The best restaurants in Feniton and Buckerell East Devon South West

A special thanks to Beth and Chris (the hotel director) who were amazing. Great food and a wonderful team of people. Sergio (one of the waiters on the night) is a lovely down to earth character. Wonderful place - we will be back!

Decided to visit the Combe Garden Centre, overdue really as we are quite local. Went into the Kitchen at Combe for lunch. We had to wait behind the rope to be seated. I can understand this is busy times, but it was quiet and being seated involved the member of staff giving us a menu and help yourself to a seat. All well and good, but waiting what seemed a very long time behind the rope without even a menu to peruse was just plain daft and annoying. My wife wanted the jacket potato, but it clearly said on the menu this wasn’t available on a Sunday. We spotted a jacket spud being served and after an enquiry we were told we can ignore the menu in that respect. Whilst waiting at our table, we felt sorry for people coming in that wanted a seat with a brolly for shade, the only two tables suitable had ‘reserved for large parties’ on them. These tables held about 6-7 people and remained unused all the time we were there. Seemed ridiculous. Anyway, the positives, the food was promptly served and the quality good and the surroundings were very pleasant and a delight to sit in. Will we come back? Unlikely I feel, it could be so much better but needs better organisation and removal of petty rules.

Second visit here and food is nice. Such a shame though that some of the cutlery was dirty and the plate was so obviously unclean! Dried on red food stains under my scampi and chips. No way this wouldn’t have been noticed. Sorry, not acceptable for the money paid

"One of the nicer places we've dined at for a while- location is a bit out of the way but each of the dishes was full of flavour, and for the standard was good value for money"

We visited today and it's a beautiful place so tranquil and the food although limited was lovely.. mostly homemade..the bread is really good. They operate on a "for what is worth" basis which basically is pay what you think it is worth. (If you do go don't be tight as they live as a community and they put the money back into the community funds.) They have Gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian options also. The filter coffee was good 👍. There is also a little shop inside the tea room which sells bread, flour and other foodie things also they sell soap, toothpaste, shampoo etc. Well worth a visit.