The Merchant Tea Rooms

Gurkhas

➤ 168 High Street, EX14 1LB, East Devon, United Kingdom

Carta • Kebab • Pizza • Seafood • Fast Food

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"We have read the reviews but let the outside put us off until my wife said we should try it out and I'm so glad we did. The food is so flavoursome and probably one of the best curries we've had pleasure to taste, the bhajees were spot on and the keema naan was to die for. I would thoroughly recommend this little gem so much so we will be revisiting when we return on a holiday in September. The people who run the place are very friendly and the chef is very talented."

The Honiton Wine

➤ 79 High Street, EX14 1PJ, East Devon, United Kingdom

Carta • Kebab • Pizza • Mexican • Asiatic

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"What a fabulous little gem this is on Honiton High Street! I have been visiting here for a number of years, it's a wonderful welcoming, friendly vibe, and the food is always incredible! The tapas is a definite highlight, alongside the belly pork or steak I've enjoyed them all! The pancakes offered on the breakfast menu are utterly divine (if I could, I'd have them every day! . I've attended charity theme nights (the cocktail evening was a particular favourite, even if we didn't manage to get through the whole menu Loving the food and service as much as we do, we also asked if they could cater our wedding. Nothing was too much trouble; from the initial planning, to the day itself, the team put me at ease and were so friendly and professional, helping guide us through what we needed/wanted. We decided on tapas to start, pizza for main (these are no ordinary pizzas! Hand stretched, cooked in a woodfired pizza over, they are perfection! followed by a selection of desserts. The food was plentiful, and the guests all commented on how much they enjoyed it! Honiton is fortunate to have a number of fabulous restaurants and cafes, but The Honiton Wine Bar is definitely top of the list for me!"

Sawatdee

➤ 166 High Street, East Devon, United Kingdom

Carta • Thai • Cafés • Asian • Seafood

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"in a nearby hotel we stayed a thai. only takeaway available. tom yum suppe, die fried chili and basilikum and curry dishes, all Thai sprinkle dishes, were authentic and excellent. no “Dämmen nach Bottom” on spicy content or missing galangal, sacred basilikum, which is often...the case with European exaggerated, probably for cost reasons. no delay in the recommended."

Home Farm

➤ Near Honiton, EX14 9JR, East Devon, United Kingdom

Carta • Fish • Wine • Seafood • Chicken

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"We had two dinners and breakfast from this restaurant because we stayed in the Home Farm Hotel. We wanted to have the dinner and breakfast during our stay, but had to cancel our plans due to VERY POOR customer service received from Richard and also...because of his wife's cooking due to overcooked and burned full cook breakfast we received from the restaurant. Day 1, Richard introduced his wife to us, but she totally ignored us and in addition, she did not even bother to acknowledged and smiled with us. She seems to be very upset or very distance from everything or stressed/fed up about something at the time. Not sure this was due to over working… Day 1, Richard requested us to come down stairs for the dinner at 18:00, but instead of taking us to the restaurant for dinner, he tried his best to hard sell the alcohols he had in the bar to us and also to all the other guests. This happened even after we told him several times that we only want the meal and no alcohol from his bar. After about two hours, I had to tell him that I’m a diabetic and heart patient therefore I do really want to eat the meal and have a rest. He gave us the menu and I asked for lamb which was on the menu and he went crazy and said to us that they do not provide English food in this restaurant. I showed him what was on the menu, but he did not even apologise to us. He said lamb run out and asked us to select something else from the menu, again we selected duck, but that was run out as well!!! By then, Richard was sarcastic and rude to us as well as to other guests… In the end, we asked what we can have for our dinner. He almost shouted at us saying he and his wife only there to run the hotel without any staff therefore, we have to eat whatever his wife can cook!!! Finally, at about 21:00, we managed to have our dinner and I asked Richard to cancel our breakfast and dinner booking for the rest of the days however, he said we have to take the breakfast for next day because it was too late to cancel it. Next morning (Day 2), we were near the restaurant since 08:00 as Richard requested but as usual, past 09:00 we received burnt and overcooked full breakfast for two of us. They had a very large menu but it seems like most of the food either his wife did not know how to cook or had run out. Richard charged full price for our meals, BUT he FORGOT to provide the good quality food and services to the customers…"

Zest Cafe

➤ 9 Black Lion Court, EX14 1ES, East Devon, United Kingdom

Carta • Cafés • Pizza • Seafood • Fast Food

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"We were asked to move as soon as we sat down, my green tea was served in a mug and was stewed by the time it arrived. When my husband asked for a brown sugar for his coffee the Waitress produced one packet of white sugar from a pocket in her apron. Meanwhile the couple on the next table sent their coffees and milk back as the milk had gone off, when they had fresh coffee given the lady said to her husband , the milk jug is filthy and picked off crusty bits of something off the rim. This put me off my food before it arrived. When it came, the breakfast was ok but this is not somewhere we will be returning to. A shame as we used to love coming here before it was taken over."