The White House in West Devon

First time visiting this restaurant after reading the lovely reviews. Expecting to have a lovely cooked breakfast in the restaurant to start our day only to be told restaurant not open due to no staff. Take away only Had 2 baps and 2 coffees £18 very disappointed the baps were small brioche buns. Won’t be returning..

Excellent service, fresh hot food, reasonably priced, very clean, can't fault it, much better than the big service stations.

Absolutely lovely find on our trip home. Food was gorgeous we both had jacket potato with fillings and they were delicious. Staff really welcoming and friendly. The restaurant was spacious and clean. Would highly recommend.

Fabulous luxury hot chocolate - no issues there at all. However the charmless and quite frankly aggressive female who barked at us “you can’t sit there you haven’t paid to ‘eat’ in” when we dared to perch on one of the seats INSIDE the takeaway area as “it’s for restaurants customers only” (which incidentally was empty but for one table and was actually cordoned off from the takeaway bit). We would have happily paid the extra 75p to sit somewhere other than our car for 10 minutes after a 4 hour drive but hey - that was never offered. There is a way to explain things. Add tact and diplomacy for a start. This woman had zero customer service skills. But she was seemingly OK with the guy who served us munching his chips and beans on top of the counter he was serving us from. A bunch of amateurs basically.

Lovely, good quality ingredients and cooked well. Modern and clean inside, a great little gem of a place.

The restaurant, car park & picnic area are tucked away behind the garage and is the best comfort break u could wish for. We have been visiting this place for over 20 years on our journeys in & out of Devon & Cornwall. Lots of parking & open spaces for the kiddies to let off steam plus a very reasonably priced restaurant. It has been refurbished since our last visit & is covid friendly with a one way system & seating. The staff are extremely friendly and the food & drinks very very good. We visited for lunch before driving over Dartmoor and tea & coffee on our return from Cornwall.

Nice place and very clean.Staff are very friendly and helpful.The food was ok, better than your average services.If anybody was traveling along the A30 and wanted a rest and something to eat this is probably the best place to stop.They also do a sunday roast which was ok.

Needed a break from driving and some food so stopped here on Sunday on the way home from Bristol airport, didn't expect more than the usual awful service food but we were pleasantly surprised. Greeted by a lovely friendly waitress. We ordered the steak and kidney pie, chips and veg. It was a large portion, huge tender pieces of steak and kidney and 4 different types of fresh vegetables, all home cooked. Yes, it probably was warmed up in the microwave but the fact that it was cooked from fresh and not bought in made such a difference. We had tea with the meal and we took home some delicious huge pieces of flapjack all for less than £30. We would definately stop here again.

We stopped for a quick lunch here. It was very clean and friendly. It is off the A30 and is easy to find. It is a proper service area. We had prawn sandwiches with a nice salad - well presented. It came quickly and the staff were helpful and friendly. Would recommend this place. The meal was good value for money.

Friendly Devon staff who served real comfort food with a smile. Good value for money with good portion size. Restaurant clean and fairly smart. Large variety of food with daily specials. Recommend Liver and bacon casserole or Steak and kidney pie. All piping hot.

Good food and service staff were friendly and helpful. Had Jacket potato with cheese, lots of cheese and salad

Food warmed up from artic freezer cappuccino half warm , plus side it's clean . I won't go here again

I think the food is cooked at a local crematorium... chips were stale with some hot and others cold, bacon like cardboard, sausage!!! RIP. Burger was cold served under a warm egg. Cafe was very empty so no excuse for poor standards. When they say pot of tea they mean just less than a mug!! We will never go here again however it was clean in seating area and, the disabled toilet was clean.

For value for money this place is a must.Vast menu of home cooked meals available all day.Care required when ordering as portions for mains and sweets are very generous.Very friendly staff .Booking reccomended for sunday lunch.

Having been here several times, I quite agree that specials are the best. Cake is awful! It is chips with nearly everything after five, however curry has never failed us. Sometimes staff are fab other times it is a case of they would rather be somewhere else sooner rather than later.

Have stopped here several times on visits to Cornwall, always have a good well cooked homemade meal, plenty of choice and very reasonable prices, the staff are always pleasant, they always seem very busy but we never seem to have to wait long for our meal

The Whitehouse is shown as Services just of the Okehampton junction off the A30. I looks like a large café, but you won't find any junk food here, just really good, simple food that tastes home cooked. As a family we can't go past on our holidays, we have to go in, especially after a really good walk on the moor.

Use to use this as a breakfast stop on way to Cornwall each year, but have become disillusioned. However decided to give supper a go on way home this year. Restaurant clean, but behind wooden centre piece next to us stood mop & bucket (not too hygienic). Service slow. Partner pointed out if he was in his truck, he'd have run out of break & would have had to leave meal. When asked told delay because cooking fresh - we'd only ordered burgers & chips. Watching seemed dealing with one tables order at a time - not ideal on busy Friday night. Felt like boss away so staff on a go slow. On a positive note, the garage at the services were very helpful & friendly.

Vinimos aquí para comer el domingo de esta semana y nos sorprendió gratamente. Buen tamaño de las porciones de cenas sabrosas asado con verdura fresca y deliciosos patatas asadas. Seguido de uno de los mejores de cerezo se desmenuza que he comido. Todos los productos caseros. Disfrutamos mucho.

Después de leer las buenas críticas que parecía hacia delante para un desayuno decente aquí, por desgracia, este no fue el caso. Las salchichas eran el 90% de los cereales y el 10% de cartílago. Las patatas fritas eran congeladas y apenas visto la freidora, aún sólido en el medio y en el exterior. El café era de filtro y se habían hecho muchas horas atrás. Muy caro en comparación con otros cafés de Okehampton, y el único lugar de la zona que vende comida de tal mala calidad. El personal era amable y el lugar estaba impecablemente limpio, pero lamentablemente la comida decepcionante.

very good food good prices and friendly helpful staff. Stop here and don't waste your money at expensive motorway services, good food ,clean cafe

a large turkey dinner loads of turkey a good value meal they do a Christmas special a 3 coarse meal very good value takes some eating it got to be the best petrol stop on the motor way its only 10 miles from my home I like to eat there 2 a month

Can highly recommend this restaurant if you want good , freshly cooked ,reasonably priced food en route to/ from Cornwall . The White House has a very reasonably priced menu and there is a daily specials board and desserts There are small or large options...

Normalmente visita Cornwall una vez al año. Esto se ha convertido en nuestro lugar de parada para el desayuno. La comida siempre es buena y el personal es amable. Tiene que ser el mejor lugar en la carretera de Cornwall.

This place has a good menu. Good food, prices and portion sizes. Friendly staff never had any problems here. Sunday lunches are tasty and 2 sizes available. Good value for money.

We stopped here for a snack on the way back from Cornwall and was pleasantly surprised. We didn't expect much but got a really lovely dinner (cheese omelette and salad) and coffee.The service was brilliant, very friendly and quick. Excellent find :-)

A few years back while travelling to Cornwall, we wanted a break & saw this place.We had a really good breakfast & coffee.As we usually visit Cornwall once a year, this has become the place for our breakfast stop.The food is always good & the staff very friendly.Well worth a visit.

We stopped at the filling station for a diesel refil on our way back from a visit to St Ives in Cornwall. We noticed the White House restataurant on the same site and decided to try it. What a surprise. They serve all sorts of meals including roast dinners. You can also have a smaller portion at a smaller price if you wish. The roast dinners were excellent, the service was prompt and very friendly. The prices were very reasonable and the place was spotlessly clean with a very relaxed atmosphere. We shall definitely be calling there again when in the area. On the way down to Cornwall we stopped at Sedgemoor services on the M5 and were totally ripped off with three coffees and sandwiches coming to over £20!!! Need I say more!!

Stopped off on route from Weston to Newquay for breakfast seeing as this place is situated in a service area I was expecting the usual overpriced poor quality food you normally associate with service station food. What we found was a clean well-organised restaurant with good fresh food, friendly staff and even a nice view all at a very reasonable price.If your heading along the A30 it is well worth the stop, shame there was not any honey on the menu

Unfortunately we live to far away to go and eat here on a regular basis (some 75 miles) but if you are travelling up or down the A30 this restaurant is a must!! If you live close, you are lucky people and I envy you. The prices are excellent for their normal large menu meals and for their very large ( I am glad they do small portions) roast meals. Well done White House, you keep a clean, friendly house with wonderful food.

A very nice place to stop for a quick bite to eat or something to drink. Better than you'd normally expect from a roadside café. Staff are friendly and helpful, food is nice enough and it felt like good value for money.