Dartmouth Bed and Breakfast & Eating Out

Round the large table in the old beamed dining room with its splendid stone fireplace, we serve fine country breakfasts using the very best local produce and/or organic ingredients.

For example, our home baked bread, made from organic stone ground flour, is a real delicacy especially when combined with our own home made marmalade.

We are fortunate to live in an area which has always produced its own excellent food, so we try to avoid shopping in supermarkets. We much prefer to buy the best quality fresh food from the best local sources, which in turn helps to sustain our community.

Woodside Cottage – Breakfast Menu

To Start

Orange, grapefruit or apple juices
Delivered daily by Dartmouth Dairies

Choice of Cereals, including Muesli and Granola, both home made
Organic ingredients for home made cereals from Greenlife in Totnes

Fresh Fruit Salad and Yoghourt
Fresh fruit in season. Home made Greek style yoghourt with honey.

Main Course

Aga Grilled Back Bacon, Honey Roast Sausage, Mushroom, Tomato
Fully traceable sausages and bacon from Luscombes in Totnes. Home grown tomatoes in season.

Local Free-Range Farm Eggs (fried, but may be poached or scrambled)
Newly laid at Colleen Farm, Blackawton

Tea and Coffee (of many different varieties)
Specially blended and supplied by by D. J. Miles in Minehead

To Finish

Toast or Croissants
Home baked bread with organic flour from Shipton Mill in Tetbury, Gloucestershire

Home made Marmalade, Blackcurrant or Strawberry Jams
Home made marmalade, partly from oranges grown in our own conservatory.
Home made jams of our own and also from the Kitchen Garden in Strete.

Other Choices

Special dietary requirements, e.g. gluten free diets, may be catered for, if agreed at the time of the booking.

Eating Out

The area round Dartmouth and Totnes is renowned for the quality of its food, and we have several outstanding local restaurants, all specialising in fresh local produce. Fish, for example, are usually taken straight off the boats or just picked live out of a tank. Local meats and cheeses are also of the very highest quality.

Only half a mile up the little lane which passes our cottage is:

The Normandy Arms, Blackawton Tel 01803 712884 No website yet.
Although only recently re-opened, this delightful restaurant already ranks amongst the very best of all the small country gastropubs in South Devon. It also happens to be only a short walk away, making it an ideal destination after a long drive down here. Peter is a widely experienced and very skilful chef, whilst Sharon works wonders at front of house; on a busy evening she still manages to find out which room any of her customers might be staying in at Woodside Cottage.

The pub itself has recently been beautifully refurbished without a trace of the pretension found in so many modern eating houses, and the splendidly relaxed atmosphere is in many ways, we hope, very similar to our own. Closed on Monday evenings, advance booking essential throughout the main season and at every weekend (Friday/Saturday evenings).

We particularly recommend three other local restaurants, which can all demonstrate why this area has become such a fine part of the West Country for finding good local food. All are within five miles and an easily arranged taxi ride if required:

Jan & Freddies Brasserie, Dartmouth Tel 01803 839425 Web www.janandfreddiesbrasserie.co.uk
Superbly cooked and locally selected fish, meats and cheeses, served in a very friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Like the Normandy Arms, it has a well deserved AA Rosette.

The Kings Arms, Strete Tel 01803 770377 Web www.kingsarms-dartmouth.co.uk
The oak panelled dining room with its magnificent views over Start Bay is most enticing, as indeed is the superb quality of their food, especially the fish. Very comparable to the New Angel, yet considerably less expensive.

The Fortescue Arms, East Allington Tel 01548 521215 Web www.fortescue-arms.co.uk
This restaurant is owned and run by the famous Austrian chef Werner Rott and his partner Tom Kendrick. Like all other top rate country gastropubs, they have a special distinctive ambience which will not be found in town restaurants. Open for food till 9.30 pm every evening. Advance booking strongly recommended..

Also in Blackawton:

The George Tel 01803 712342, which serves a fine selection of beers and good quality pub grub at very reasonable prices. Open for food till 9pm every evening except Mondays.

Blackawton Dartmouth Devon TQ9 7BL
Tel: 01803 898164
Contact - Woodside Cottage