Seven Stars in South Hams

36+ mussels in a portion? Wow! And they were to die for says my partner! King prawn starter AOK too

Lovely little pub, nice atmosphere

Dined up stairs shame there is not a bar up there, waitress service from the downstair bar.

Great location, central to Dartmouth, but off the touristy footpath… so it’s more genuine… and clearly been a pub for… a few (or more) hundred years. Low ceiling, timber frame, friendly staff, great local beers, and amazing food. Highly recommend the mussels… they were soft, tender and beautiful, in a lovely white wine and cream sauce, with shallots and samphire (I think… I’m not the chef, but that’s my best guess). Highly recommended.

Had a great meal in there ? Great service . and nice pint 👌.

Went on a Sunday evening and the place was full. We sat in the upstairs room which was also full. I had sea bass fillets with veg and my wife had the scampi. Not the greatest meal but more than adequate and was hot. This is the oldest pub in Dartmouth

We were welcomed for a meal despite no reservation. Starter - chicken wings came quickly and we're yummy. Had to chase for the burgers which eventually arrived and we're again very tasty. Real Ales are well looked after and go down a dream. xx

Celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary there today.....lots of tapas, beer and wine 😁

Fab pub and great food! Really historic and with so much character and charm!

Great food, attentive staff,dog friendly!

What a great find and dog friendly too. We popped in on the off chance to get out of the rain , wanting some warm food. We had the burger and the gammon steak, which were both perfect. The desert we had were the chocolate brownie , rum and cherry tart, both recommended. Well priced and a great warm atmosphere.

It was the last night of our holiday and as we'd been busy packing we headed out much later than planned for dinner. The original place we had planned to go treated us very rudely, so we had to head off in search of somewhere else for our family of five to eat but on a Friday evening without a booking the first few places we come across were either fully booked or it was too close to the time of their kitchen closing at 8pm. We were all hungry and at the point of giving up and getting a takeaway which is not how we wanted to spend our last evening, when by chance we stumbled across Seven Stars up a side street. As soon as we arrived we received such a warm, friendly welcome and were instantly at ease. The pub is small and cosy with a nice atmosphere and packed full of character. We ordered three of the “Stars Smash Burger” meals all of which had adjustments due to allergies and two artisan stone baked pizzas. The food was absolutely delicious, and came out with all the correct adjustments exactly as we had ordered. The portions were generous and everything was tasty, fresh and very well made. The service was excellent and we left feeling very content and so pleased that we had found such a little gem. We were so glad that horrible service elsewhere led us to somewhere so lovely. We holiday at Dartmouth every year and will most definitely be coming back to Seven Stars again when we next visit.

Stayed in Dartmouth Regatta weekend and this was the best place we ate at. Pizza one night and roast the next. The service is well paced and the food delicious. Recommended

We ate in the Seven stars 3 times whilst staying in Dartmouth for the week. The Scallops were amazing The Hake mussels and Monkfish were also great extremely well cooked. My Daughter had huge burgers and pizza and so many fries portions are brilliant I drank the Cornish Ochard cider with my meals. Really rate this place and if I lived closer I would absolutely be a regular these guys are great hosts with great food. Many thanks to you all hope to be back soon.

Had a meal for six today, Fantastic food and great service, very accommodating Would definitely recommend

Nice oldy worldly pub ,fine selection of beers but food was shocking.

Just had a lovely meal( again) at the Seven Stars. Warm welcome and delicious food. Had the moules frites which were divine l white wine and cream sauce. Only have 4 stars as the menu is a little limited but why they do is brill.

Lovely old pub serving nice ales

Small and cosy, interesting decor, select but wine was quite pricey. They had what looked like a great cake selection if your visit is for afternoon tea or coffee and cake

This Inn is everything you want from a historic harbour drinkery! We popped in here and instantly wished we had eaten here when we saw sumptuous mussels going out. The food and associated smells were mouth watering. Low beams, wood paneling and mood lighting added to the sense.

Great place for a couple of beers

Just had a lovely smashed cheeseburger and chips here ! Highly recommend too big a portion for me though I’m sorry I couldn’t finish it ! Friendly staff and cosy atmosphere!

Good food nice pub friendly staff

Great pub clean comfortable rooms with great staff happy to help you with any queries and information about the accommodation will definitely be back

Lovely old Inn and ambiance good but menu was limited and not the same as the website (only one meat dish) so bit disappointing, service was slow. However the main fish we had was nicely done.

Claims to be oldest pub in Dartmouth. Friendly staff and good cask ales. Mastercard cards accepted. Plenty of seating.

Visited for Sunday lunch. The food took way too long,almost 45 minutes from ordering to it being served. Quantity of vegetable sides was excellent but that could be to distract you from the lack of meat, and my companion said her pork tasted, and looked, like the sliced sandwich meat you buy from a supermarket, not from a roast joint. If you don't expect much than this place will be fine but if you expect some quality,and service, then you may be disappointed. You can certainly buy cheaper, and better lunches

Great location and a lovely quirky pub. It's central location is a great for day trips and the staff and meals were fantastic. Due to Dartmouth's age and location parking can be a challenge but don't let that deter you as the ambience of this pub more than makes up for any drawbacks.

Great Sunday lunch, food fab, staff lovely

The best Sunday lunch we've ever had worth the twenty mins wait!!!! The beef was divine the vegetables amazing roasties excellent and Yorkshire puddings were massive

The food was brilliant and staff as lovely as can be! Definitely recommend the winter warmer pizza! 😁

Popped in for a spot of lunch. Smashed blue cheese burger was incredible!!! Decent pint of IPA and very friendly staff. Put it on you list.

I always love pubs that are off the 'beaten track', especially as they are as lovely and so well run as this one is. Just had a pint and fish cakes to die for. The beer was very very good. I could tell it's been kept well. The fish cake meal, including the salad dressing was delicious. Thank you to you all

Came here on the 7th June 2024. The location was very handy as we were stopping in a cottage right next door. The food here was really nice, if a little pricey. Only downside was I asked for the wifi password and was told it was for staff only and got a hint of sarcasm in the response. Overall I would definitely recommend it here as long as you are prepared to pay and go without wifi.

Don't call customers mate in a condescending manor when asked a polite question.

Lovely old pub in centre of Dartmouth. Food great. Recommended. Very nice rooms.

A fabulous Sunday lunch at a reasonable price fir Dartmouth. Meat very good and plenty of vegetables. 5 stars that the 7 stars deserve.

Last minute finding somewhere to eat in Dartmouth came across this pub up a side street not normally my thing but had history! Very pleasantly surprised compliments to the chef! Probably the best mussels I've ever had, even in France & Belgium where this dish is a speciality. Perfectly cooked in a gorgeous sauce. Very clean toilets too !

Lovely old pub, packed full of character. We had a couple of small plates and some fries to share, which was all really good. The chap behind the bar was really welcoming and did a fantastic job of running the bar and floor service by himself. Will definitely go back next time we're in Dartmouth

Great pub atmosphere and good beer. Loved it!

Delicious food in a cosy atmosphere, restaurant quality especially the scallops and sea bass.

Best place in dartmuff too get a diat coke. Bar man shuld be man taxd he is so beutiful. He gave me a cup of tea whn I waz sad Sent from my iPhon

Very Attentive Team Sunday Roast Highly Recommended Amazing Flavours ❤ Lovely Atmosphere 😍

Excellent Sunday Roast. The staff were extremely helpful and attentive and the meal was delicious. All the family thoroughly enjoyed the meal.

Claims to be the oldest pub in Dartmouth Enjoyed a local Salcombe Sea Horse bitter 🍺

Excellent place to stay. You came to my rescue when I had to leave some terrible accommodation nearby. This room was so comfortable, stylish and clean with new bathroom, comfy bed, and many thoughtful extras. Pub food was delicious too. Thank you so much. Great place to stay!

A very friendly proper pub. Welcomed us 6 and the dog, stayed for a beer and ended up getting lunch and was not disappointed.

Great service excellent food 👌 highly recommend

A nice little pub with good food.

Lovely little pub ,proper old school pub not owned by a chain, oldest pub in Dartmouth with really friendly locals (and dog Cosmo) highly recommend

This traditional pub hits the right notes with its cozy setting to top-notch service, it's a solid pick for anyone wanting a classy yet relaxed dining experience. Leah provided a great service with a smile! Thank you, the food was amazing. Dean

Proper character pub with friendly staff and a great atmosphere

What a lovely old pub! I visited in the winter and was greeted with a friendly welcome and a lovely pint of pale ale! Lovely scampi and chips too!

I am a burger aficionado and this pub has one of the best I've ever tasted- the Moo and the blue burger. Their other courses are delicious too.

Great pub, food was great,definitely visit again

Lovely old pub in a great location. Friendly and helpful staff. Have stayed several times.

I love the royal castle Hotel worked there back in 1978 as a receptionist and lived in, had my 21st birthday there. Went back for my 60th had an amazing time totally 9spoilt me, still has that lovely feeling and hopefully still encounters the hauntings September time ....... l visit as much as l can

Such a lovely cosy pub with a friendly welcome, oldest pub in Dartmouth. Dog friendly. Really good food

Great fish and chips friendly atmosphere.

Lovely pub with great atmosphere and food

Lovely meal out, staff all very helpful and polite

Lovely little pub that we stumbled upon by accident. Lovely atmosphere, food and staff. Very dog friendly too. Couldn't manage dessert there so they let us take some away. Lovely local beers too

Really nice Pub, managed to get a table upstairs and we all enjoyed our meals in Dartmouth's oldest pub 🍻

Die Meeräsche und die Scholle (in der Pfanne gebraten ) waren perfekt. Die Lauchcreme - Kartoffelsuppe ein Geschmackserlebnis. Nicht ganz günstig, aber jeden Cent wert. Einen kleinen Abzug gibt's dafür, dass das eigentlich zuerst von der schwarzen Tafel bestellte Gericht ausgegangen war, obwohl die Bestellung vorher schon angenommen und bezahlt worden ist .

Very tasty food and great ambience, didn't stay here just had great food

Great meal. Really accommodating staff. Proper old boozer loads of character.

Friendly and helpful staff. Food was amazing

Tremendous old pub with great beer

Fantastic old pub with loads of charm in tge shadow of tge Church, ideally located for a Dartmouth day exploration. Bar does a great gammon and chips.

Authentic and tasty food, great service!

Stayed here for a night, the room was lovely. Clean and had all the bits amd bobs to make things special. Loads of pillows! Staff were very friendly, showed us round the room and gave us suggestions of places to eat. Would recommend this place. We also had lunch there, food was very nice

Wow, what a place, great staff. Very busy, but that's the sign of a great pub.

I don't have a single bad thing to say. The food was delicious, the chef clearly knows how to cook good quality ingredients well, very nicely presented too without being pretentious. The service friendly and welcoming. Lovely relaxed place to sit. I highly recommend the mussels, scallops and fish & chips. Nice range of drinks, the beer is very well kept. Next time we're in Dartmouth definitely going here, we really, really enjoyed our visit.

Fantastic, friendly helpful staff. Clean and airy. Food amazing and good value. 6 of us really liked this experience. Covid rules followed and made to feel safe

Just returned from a three night break- our third time at this Hotel and as ever the room was spotless with a very comfortable bed. A lovely place to stay and the staff really went the extra mile for us.We ate in the restaurant on Saturday evening and the food was absolutely first class, we will definitely be staying again later in the year - I cannot recommend highly enough.

Seven Stars pub does a superb Sunday roast beef lunch. All the trimmings, pudding, gravy, 3 types potatoes. Couldn't fault it. Excellent. Good selection local beers & cider. Well worth a visit.

Great pub with good food and good beer. Staff made it a great visit, especially the barman. Nice for a pub to serve people first come, first served. Would have given higher score but pub needs a lick of paint outside.

Ate here on Saturday night with friends. We had to book and pay a refundable deposit. No problem! At least we found a good place to eat on the last night of our holiday. Reasonable choice on menu. Lovely specials board. Great atmosphere and very friendly staff who worked well with the Covid restrictions. Felt safe. What more could we want?

me and my wife are small eaters so we have a main course and share, this time i want steak she said you like well done i like blue to the waitress so we will go for well done' when the meal turned up the chef had cut the meal up into two meals one half steak well done the other blue on two plates, what a great service all round and many thanks for all that was done ian and darlene

This was a meal of two halves. Three of us had good meals. Rib eye steak was great as was the salmon and crab special. However two of us had fish and chips. Fish was flaccid and a bit greasy. They were v busy so wondered if had been rushed a bit. Also ran out of 4 dishes on the menu which fine but menu bit huge so choice was therefore limited. Think this was a one off though looks like they had a v busy weekend! V friendly and welcoming staff

A beautifull old restaurant, oldest pub in Dartmouth. A most delicious Sunday lunch. I had roast pork and husband had roast beef. It was the most delicious roast dinner we have eaten out. Exceptional taste and presentation. Huge portions. Def back again.

We had a lovely stay here for two nights last weekend. We were late for our restaurant reservation due to traffic from Bristol and the staff could not have been more accommodating. They kept our table to ensure we were ‘fed after our journey’. The food was great, the room was lovely and the staff we super friendly and welcoming. Would defiantly recommend and can’t wait to visit again next time we are in Dartmouth! Thanks to all the team

Visited on a rainy summer day in May, assumed we had secured a table at a run of the mill pub. How wrong we were. Lovely cosy pub, candles, hearth with really friendly staff. We ate a mix from the specials and regular menu. Scallops with Parmesan and breadcrumbs were some of the best scallops ever tasted. Perfectly cooked and the sauce was just divine. Whitebait and mussels followed up, with as cauli broccoli cheese side. Again, amazing quality and the chef is clearly an expert with french style sauces, garlic broth with mussels was incredible and cheesy side was perfect. Whitebait perfectly crispy with I suspect homemade tartare sauce. Good choice of wines, ciders and beers. As an older family of three this was just a really pleasant surprise and without doubt the best meal we have had in Dartmouth. We will be back. Special mention to the chef and Lila from the bar, lovely and genuinely friendly.

A really beautiful pub, the staff were very friendly and food excellent! Would absolutely return in the future.

Really great fish & chips with a pint of cider & fantastic fresh plaice in a cream & lemon sauce with samphire. Lovely relaxed atmosphere and service whilst being totally COVID compliant. Great place, great food & drink almost forgot there was a pandemic on. Thank you Abby & Leah

Visiting Dartmouth for a few days. Booked the Seven Stars for food tonight and so glad we did. Greeted by a lovely young lady and made to feel very welcome. Food was 1st class I had sea bass and my husband had gammon and both were lovely. Thank you for a lovely evening in such uncertain times x

Tried this for lunch, had a very nice meal, tables packed in rather closely during this COVID time but tables and chairs sanitised after each use. Good family pub, worth a try.

The oldest pub we visited lunchtime and decided to sit on the couple of chairs outside looking at the church next door. The lady behind the bar was knowledgeable about the beers. We had 2 pints costing £6.75. The place was busy and the food smelt good. Social distancing in place and hand sanitiser. Track and trace. Lovely would go back next time we are in Dartmouth

Wasn't sure what to expect from Dartmouths oldest tavern but was welcomed heartily by the excellent staff, friendly knowledgeable and efficient.The food was excellent, the scallops were to die for, perfectly cooked, paired with crumbled black pudding and sublime samphire, absolutely delicious. I had the pork belly for a main and again was blown away, I have paid way more in fancier places and had far worse food, everything piping hot, cooked to perfection and full of taste and flavour.

We arrived in Dartmouth after a three-hour drive from Dorset and found this pub on our walk around the town. It was about 5pm and not having booked, on the off chance asked if they had a table. Whilst all the tables were booked for later in the evening, we were catered for on the understanding that we left the table before the booking time. That was not a problem as it gave us a couple of hours to eat. We were seated with a beer and perused the menu. There was a varied selection and there were items on the menu that were interesting and different to the standard dishes in other establishments. Yes, there are staple dishes but variety is the spice of life. We ordered liver with bacon and mixed roasted vegetable tart. The liver was served pink and was delicious and I am told the tart was one of the best my wife has tasted.We would definitely eat here again should we be in Dartmouth.

So the website gives you the option to book a table which I did, then you get an email saying you can't book on line and you have to phone to book. I the phoned 3 times and no one answered so in the afternoon before the evening I wanted to visit I went in to the pub only to be told it was fully booked! Pretty shambolic really.

What can I say. If this pub was a cricket shot it would be a David Gower cover drive, beautiful, elegant and easy on the eye. You just want it at every moment. The lovely owner abi also likes the Beatles. The food is nice too, but trust me about the cover drive! Well played.

We were staying for three nights on our way to Cornwall. We ate in the bar (restaurant not currenly open) and the welcome was first class, good menu with specials. Nice to feel comfortable in a traditional pub. You must book in advance for the restaurants in Dartmouth even in October. Thanks to Abi and her team.

I just realised I had not left a review for the Seven Stars following our visit in September as we plan our return back to Dartmouth. We tried a mix of dishes, including the steak for two of us. Unfortunately it was grisly and thought it was overpriced and £4 for a small portion of cauliflower cheese was over the top. The other dishes were fine, but I am afraid the service let it down on this occasion. Although not appearing overly busy, our repeat drinks order was forgotten, which was perhaps because the two young ladies serving spent more time chatting with each other at the bar, rather than tending to guests. We also noticed other tables waiting to be served as they chatted away. This was our second and last visit as the food/service is better elsewhere in Dartmouth relative to the cost.

We had an absolute amazing experience dining at this cute little pub on Sunday the 18th of October. The service was outstanding as was the food, we ended up staying a lot longer than we expected due to how lovely it was. We didn't have a booking but were seated the moment a table became available. I can't recommend this pub enough the food the service everything!! If we are ever back in that neck of the woods we will definitely be returning.

Lovely cosy atmosphere, great service and tasty food. We had the pork belly and grilled cod. Felt COVID safe

Stayed 2 nights at the Seven Stars. Beautiful room, excellent location for the town, lovely food and very friendly, helpful staff. All measures for protection against c19 were in place. Couldn't have asked for more. Very happy with everything. Would recommend and definitely visit again.

We went for dinner two nights running, as the first evening was so good. The steak and kidney pie was delicious, as was the steak. My wife’s mussels were, she said, great; ditto the prawn cocktail. The staff, in our experience, were good and maintained control of the Covid requirements without being overbearing and the tables were sufficiently distanced. Overall, an enjoyable experience.

We booked this hotel for a 2 night break to stay in September, 10 days before arrival date the county where we live went into lock down due to covid. The t&c stated you could cancel up to 14 days before arrival. So we were 4 days late, after ringing them to explain the situation the attitude from 2 staff members were absolutely appalling! After countless emails and phone calls were told if they resold the rooms they wouldn't take payment of £220. so 2 days later I went on website and the dates we had booked were sold out, I have a date stamped photo proving this, so they clearly had resold our rooms. They then went and charged our card in full...... I have never ever written a bad review but felt so strongly that I don't want other people being ripped off the way we were.

We had a lovely meal here - we shared a starter of feta, sundried tomatoes and rocket and garlic bread which was good. However the main course was a cut above - Brill to share - cooked to perfection - incredibly fresh and delicious. Highly recommend. Really lovely staff - clearly busy - we had to ask a couple of times for water and a wine menu -but to be honest in these crazy times keeping everyone safe that is totally understandable.