The best restaurants serving British food in Exe Valley East Devon South West

New visit last friday 01/11/24, as usual food and atmosphere great, well run pub very worth a visit. Previous visits to this great community owned pub, food very good. Just visited with a group of 21 people for a Friday meal at lunch time, all the food served very quickly considering the number of us there. All the meals were excellent with a very large selection to choose from, and also a great selection of desserts. All in all, a great place to visit. Revisited several times now, always good food and service.

This is probably the worst dining experience I have ever had. Where do I start. We were a party of 7, 5 adults and 2 small children so I booked for 5.30. I booked a table for 7 and was shown to a table for 4. We ordered off the really tatty A4 paper menu along with 4 carvery's. We asked to see the wine menu we were told they had a Malbec, an Australian and a Zinfandel, no further details of the wine were known by the staff. The wine was then served in cocktail glasses!! really shoddy. 1 1/2 hours later our dinners arrived after asking several times if there was a problem with our order. We then had to get our own carvery's and waited another 10 mins for someone to actually serve us, so this meant that the people with other meals had virtually finished. We then had to wait for the 3 more lots of cutlery to arrive. The meat was a choice of gammon or turkey, both cold along with the luke warm small variety of veg swimming in grease. The other meals were not much nicer. Our table was left uncleared for another 1/2 hour while we waited for 2 ice creams for the children. The person in charge then decided to let us wait another 10 mins for 2 spoons for the ice creams. When she gave them to us and eventually decided to clear away our main course plates, she knocked over our drinks, she went to get a cloth and left the cloth on the table for us to clear up the drinks that she had spilt and at no time did she offer to replace them. When I went to pay I hadn't realised that the bill had already been paid by another member of our party and she tried to charge me for the whole amount again. If it wasn't for someone telling me that they had already paid the transaction would have gone through. This young lady then decided to argue with me when I let her know that our experience had not been a good one, and at no time was there any apology for the long wait, spilt drinks which she expected us to clear up, and awful food. Her attitude was absolutely dreadful an by no means professional. This used to be a nice busy place to eat and now it is absolutely atrocious. I wondered why it was so empty when we got there and now I know why. I should have read the other reviews before I booked, but just expected it to be really good as it was before. I have never written a review before but this was so bad I felt I had to let other people know.