street using Google Maps. The fish and chips was freshly cooked and very tasty. The fish was nicely battered and the chips tasted good too, with some of the potato skin left on for some extra texture and flavour. We ate outside the cafe where the tables face the Salcombe Pier overlooking Salcombe Creek so a nice location to eat at. Easy to find right in the centre of town.

Great breakfast - friendly flexible service and good quality food

Unfortunately one of the worst hospitality experiences we have had for a while. - started off ok with a nice welcome and order was placed - drinks took 20 minutes to arrive - order was wrong when first brought out then we had to tell them the order again. - kitchen staff were exremely noisy to the point we could not hear our conversation. (I’m all for a happy working environment but this bordered on festival goers on the third day!!) - no cutlery brought out with the breakfast. - no apology for the time taken which was beyond a reasonable time for the food ordered. Whilst I appreciate it was busy at the time I think as a minimum we should have been advised of the waiting time and an apology when the food was brought out an hour after we ordered. My son’s review - “there was more partying than cooking”. We often visit salcombe and wanted to give the new manager some support, unfortunately we won’t be visiting again. Please consider some improvements for when the summer season hits and it gets even busier than it was on a sunny Saturday.

Had a really nice meal, we will be back, nice relaxed atmosphere and pleasant scenery well worth a visit if you’re around!

Excellent cafe! Very helpful and cheerful staff. Good location. Excellent bacon sandwich. Good coffee! Well worth a visit.

Visited this nice down to earth cafe for a good brunch and with good service.

Great food and the people that run the place are so helpful in every way

We’ve been coming to Salcombe in January for 30 years plus. Very often Capt Morgan’s is closed at this time of year for a well-earned break. But this year a happy surprise - they are open Fri-Sun so we grabbed the chance to have a...

Great coffee and fast, friendly service in a prime location.

Fred bread. Lots of bacon. Served with a smile. Couldn’t ask for more, although it was a lovely Sunday - sunny and warm (for October)

Lovely ladies made us delicious bacon sandwiches to take away.

We just love sitting by the harbour eating our Captain Morgans breakfast. A lovely buzz in the morning as people get ready for their day and the food is always excellent and served quickly

Superb cooked breakfast, very friendly staff, good pricing, lovely views and quick service, highly recommended.

A very poor breakfast bacon like shoe leather 2 teas 2 small cooked breakfast! £23.00 do not bother There are far better places to eat in Salcombe than here even the sea gulls didn’t bother you On the plus side hard working staff

Ellie, Emma and crew are very good and of course the coffee and breakfast is great. Good to see local businesses doing it as it should be done... Good to Great!

Food was ok but service not great. Served half mugs of tea with no milk, no cutlery and staff did not make eye contact our say hello despite is being sat at a table for 10 minutes. Really expensive too!

Excellent service, generous portions and probably the most reasonable prices in Salcombe! The milkshakes were lovely too. Good seagull -frightening skills at outside tables.

Easy ordering service. Order at the hatch and pick a table to sit at either outside or in their cafe area inside. At least one third of their menu was unavailable, due to them not having pitta bread, but we were offered an alternative type of bread by a very polite waiter. Nice, uncomplicated food, perfect for our fussy toddlers. I ordered mozzarella and tomato baguette (I enjoyed it very much), my hubby had a prawn baguette and my two toddlers shared a smoked salmon and cream cheesss sandwich. Readonably priced.

Decent food, competitive priced. Becareful as the chilli leaks off the plate!!

Two of had the full English breakfast. I would have guessed the ingredients cost around £1.50 to make this breakfast for which we were charged £9. One tasteless sausage, one overcooked fried egg, 2 rashes of very greasy bacon, one burnt hash brown, half of...

Excellent food and service on a busy sunny Saturday. From ordering to eating everything was first class .Very friendly .Just watch for the hungry seagulls .All in all a good experience. Would recommend.

Great food fairly priced for Salcombe with inside and outside tables. Friendly staff.

If you want a full English before a days sailing this is the place

Absolutely superb breakfast and approachable staff. It's intimate and cosey, great for all weathered days.

Excellent staff at Cpt. Morgans. Waitress was friendly and attentive. Chef came out and asked us how our lunch was. Overall quality service.

Quick and so friendly but beware of the seagulls

We were served straight away with a very cheerful member of staff who served us probably the nicest cup of coffee we've had for a long time, piping hot nice and frothy

Great little coffee breakfast house in the heart of Salcolme. Ellie has a great team and very welcoming. Recommend 😁 Henry is a lot of fun 🍰🏂

great quality sausage and bacon! Give us the option of cobs and i'd be there every morning

Despite the current delivery problems they managed to produce lovely food for 6 of us at short notice. Food cooked to high standard and all brought out together. Highly recommended

Food was decent. Sat outside with nice view of the estuary. Ran out of fish so ordered scampi and chips. Took ages to arrive. Staff didn't communicate waiting times. We, as well as other customers, had to ask for update on the food. Hopefully just a bad day at the office.

Quick service and the strawberry milkshake was thicc and creamy 💦

Best bacon and egg sandwich ever. Well done Captain Morgan's. Great service and fantastic setting

Coffees came out quickly but waited a good 45 mins for breakfast. Order was wrong - toast was missing so had to wait another 10 mins for it to come back out again. Had to ask for butter and toast cold by the time butter...

Great food, great staff. Typical of grockles to not understand that sometimes service can be slow because the population of the town goes up 5 fold in the summer months and all businesses are short staffed because they have made it too expensive for ordinary people to live in Salcombe. Want fast food go to McDonalds and stay at home. Want decent home cooked food this is your place.

Excellent breakfast, all cooked fresh to order. Beautiful views, a real delight. Staff were very friendly and polite. If I had one tiny gripe it would be some of the crockery needs replacing. 2 out of 3 plates served to us were badly chipped, a...

Stopped here for coffee , looked like a lovely water front cafe . Asked the waitress if I should order at table or kiosk - she said I could do either without even looking up from what she was doing. Ordered two coffees from kiosk...

Stopped for lunch on a busy day, fish and chips, bacon and Brie sandwich and chicken sandwich, all were excellent, especially the fish and chips. Service was good even though they were very busy. I would definitely recommend.

Avocado and eggs was disappointing. The avocado was the slightest smear on one slice of toast for £8. Price would have been fine if I could have had a few bites of avocado

We waited an hour for a hot dog and breakfast. Not worth the wait to be honest, although the onions with hot dog delicious. Not a frankfurter as menu described and the bun slit sideways instead of on top which made it impossible to eat!...

Ordered 4 coffees to go as we were catching a boat trip, paid and after 15 mins and after requesting progress they still hadn’t started to make them. No apologies, no offer of refund, just a shrug of the shoulders. We had to dash, so had no more time to wait them. Certainly won’t visit them again and suggest you spend your money elsewhere.

Ordered a couple of bacon sandwiches to take away at about 9:20. Was told sit on the wall to wait and did. Walked to the window to ask where they were at about 9:55 to be told 'they are going on the bread right now'. That was untrue and we walked away at 10am. We then went to Sailor V up the road and had our sandwiches in hands about four minutes after ordering and they were delicious. Avoid Captain Morgan's if you have any plans. If you want quick service and very tasty food head up the road to Sailor V.

On a wet and wild October day, this cosy place was perfect. Our waitress was great - warm, informative and very friendly. We had fish and chips (beautifully crisp batter, succulent fish, fluffy chips and heaty mushy peas) and a vegan burger (which was deemed delicious), served promptly and with an eye to presentation.This is probably not as swanky as some places in Salcombe, but the food is great, it is relaxed and really good value. You'd be a fool to pass it over.

Went into here and the food was nothing short of awful. We had fish and chips;the chips were overly greasy and the fish was over cooked, the batter was chewy and there wasn't much fish and the fish that there was in the heaps of batter was chewy and had no real taste. Wasn't nice food at all. Staff were friendly and knowledgeable but didn't wear masks in the kitchen (did when serving) and not sure it was overly hygienic if at all. Wouldn't go back as food was awful, not one of the fish and chips were nice, all overcooked!

Visiting anywhere in these COVID times is going to be different. No masks worn by staff at all which I thought was mandatory now. My field mushroom burger was dry & did not come with the added mushrooms on top. My mocha was quite good though.

Noticed people eating on the waterfront so thought we’d give it a go The breakfast wasn’t too bad but the coffee was some of the worst we have had as a family - really weak

Well done for insisting on cash. The coffee here was u usually good but I was most impressed that far from making the feeble the excuse that cash was not COVID friendly, they welcomed it with open arms! The Bank of England and the European Central Bank have all stated categorically that cash is safe.

Very disappointing. After ordering our two breakfasts, the collection window shouted out number and when collecting, had let another person walk off with one of ours!!! To be given a response of ‍♀️ So I ended up having to follow the person for a fair distance and tell him!!! No apology whatsoever, and then finally when I get eating the breakfast (smashed avocado with egg) it was full of egg shells!!! So I had to wait again for my food! £26 not well spent!!!

I appreciate that the COVID-19 restrictions delays everything but to wait 1 hour to receive a breakfast cob is crazy! The wait aside the coffee's and Vegan sausage sandwich's we're lovely, I do recommend the vegan sausage, it was a vegetable packed one with a delicious crunch, see the pic!

Called in for Fish, chips & mushy peas all for £9. Very tasty & fresh. Would’ve preferred proper chip shop chips but still very nice.Also from reading other reviews I guarded my food with my life for fear of either a seagull stealing my food or maybe a tad worse, pooping in it!!

A proper breakfast with 2 of everything, set us up for the day. But why were we the only ones eating? Perhaps everyone else was eating at one of the the more fashionable establishments where you pay the same but get half as much. Great service and great food. Thanks

My wife and son visited and came back singing the cafes praises - both highly satisfied and replete!

After a long drive down from the NW on a regular basis, my first stop is always Captain Morgan’s for the best breakfast sandwich ever, right on the harbour and served by the lovely friendly girls, Rosie and Joz.

We stopped in Salcombe on way from Plymouth to Torquay on driving tour. It was worth it. The Prawn sandwich was best ever. The chips yummy and the excellent staff even toasted the cheese sandwich for my wife even though they never had a sandwich toaster. Loved the location near small harbour side. Thanks to the staff.

Great location with reaaly good choices on menu. Sandwiches are freshly made to order. We had a prawn sandwich served on brown bread which was delicious, so full of prawns. Also had portion of chips (had to be done) which, again, were lovely and 2 cokes....total bill £12.90. Very friendly staff and cannot recommend highly enough.

We stopped at Captain Morgans on a busy Bank Holiday Monday. Service was prompt and friendly from Holly. Very nice Bacon and Egg Sandwich with a good filling and nice fresh bread. A decent sized Mocha was good too.

What a great way to start an amazing weekend in Salcombe other than breakfast at Captain Morgan’s. I do like their belly busting breakfast. You can sit inside or just outside too now. Not just breakfast I hear you say...open all day for coffees and also now for lunch.

What's not to like? Lovely breakfast and friendly service. We would definitely pop in next time we visit Salcombe.

Prima caféetje aan de haven waar vele bootbezitters hun dinghy’s afmeren om boodschappen te gaan doen of o.a. bij dit café ontbijten, lunchen of zomaar koffie of een drankje doen. Daar is deze gelegenheid erg geschikt voor. Verwacht geen uitgebreide menukaart.

We decided on a whim to pay a visit into Salcombe due to the weather and stopped off at Captain Morgans for a late lunch. This was a return visit as we had eaten there last year.We found it had been done up since 2018 due to new ownership and this made a pleasant change.We were welcomed as we walked in with our baby in a buggy and shown to a table by Rosie who also took our order.We ordered two fish burgers and chips and a regular burger and chips with a Coke and strawberry milkshake. This was bought out to us in a timely fashion by Rosie.During our meal our 9 month old infant started crying and we were very surprised that one of the staff came out of the kitchen and proceeded to try and calm her. Holly spent quite a bit of time with her allowing us to finish our meals even asking if it was okay to try using a coffee biscuit (which worked)Further to previous reviews which I have just read below we found this place very good and would recommend it.It's a basic little cafe with an outside area and pretty much does exactly what it says on the tin.The service and staff were excellent and I can't fault it. We would absolutely return, if back in the area.I understand the reasons for the cafe not replacing seagull "damaged" food and did see a warning on the cafe door (which until I read the previous reviews found quite amusing) My opinion is deal with it...if a gull stole your icecream would you run back to the stall you got it from to complain???

My wife and I stopped here for lunch on a day trip to Salcombe.

Btw never written a bad review before! Visited Captain Morgan's Cafe with family whilst on holiday & was disgusted by treatment of staff after seagull muck landed on my son & his friend's lunch! We had waited a long time (30mins +) for their simple cafe meals & then this happened before they'd even had a bite! I immediately returned them & asked for them to be replaced & the staff seemed obliging. All good I thought. But after about 10 minutes of waiting AGAIN (annoying enough!), we decided to move inside the cafe to avoid risk of it happening again, so I went to let the staff know. They then told me that they could NOT in fact replace the meals as it happened a lot! I thought this was awful! The staff's manner was even worse!

Party of 11, all lunching. Sat outside. No umbrellas up, and no warning sign re any seagull problems - would have sat inside had we known. 2 lunches had only just been put on the table, not even picked up cutlery, when seagull defecated all over them. Staff rude and would not replace. Very poor. Disgusting in fact.

They let you sit outside, seagulls swoop or eat your food, no warnings, no replacement meal, bad attitude. Don't go here!

Had an absolutely awful experience here. As soon as our food arrived, a seagull decided to defecate all over it. When we requested a remake of the meals they rudely refused. Obviously being at the seaside we knew there would be a risk of seagulls contaminating the food; however the restaurant should at least warn customers with a sign if they will not refund or remake the meals (sausage and bread - for £6). However what was most appalling was the disgracefully rude behaviour of the staff. Not only were they disrespectful when speaking to us - we also heard them making fun of us behind our backs. Terrible, unprofessional attitudes - stay away!

Should have made the decision based on the empty seats when everywhere else was busy. Sandwiches were okay but you could tell all the produce came from packets, especially the cheese. Such a shame as it's got a prime location.

How refreshing to visit Captain Morgans this morning to see this popular cafe has been completely revamped, the outside tables and chairs are all new and much better than was here previously, very welcoming staff nothing was too much trouble, the Bacon Sandwich was excellent full of bacon and lovely granary bread and plenty of mugs of fresh tea