A new restaurant opens next week on the Sandridge Barton wine estate beside the River Dart in Devon’s South Hams. Roam promises to offer ‘bold, bistro-style’ cooking rooted in European and Basque traditions, with a menu that changes regularly to ‘reflect what’s best right now’.
Roam has replaced restaurant Circa at the same venue, on the 40-year-old wine estate near Totnes and Paignton.
Appropriately well-travelled head chef Sean Blood has roamed through North America, Mexico and Europe, and worked for luminaries including Marco Pierre White, Michel Roux and Gordon Ramsay. He’s sticking closer to home here, using ingredients grown, raised or foraged from the restaurant’s kitchen garden, its surrounding estate, or from nearby no-dig growers and regenerative farms.
Front of house is led by Miles Tuddenham, formerly of Noble Rot, Planque and Norman’s Café in London.
The founder is hospitality veteran Ian Alexander, co-owner of Archway’s well-known St John’s Tavern. He says: “We’re drawing on years spent in kitchens, dining rooms, and around producers—but this is about now. ROAM is a place with flavour, with warmth, and with a sense of belonging. No gimmicks. Just really good food.”
Roam opens for lunch seven days a week (12–4pm) from July 9, with Friday and Saturday evenings to follow later in the year.
