Location: Torquay
Top Restaurants in Torquay
England, United Kingdom Food Guide: 10 Pub food Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Torquay
Reviews on Pub food in Torquay, England, United Kingdom. Mild ocean breezes, sandy beaches and swaying Torbay Palms give the small English town of Torquay a distinctively Mediterranean feel. More than just a beach spot, Torquay boasts an enormous coastal aviary and the famous Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves. Agatha Christie spent most of her life here, and the city is now home to multiple film companies. With such a rich literary history, Torquay may be the perfect place to finish writing that novel or screenplay, or just to relax with a good mystery.
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10. Devon Dumpling
Overall Ratings
4 based on 423 reviews
Reviewed By Stewzx9r
Family lunch for 5, really nice home cooking, the beef stew from the specials board was excellent. Very nice atmosphere good service and good facilities. Overall a very nice meal, happy to recommend and would go again. 5 meals 1 drink each and coffee came to a very reasonable £75.
9. Royal Carvery
Overall Ratings
4 based on 286 reviews
Reviewed By Anthony N
Meal for eleven persons, all had carvery great choice of dishes and cooked well, it has an amazing view over Babbacombe bay, highly recommended worth a visit .Anthony. N
8. Chelston Manor
Overall Ratings
4 based on 284 reviews
Reviewed By Orbslos
New owners. We did wonder how things would be. No need to worry everything superb,busy but still had time to make us feel very welcome. As regular eaters just like coming home !!. See you soon.
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7. The Thatched Tavern
Overall Ratings
4 based on 562 reviews
Reviewed By lucknowboy
We had friends over from Northern Ireland and Saturday night was their last night with us before flying back Sunday. We planned a special "last supper" and thought we were fairly safe with the Thatched Tavern as we have been here a few times before indeed I have already reviewed the place on Tripadvisor before.I thought I'd be clever and asked for a downstairs table rather than the larger dining room, as we had tried both before and felt downstairs was more intimate.What a mistake. Indeed coming here at all proved to be a big mistake. It made an impression all right, just a very bad one. Lets run through if we must just what we facedIndifferent arrival "welcome" with two staff behind bar busy on doing whatever for a good couple of minutes before recognising we were there.Manageress grunting "oh yes' Table 12. No other hint of any warm welcome, so we followed waitress who proceeded to go upstairs. As there was nobody in the downstairs I said I had asked for that preference so could we go down there. If you must she said. She showed us a table laid for 5 with a reserved notice on it so we naturally thought it was not meant for us as we were 4, but hey ho, they know best. At this point no menus, no wine list, and the waitress had abandoned us.After what seemed an eternity I went upstairs to the bar and asked if there was a menu and wine list. The Manageress lady gave me four sheets of A4 with the "menu" and told me they didn't have a wine list but she'd be down in a minute to take our ordersI went back downstairs and on perusal of the menu were were all underwhelmed with the choice. We had also noticed our surroundings, it was dead, I mean stone dead. The table top was sticky and a half used bottle of brown sauce sat mid table. It shouted to us "Transport Cafe". On seeing the Manageress arrive we asked to be moved, which in fairness she expedited with only the right amount of huffing to keep us this side of walking out ( shame, because we should have). We then had the debacle of ordering the wine. What would you like says she, a bottle of red and a bottle of white says we, Well she says, we have a choice of three reds and three whites says she, which she lists. None of the choices were especially jumping at us, and of course with no hard menu no strength indication or tasting notes it was a bit blind, so we went for what we thought best and hoped. The ladies shared a baked camembert. In most establishments we have had this it is deliciously runny and comes with crudities to dip. not here. The Camembert was put into a microwave to get it warm but was not runny, and the dipping food was massive chunks of french baguette. Most of it was returned uneatenThe mains we thought were safe, three steaks and a gammon steak. It will probably come with little surprise by now that the steaks were awful. Inedible. An absolute disgrace. Not cooked as ordered, and a very poor cut of meat that was closer to Serfloin than Sirloin. They too went uneaten ( I'll be generous here-the gammon was at least edible)We decided to abandon hope, although my wife caught the waitresses eye and said "can I possibly give you some feedback" I thought she was very restrained and balanced, but it made no difference really as we got the stock auto response "I'm very sorry to hear that and will pass your comments to our chef" in the sort of way that tells you she won't, and even if she did the chef would not care or do anything different.To end our experience, my friend went to pay and was initially presented with a bill for UKP 145. He paid in cash but on telling me I thought this was high so asked to scrutinise the bill, only to find they had charged for 4 steaks not 3. On taking this back to the waitress she responded that only the Manageress could authorise a refund, so we waited for her to come and sort this, and when she did she made a comment that she had noticed this mistake before and thought it should have come off then, but she clearly didn't do anything about it at the point it should have been sorted. She then said she had to refund us in cash as we had paid in cash but she didn't have the right change in the till. This was the point she might have thought to herself just round it up, as the customer has been inconvenienced enough, but no, not a bit of it.To cap it all, our taxi driver asked what our experience was, so we told him. I'm not surprised says he, most of our fares from here say the same thingWe mark it down to experience. A bad one no doubt and one that we will never do again, but look at it this way we've done the work so you don't have to. Go somewhere else, anywhere else. It will be better, and the only reason this scores a two rather than the one is for the location and the building. The rest of it is truly awful and an embarrassment to Devon
6. Old Engine House
Overall Ratings
4 based on 337 reviews
Weâre all about those everyday excuses to relax and unwind with friends and family. Our mouth-watering Carvery is served fresh every day and includes a choice of 3 succulent hand-carved roast meats, slow cooked for up to 14 hours.
Reviewed By NicolaB4276
Came with family for a carvery on Sunday evening and it was fabulous, piping hot meat and veg, well cooked. Yum! Came on Tuesday for breakfast with friends! Great choice, great food, served by friendly chatty staff! Thank you Lovely to read your comments about your experience, I'll make sure to pass them on to the rest of the team.Kind Regards Tilly
5. Babbacombe Inn
Overall Ratings
4 based on 763 reviews
Cold beer, great food and a very warm welcome. Fantastic pub and restaurant located on the stunning Babbacombe Downs with views out to sea across the bay. Beer garden and fully air conditioned restaurant. Entertainment every Friday and Saturday evenings.
Reviewed By sabbycat43
Visited twice during our stay in the area. Wide choice on the menu, mostly standard 'pub grub' type food. Reasonably priced. Food was tasty and we enjoyed it. Good service from the staff. Looks like it's popular with locals as well as tourists, and was often busy when we walked past, so you might want to book at peak times.
4. The Devon Arms
Overall Ratings
4 based on 303 reviews
Reviewed By Sue130782
This pub looks great from the outside but was disappointing once we entered. We felt we were intruding on a locals bar and interrupting their games of pool and were basically ignored. We were enjoying watching the music channel that was playing on the TV when we entered until someone decided to turn the sound off without asking if we minded - at that point we decided our custom was not wanted and we would not be returning there and left.Sue I am sorry this was your experience at our pub yesterday evening. Unfortunately for yourselves, Thursday night is our Pool night in the local league, hence a lot of regulars around the pool table.It's nice to hear you enjoyed watching the 80s channel on the TV , it's very popular......but we also have a jukebox and when a customer pays money to play their choice of music we then mute the TV as you would expect. Apologies if my staff member didn't come over to explain this to you at the time, but I think she was a little busy serving all our other happy customers, regulars and holiday makers that stayed in all evening.
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3. The Kents
Overall Ratings
4 based on 384 reviews
Reviewed By Stephen G
Food comes out looking really great. Some issues regarding cooking - chicken of chicken burger over-cooked, coleslaw a bit heavy on the raw onion, sweet potato fries not crispy, on my fish dish the potato cake was soggy. Service ok and prices average. Portion size good.Thank you for your review Stephen. I'm sorry to hear you were disappointed on your recent visit. If you ever have any problems with your food please mention them to us at the time so we can look to improve the situation for you. We hope to see you back again soon to see this is not our usual practice.
2. The Buccaneer Inn
Overall Ratings
4 based on 565 reviews
A great Pub that does excellent value and quality 'Pub Food' with its own twist. Winner of St. Austell Brewery 'Cask Ale pub of the year 2012'. Recommended in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2014.
Reviewed By LucyP920
A warm welcome, great service and absolutely delicious food! We had garlic bread to start with and both chose roast pork for main. This was served with stuffing, crunchy crackling, meaty gravy, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, delicious cabbage and buttery swede. Although full, I just couldnât stop eating it!! My son also managed a warm chocolate brownie with ice cream for pudding.This place never disappoints! Thanks for the glowing review. Glad you enjoyed your meals and it's always a pleasure to see you both here!
1. The Hole In The Wall
Overall Ratings
4 based on 1586 reviews
Reviewed By jo_kent1
We were here on a Sunday evening for dinner.They had live music from 9pm.The restaurant was lovely and not busy.We loved the old world feel of the place and itâs surprisingly big.We both had the braised steak with fab chips,followed by huge portions of cheesecake. Very
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