Guest User
February 27, 2023
Well, I'm not sure where to start. The food experience was pretty bad. I could shred the chefs attempt, but it would be very unfair so soon after their takeover of this establishment. HOWEVER, we had the burger and apparently its an award winning burger! For the best part of £17.00 it should be. A pint of Atlantic Red was £5.70p, city prices in a village pub? Not a beer drinkers paradise for sure. Also for us the beer got two out of ten on the lets have an ale scale. For a touch under £30.00 a burger, side and a pint should really rock your socks off. Lets just say our socks fair stayed on! On the plus side the red wine was very good indeed. The entire food and drink offering is organic led, on the face of it not a bad USP. But as a result drink choices are limited to an unusually eclectic selection of wines, spirits and beers. All the staples one might expect to find are put in room 101, unfortunately they've all been tarred with the non organic brush. That aside, not serving local (Devon) brewed beers is perhaps foolhardy at best, most visitors requests are for ales that represent the terroir of Dartmoor and the county of Devon. That's why they're visiting us here and not Somerset, Dorset or Cornwall! As a result some of this demographic, from Bovey Castle types with fat wallets to locals, walkers, families and everything in between may well be confused by the offering. Also, simply based on their price points alone, they will really struggle to attract a regular local trade. The company behind this transformation does have another establishment that's doing well. Its in a unique position, but it's not part of a small village community with a very long history as a local's Inn . To transform this village hub to organic outpost they should perhaps consider what they have bought into. Its a really great pub in a beautiful village with all the facilities an Inn requires. Therefore we sincerely hope they can adjust and tweak their offerings to better reflect the nature of the building and its place in the wider community.