The best restaurants in Taunton Deane South West

Rubbish and expensive! Paid £4.50 for one tiny pot of ice-cream. Huge queues, really slow service. No vegan options - someone suggested we have the cheese and onion pasty. To summarise, really expensive, really slow and generally poor quality. Should be so much better.

Sadly, it was not to our expectations. Such good reports of how amazing the food was, was very disappointing. The menu on line, is no comparison to the menu offered on the day. My son had baked potato with tuna ect, with no complaint… myself and other son, because of lack of choice decided to have fried breakfast, thinking you can’t possibly mess this up, but it was disgusting!it was like they had cooked the ingredients in dirty old fat… my son struggled to eat his, where generally he is a good eater and tries to eat mine too. When the barman picked up our finished full plates, he didn’t ask if everything was ok… I had to tell him , the bacon tasted strange as did the fried tomatoes… I would not eat there again, Daisies cafe I would recommend, it’s cheaper and tastier. Come away very disappointed as trip advisor made the bird in hand sound brilliant… I was looking to have a family celebration in the near future, but it won’t be there now. So disappointed

Popped out having been to this pub when it was for sale and have to say the owners have done a lovely job, lots of local produce and home produced meats. There is a lovely feel to the pub and the owners are very welcoming. Look forward to coming back on a sunny day to enjoy the lovely garden.

Lovely cafe, beautiful drinks and lady with the dark blonde hair was very friendly . Don’t get that much in coffee shops anymore

Ordered a sub and found mixture of fillings and also it was falling apart and half full took it back and got a replacement however the bread was then stale on the ends can't be bothered to moan just won't go there again however the cross contamination thing needs to be sorted

We were a party of 6 plus 2 little ones. We all enjoyed the carvery which was very tasty. Good selection of veg and extras. The cauliflower cheese was the best I've tasted. The dessert was lovely too. We all had the sticky toffee pudding and ice cream....delicious. Lovely attentive staff. Nothing was too much trouble. We were made to feel very welcome. We'll definitely return

This Chinese takeaway used to be really great and I wrote a review three years ago saying as much, but we ordered sweet and sour pork and a beef dish last weekend and unfortunately we could only eat a few mouthfuls. The pork dish was almost all batter and both meals were rock hard as if they’d been microwaved a few times. What a shame.

Spent £25 here tonight. Started to eat the food we ordered both myself and my wife after taking just a few mouthfuls of food stopped eating. The egg fried rice most certainly wasn't cooked today and smelt putrid we will NEVER spend any more money at this bland Palace of mediocre food PLEASE BE WARNED AND BEWARE

I had booked because of the reviews but left disappointed, this was a family birthday celebration mid week. The garlic buttered prawn was missing the garlic butter then came out of the packet and put on a dish with some cooked tomatoes. The lasagna was a brown mess with no flavour. The sea bass risotto was stodgy rice with no flavour, certainly not how a risotto is cooked. The sea bass and scallop was cooked lovely the rice just let it down. The staff were polite but we weren't looked after we didn't get asked once how was our meal otherwise we would have raised all these points. Wouldn't recommend. Won't be going back.

The cafe food is great plenty of highchairs the service area could be improved so your not waiting so long less people making cups of tea and more clearing tables

Absolutely awful. Coffee was that bad I threw it away. There are cobwebs from the light fixtures behind the counter. Flies on the tarts in the cake counter one member of staff wafted it off the custard tart and it went to a cherry bakewell but neither one were taken out the unit glad i wasnt eating. For not lo g having a referb I will not be going back any time soon. Staff were friendly enough but very slow even forgetting one woman's drink.

Stopped here for a few drinks on a sunny Friday afternoon. It’s under new management by Ben & Will who are amazing!! It was lovely to see what they’d done with the place. The garden is lovely, drinks were served quickly and were so nice. The staff were so kind and polite and I would highly recommend and will definitely be returning!! Can’t wait until they starting serving food!

Great atmosphere for watching the football. Friendly and helpful bar staff and a good natured crowd of England fans. There are several rooms within the is pub to suit allcomers

Went there with friends recently, but wasn’t impressed by the bad attitude of the woman who’s apparently the manageress/landlady. She was very rude and there seemed to be a lot of people coming and going from the door that goes upstairs. All seemed a bit shifty to me, so won’t be going again due to the bad service.

Got a delivery tonight, food wasn't cooked properly and when I phoned them up they said it wasn't from them ever after showing receipt online