The best restaurants serving British food in Torbay South West

We were on an overnight stay and looking for a place to eat. We popped in on the off chance. Staff were very friendly and were able to accommodate us. My husband had the scallops starter and would highly recommend. I had the pate which was very nice. The prawn Thai curry was very nice. Would recommend but advise you book

We went in here for a drink over the Christmas period and as soon as we walked inside we were greeted by very rude and unfriendly bar staff, because we had a pushchair. Following that the same member of star was rude to a 7 year old because he was in the bar area. We understood that it is a small pub, however the hostility was completely unjustified, so would not recommend this pub to anyone who isn’t a local

Over the years that we have been visiting the food has always been excellent. This Saturday lunchtime we were a party of 6, for my birthday. Attentive staff, excellent food, with wide menu choice - but fewer sweets to choose from than one might like perhaps. The large vegan platter (starter) was unusual, and superb, as was my fish pie. Others had a wide variety, all rated excellent - albeit not cheap.

Spending new years eve here as the only guests and we have been treated wonderfully, the room is warm the food is great and the dog is welcome. It's a great night and a great place to be.

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.

Busy day in Brixham, the pub next door was full to bursting so we tried this place. It was empty and it didn't take long to find out why. Rude staff, no ice, no diet coke or pepsi. One couple in there drinking larger which was the only thing available. The barman said if you don't like it go elsewhere.

Had breakfast here there were three of us the food was okay but I do find it odd when cafés cannot offer skinny milk and having worked in hospitality I know how easy it is to just change a milkyet we could not have skinny milk. It’s just pathetic in this day and age. I saw that they had other types of milk there like soya but not skinny. I do think this is rubbish. Luckily this cafe is not in America because they would slam it. Having said that the coffee was actually nice I had a latte with extra shot it’s just lame on their behalf that I was not able to have skinny milk and nor was my sister.

Food was abundant but greasy and salty. In general it feels like food is just mistreated, the ribs in particular were carbonised... the nice detail of the spicy coleslaw was marred by it being three tablespoons. Service was ok.

Random stop at this cafe - amazing Cornish pasty’s (And we’ve tried a few in the last 2 weeks lol) - decided to go full on and followed up with their cream tea, it didn’t disappoint with a huge portion of jam and cream. Highly Recommended.

We booked a table of 8 for a Christmas day meal with family (£110 per head) - this hotel is supposed to be "the best" - to be honest, if that is the case, I'd hate to see the worst! Arrived in good time for the first sitting, and people were milling around in the foyer near the bar with little co-ordination. When the doors opened we were seated at the back of the restaurant which suited us as we had two family members in wheelchairs which meant that they were less likely to be bumped.  We were offered a glass of sparkling wine, only two of us were drinking so we asked for orange juice or lemonade and we were given one carafe of each which was appreciated... Then it began to go downhill. The "amuse bouche" arrived we asked if this was gluten free for one of our family (we had specified this at the time of booking) so the waitress said she'd check and took it away... Never to be seen again.  We waited a considerable time before we saw another member of staff who came to clear our plates and were able to ask them what had happened, before they came back with a gluten free bread roll as the "amuse bouche" wasn't gluten free! We were just left and our youngest member was becoming distressed by being so hungry and an hour after we'd arrived we had to go and ask for her food (a burger) which turned up but had things on her plate which we'd specified that she couldn't eat, but we picked it off her plate.  We had emptied the carafes whilst waiting and asked for the wine waiter to order some drinks, and waited, and waited.  I gave up and went to the bar to get two beers and a bottle of water (no tray offered, so ended up with the bottle in my pocket and three glasses balancing) The soup turned up and was polished off quickly as we were hungry.   We then waited watching the waiting staff wandering around holding plates of food aimlessly. Our meals turned up at 3pm - two hours after being seated.  There were inconsistencies with the plates, some had parsnips, some had pigs in blankets with a pureed swede which was overcooked, with Brussels sprouts that were undercooked and accompanied with tiny roast potatoes that weren't crispy and hard in the middle to the point that they were inedible.  There was no confirmation from the waiting staff that the food they put down was gluten free for our coeliac family member - so I'd be extremely wary if anybody visiting has an allergy or intolerance. We asked to speak to the manager as both the food and service were to put it politely abysmal - his response was that he'd give a free bottle of prosecco if we came again!  He had absolutely no idea of how the Christmas meal had been ruined, all he needed was to apologise and make sure that waiting staff paid enough attention (the empty beer glasses and carafes were left on the table). The wine waiter still hadn't turned up, so it necessitated another trip to the bar. The desserts arrived (in stages) and there were no knives for the cheeseboard, fortunately the table hadn't been cleared properly so one knife was still there, and I asked the "restaurant manager" for a knife.... Surprise, surprise this didn't appear either, so I used the small Swiss army knife kept to carry out repairs to the wheelchair so I could eat, when she saw this, she finally brought me a knife. The other diners for the "second sitting" were told that they couldn't enter as the other guests hadn't left (no mention that the appalling level of service was responsible for the delay). A waitress came over and said that there was "self service coffee & petit fours" - no petit fours and to be fair, I'd had enough of this farce and left. NEVER AGAIN

Had two jacket potatoes from the hatch, they were really good, potatoes were really good size cooked well, had cheese and bean's, and tuna mayo was loads on the potatoes 🥔 and lovely and hot, great coffee also lovely and hot, and hot chocolate ,price for all was good, thank you very much, staff were lovely

the food is hot, filling and arrives very quickly, even when dinning room is full. service is 100% attentive. the range of food is very good

The food was much better than we expected and we will definitely visit when we return to England in the fall. Robert Chapman

Worst experience I've had with any company in ages!!! I left some things at the pub, they had no number so communication was so difficult. Like a week after I told them about the number they still hadn't sorted it, bet they still haven't! I contacted them through fb, as a person with agoraphobia and anxiety which I explained to them, they were completely unempathetic, rude, yes I was rude too but do you blame me with the pure unorangisation that caused me SO MUCH STRESS! They didn't care and I will NEVER come back to this awful place, they caused me an incredible amount of stress, I had panick attacks for a whole day because of their lack of communication, pure unprofessionalism and disorganisation. Would give a -5 if I could.

Freindly staff and a great social space