The Oxenham Arms Hotel Devon

We visited for a weekend break, a truly delightful building packed full of history. Staff were friendly and kind. Food was fab and service excellent. Warm and cosy with open fires and slept in the same room Charles Dickens had many years ago. Lovely clean rooms with nice fluffy towels and comfy bed. Would definitely recommend .

came to eat here with my family for it’s so called “tapas” night. started the meal off being welcomed into a dark cold room as the staff had not yet turned the light on or lit the fire even though we arrived on time to our booking. as there was a large group of us we decided to order one of everything off the menu, later to find out this would be our biggest mistake. cold tasteless under seasoned food, the cherry on top was the raw rice from the so called paella. as we were greatly disappointed we decided to speak to the owner to voice our opinion and was greeted with the rudest reply possible. she did not care for what we had to say and was straight on the defence demanding that her food was up to her standards but clearly not up to anyone else’s. they then proceeded to light the fire and gas out the entire room with smoke leading to a family member having to leave the room as it was triggering asthma. as i clearly couldn’t have a civilised conversation with the wife i decided to try and speak to the husband. to no ones surprise he was just as vile as the wife except this time he decided to use force to get us to leave the property by pushing me out of the room. i asked for him not to touch me and his response was “i didn’t” even though my entire family was witness. as you can imagine we were so disgusted by human behaviour at this point we left the premises. do not eat here or stay here unless you would like to be assaulted.

We stayed here for 4 nights in 2022 while property hunting, and we were really pleased to be back. Sadly only one night this time, but everything is as good as before. Hosts Lynn and Simon, bar comic...John (hasn't changed!) all welcoming with comfy rooms, excellent beds and linens, wonderful food . We will be back for more time as soon as we can!

Went for lunch, twice this month. Lovely fresh food. Really good service. Very interesting restaurant with so much history. It is exceptionally clean and we can’t wait to go back. We go to many old pubs and restaurants but have never found one so clean.

We had a booking for 7pm that we had confirmed by the owner and the owners wife- on the way to the restaurant for 7pm we had a phone call asking if we were still coming- which we said yes. There were no booking confirmation after we had changed it from 6-7 weeks beforehand. As well as this adding a charge of £10 for our own cake to bring??As we had arrived we got seated to then be told we were late and in the wrong and had been told that we had then caused an inconvenience and that they couldn’t seat us due to them booking more tables. There was mismanagement and miscommunication off the staff there and they had treated us horribly and made us feel humiliated due them causing such an issue when we were sat down and in front of many other customers. Awful customer service.

We stayed at the lovely Oxenham Arms in early July and had a wonderful stay. The room was perfect, bed comfortable and the bits of history scattered throughout were perfect. JD was welcoming and the conversation in the pub was memorable. The food was delicious... we had the fish and chips, scallops, brie salad, and many other items. Highly recommend for a stay or a meal in the greater Devon area.