Guidebook for Devon
Food Scene
Super friendly staff, great food and even better coffee, free wifi and free one-hour parking in the street. If the weather is nice there's a big garden at the back.
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Boston Tea Party Honiton
53 High StSuper friendly staff, great food and even better coffee, free wifi and free one-hour parking in the street. If the weather is nice there's a big garden at the back.
Warm, cosy and rustic, this cafe with its big solid wood tables and chairs has a real hippie feel to it. Excellent english breakfast for around £7, and great scrambled eggs and, unsurprisingly, toast!
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Toast
155 High StWarm, cosy and rustic, this cafe with its big solid wood tables and chairs has a real hippie feel to it. Excellent english breakfast for around £7, and great scrambled eggs and, unsurprisingly, toast!
Rambling old country manor house hotel with excellent restaurant, cocktail bar and gardens to sit in in the summer. Great for a trip for drinks, or for a special meal.
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The Pig - at Combe
Rambling old country manor house hotel with excellent restaurant, cocktail bar and gardens to sit in in the summer. Great for a trip for drinks, or for a special meal.
Lovely pub for lunch in the beer garden overlooking the sea from the top of the cliff. Friendly, but gets very busy in the summer, so there can be a long wait on food. Not a problem if you have time to soak in the view over a drink or two.
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Anchor Inn
Fore StreetLovely pub for lunch in the beer garden overlooking the sea from the top of the cliff. Friendly, but gets very busy in the summer, so there can be a long wait on food. Not a problem if you have time to soak in the view over a drink or two.
Drinks & Nightlife
Lovely old pub, great food. Gets v busy in summer. Lovely for a pint after a beach walk at Branscombe
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Masons Arms, Branscombe
3 Myrtle CottagesLovely old pub, great food. Gets v busy in summer. Lovely for a pint after a beach walk at Branscombe
This pub is the only one within walking distance, if you want a 1.5 hour walk. Not a stroll!
01404 861252
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The Sidmouth Arms
This pub is the only one within walking distance, if you want a 1.5 hour walk. Not a stroll!
01404 861252
Proper old English country pub with a skittles alley at the back, where local farmers go for a pint at the end of the day. It's more a local's pub than a tourist pub, which is how they like it, but everyone is welcome as long as you don't go in with London Gastropub expectations on food or service! Always enjoyed going there.
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The Tuckers Arms
Proper old English country pub with a skittles alley at the back, where local farmers go for a pint at the end of the day. It's more a local's pub than a tourist pub, which is how they like it, but everyone is welcome as long as you don't go in with London Gastropub expectations on food or service! Always enjoyed going there.
Wonderful old Manor House Hotel. Great for evening cocktails by the fire, and dinner.
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The Pig - at Combe
Wonderful old Manor House Hotel. Great for evening cocktails by the fire, and dinner.
Everything Else
Great beach & cliff walk. 20 min drive, tiny lanes can get clogged in summer. Huge shingle beach, high cliffs. Take change for the car park! 2 mile walk to Beer village w pubs and fishmonger on beach
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Branscombe
Great beach & cliff walk. 20 min drive, tiny lanes can get clogged in summer. Huge shingle beach, high cliffs. Take change for the car park! 2 mile walk to Beer village w pubs and fishmonger on beach
Very old fishing village with fish shop on the beach with freshest fish around. 2 mile cliff top walk to Branscombe has amazing sea views.
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Beer
Very old fishing village with fish shop on the beach with freshest fish around. 2 mile cliff top walk to Branscombe has amazing sea views.
Shopping
Wonderful local farmshop with most produce grown on site. Walking distance across the field (25 min), or a 2 minute drive. Does amazing shepherd's and fish pies and logs.
Royal Oak Farm
Old Chard RoadWonderful local farmshop with most produce grown on site. Walking distance across the field (25 min), or a 2 minute drive. Does amazing shepherd's and fish pies and logs.
Marks & Spencer Honiton BP
Head LaneIf you're shopping for a big group, you can save 30% over Tesco prices for equally good if not better quality food.
ALDI
Exeter RoadIf you're shopping for a big group, you can save 30% over Tesco prices for equally good if not better quality food.
Tesco Stores Ltd
Harbour RoadEssentials
Wonderful farm shop with a lot more besides including local art.
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Darts Farm Restaurant
Wonderful farm shop with a lot more besides including local art.
Waitrose deliver as well as Sainsburys - Waitrose in Sidmouth: Stowford Rise, Sidmouth, EX10 9GA - 01395 519416.
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Waitrose & Partners
42-44 West St Waitrose deliver as well as Sainsburys - Waitrose in Sidmouth: Stowford Rise, Sidmouth, EX10 9GA - 01395 519416.
Entertainment & Activities
Isantuary yaseDonkey
Lovely thing to take kids to see.
Devenish Pitt Farm & Riding School
Nearest local riding school
Sightseeing
One of my favourite things to do, alone or as a family, and we do it regularly.
The Aviator bar and restaurant has an outside seating area where you can sit and watch small plane after plane take off and land. Best one is the parachute plane and watching parachutists come down!
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Dunkeswell Airfield
The Aviator bar and restaurant has an outside seating area where you can sit and watch small plane after plane take off and land. Best one is the parachute plane and watching parachutists come down!
Stunningly beautiful coastal walk, whatever the weather. Watch for very strict car park enforcement, you will get a penalty if you don't pay. But it's only £1 per hour, cash or App, but beware of limited phone signal.
If you have about 4 hours to kill, and are fit enough to climb 600ft up a steep path, drive to Branscombe beach car park, walk up the steep hill (including the, count them, 111 steps at the top) all the way along the coast to the old fishing village of Beer, stop for a drink or lunch at the Anchor Inn, then walk back to Branscombe. It takes about 45min-1hr to walk each way.
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Branscombe
Stunningly beautiful coastal walk, whatever the weather. Watch for very strict car park enforcement, you will get a penalty if you don't pay. But it's only £1 per hour, cash or App, but beware of limited phone signal.
If you have about 4 hours to kill, and are fit enough to climb 600ft up a steep path, drive to Branscombe beach car park, walk up the steep hill (including the, count them, 111 steps at the top) all the way along the coast to the old fishing village of Beer, stop for a drink or lunch at the Anchor Inn, then walk back to Branscombe. It takes about 45min-1hr to walk each way.