Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Woodford
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Woodford restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 6 restaurants in Woodford and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Woodford restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Woodford Restaurants
1. Àclèaf at Boringdon Hall
British, Modern restaurant in Plympton
Boringdon Hall - PL7
You eat on a raised gallery that overlooks the great hall of this five star property, which occupies a fine old 16th-century manor in countryside just beyond Plymouth’s city limits. All feedback this year acclaims an “absolutely stunning food experience” from the four-course menu prepared by chef Scott Paton, alongside “wonderful service”. (Another fan is The Telegraph’s William Sitwell, who in his November 2023 review found service that was “fabulous, attentive, professional” and a chef displaying “confident work” alongside “subtle decorative skills”).
2. Cornish Arms
British, Modern restaurant in Tavistock
15 West Street - PL19
A couple of miles from the entrance to Dartmoor National Park, John & Emma Hooker’s attractive coaching inn is no stranger to awards lists, currently ranking at number two on Estrella Damm’s Top 50 Gastropubs list. You’re “always guaranteed an absolute corker of a meal” (British, unpretentious, but “lavished with care”), and a “fab atmosphere” too – no wonder reporters just “love it here”.
3. The Oyster Shack
Fish & seafood restaurant in Bigbury-on-Sea
Millburn Orchard Farm, Stakes Hills - TQ7
Having been born on the same site that hosted an oyster farm over three decades ago, molluscs (with hot or cold toppings) remain central to the joys of this shack – no exaggeration – where you can dine indoors by the fire or at plastic tables and chairs below a makeshift awning. Also on the menu: quality fish, ranging from monkfish to hake and sole.
4. The Horn of Plenty, Country House Hotel & Restaurant
Afternoon tea restaurant in Gulworthy
Country House Hotel & Restaurant - PL19
“This outstanding hotel overlooking the Tamar Valley on the border of Devon and Cornwall is a joy and the restaurant is one of its selling points” – another being the country pile’s “magnificent views”. One reporter who last visited in its heyday (in the 1980s) found it a little more average these days, but other diners praise its “well presented and tasty cooking” at “fair prices”.
5. HonkyTonk Wine Library
British, Modern restaurant in Plymouth
2 North East Quay, Sutton Harbour - PL4
“A wine bar with amazing character and great food” – Zoe Brodie & Fitz Spencer’s wine shop/deli overlooking Sutton Harbour offers some “fantastic small plates and sharing boards” – including ‘Fitzy’s Fat Boy Board’, which comprises pretty well the whole menu for £130.
6. Thirty One
restaurant in Plymouth
31 Stonehouse Street - PL1
“What a fantastic new restaurant in Plymouth!” Chef Lee Calver made his November 2023 debut as patron alongside partner Chloe Lillicrap in the venue formerly occupied by well-known Rock Salt Cafe and Brasserie (RIP). The former Navy chef is aiming to provide ‘relaxed fine dining’ with an affordable brasserie-style menu. Fans say they “should be very proud of what they’re doing: the food is excellent, obviously a lot of thought goes into their menu and attention to detail is wonderful”. Top Tip – “Sunday lunches are outstanding value and delicious”.
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