The Imperial in Exeter

Nice atmosphere and good food. This restaurant attracts people from all walks of society which is refreshing.

This spoons is so worth a visit for the beautiful ground it sits in and the orangery!

This is definitely one of the nicer Wetherspoons pubs, certainly the nicest in Exeter. The staff are friendly and the atmosphere is great, especially in the orangery. Food's not bad either!

Went in for breakfast. Easy to order from your table. 1 large, 1 small breakfast. Cups of tea. Cups arrived almost straight away, with the cooked breakfasts arriving only a few minutes behind. Good honest food, served with a smile and the invite to go and get more tea as required. Wi-fi enabled building. It's easy to see why so many people were in having breakfast.

Very good with learning disability adults and children.

After a long drive it was nice place to chill hear The beer/ Foodwas so nice and fresh 10 out of 10

ellis and devon servered me they were lovely and made me feel so welcome during mg stay here. Imperial is a great stablishmetn with lovely staff that make you feel welcome.

A Wetherspoons but room was fantastic

Wow, this place is massive! Really imposing building with huge rooms. It was incredibly busy with a lot of students from the university. Baring that in mind, the service was impeccable. I fully expected to wait for my food, but it came very quickly. I have given 5 stars for the food, allowing for the fact that it is never going to be cordon bleu at these prices. It's odd that I have to pay for the car park, but at least it's convenient.

We came for a celebratory birthday meal and was extremely pleased with the service and presentation of the food. The food was cooked to perfection and was very tasty. This is our favourite Wetherspoons chain in Exeter and has to be our favourite pub in general. This pub has spectacular interior and has a nice ambience too. You can tell the staff work incredibly hard in this place to make it all run smoothly. Keep up the great work! Will definitely be returning soon! :)

Highly recommend going for a drink/food at The Imperial, which is part of the Wetherspoons chain. Building/bars are great, packed with students of an evening.

What an amazing pub, food top notch, staff so helpful, beers and spirits awesome prices and top notch, atmosphere amazing, and table service fast and professional. Highly recommend it if your in thr neighbourhood, specially on sunny day.

Unbelievably brilliant and good looking architecture.

A unique place - stunning architectural surroundings 🍻

One of the best Spoons in the country I’ve been to. Always clean and neat, beautiful architecture inside and outside. It has a glass arch which is very unique.

One of the best public Houses in Exeter, Grand Food and Beverages plus Amazing & Friendly Staff, relaxed atmosphere and groovy decor. What's not to Love? De nada...

Ordered on the app. Was charged, food and drinks didn't arrive and I was told there would be no refund and I would need to go through my bank. We left, £12 down and nothing to show for it. Wooden spoon for this Wetherspoon I'm afraid.

The chicken wings is miles and miles away compared to KFC or any other restaurants in Exeter. Price is cheap and high quality . Excellent atmosphere for all age groups . Customer care is superb . Disabled toilets and parking makes it amazing . Sadly pet Dogs not welcomed here other than guide dogs . One day the management will make that smart decision .

The Imperial is a truly great place to have breakfast. The architecture is magnificent. It's a big and spacious art deco former villa, with an equally spacious beautiful garden. The menu is mainly English, but with alternative options. Best thing of all is the value for money: you will have a filling meal for less than elsewhere. I visited twice and the staff was friendly, respectful and polite. The negative points are that the table was sticky (hence, not properly cleaned) and it's a shame that it's part of the Wheterspoon chain with its brexiteer owner.

Great Spoons. Busy but always functions well under pressure. Fantastic staff. Lovely venue. Will be back!

Very busy pub. Lots and lots of space and tables. Very busy when we visited. Food was cheap and tasty. Had to pay for parking. NO DOGS,

It's a Wetherspoons, so has the normal large spaces and cheap beer, but this must be their best building with large grass and tree covered grounds ( do any others have any grounds beyond a back yard?) so definitely worth a visit.

Probably the nicest Wetherspoon's in the country. Food is mostly done well, staff are efficient, and has a nice atmosphere. But the building itself is what makes this stand out from the rest.

Stunning atmosphere Great food as always Excellent service

Great atmosphere and fine food and great variety of beer. All provided in a great building.

Cheap drinks and cheap food. If it’s not broken don’t fix it!

Leaving a part food, i really like interior it gave me a vintage feel. Talking about food i would say its good.

Arrived approx 10 am on the 22 Jan 2025 I placed my order at the bar I clearly said the following Tabel 111 please may I have 1 x large breakfast 1x scrambled egg as an extra 1x Pepsi as a pint I payed then a lady come from no where and said u can't have both it's one or the other as it comes with frid egg So I explained to her I would like the scrambled egg as an extra she then said oh yeah that's ok and got her college to put it via the till My food arrived quickly but was not happy with 2 items 1/2 of my toast was burnt 1 of my frid eggs were not runny No staff came over and asked how my meal was so I complained at the bar and was tolled sorry No offer of a replacement or a fresh meal And they were not busy very quiet

If you're going to go to Wetherspoons, you might as well go to the UK flagship one, fabulous building, food and beer good as usual, friendly and welcoming staff and great atmosphere

Didn't have a drink or food this time as were in a rush, the pub looks really cool on the inside! Will definitely update this review next time when I get food!

Always a good visit and nice service, and great brekkie or lunch or evening... And cna be a great buzz... And one of the nicest windows in a pub in the UK and great pub garden

Fantastic pub, beautiful building, so lucky to have an Entrepreneur in the UK saving these historic places. Great food and lovely service with the atmosphere of a proper pub

Very spectacular pub to say the least an eye openers

Imp is an institution ... A must if you're in Exeter, even if you don't like wetherspoons per say.

Lovely bbq chicken pizza. Friendly, efficient staff. Spent 10 mins trying to use the app but it wasn’t working so went to the bar which took 5 seconds!

Just called in for a coffee, what a fabulous building, there is actually a write up about it in the Werherspoons magazine

Good foods and excellent environment

Great breakfast in a lovely building

This was a marvellous pub for drinking, with a colossal glass frame in its large building! The glass provides views right outside where there is seating in the accompanying greenery, interior is pleasant too with red ceiling lined with green lights. I had a refreshing pint of cider at the comfortable, clean seating and counter is very well presented!

I met the boss baby fandom was a little insulted by the fact the outside had bars separating the Bourgeois and the workers and when we started to protest the security silenced us Other than that amazing

Food ok if that's what you want but great service by a lovely fella named conner who was so nice and welcoming..

Used the app to order food and drink. Service was quick and efficient. Staff were friendly and helpful. Food was of a good quality and at a good price. No complaints at all.

The person who served us was amazing and friendly and got our drinks done as quickly as possible and was just overall an amazing server the food was amazing and really nice aswell so thankyou. Ally was our server and went above and beyond :)

It's amazingly cheap, and there are lots of cosy corners, plus the orangery ...

Shittiest pub in Exeter avoid at all costs

I love Wetherspoon but out of all the Wetherspoon’s I’ve been too, the service here is the best. All the staff were super friendly and attentive, even on a busy Friday night. Food and drinks also great.

If you are a fan of Wetherspoon’s establishment’s this is the best one I have encountered. The beer garden is of specific note, summer afternoons in this location are not wasted.

Standard wetherspoons but with beautiful surroundings. The imperial is a unique and stunning location. The main building is a bit dreary and in need of renovation but the orangery and outside seating is awesome The food has gone downhill lately. Garlic bread for £4 is terrible and a bowl of a few chips for more than £4. Major let down

An awesome (and massive) spoons with friendly staff and classic food.

What can you say about 'spoons', great beer, lovely food, plenty of seats, plenty of staff, brilliant service in a very unusual building - have a good look around.

Parking for disabled is now chargeable with a pay point as far away from the entrance and disabled parking as possible plus it’s only by registration no only absolutely perfect

It's a wetherspoons. A nice one. Got 5 or 6 beers, spent less than £20. Can't go wrong really

Great value for money with fast service.

Fabulous Christmas Sunday lunch, turkey, trimming and lots of gravy. For two people just over £25 with drinks, such good value. The staff even though the place was packed with diners arrived with drinks and food in good time and all smiling and chatty. Really well done to all the staff working so hard. Beautiful building with so much room in it. Certainly one of the best venues we have been in.

This has got to be one of the best Wetherspoons I have visited. This massive old house that was built in the early 1800's is full of character. One of the main features is the barrel vaulted conservatory or orangery as it is known. This is a great place to dine and is light and airy with views out to the impressive garden area. With the Imperial being about a 5 minute walk from Exeter St David's train station, this Wetherspoons is well worth a visit.

Lovely pub. Amazingly the food arrived in 3 minutes after ordering and was cold after 4.

It's Spoons. It's fine. Much nicer then the other Spoons in town. A couple of the staff here are incredibly rude, but the vast majority of them are great. The food is exactly what you expect from this company, and the drinks are bizarrely varied in price, but generally noticeably cheaper than elsewhere.

The pink haired bouncer is so incredibly rude. I was very polite and respectful to her and the entire time she’s screaming at me as if I’m some drunk lunatic. Questionable behaviour from the first “welcoming” face you see.

Been to the Imperial many times when going to watch Exeter City. Great building with several options for choosing where to sit including a stunning orangey or in summer decent size beer garden. Only four star's as on my recent visit one of the bar staff was very cheerfull and happy. I commented on this fact saying it was nice to see. He responded saying that Trump winning the USA election was the reason for his happiness despite it ten days since the election.. I didn't find this offensive myself (although I can't stand Trump) he needs to be careful showing his political allegiance in his role as someone who serves the public as some people would be offended. No doubt Weatherspoons has a policy in place to ensure it's staff are careful about such things.

Food good value, service ok, shame you have to pay for the parking as well. too noisy for my liking, couldn’t hear my friends for all the other people talking, but maybe I’m just getting old! 👍

Cheap and cheerful ish, exactly what it says on the tin, shame tim martin is such an absolute bell end

Same old Spoons as usual but the Orangery makes it much nicer. Stopped here for lunch ( naff burger unfortunately). Hot chocolate was disgusting. Staff was polite and helpful

Beautiful pub , absolutely cannot complain for the price, can easily get a filling meal for under £5

This really is a fantastic place. Probably the best spoons that I have been to. Really impressive setting in a grade 2 listed building. Loads of space and a huge garden.

Lovely old building and beer good and cheap

I dislike the weatherspoons chain, but as this was the place the majority chose we spent a few evenings there. The staff were great! The building is amazing.

How much is to park outside and can You use RinGo please ? :) TIA

It's a wetherspoons!!! You know what you get before you go in.... and it's great.

The building is wonderful and well preserved. Staff are attentive and quick to serve. I ordered food on the app, and it was with us in 10 mins. Very generous portions and fair prices. Good mix of young and older customers, and clean tables. It was busy when we visited but there was the right amount of staff in the pub to deal with the crowd.

This is one of two Wetherspoons in Exeter which has preserved an absolutely gorgeous building. Loads of space and tables and as ever lots of drink choices.

They do not serve food for anyone with coeliac disease so I cannot even get a pack of crisps there but at least they serve gluten free beer.

Fantastic venue, the usual cheap drinks and food. Great place to start your evening off.

An amazing building,friendly staff

It was very busy but Lee behind the bar was a hero, made sure everyone got served speedily. Promised him I’d write this review 🙏🏻

You get what you pay for...really good value but food is below average...but really friendly staff and that always helps 😊

Got to imperial Exeter for breakfast kitchen had broken down fixed about 11am ordered breakfast then they didn’t say there was no butter for toast so paid,when they bought it out he said run out of butter so toast was too dry not enjoyable no offer of a little refund or something extra instead very poor I wouldn’t have ordered it if I knew there was no butter

What a fabulous place to go only had a beer It looks awesum Seems to have facilities I have never seen at a spoons If in Exeter pay a visit I bet it's super awesum in summer

Very busy on Friday / Saturday nights. The women's toilets had two toilets out of about 6 or so working. The others were cordoned off. Please weatherspoons... fix the toilets! Most signage in the building is unreadable, it's very small and mostly written in chalk, so hard to find the toilets. The main hall, tables aren't cleaned very well after been used. The food was so so.

Busy with a variety of happy punters. good price as usual. Near station and town and this one has great architectural features, see photo. I hadn’t been to a ‘spoons in ages and I am glad i still know what I am getting.

Good standard of traditional pub fare at competitive prices, with most meals offered with a price inclusive of an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink, which makes the meal prices very good value. Quick service and polite friendly staff. Only thing that I found disappointing was the volume that some of the other customers liked to talk. They obviously were forgetting not everyone wants to hear their end of a telephone call.

An excellent spoons, such a lovely building

Arrived just after 9 pm. on a Saturday, and it was so busy we couldn't get a seat. Tables overflowing with empty glasses and difficult to get through the corridors due to large crowds.

The usual Wetherspoons vibe but within an incredible building! The atmosphere, especially during quiet times, is of a Grand Hotel from a very different era. The glass conservatory is beautiful, there are plenty of tables and seating plus more seating outside in the beautiful garden on sunny days. The menu is exactly as you expect plus the excellent value for money drinks but in these beautiful surroundings.

Lovely building but the interior needs updating.

Wonderful building & well situated for St Davids Station.

Took my daughters in for some late dinner after moving house for them to get ID’d and us asked to leave. I’ve been in the hospitality industry for 20 years and I have never seen such poor attitude or manners from staff. Will never give this place my customer again

Fantastic place the biggest Weatherspoon I've ever been in food was usuall Weatherspoon cheap n cheerfull..the orangery is a site to be seen. Fantastic..

Great place for food and drink in Exeter, especially accessible from the university. Lively food and attentive staff. Thank you

highly highly disappointed with my meal today have been coming to this weather spoons almost every week day for the past 2 years. never in my time here have i been so unsatisfied. They’ve started asking for id for energy drinks, when they never have before, which isn’t my issue. My issue is that when they bought my energy drink over and i couldn’t provide id as i didn’t bring it, i was informed of probably one of the most ridiculous rules i’ve heard by far. If you can not provide id, you will not receive a refund and they will simply keep you money. Which is definitely not great for college students who stuggle with money as is. In addition, when my food arrived my chips were undercooked and could tell they were left under the heat light for too long.

Perfect place to watch rugby and other major sporting events aside from the Superbowl, about which the Brits do not care. Boiling pot for the rich private school kids and state school kids to bury the axe and come to terms to the fact that they will forever despise one another. Ingrained is the ossified caste system that has historically defined the British nation. Also Thatchers May is perfect if they do not like alcohol and wish to join in the ethanol-fueled brouhaha.

Popular wetherspoon pub restaurant. Big space inside and outdoors, live sports, good food, okay service when they are busy. Always packed with students. Lovely fun atmosphere. And has a giant conservatory style seating at the back leading to the garden. Only downside is parking is limited and paid.

Great value, excellent food - and cannot praise the staff enough- helpful, efficient, and friendly - every one of then was a credit to Weatherspoons, I was very impressed - thank you .

Great pub with a good range of drinks on tap, food is excellent,arrives quickly and piping hot

Lovely Wetherspoons. Clean and big with lovely staff

Loved this place. Massive inside with the orangery at the back and with a brilliant beer garden outside

Nice big pub, impressive orangery room. Plenty of outdoor tables too. Food is wetherspoons, good range, no frills and inexpensive. Would score higher except for the awkward payment system and time limit for the car park. What pub makes you pay to park!?

Ordered food along with drinks. Service was slow as there was only 1 person behind the bar. I didn't have the app to order via but I'll rectify that. The food was very good. Nice sized portions and delivered to our table soon after ordering, even though the pub was fairly busy. Good all round value. The table could have been clearer as it appeared not to have been cleaned since it's previous occupants left. Overall a good experience but not quite 5 stars.

Nice Pub located directly near the University. The overall feeling there is really good. Prople are relaxed, and the Orangerie really has style. The prices were increasing the last years and the quality did not increase the same way... So only 3 stars for food/drinks. Also you need to pay for parking, which is a no go for a pub.

Food was hot, staff very friendly

A surprisingly sophisticated Spoons. Very nice location and food.