The best restaurants in Teignbridge South West

Visited BOVEY Castle celebrating our 50th anniversary year Chose to eat at Smith’s Brasserie - a great choice Good menu with excellent choices All of our selections were perfect What made our visit extra special and memorable was the attentiveness of our waitress Danielle She was friendly, helpful and professional Thank you BOVEY Castle and thank you Danielle - you made it special

We ordered a bespoke cake for my brothers 21st birthday The actual design and details we asked for were completely on point. Could not fault any of that. The delivery was also on time. The only reasons why I did not give 5 starts, was because the actual sponge was dry and the salted caramel flavour we asked for, could not be tasted and the flavour wasn’t there. There could have been more filling inside the cake as well. When we have spent this kind of money on a special cake, we expected much more. This was a let down.

We felt that the product range had diminished as had the offerings at the meat counter. It all felt like it needed brightening up. We are in the deli and my pork and apple pie was oversized, rather dry and there was little evidence of apple. The carrot salad was lovely but the green salad had certainly seen better days. Although their Christmas Shop purported to be open there was little sign of it. My husband had a very weak pot of tea. However the young and tall woman on the till was a ray of sunshine.

Clean with polite and friendly staff. Well stocked choice of snacks and cakes. Excellent coffee choices Ideal location.

A random pop-in following a recommendation, I got the bus from Exeter on a Friday lunchtime and enjoyed the best sausage and mash you could wish for. It came with a whole host of vegetables. Most impressive, and many thanks.

Amazing level of service from one of the ladies at The Ridge Café. I want to thank the member of staff who offered and brought out to the car park, our order to me and my two rescue dogs, one of which, new to us, is very nervous following traumatic times in recent years. It was raining but this lady absolutely wanted to do it, and the dogs were able to meet her - one was enthusiastic and the new boy just looked puzzled, probably wondering who was so kind to bring out this meal to us. It was great, gentle, exposure for ‘new boy’ and a highlight for me too. I’m sorry that I don’t have the lady’s name but she was so good, thank you!

Great jacket meal deal, pulled pork was lovely. Lady who serviced us was jolly, friendly and helpful. She really made us smile and is the reason I went to the effort of popping on a review, great service deserves recognition

I have been to The Dolphin Inn several times now and the staff are always very friendly and welcoming.There are homemade traditional pies and roasts offered on Sundays, and bar snacks during the week. I had forgotten my scarf and Sam had very kindly looked after it for me. I wish them a very happy and successful 2020!

Bovey Castle is certainly a beautiful and interesting location. However, with all their grounds parking spaces are a premium. Eventually, we were offered a space in a coned off area. A very well appointed building as your would expect for a Five Star Hotel. We began with an aperitif 'Gusbourne English Sparkling' which was superb. A absolutely delightful bar. Smith's Brasserie! Well, let's begin with the positives. Excellent welcome and staff were fantastic throughout our Birthday lunch. Extremely unimaginative menu to say the least. A nice enough starter. Perhaps would have expected freshly made mayonnaise, not from a bottle, in such an establishment. Pleasant enough bottle of rose, although there was a choice of ONE. My wife (Birthday Girl) and I opted for pasta dishes. Absolutely clueless when it comes to pasta dishes. Packet spaghetti with prawns (four small ones) and a Provencal sauce? Very little of it too. It is an Italian dish and the sauce requires mixing in the pasta. Tagliatelle, again from a packet, with some type of utterly non-descript cream sauce at the bottom of the dish. Totally unseasoned dishes. The cooking water needs to taste of the sea. Therefore, seasoned. No offer of cheese or pepper or pangrattato, nothing, and certainly no theatre. Huge improvements required I'm afraid to make an enjoyable dining experience. Dress Code: Expectations, as you would imagine were high. Staff were smart, but could have been better attired for such a hotel. Clientele: Lots of jeans and un-ironed tee shirts wondering around and dining. A pair of football shorts and dirty trainers at one table, others with feet on the chairs in the bar and the final straw was a couple arriving in towelling dressing gowns and flip flops. NO! Sorry. There's a time and a place and this is not acceptable. Unfortunately, this was a lunch to judge if a weekend stay would be appropriate for our anniversary and it simply is not good enough.

Lovely food, classic pub grub but done well and reasonably priced. Liver was excellently cooked, slightly pink and soft and packed full of flavour. Service was good, we were checked back on, meals came promptly and cleared when finished. Nice cold wine and kids meals substantial for the price! Only marked down one star as bar is always busy (not a bad thing), but just makes it sometimes awkward leaning over drinkers to order food. However, always highly recommended for both food and drinks.

Food is way too expensive here and very low quality. Pretty much everything is store brought and not fresh. Just a few minor changes would make it so much nicer. Even the rice with the curry is packet brought, it’s not that difficult to boil some rice! I know it’s a busy place because of all the holiday makers but having good quality food for the price they charge would make such a difference.

Very friendly staff and food was a great hit with the family 👍 we used it twice while on holiday for a week. Would definitely recommend this place.

I can’t give a review on the food as it didn’t open at all ?? I was looking forward!! 😔 Always was closed when I stayed.

What a total load of s**t, My 4th visit in as many days to try and buy a breakfast baguette-never have any baguettes( I mean it’s a bakery for gods sake!) or it’s too late for a breakfast roll because it’s just after 11am. Never going back !!

Breakfast very greasy to the point of inedible, Why do people think it ok to let dogs into an eating place jumping round people's tables??