The best restaurants serving British food in Tamarside Torridge South West

Lovely, friendly little restaurant/pub. Came here for our anniversary dinner, and the food was amazing. Restaurant standard food not just your normal pub grub. Lots of vegetarian choice, I had the spiced goulash, and husband had the sea bass. Sides we had the tenderstem with soy and ginger and crush roasts with feta and garlic. Desserts orange, chilli and choc brownie and sticky toffee pudding. All food was homemade and amazing flavours. We will definitely be coming back.

On our holiday we had passed the Rydon Inn a couple of times and thought it looked nice. As it was our Silver Wedding Anniversary we decided to stop there on way back from Bude and have a drink and book it for the evening for a nice meal. It was a lovely day so we sat outside. When we went to order drinks a very rude woman snapped “are you eating”? I said no but we wanted drinks and were looking to book for the evening. When asked for how many I said three adults and a dog. She then snapped “we don’t do bookings for dogs”. We looked puzzled and she said “you can’t come inside you have to sit outside”. She then said “if we’re busy we won’t get round to you for a while as our customers inside the restaurant take preference”. It was very clear that although this is a lovely pub with beautiful garden it is not at all dog friendly (no water for dogs on a very hot day). There is nothing for children either and it seems they are only catering for a certain local clientele. They could be a very lucrative business if they catered for holidaymakers with children and dogs too. Such a shame as gorgeous pub but get rid of rude woman. I see by other reviews that we are not the only ones to think this.