The best restaurants in South West

Great ice coffee great welcome and relaxing vides x

Popped in here yesterday 2nd March 2025 as it was advertising a carvery! Not unusual I hear you say, but the pub around the corner was but when we requested it, they said they don't do one (despite the board outside!!) Came back here as we saw it as we were walking in earlier. Certainly wasn't a mistake, choice of 3 meats and how much you wanted, huge yorkshire pudding, large sausage to go with it and a choice of about 8 veg and that doesn't include the roasties!!!!!! Not expensive and would certainly return if ever down that way again. Give it a try and you will see why

Lovely friendly staff, great service, and most importantly, amazing food. The food here is very hot and tasty, with good quality ingredients and quality oil used to cook your food in. Food is well cooked, and the batter is a lovely golden colour and crispy, not soggy like some places. I highly recommend this chippy to anyone. 5 stars 🌟 for this place.

Cash only, don’t carry cash so looked elsewhere

Delicious breakfast lush service will definitely go back

We googled for a good restaurant in Chard and was impressed by the good reviews for A Tasquinha. We weren't very impressed by the entrance which wasn't very welcoming and had cigarette butts around the doorway. The inside of the restaurant was nice, clean and has a small garden outside. We presume the lady who served us was the owner. She is very pleasant and welcoming and took our orders and served our food speedily. We ordered a tapas plate for starters but when it came, there were no olives as they had run out that morning. However, we were charged the same price. (Sainsburys is 2 minutes up the road!) She recommended one of the specials, a bean, calamari and prawn stew which, for a cold day sounded good but the prawns were undercooked, there were only small very small pieces of calamari and it was beans, beans and more beans which was quite bland. My husband had their 'sausage' special. A tiny piece of sausage with a cooked egg ( he was not asked how he wanted his egg and it was a hard fried egg. I can't recommend the food here

The worst food on the island and horrible rude staff. Made me very uncomfortable. I couldn't finish my meal it was so awful and it also made me quite ill the next day. Avoid at all costs!!!

After a long walk we arrived just before closing. We asked if they were still serving coffee and they welcomed us in. Very friendly staff. Lovely cafe. Scones delicious. Would definitely go back

Stopped for Sunday lunch, lovely roast, was cooked perfectly, lovely veg and pipping hot. Lovely pub with log fire.

I can not rate this restaurant enough. We were greeted with a warm and friendly welcome. The manager really kindly and unexpectedly treated us to a drink as it was my husbands birthday, which really took us aback. The mixologist made me a delicious amaretto sours, best one I have had. He also recommended a rum and mixer to me, which was delicious. For starters, I had a garlic, spinach, and ricotta gnudi, which was like a foodgasm. It was unbelievably good. My husband had chorizo and prawns, which he enjoyed. We then had pork belly roast, which was equally as delicious. I loved the range of vegetables that came with it, and the sides were also lovely. The portion size was very generous and really good value for money. Unfortunately, we were too full for pudding, but I could see from others that they were also generous portions and looked lovely. The staff were attentive, friendly , and looked super smart. I loved that this restaurant was classy without being pretentious. I would highly recommend Exe Restaurant.

Nice atmosphere good friendly service but generally overpriced for what you get. There was a group of us eating out Saturday night. We have a variety of dishes from the daal to chicken, lamb biryani, aubergine and butternut squash. Food was tasty very nicely presented if somewhat lacking in spice for an Indian restaurant. The lamb biryani definitely the biggest disappointment as we struggled to find any lamb in there. However the squash and aubergine dishes definitely the best. Unusual and tasty. Nice food but portions relatively small and pricing quite high. Didn't feel quite value enough for money.

Found this quaint tearoom a couple of years ago and now we always pop in for lunch when passing through the area. Consists of two lovely rooms to enjoy a good selection of food and beverages. Staff are very friendly and welcoming and in our book is always a plus (as there is nothing more displeasing than staff that don’t want to be working)! If in the area would recommend you take a break here, you will not be disappointed…..

17 of us came to this rustic location and the food and staff were amazing … 5 stars all round 👍👍 #ptfc (the zip wire was great fun also)

Great find, good food and reasonable prices

Best burgers around! Perfect for date night