Oliva Restaurant
6 Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0HF
A relaxed stylish ambience and a modern European menu defines Oliva Restaurant in Fore Street. Guests can also relax and unwind on the terrace outside with a pre-dinner drink. Owner head chef Tim Golder takes pleasure in using fresh local produce with Mediterranean flavours. The restaurant utilises Devon's finest produce with seafood, paella, and tapas being the specialities including Manchego cheese and peppers, salt cod croquettes, gambas pil pil, local black pudding with caramelised apples and paella negra with prawns, calamari, River Teign mussels and squid ink. You could also try oven roasted figs wrapped in Parma ham and topped with Sharpham brie, crispy duck with local black pudding, Kenniford farm pork belly with pan roasted king prawns and roasted medallions of local rabbit wrapped in Serrano ham.A relaxed stylish ambience and a modern European menu defines Oliva Restaurant in Fore Street. Guests can also relax and unwind on the terrace outside with a pre-dinner drink. Owner head chef Tim Golder takes pleasure in using fresh local produce with Mediterranean flavours.
The restaurant utilises Devon's finest produce with seafood, paella, and tapas being the specialities including Manchego cheese and peppers, salt cod croquettes, gambas pil pil, local black pudding with caramelised apples and paella negra with prawns, calamari, River Teign mussels and squid ink. You could also try oven roasted figs wrapped in Parma ham and topped with Sharpham brie, crispy duck with local black pudding, Kenniford farm pork belly with pan roasted king prawns and roasted medallions of local rabbit wrapped in Serrano ham. The traditional Spanish zarzuela is made with fresh local monkfish, prawns, squid and mussels in a classic tomato sauce. A dessert taster plate offers a sweet ending. A well thought out wine list complements the menu.
Modern European, Spanish
: 18:00 - late
: 12:00 - 14:00 18:00 - late
: 12:00 - 14:00
Reservations: 01392 877878
6 Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0HF [Map]
£16.00 £32.00
£15.45 (3 courses)
(Avg Price is the average cost per person for two courses, coffee, half a bottle of house wine and tip/service)
REVIEWS OF Oliva Restaurant
David (26 November 2008)
The food is some of the best we've ever had in Exeter, the service was great and the overall feel of the place was beyond our expectations.
Claire (3 June 2008)
I have visited Oliva on three occasions in the last six months and have always found the food to be excellent. However, an occasional change in the menu would be appreciated. The waiting staff were friendly and attentive.
Unfortunately, this is all let down by the front of house manageress or owner. During my last visit I took my parents, who had never been there before, for their respective birthdays as a treat. The restaurant was busy and we had to take the first available table at 6:30pm, which was a little early for our liking but acceptable. We enjoyed our starters and mains. We were halfway through a nice bottle of red, contemplating what to choose for dessert, when we were asked to leave our table as the next booking was in for 8pm and they needed our table! We had to leave our empty plates on the table, take our glasses of wine and sit in the garden to finish. It wasn't a particularly nice evening so we had to drink and head out, thereby cutting our evening out very short. When I approached the manageress and owner and voiced my disappointment, she kept telling me it was written in her book that we would be out at 8pm. When I told her repeatedly we had not been told this and wouldn't have booked if that was the case, she offered no apology. I was upset as it was a special occasion and the evening was ruined.
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More Info for Oliva Restaurant
Children welcome
Air condition
Reservations
Groups allowed
Outside seating
Cover charge
£12.95
£12.95
Not included
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