Devon Restaurant Guide

Cafe Paradiso at Alias Hotel Barcelona

A splendidly funky place, part of a larger complex and built with a big-top design in mind. Combine this with a mass of weird and wonderful objets d'art, fill it with lots of cheerful people enjoying a blend of café and brasserie style food and you have a compelling recipe for enjoyment and good vibes.

• Address: Magdalen Street, Exeter, EX2 4HY (Map)
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £40.00

Cafe Rouge - Exeter

Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.

• Address: 24 Bedford Street, Exeter, EX1 1LL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00

Cafe Rouge - Plymouth

Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.

• Address: 11 Whimple Street, St Andrews Close, Plymouth, PL1 2DH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00

Castle Inn, The

• Address: Lydford, Okehampton, EX20 4BH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Cat in the Hat

Opened in 2002, by Shayne and Louise Bowers, Cat in the Hat restaurant has always had a reputation for providing good quality food and wine, combined with friendly and helpful service. Now it is owned and run by Phil Picton, Shirley Hughes, and Wendy Watson, who have retained the same high standards of hospitality, with a focus on fine dining, Westcountry produce, and excellent wines.

• Address: 29 Magdalen Road, St Leonards, Exeter, EX2 4TA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British, Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £48.00

Catch 55 Bistro

Catch 55 is a lively and attractive bistro, owned and run by Stefanie and Ben Holt-Wilson. The service is snappy and friendly, the food very good and reasonably priced, there is something on the menu to suit all tastes and you can order a large or small portion of any dish which suits children (or adults!) with small appetites.

• Address: 55 Fore Street, Salcombe, TQ8 8JE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £24.00

Cedars Inn, The

A former country house set in beautifully landscaped and spacious grounds in a particularly rural part of Devon. The restaurant is open to guests and non-residents alike, with the Conservatory Restaurant offering a very comfortable roost for lunch or dinner.

• Address: Bickington Road, Barnstaple, EX31 2HE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £25.00

Chasers, The

I sometimes think that the locating of restaurants in almost any country is rather like picking mushrooms. You wander round a likely area picking the obvious ones, the big ones first of course, decide you need some more and start looking for the more obscured variety, with an occasional real winner lurking in a well camouflaged corner.

• Address: Stoke road, Stokeinteignhead, nr Newton Abbot, TQ12 4QS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £31.00

China Garden

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Exmouth is home to some long established oriental restaurants and the Lai family at The China Garden has served its customers with an extensive selection of Chinese cuisine for forty years. The ingredients are sourced either locally or from the Far East.

• Address: 23 Imperial Road, Exmouth, EX8 1DB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £10.00, Dinner: £19.00

Christophers Restaurant

• Address: 19 Plymouth Road, Tavistock, PL19 8AU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A