Guidebook for Devon

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Guidebook for Devon

Food Scene

Devon delicacies!
Delicious food and good service in the restaurant. Takeaway and delivery to the Higher Dawlish Water valley also available.
7 localnici recomandă
Gurkha Restaurant
30 Park Rd
7 localnici recomandă
Delicious food and good service in the restaurant. Takeaway and delivery to the Higher Dawlish Water valley also available.
Wonderful tasty fresh fish in a lovely atmospheric setting
64 localnici recomandă
Crab Shack
3 Queen St
64 localnici recomandă
Wonderful tasty fresh fish in a lovely atmospheric setting
Great cafe. Also does bike repairs, rental and maintenance. The burgers are good!
12 localnici recomandă
Route 2 Bikes Topsham
4 Amity Pl
12 localnici recomandă
Great cafe. Also does bike repairs, rental and maintenance. The burgers are good!
Does a good carvery! Book in advance though
11 localnici recomandă
The Smugglers Inn
27 Teignmouth Rd
11 localnici recomandă
Does a good carvery! Book in advance though
Our favourite local restaurant - great food, good ales and a wonderful view. Can get quite busy so if you want to go at peak times book in advance.
46 localnici recomandă
The Ness
Ness Drive
46 localnici recomandă
Our favourite local restaurant - great food, good ales and a wonderful view. Can get quite busy so if you want to go at peak times book in advance.
Really tasty pasties, the best in Dawlish we think!
Wee Shop Bakery
42 The Strand
Really tasty pasties, the best in Dawlish we think!
The salted caramel brownies, millionaire flapjack and custard slices are very tasty! They also make lots of tasty flavoured pasties too like chicken and chorizo, beef and stilton.
Ryder's Homemade Bakery
Warren Road
The salted caramel brownies, millionaire flapjack and custard slices are very tasty! They also make lots of tasty flavoured pasties too like chicken and chorizo, beef and stilton.
Great flat white coffees for Adam and tasty ice cream for Sue - the gingerbread flavour is my favourite!
Sea Breeze. Takeaway/Licensed Restaurant.
18 Piermont Pl
Great flat white coffees for Adam and tasty ice cream for Sue - the gingerbread flavour is my favourite!
Great lunches and AMAZING cakes! There's also a shop selling everything from books to clothes. Good place to go on a rainy day although it gets really busy at weekends.
99 localnici recomandă
Darts Farm Restaurant
99 localnici recomandă
Great lunches and AMAZING cakes! There's also a shop selling everything from books to clothes. Good place to go on a rainy day although it gets really busy at weekends.
A floating restaurant in the middle of the River Exe! Wonderful views. Fantastic seafood (and non-seafood options). Booking essential via their website, make sure you book at least a month in advance as they have limited places, and it's popular! When you book a table, you also book a water taxi from Exmouth. Look out for seals on the way to the café. Definitely worth a visit
71 localnici recomandă
River Exe Cafe
71 localnici recomandă
A floating restaurant in the middle of the River Exe! Wonderful views. Fantastic seafood (and non-seafood options). Booking essential via their website, make sure you book at least a month in advance as they have limited places, and it's popular! When you book a table, you also book a water taxi from Exmouth. Look out for seals on the way to the café. Definitely worth a visit
A really good pub restaurant. Sit in the lovely bright conservatory or outside in the garden if it's a nice day. The food is great. There's also free range chickens and ducks wandering around the garden!
26 localnici recomandă
The Old Inn
26 localnici recomandă
A really good pub restaurant. Sit in the lovely bright conservatory or outside in the garden if it's a nice day. The food is great. There's also free range chickens and ducks wandering around the garden!
Lovely country pub restaurant with great garden and stream and ducks and chickens wandering around. Enjoy a walk on Dartmoor followed by a meal here!
77 localnici recomandă
The Rugglestone Inn
77 localnici recomandă
Lovely country pub restaurant with great garden and stream and ducks and chickens wandering around. Enjoy a walk on Dartmoor followed by a meal here!
Book in advance and ask for a table by the window so you get a good view! Beautiful views overlooking the water and the food is good too. The restaurant was renovated February 2019.
43 localnici recomandă
The Coombe Cellars
43 localnici recomandă
Book in advance and ask for a table by the window so you get a good view! Beautiful views overlooking the water and the food is good too. The restaurant was renovated February 2019.
Fantastic breakfasts using local produce, and they have a shop selling a wide range of local produce too. You can also look at where they grow their wide-range of mushrooms.
Forest Fungi
Warren Road
Fantastic breakfasts using local produce, and they have a shop selling a wide range of local produce too. You can also look at where they grow their wide-range of mushrooms.
The best ice cream and coffee in Dawlish! I've heard the waffles are pretty good too! All the ice cream is made in the shop, and they make a range of amazing flavours including Kinder Bueno, Salted Caramel, Strawberry, honeycomb to name but a few.
The Local Scoop
7 Piermont Pl
The best ice cream and coffee in Dawlish! I've heard the waffles are pretty good too! All the ice cream is made in the shop, and they make a range of amazing flavours including Kinder Bueno, Salted Caramel, Strawberry, honeycomb to name but a few.
Fantastic value for money for a good lunch and a fantastic Sunday lunch
6 localnici recomandă
Cockhaven Arms
Cockhaven Road
6 localnici recomandă
Fantastic value for money for a good lunch and a fantastic Sunday lunch
Great area for outside eating with views and good service
11 localnici recomandă
Old Walls Vineyard
Old Walls Hill
11 localnici recomandă
Great area for outside eating with views and good service
Great Friday night pizza and wine deal, also great alfresco lunch spot - and if keen you can walk there!
Kenton Vineyard
Great Friday night pizza and wine deal, also great alfresco lunch spot - and if keen you can walk there!
French pâtisserie wonderful for cake and coffee - with a deli next door!
Le Cygne
French pâtisserie wonderful for cake and coffee - with a deli next door!
Love breakfast? If so, then this is the place for you! All-you-can-eat breakfast and waffles.
Brody's Breakfast Bistro
23-24 Queen Street
Love breakfast? If so, then this is the place for you! All-you-can-eat breakfast and waffles.
Great food, great service. The Pad Thai is fantastic. They do a lunchtime set menu. They also deliver!
Sticky Rice Restaurant
Great food, great service. The Pad Thai is fantastic. They do a lunchtime set menu. They also deliver!
Really tasty English breakfast, good coffee, wonderful cake and friendly staff.
The Strand Cafe
15 The Strand
Really tasty English breakfast, good coffee, wonderful cake and friendly staff.

Entertainment & Activities

Caters for all your outdoor activity needs from paintball to clay pigeon shooting to archery to raft building and lots more!
14 localnici recomandă
Ashcombe Adventure Centre Ltd.
Colley Lane
14 localnici recomandă
Caters for all your outdoor activity needs from paintball to clay pigeon shooting to archery to raft building and lots more!
If you fancy having a swim inside rather than outside!
Dawlish Leisure Centre
Sandy Lane
If you fancy having a swim inside rather than outside!
Bike hire and bike repairs. Open 7 days a week and run by a really helpful and friendly owner.
6 localnici recomandă
Exe Trail Cycle Hire
Beach Road
6 localnici recomandă
Bike hire and bike repairs. Open 7 days a week and run by a really helpful and friendly owner.
Tour the house, visit the animals in the walled gardens or just go to the café, restaurant and shops
Powderham Castle
Tour the house, visit the animals in the walled gardens or just go to the café, restaurant and shops
Great garden centre, they also sell food, clothes and gifts. The cafe is good too! Great to visit on a rainy day.
Otter Nurseries
Great garden centre, they also sell food, clothes and gifts. The cafe is good too! Great to visit on a rainy day.

Everything Else

Races and a car boot sale on a Sunday
Hipodromul Exeter
Races and a car boot sale on a Sunday
Beautiful walks and beach and a National Nature Reserve
56 localnici recomandă
Dawlish Warren
Warren Road
56 localnici recomandă
Beautiful walks and beach and a National Nature Reserve
The UK's leading breeder and propagator of award-winning perfumed Pinks and Dianthus. Flowers, plants and produce for sale on the stall outside. As well as fruit and vegetables, the stall usually sells eggs and honey.
Whetman Garden Plants
Ashcombe Road
The UK's leading breeder and propagator of award-winning perfumed Pinks and Dianthus. Flowers, plants and produce for sale on the stall outside. As well as fruit and vegetables, the stall usually sells eggs and honey.

Parks & Nature

Walking, cycling for all abilities, horse riding (bring your own horse!), GoApe and lots of events - check their Forestry Commission website to find out what's on.
88 localnici recomandă
Haldon Forest Park (Silvicultură Anglia)
Bullers Hill
88 localnici recomandă
Walking, cycling for all abilities, horse riding (bring your own horse!), GoApe and lots of events - check their Forestry Commission website to find out what's on.
Fantastic views across the Devon countryside towards the Exe estuary and out to sea. Teign Bean coffee van is usually parked in the car park, the cakes and coffee are good!
Mamhead Obelisk
Fantastic views across the Devon countryside towards the Exe estuary and out to sea. Teign Bean coffee van is usually parked in the car park, the cakes and coffee are good!
Beautiful, quirky village with a lovely beach. The Thatched Tavern is a great restaurant and pub.
8 localnici recomandă
Maidencombe
8 localnici recomandă
Beautiful, quirky village with a lovely beach. The Thatched Tavern is a great restaurant and pub.
Great beach to visit, we regularly see a seal when we go there!
7 localnici recomandă
Watcombe Beach
Watcombe Beach Road
7 localnici recomandă
Great beach to visit, we regularly see a seal when we go there!
This place is a hidden gem! A beautiful garden with a castle, Italian Garden, Witch's Cave and beautiful views. Well worth a visit.
10 localnici recomandă
Homeyards Botanical Gardens
Torquay Road
10 localnici recomandă
This place is a hidden gem! A beautiful garden with a castle, Italian Garden, Witch's Cave and beautiful views. Well worth a visit.

Arts & Culture

Learn all about Dawlish's history and the origin of the black swans
8 localnici recomandă
Dawlish Museum
Barton Terrace
8 localnici recomandă
Learn all about Dawlish's history and the origin of the black swans
122 localnici recomandă
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Queen Street
122 localnici recomandă

Drinks & Nightlife

Fantastic food. They brew their own beer on site. Adam and Sue recommend The Smokehouse to eat!
15 localnici recomandă
The Fat Pig Exeter
2 John St
15 localnici recomandă
Fantastic food. They brew their own beer on site. Adam and Sue recommend The Smokehouse to eat!
One of the few pubs in the UK that doesn't have direct access by road. Wonderful to cycle to for drinks and food with amazing views over the Exe estuary
36 localnici recomandă
The Turf
36 localnici recomandă
One of the few pubs in the UK that doesn't have direct access by road. Wonderful to cycle to for drinks and food with amazing views over the Exe estuary
Cheap and cheerful food, pool table, dartboard and live music on Saturday nights
Lansdowne
8 Park Rd
Cheap and cheerful food, pool table, dartboard and live music on Saturday nights
Lots of different ciders to try, live music and pizza!
35 localnici recomandă
The Old Firehouse
50 New N Rd
35 localnici recomandă
Lots of different ciders to try, live music and pizza!
A theatre and music venue
6 localnici recomandă
The BikeShed
163 Fore St
6 localnici recomandă
A theatre and music venue
Cheap and cheerful food and lots of different ales on tap in a wonderful building
12 localnici recomandă
The Imperial
New North Road
12 localnici recomandă
Cheap and cheerful food and lots of different ales on tap in a wonderful building

Sightseeing

Not had chance to go yet but been told it's worth a visit especially on a rainy day!
65 localnici recomandă
Underground Passages
2 Paris St
65 localnici recomandă
Not had chance to go yet but been told it's worth a visit especially on a rainy day!
Traditional ice cream with a flake and clotted cream. Order one and sit outside and watch Dawlish's famous black swans on the river
Gays Creamery
20 Brunswick Pl
Traditional ice cream with a flake and clotted cream. Order one and sit outside and watch Dawlish's famous black swans on the river
A great day out. Lots to see and do and wonderful fresh fish to eat. They have lots of pirate-themed AND non-pirate-themed events on throughout the year!
Brixham Harbour
A great day out. Lots to see and do and wonderful fresh fish to eat. They have lots of pirate-themed AND non-pirate-themed events on throughout the year!
Travel in style on this fantastic railway line from Paignton to Kingswear and then get the ferry over to Dartmouth for a wander around this picturesque town.
110 localnici recomandă
Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company
Queen's Park Road
110 localnici recomandă
Travel in style on this fantastic railway line from Paignton to Kingswear and then get the ferry over to Dartmouth for a wander around this picturesque town.
Enjoy the steam train. Make a day of it and go and visit the otters and owls too!
9 localnici recomandă
South Devon Railway - Totnes Littlehempston Station
9 localnici recomandă
Enjoy the steam train. Make a day of it and go and visit the otters and owls too!