The best restaurants in Teignbridge South West

We tried this place for the first time yesterday. Fabulous location right on the river and clearly a favourite with dog walkers and ramblers due to the walks alongside the Teign. We had a very nice table indoors overlooking the river. Waited ages for drinks at the bar, then again when waiting to order despite there being at least three waitresses and a virtually empty pub. Apparently two of them were 'just back from University' as if this in some way excused the fact that they very audibly did not appear to know where they were supposed to be taking the food they had already twice carried from the kitchen. We had checked out the menu on the website before we went and were looking forward to the sea bass which is very clearly advertised, so it was a bit disenchanting when there was no sight of it on the physical menu. Our meals were therefore medium cod and chips, Devon ham with a 'brace of eggs' and chips and a ploughman's. The cod was tiny and overcooked. The tartar sauce seemed to have been produced from a bottle. My mother's 'Devon ham' looked as if it had been freshly taken out of a packet; wafer thin, processed, wet and shiny, not 'locally cooked on site' as boasted. The chips were very obviously frozen. My ploughman's had a nice salad, a decent blue cheese and nice, hot bread. Other than that, the cheddar managed to be bland, the brie was rock hard and completely tasteless, the chutney and pickles looked as if they had been served to someone else prior to me and there was a massive amount of a lurid purple something on my plate which I think was coleslaw but which tasted nothing like it. Vile. My mother complained about the ham and was told by the waitress that she would 'find out more from the chef'. She never got back to us. We used the lavatory on leaving which was upstairs, very poky and had urine all over the seat. A really disappointing experience. They have what I would describe as a 'tourist' menu in that they seem to think they can serve up substandard food at inflated prices and get away with it because tourists are transient. Terrible.

Met up with some friends for lunch we were glad to have been able to sit out in the garden as inside was very gloomy and uninviting and hasnt changed in years I ordered a pint of soda water with ice and was totally shocked to be charged £2.30 for it !!! I never get charged in central Exeter or other places for soda water, and when I questioned, it I was told "well we have to pay for it." I had a cheese,onion, and tomato sandwich with granary bread. The cheese had absolutely no flavour, so it was probably the mildest there was and was just like eating pure fat along with whatever spread had been used it definitely wasn't butter ! Bread was ok and a tiny bit of salad and some very strange totilla chips .We asked for some mayonnaise, but even that was really tasteless and obviously a cheap variety The lady serving us was very pleasant and attentive, but sadly, it's definitely not a venue. I will be rushing back anytime soon

Served by a nice lady. The meal was really nice.

Cozy, friendly and reasonable prices. Couldn’t try food unfortunately as kitchen was closed but lovely little pub.

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.

We walked in the pub , found a table and my wife went to the bar. The bar was empty and my wife was to be served next. At that point the bartender looked at my wife to serve her then a very rude pink hair person called kim( that’s what the bartender called her) jumped in front and the bartender turned to the rude local and ignored my wife and didn’t even apologise. We all walked out without a drink and went to a pub where people are treated equal

Really gone downhill lately. Customer service is pretty much non existent with some staff. Shame some staff left because it was run really well before. Won’t be using anymore.

I’ve been ordering the mixed grill at JD Wetherspoon pubs for close to 20 years (since around 2005) and somehow survived — until today. This was, without question, the most tragic excuse for a mixed grill I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting. I should’ve taken a photo, but honestly, it would have needed a NSFW warning. The sausage was the only thing that looked like it had once been part of a living animal. The rest of it? Tiny, burnt, shriveled beyond recognition — like they’d fished it out of a house fire and thought, “Yeah, that’ll do.” When I politely mentioned it to the bar staff, I got the same canned response twice: “That’s the portion size.” Ah yes, because clearly the issue here was quantity, not the fact it looked like an autopsy report. Rather than perform CPR on what was left of my dignity, I asked for a refund. They gave it to me (plus a free Pepsi Max — thanks, I guess?), so for that, you scrape together one lonely star. Well played, JD Wetherspoon Newton Abbot. After 20 years, you’ve managed to serve up a mixed grill so bad it should come with a trigger warning. Bravo.

the best Chinese takeaway in newton abbot for years x

Terrible terrible food. Didn't have the Chinese as it wasnt a proper takeaway for this type of food as no hobs going to cook fresh food so assumed it was all frozen and microwaved as I couldn’t even smell the hint of Chinese food so I opted for a portion of chips a couple of sausages and the Chinese part of the meal with some curry sauce. Took a long time to come as they were having a small discrepancy with a customer! food was handled without any type of quality control i.e. sausages being handled alongside fish in the same hands with no gloves or even washing between handling of different foods so it’s good job I didn’t have a fish allergy Food wasn’t that wonderful although the sausages were hot, but even my dog turned them down and the curry sauce well that’s the most disgusting curry sauce I’ve tasted in my life didn’t taste anything like a curry sauce. It looked like barbecue sauce but didn’t taste like barbecue sauce either and after checking which I should’ve done first, but I was hungry at the time it’s got a one star with some really bad points on the food hygiene. This place is a food poisoning waiting to happen but to play devils advocate why the council is allowing it to stay open as another point.

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.

I believe this pub was recently sold off by Heavitree after many years of neglect. I'm not sure they do food yet but I was very impressed by the lady behind the bar (Kelly?). She knows her job and has a very good rapport with the customers. We'll be going again.

Same as always, doesn’t disappoint

Avoid this place and use one of the other Chinese takeaways in Newton Abbot. My food was ordered at half 6 and did not arrive until almost 10pm, 3.5hrs later. This was with me calling multiple times to be told “your food will be there shortly”. Clearly Kaming doesn’t use the same definition of shortly as I do. The driver was also given the wrong food to deliver at one point and it had to be made fresh which made the delivery time even longer. When the food did arrive it was average at best and so disappointing after the long wait. They did offer to refund £7.50 of the meal but after such poor service and disappointing food that wasn’t nearly enough of a refund. Save yourself the trouble and avoid using this place.

Terrible service 4 staff behind the roof terrace bar had to cue 20 minutes for a drink no smile or please or thank you so shabby better training needed