The Cork & Bottle in North Devon

Not very nice, needs massive refurb. Garden disgusting, toilets disgusting and £6.50 for a pint of 1664 to add insult to injury.

A dump.Atmosphere the moon has more.Toilets disgraceful.Would not recommend.

Really nice place to chill with your drink pleasant staff

What a great bar. Nice friendly staff. A great place to watch sports. Plenty of things to do. A good crowd if you like playing pool. Friendly locals,kid friendly and dog friendly too. A traditional bar in the heart of Barnstaple

Nice little pub with a nice garden

Nice pub, decent pint lovely staff

Dreadful!! Nipped in for a quick pint whilst on our holidays at around lunchtime. The pub was still dirty from the night before. Lack of pump ales so had to opt for the bottle, on reflection, it was the safer option. Garden very untidy and full of weeds! It's such a shame to see such a good pub back in the day go to rack and ruin. Bar staff was very smiley.

Great staff and friendly customers

Dog friendly, but also a lot of love for dogs from the customers! Played a couple games of pool and was not super busy

Not been for 25 year what had happened to it 😳

Everyone has to go and see Steve on a night out cracking landlords,pop in on your own or with company either way you will be made to feel at home by Steve and the locals.

Brilliant pub, best in Barnstaple.

Friendly i would say its for the more older people, having said that they have a great jukebox and sometimes live music, Lanlords friendly but wont put up with fools friendly bar staff in all.

I was playing pool with my step dad and was doing alright. Went to the bar to drink our pints and the owner, who was drinking at the bar and being loud, said something along the lines of "good thing, you nearly got beaten by a woman!", To my step-dad. I couldn't believe it. Rude, lazy and arrogant man, I haven't been in since, I have no time for small minded and outdated beliefs.

Excellent place for drinking and also have music at weekend

complained that i witnessed the owners slap a 7 week old puppy round 5the face which ended with owners threatening me life its all good he couldent run 2 steps

Amazing food, good price. Best pub meal I’ve had in a very long time & really good service. Thank you to all the team and a big thumbs up to Tammy!

Steve is a fantastic landlord and very welcoming

Superb. Excellent service & some great live music on Sundays.

Live music every Sunday outside in beer garden and we came 16 August....rainy afternoon .... thought it maybe cancelled ... it was raining....umbrellas on tables anyway...... but no, carried on, we all danced, in the rain, fantastic afternoon....Katie sang and she was incredible! All social distanced, wonderful time! 😊

This is a quiet place at the very end of the high street. I've never seen it too busy, but it's a comfortable and cosy place. The staff are friendly and helpful. Other customers appear to be friendly and welcoming. The thing that I like most about this place is the 2 pool tables. So far they are the best for a game in barnstaple town centre. They also have league games here. Alcohol prices are very reasonable too compared to other pubs and bars that I have visited in barnstaple

Good pub and prices, very friendly staff

Steve the landlord made us very welcome.

Steve has not been in this establishment very long but what he has done is make it a must visit pub with super food washed down with a good pint of beer served with a smile and a pleasant word for everyone yes he is a true Yorkshireman from my part of the world but am I biased NO I am sure you will not be disappointed

Dog friendly,man bought our dogs bones over,friendly...food awful...my partner ordered gourmet burger...just burger in a dry bun😞i ordered cheese toastie...glorified cheese sandwich..thinist bread complete with a cherry tomato cut in 4!! & rock hard heart of a lettuce,bland lifeless & awful.

Nice friendly pub for a drink and a meal

Yeah really liked this pub, food was good, beer was good, and there's plenty of room in there, for example, I was in there yesterday in a group of 7 and another group of 10. Plenty of room..

Nice friendly pub, serves a good pint, and good wholesome food, well worth a visit.

Very rude man behind bar, not surprising only one customer in this pub. Also a lot of flies as you walk in. Shame was a great pub back in the day, will not be returning & definitely won't be recommending.

Second time been here, last time (February didn't do food) now they do. Very very friendly. Food very basic but good & exceptional value. Dog friendly (everyone friendly) & were able to accommodate our friend who's in a wheelchair, a good basic friendly pub the type that is fast disappearing due to big chain pubs & pretentiousness. Will go back

As a long serving member in the town the cork and bottle was very poilte and family orientated pub but unfortunately the regulars took over and influence the landlord to ban customers who they don't get on with which is a disgrace and character defamation. The landord is also very rude with a dry sense of humour shame really as pub was doing ok

Excellent food, service and our dog was made very welcome. We were visiting Barnstaple, to do some shopping and decided to visit the pub for breakfast.

Old skool local pub, complete with pool table and grumpy landlord

Pint while charging up phone. No issues.

Amazing pub now it's all been newly decorated. Friendly landlord and landlady. Very warm and welcoming. Dog friendly and great food

So glad the pub has been revamped looks so nice and a lovely pint

We were tempted into The Cork & Bottle as it was a warm evening and they boasted a beer garden. Barnstaple appears to lack anywhere to enjoy a pint outside. After ordering we asked if the beer garden was open and we were directed to a door, to a background of sniggers from the two customers at the bar. Our hearts sank as we were greeted with what only can be described as a desolate space, decorated with smashed furniture and ancient lock ups. With the price of over £8 for two drinks it was an expensive learning curve!

Having come to Barnstaple for a Steakhouse recommended by my friends satnav, we found that it didn’t exist. We popped into the Olive Branch which said it offered food, it no longer did but they recommended the Cork and Bottle to us and gave us directions so off we headed. Having walked to the other end of the town (the long way as we got lost (like fools)) we eventually found what we hoped was a little hidden gem. It was not. The staff and locals just stared at us as we walked in making us feel very out of place. We then asked about food and were told we could sit anywhere we liked. We took a seat the opposite side of the pub to the staff and locals who had made us feel uncomfortable and picked up a couple of menus. They were very dated and limited. This coupled with the welcome we received, the dated decor and the unpleasant seating area made us decide to leave, despite the fact we were quite hungry and really hadn’t seen much in the way of alternative options except Witherspoon’s. We did eventually get direct to Alfie Browns by an extremely helpful local lady and had an absolutely fantastic meal for just a few pounds per meal more - Fish and Chips in The Cork and Bottle costs £8 and in Alfie Browns cost £12 and I would bet my house that the extra £4 was well and truly worth it.

Lovely plave to gran a pint whilst shopping in town

Under new management now for awhile food available soon lovely atmosphere landlord very friendly cosy redecorated nicely

Great new landlords Sally & Alan, repainting and with a view to selling coffee, rolls etc, then onto proper cooked meals, good atmosphere !

New owners with plans to harness the history

I can only give 3 stars as a new landlord has just taken over and has much work to do to bring the place back to something good. It has got tired looking and he has exciting new plans to create a coffee bar and function area. Dog friendly with water bowl and biscuits. There is a pool table, and I wish the new owner all the best in his venture.

Better now new people taken over they are going to do food snacks coffee all good

Really good pub with old market St inside

Brilliant old school rock n roll pub, good beer, darts, pool, DJ - what more could you want?

Friendly pub: pool table and pleasant beer garden. Nice pint!

Great atmosphere and lovely friendly staff 👊😉😁👍

Cheap enough, friendly staff. Comfortable and warm. Darts and pool available!

Not as busy as it used to be. Still has a pool table.

Went in for lunch I was hungry so I had a Honey Glazed Mustard sandwich it was freaking huge, They do Ploughman's Lunch, Jacket Potatoes, Sandwiches, Toasties Baguette's, Side Order's, Soup Of The Day, Creamy Garlic Mushroom's. Rump Steak, Bangers N Mash, 10 oz Horseshoe Gammon Steak, Burger's, Breaded WholeTail Scampi. Paula is the cook, prices are between £4 - £10 per meal.

Stopped for coffee ! Toilets dirty and smelly😞 ! mugs for coffee were dirty !shame really been their before a few years ago and it was a lot better then! I was really disappointed this time it's a dirty hole

As we had never been to Barnstaple before we did not use the golden rule of checking Trip Advisor before choosing where to eat.

Went in for lunch I was hungry so I had a Honey Glazed Mustard sandwich it was freaking huge,