The best restaurants serving British food in Wellswood Torbay South West

Tasteless food and highly priced. Coffee at 3.60 a cup was hot, brown water. A bacon sandwich was 2 packet slices of white bread covered in 'spread' and the bacon had been kept a bit warm somewhere for a long time.. it was hard, stringy. The croissant was something akin to one from a supermarket packet of 6. Total bill over £17! Please can owners occasionally eat the food theyre serving and check if they are offering value for money!? It was quite shockingly poor and we'll not be going back. View or no view, it doesn't make up for poor quality food.

Exceptional! We were here on Saturday for our anniversary and were treated to a fantastic meal with excellent service, highly recommended!

Lovely bit of day time drinking in a night club atmosphere! Themed decoration for Halloween with a chilled outdoor, but undercover space. Lovely waitress provided attentive table service .

Had a lovely meal here while on holiday. Food presentation and taste was exemplary. Staff very accommodating as we hadn't booked and the view of the harbour charming. Couldn't fault it.

Had a lovely lunch with,on a Monday too.

We stopped in with half an idea to have dinner on the Saturday night after Valentines day, if the pub wasn't too busy... The bar area was heaving with happy punters and the restaurant was quite busy so it was decided to just have a drink and head home. At that point, superlative front of house operative Harry sensed we'd been thinking about something to eat and offered to find us a table in the restaurant. Over the course of many months, it became obvious that he had been comprehensively bitten by what I call the 'hospitality bug'; diddly squat gets in the way of him making certain that his paying guests are happy. I know this bug, having been afflicted by it some years ago. I came to view it as a curse, but happily was eventually cured. Soon settled in the dining room, we marvelled at the transformation new owners Jackie & Adrian have accomplished since buying the business several months ago. The lighting, hard & soft furnishings, and general interior design are without parallel for many miles around. It's a warm and relaxing space where it's a pleasure to pass a few hours while enjoying the delicious food and absorbing the atmosphere created by lovely people from across the social strata. An interesting quote from Hilaire Belloc in "The Death of the English Pub" (Christopher Hutt, 1973): "When you have lost your Inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England". Fortunately, this has not come to pass in Wellswood and the new Kent's is a shining example of why. We sampled the tail end of the Valentines weekend menu. Kudos to the kitchen team as both mains were outstanding: 1) Lamb cutlets beautifully cooked, dauphinoise potatoes, a gorgeous glossy jus, and (unusually in Torquay, perfectly cooked vegetables 😋). 2) Moules marinières, a huge plate of spanking fresh local mussels in a well executed broth of mussel juices, onion, herbs and thankfully not too much cream. Drinks menu is well thought out and refreshingly adjusted pricing from what it was under previous ownership. The pinot noir is a great choice by the glass and the Claret (only by the bottle) is very good value. A perfect evening which could only have been bettered if Tash had been on as well!

Hey what a lovely real Pub and oh boy warm clean safe and very friendly prices £2.55 for a John Smiths many thanks to you Tracey you're an Angel and deserve a medal for all your kindness and hard work xx

We were looking for somewhere to have lunch and came across this place. It was full but I noticed some stairs so I popped my head in and asked if they had any tables upstairs. All I got a was a curt 'no'. As luck would have it someone was just about to leave so we got their table. It wasn't cleared for quite a while but we didn't mind. The was quite a lot of choice on the menu and the prices were reasonable. They seemed to be in a rush to take our order but I imagine its because they don't have many tables so want to keep turning over customers quickly. The food was good and we enjoyed looking over the harbour side. My daughter found it extremely novel that fishermen came in for their lunch still with all their gear on. It's obviously popular with locals. After we paid I noticed we'd been overcharged, but this was soon rectified. All that had happened was that the wrong till button had been pressed. Not a problem, mistakes happen.

This pub is lovely. Everyone was so welcoming and really made our weekend memorable. Brett really makes all his customers feel like old friends and we will definitely be back there. Great entertainment on Saturday nights and very reasonably priced. Thanks for a great time Brett and the other staff.

Always a warm welcome and great fun!

We have been coming to the Imperial two or three times a year for the last 5 years. Other than breakfast, we tend not to eat in the hotel as there are so many choices in town but we will have dinner at least once during our stay. The food is fine, well presented, but, sadly, nothing to get excited about. The only thing that really bugs me is that on every dinner menu over the last 5 years, they have shown Paxton & Whitfield cheeses but they have never got them. All they ever have is Cheddar and Brie, and presumably these have been sourced from a local supermarket. P&W are England’s premier cheesemongers and to offer a selection of their cheeses is like offering Dom Perignon champagne or a hamper from Fortnum & Mason. The range of cheeses they offer is little short of spectacular and to have a carefully chosen selection of their cheese on the menu is an enormous accolade for any restaurant but to advertise P&W cheeses and never have them can only be considered as a ruse to get people into the restaurant. It’s really very wrong. Imperial management – if you are going to advertise Paxton & Whitfield cheeses, please make sure you have them.