The best restaurants in South West

I made a detour and stopped at the red lion for Sunday roast whilst driving through Crediton. At £14.50 the Sunday roast was very reasonable priced. The potatoes were very crispy and the beef was cooked just right. The pub itself looked very clean and well maintained. The toilets were kept in a good condition and looked very clean. They had a woodwarm model 51 stove burning which kept the bar area cozy. I took a look at the guest rooms in preparation for a possible future visit and they looked very comfortable. The rear garden looked like a good place to have a drink in the summer. I will definitely call in here when in the area.

A good Christmas Dinner, hot and tasty. Service was very good too.

Spot on. Get your self down for some tasty grilled treats. Fresh produce, thoroughly enjoyed it.

The best Chinese takeaway in Weston the food is always really fresh and tastes amazing also great value and the staff are really polite and helpful

Cosy Hotel in central location with great room as well as lovely owner who gave a free room upgrade.

The best. Great food, lovely staff / owners. Don’t go anywhere else.

We have had lunch here a few times. Food always delicious and the little deli full of goodies to tempt you on the way out Interesting local art on the walls

Brilliant pub, infact my favourite in the Valley. Amazing Pizzas. Pool tables dart board plenty of seating. Recently £4 a pint when the rugby was on. Good selection of beers and ciders. Cheddar valley on tap!

We LOVE the Kildare! Harvey & Sarah are so warm and welcoming and we love the opportunity to run our Dryad cocktail bars during their brilliant Ale festivals. 😀❤️🥂

One of the more joyful quirks of the modern food scene is the democratisation of dining. These days, a tattooed bloke in a shipping container can slap a patty between two buns and win more awards than Raymond Blanc. Pizza slingers, burger flippers, taco hustlers – they’ve muscled their way into the culinary conversation, and thank God. Who needs the linen-starched, whisper-toned tyranny of Michelin when you can eat a meal standing up with chip grease trickling down your forearm? And so, to Fatto, the much-fêted burger merchant tucked inside the rather chaotically charming Stag and Hounds pub in Bristol. If you spend even three minutes on Bristol FoodTok, or whatever we’re calling it this week, you’ll have seen it: the slo-mo cheese pull, the oozing sauce, the unshaven critic chewing with the reverence of a man discovering religion in a bap. Multi-award-winning, they say. Best burger in Bristol, others chant, like it’s a football anthem. Well. I finally went. After months – years, perhaps – of hearing the hype echo around Gloucester Road and Clifton, I made the pilgrimage. Walked in with stomach rumbling, expectations soaring, ready to have my mind blown and my arteries clogged in glorious fashion. And what I got… was a burger. A bog-standard, slightly soggy, aggressively average burger. It wasn’t bad, per se. The bun was soft, toasted, clearly of the fancy brioche genus. The patty was thick-ish, cooked to an acceptable medium (just), but dry – as if someone had drained it of joy before slapping it down. The cheese was there. It existed. But it didn’t melt, it just sort of sat, like a disinterested house cat, vaguely judging me. Fries? Also fine. Crispy enough. Salted like a driveway in February. But the whole thing – the entire experience – felt like being promised a wild night with Margot Robbie and ending up with a half-hearted cuddle from your mum's mate Carol. You know, nice enough. But not what you queued up for. Maybe it was the hype. Maybe it was the endless stream of social media mouth-breathers filming themselves like they’ve just discovered foie gras in a burger van. Maybe I went on an off night. Or maybe – just maybe – it’s the sobering truth that no amount of awards, likes, shares, or gooey slow-mo cheese shots can elevate a merely decent burger into the pantheon of greatness. Is it the best burger in Bristol? Not on that showing. Is it even top ten? Only if you're new in town and easily impressed. Still, lovely pub. Pint was spot on.

Cosy pub with great atmosphere. Came here for a roast dinner which was very nice.

A warm and inviting experience here. The service was friendly and relaxed. A great amount of choice on the menu. We went for the tapas and it was all delicious. Special shout out for the meatballs! Great value for money too.

What a lovely experience. Warmly welcomed and patiently explained menu! Meat was plentiful and delicious. The menu was exciting with lots of things we fancied trying. Decor was fab. The sour drinks were delicious! One slight note, we ordered way too much food and would have appreciated the nudge that we could have ordered slightly less. We still would have spent a lot for lunch.

Went to the farm shop for the first time this year and purchased meat, cheese, bread etc for our self catering holiday in Woolacombe. Food was excellent and the staff, so friendly and helpful. It will be a first stop before getting to the apartment in Woolacombe in 2024. Cant recommend it enough.