The Old Police Station Cafe in West Devon

Served us just before closing, friendly service and delicious cream tea, very much welcomed after a long walk and swim. Would recommend.

Portion size has got smaller nice

Good food, good customer service, what's not to like, book a table as it can get very busy.

First class breakfast, nice coffee, lovely friendly staff, good value for money. We'll be back.

Food was lovely and staff were very friendly

Lovely place, good food great menu, something for everyone. Good portions, friendly and helpful staff. Lovely location.

Went there today Sunday 06/04/ 2025 for a Sunday roast ( large) & dessert. As usual it was cooked to perfection, all very fresh & very good. All the staff were very friendly & worked very hard. Well done ladies and gentlemen.

Fantastic service by friendly staff. A good traditional menu with added specials gives a good selection of choices. The food did not disappoint! I am looking forward to visiting again.

Visited Princetown on a cold grey windy day. Wanted lunch and a visit to the prison museum which was unfortunately closed. Received a warm welcome at the cafe. It was nice and warm and very clean. The service was very good and staff very attentive. Ordered Coffee fish, chips and peas and my brother had coffee ham, chips and peas. Coffee good fish and ham very good. Chips hard and dry with a few peas. Car park £3.20. Will not be my go to place for future visits on Dartmoor.

Great roast on Sunday at a reasonable price

Yesterday I booked a table for 3 people one of them being in a wheelchair that went well. We had driven a long way to come to this place.On arrival we went shown our table and then waited over 10mins before someone came to take our order cream tea. When the cream teas arrived the scones were very dry (not freshly baked) the clotted was just enough for one scone not two, the jam was very dark colour and didn’t taste of strawberry jam and also very small portion , even the teapot was small just enough for one and a half cups of tea not good is it for the price of £7.50. Also the smell of fish and chips did put us off a little. So overall very slow service, dry scones, very small portions so as a Chef / Baker of 50+ I know what I’m talking about, this place for me is a F-L place FRIST & LAST TIME I visit make fresh scones it’s not that hard to do

Nice fish and chips. Ate them looking out over Dartmoor ... Marvellous

Good traditional café. Friendly service with mostly traditional nosh.

Popped in there during a tour of Dartmoor on a cold February day. We were advised to take a seat where a very friendly waitress gave advice on menu choices and served our food. The menu was extensive with something for everyone. With only a short waiting time, two generous, well cooked, tasty meals arrived.. I would heartily recommend this venue.

We came here today with my Dad & step mum who is recovering from surgery. We booked a table while travelling over the moors towards Princetown, and on arrival, our table was waiting. Served by friendly attentive staff, our order was soon taken, and after a short wait, our freshly prepared food was brought to our table. Food was very tasty, well presented and hot, which was nice as outside the temperature was just above freezing. Washed down with a large pot of tea, full & and contented, we headed out in snow flurries for our journey home. Highly recommended will definitely be back once again.

Lively and helpful staff. Food good enjoyed our fish and chips. Will return to explore more of the menu..

Staff are ideal polite and work hard food is tasty bit be nice if it stayed open passed 4

Excellent Food and Friendly staff as always

Very nice place where we have always been made to feel welcome. Great food and it's home made. What more could you ask for

Disappointing 'cod' (?) and chips takeaway. Couldn't eat the fish-it was discoloured (not white) and didn't taste right. It is so disappointing to spend our hard earned money on food that seems to be below standard. If poor weather affects the normal supply of fish then this should be pointed out at the time of sale and priced accordingly.

Friendly service with excellent food. Home from home.

Amazing! Really lovely inside, welcoming and the food was exceptional - well presented and tasted lovely!

Love it here! Good is amazing, service is exemplary…I struggle to go elsewhere.

Nice, friendly staff and reasonably priced. We had a very nice cream tea - the only downside was there was no disabled toilet.

We had seen this place in some online suggestions for places to eat, and said that we would have to try it. We went on 20th. November and had a lovely meal. I had the vegetarian all day breakfast and my husband at the fish and chips, both were excellent, and really good value for money. There are several vegetarian options (which is unusual, I usually have to settle for macaroni cheese). They do roast and a veggie roast. It is well worth a visit. The food is lovely and so are the staff. The food is not only lovely but so it the price. Very reasonable. We are definitely going back.

My fav place to eat. I suggest a roast dinner as they are yummy and great value. Staff alwsys friendly.

Are you planning to visit Dartmoor? - The Old Police Station cafe is a must on your Dartmoor itinerary! We’re regular visitors of Dartmoor National Park and this Lovely cafe is in the middle of Prince Town, “renowned for its friendly service, good food and stunning location”. Our fourth visit to the cafe, the experience was great each time. This visit, family ordered large battered fish & chips and chocolate sundae. It was perfect! However, I am still awaiting to taste a traditional roast on the menu as they run out of beef roast & Yorkshire pudding quickly. I can’t wait for our next visit here.

We’re regular visitors of Dartmoor National Park and this Lovely cafe is in the middle of Prince Town, “renowned for its friendly service, good food and stunning location”. Our fourth visit to the cafe, the experience was great each time. This visit, family ordered large battered fish and chips and chocolate sundae. It was perfect! However, I am still awaiting to taste a traditional roast on the menu as they run out of beef roast & Yorkshire pudding quickly. I can’t wait for our next visit here.

Found this place a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely amazing fish and chips and very affordable. Batter is nice and crispy and so are the chips! Friendly staff and just a nice place to come to, it's now our regular chippy which considering we live about 25 miles away from here tells you just how good it is.

It was busy but they fitted us in and had a nice snack

Cozy and its warm inside .. fish and chips lovely ..

Lovely food, friendly staff, clean premises and fairly priced.

Very friendly staff, timely service and great food (I had chips with curry sauce, and a pot of tea for one). No better place to be when you've spent three days trekking across the moor...

Our visit today was just perfect

Lovely breakfast, friendly staff, nice clean dining area, couldn't wish for anything more.

Great little cafe to visit for a meal or just a cup of tea. Located in the middle of Princetown, this little place becomes the fish and chips shop in the evening. There is an extensive menu and the food is delicious. Great service from the staff, who are always pleasant and helpful.

Often visit here when I am out for a motorcycle ride. Great food. Dogs allowed inside and out. Gets busy, especially on a Sunday.

Good food and even greater staff

Enjoyed fish and chips with extra sausage for the dog.

Good food varied menu pleasent staff nice atmosphere don't go in peak spring summer around 1pm to 2.30pm lots of coach parties excellent otherwise

Lovely place with lovely wholesome food plus lovely helpful staff

Wonderful food and great staff. The price is fantastic best fish and chips in the West Country. We go there very regular recommend it to every one. We travelled up from Cornwall

Improved from my last visit (tried to get take away chips & was just ignored). Very busy over lunchtime. Meals freshly cooked. Recommend booking ahead to guarantee a table

This place has turned in to something awful. It used to be so good. Went there today and it is the most unwelcoming place I have ever visited. Signs everywhere telling me what I can't do, where I can't go. There are roped off areas everywhere and there are more cones around the place than the local council have in stock. That aside we did manage to get in to the place, only to be greeted by the most rude staff ever. We promptly turned around and gave our money to a café down the road. Avoid at all costs. Won't ever be back with this owner in charge. This is a re-submitted review, because tripadvisor didn't like what I had to say. That's the world we now live in.

Not impressed with the “take-away” service! We waited nearly an hour watching other customers being served and leaving, even after several attempts of complaining.. Note: The sit-down area takes precedence, followed by fast orders… IT TAKES 12 MINUTES TO FRY A FISH… Not 49 minutes! Cheap enough, but was it worth the wait.. definitely not! And: this place USED to be motorcycle friendly! A note that will be added to every social media platform..

Friendly cosy cafe good for hikers . Food is good cafe grub 😄

Ordered a bowl of chips - pretty hard and dry - definitely seemed like the "cooked from frozen" type. And not cheap. If you are looking for real English chips, look elsewhere!

Knowing the cafe closes at 5.00 pm we were very surprised at upon arriving at 4.00 pm we were not greeted with the words . for example " good afternoon" but instead " you will have to be quick as we close soon ". This is as unprofessional as it gets ! We did not stay after being made to feel unwelcome.

Always friendly and helpful service.

A lovely café in the middle of Princetown. Four of us all enjoyed our lunch here today. Two of us needed to tweak our order, which was no problem. The food arrived at the same time, hot and correct, which was great. It is waitress service, so sit and be served and pay at the counter when you have finished your meal. I have eaten here a few times and will definitely return. Thank you to the hard working team.

Cream teas brilliant get staff too

Just came across this gem if a place, the atmosphere was brilliant, lovely friendly staff. Highly recommend the cream tea. ...amazingly light scones, lovely coffee and tea. Great menu with a wide variety of traditional meals, including a roast dinner. What a great find.

The worst scone ever resembled the texture of a flip flop this place is clueless we are devon residents this place is a transport cafe mentality

Food is amazing ... friendly service, n not exspensive. Was busy

Great food at a decent price. It's a great spot to watch other passing bikes on a sunny day!

What a nice place to finish off our weekend break.Everyone was friendly and chatty as we ordered our vege breakfast with proper vege sausages!Look foward to eating here again when we come back to Princetown.

Best wholesome food on dartmoor

This place is so bloody surprising. We walked in and were tempted to walk out, ‘cause it looked so dated. The other half said “I kinda like the outdated look of the place” so we went in. Boy were we surprised. I ordered large (don’t get small, large isn’t large) cod and chips with mushy peas and the other half ordered a roast dinner (at 16:00 on a Tuesday). We discussed how it could easily disappoint and waited to see what turned up. This place has a chippy attached to it so the cod and chips HAD to be good - it was. The roast dinner claimed fresh vegetables, which we doubted, but they were. Roast potatoes seem frozen but still tasted ok. Our plates were both absolutely cleared.

We had cream tea and was very good.

Always liked it at the old police station friendly fast service, foods always nice .

It's a busy place overall with a mixture of sit down cafe, chips shop take away, and gift shop/ local gallery. The food is good quality, generous in portion, but not high-end cusine: it's a cafe not a resturant after all. The wait in the cafe is a little long as the focus for speed seems to be subsumed by the take-away side of things. Overall, I would recommend it at the drop of the hat as a great place to eat/drink and especially recoop after an exhausting visit to the Moor. The attached photo is the Ploughman's lunch, a little un-conventional in format but very tasty: homemade pickle, generous portions of cheese and ham, fresh crunchy coleslaw, warm baked roll, etc.

Listed as a motorbike cafe the parking was in a pay car park nearby although motorbikes were free. We didn't eat but perused the menu which was typical cafe food. They did do take away fish and chips though. The decor was fairly used nothing outstanding although the loo's were up to date. Right next to a well tended green , sitting outside on a nice day would be a good people watching spot.

Lovely place to stop for food or coffee and a cake. Can get busy so sometimes you'll have a bit of a wait, but worth it

Always a great experience eating here. Staff are lovely and very welcoming. Food is consistently excellent and good value. Clean and speedy service. Would recommend to anyone in the area 🌟

This is a very busy cafe and I can see why. I had the turkey roast dinner and a part from the roast potatoes being the type you get out of the freezer (they were still very nice) it was a fantastic dinner. The veg was nicely cooked and so sweet. The turkey was delicious. The Yorkshire pudding was good and of a normal size. The gravy also had a decent flavour. Would definitely come again if I am staying near here.

What a gem of a cafe as it is right in the middle of Princetown. The staff were very friendly and helpful. Unfortunately they'd run out of a couple of drinks that we had initially ordered, but we were happy with the drinks that were offered. The cafe was clean and tidy and the food was excellent and well cooked. It had a lovely section selling lovely local items.

A must for anyone who is in Princetown. The food is freshly made and very good. Afterwards you can visit the prison museum.

Loved it, first time visit, staff were friendly, fast service, vegetarian meal was delicious, loved the books for sale, and you can even buy warm hats, scarfs and mittens.. Will definitely visit again

Popped in on the spur the moment. The place is clean, tidy and bright. Didn't get a 'wow' when I walked in, but neither did I feel I wanted to leave. Cafe is shared with a takeaway, the kitchen if which is 'part of' the cafe, so cooking smells, dishes rattling, etc. were all present - mind you we sat on table 8 which is nearest to the takeaway - other parts further away may well be less smelly and noisy but then there weren't as many (if any) windows. We just had two lattes (which were lovely), but a full range of food is available. Prices seemed average, neither cheap nor expensive. Limited free on-street parking otherwise a nearby carpark charges £3 minimum.

We were On a Caledonian coach holiday and a cream tea was included here. Small cafe with even smaller toilets. We all had two plain scones with jam and clotted cream and I thought they were dry and boring. Well I would have preferred fruit scones and looking on the menu they are no more expensive. So why didn't we get at least one fruit scone and one plain .? Although I would have preferred 2 fruit scones. And I gave one of mine to my husband who is obsessed with cream teas.!!!!

We just had take away chips and they were gorgeous, freshly made to order for us, the are blanch fried first then cooked in vegetable oil. There is seating both inside and out with a varied snack style menu. Inside devour is a bit dated but functional. Outside areas have had a makeover and look very appealing. Friendly staff not great for wheelchairs. Cash or credit accepted. Good value portion of chips £2.50

We arrived in Princetown late this afternoon. We have been quite a few times. As they were about to close they accepted our order for 3 fish and chips,chicken burger and chips and sausage and chips. They were lovely freshly cooked thank you. You made our day even better.

We had lovely fish and chips from here on our day out😁 Definitely recommend this place will look forward to going again 😁

Real food cooked excellently great service great staff and friendly

Nice little place if you go to Dartmoor to see the prison.

Had a lovely day out on Saturday went to Tavistock had coffee then had a trip over Dartmoor was a lovely day called in for fish and chips in Princetown which we have been too many times before the Service let us down this time very poor we had our tea and ordered our fishing chips but 45 minutes later we were still sitting there with cold tea we could see people coming in and getting served before us. Some only sitting there for 10 minutes got fed up in the end and told the waitress we were going as we were fed up waiting she said it’s just been plated up and I said you said that last time before you’ve just served that table , so we are very disappointed after having a lovely day out on my wife’s birthday .

Not really into this get rich society that is currently being played out in the uk currently so not into hyped up prices as being seen in this cafe. The old cafe had been taken over by the current owners of this cafe and so the prices went up through the roof as did the waiting time to be servered, some ten minutes waiting time and time to glance the menu and viewing the size of the meals come to other customers The first thing that came to mind was how expensive things had become compared to my last visit here. So tea for two is all I had because i choose never to pay for overpriced items. My advise is to bring your own food as its much cheaper

We visited on the way to Tavistock and again on the way back. Friendly staff, very nice cappuccino. Our friends had scones with clotted cream and jam whilst we just shared a toffee cake. All thoroughly enjoyed. It's an unusual cafe in that it is shared with a fish and chip takeaway. Would definitely come again.

Quality food, very polite staff,

This place is one of our must visit Coffee and Cake stops on our annual March trip to Dartmoor, the staff are friendly and the place is very clean. The food is excellent.

Chips are always good here, me and my lad go in for the chicken burger and chips regularly

Lovely staff and great cream teas, plus very dog friendly. However you can't avoid your clothes smelling of cooking (bacon and chips) when you leave. Not to be helped I guess when the windows are all closed and the kitchen extraction was not working well.

Great food, service and price. Got to be one of our favourite chippys. 🤗

Great lilltle cafe and great food also lovely staff

Charming cafe, nice atmosphere and friendly staff. Table survice and pay at till. Clean and modern toilets. Nice food with a surprising large menu. Excellent value for money.

Absolutely rubbish food at extortionate price. Proprietor the most rude person. I can only compare him to Basil Fawlty.

Great place for a good breakfast. Came with friends and everyone was very happy. The staff were very friendly and accommodating,. The food was great and so was the price. The car park is a bit of a con, minimum of 3 hours for £3, but that's not there fault. Will definitely be going again.

Great place to drop in for breakfast lunch etc or in our case take away. The food was great , freshly cooked and very tasty , chicken burger lettuce mayo with chips and chips on own , really lovely , a little way for it but it was busy so understandable. prices good and quality and quantity great. many thanks

We have been coming here for several months now and decided that that we been here enough times now to write a review. Friendly team VERY consistent with the quality of food that we take away. We live in Tavistock about 7 miles away and its worth traveling to get decent food. Far better than fish and chips Tavistock. We definitely recommend this place for a takeaway. One day we will try sitting in.

Love this place, has remained the same for a very long time. Food is great, prices are fair, and they are dog friendly. Oh and it is also a great fish and chip shop too.

Staff very friendly and helpful. Food average to poor. I had probably the most unappealing burger I've ever eaten. Dry bun, dry veggie burger, slice of unmelted cheese. No mayo,salad,onion ... even melting the cheese would have been something. Breakfast was average, ditto sandwich. Scones were pleasant enough. Not expensive but could be vastly improved with a bit more thought.

Very outdated inside, most of the staff are pleasant but a few were shouting across the dining area, the food was average for the price, the chips tasted and looked like they were frozen and just reheated, very cold inside as well, cans of drink cost over £2, won't be returning as there are a lot cheaper places with better food near by.

Very outdated. Staff very rude and unprofessional. Be warned small portions of food and not chip shop chips

The food is very good,and plenty of choice. We have been for breakfast. Lunch. Sunday Lunch is great. Dog friendly ( they have treats). Secret is out now peeps ha ha. Staff are very friendly you can have a good laugh. Service excellent Chris & Edith

Always excellent service, great burgers and sunday roast.

Warm on a winter's day, good food reasonably priced.

Hearty food. Lovely staff. Homey feel.

This place is Amazing. Attentive friendly staff, I visit whenever I'm in the area . It's a hub for hikers from near and far. Plenty on the menu to satisfy all our needs. Dogs welcome too. Start and end your trek here. It's well worth it .

Locals love place so it can get busy but staff will try and fit you in. Great selection of cakes.

Popped in for fish and chips excellent service and food highly recommend it