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Eating and Drinking in Ashburton, Devon*

Ashburton, Devon Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

Food

• London Inn closed (fire)
• The Red Mullet - holds the record for being closed more than open.
• Yau's Chinese Takeaway Red Mullet Fish & Chip Shop Indian Resteraunt/Take Away Tugela House Hotel - good food/resteraunt Vicoria Inn - very good pub grub with BIG portions
• chippy, chinese, Tugela Hotel as posh as it gets, foods not bad though. Green Ginger rocks the hardest though.
• There is a marvellous bakery just opposite St. Andrews church which does a pretty good impersonation of a cornish pasty
• The London Inn. The delicatessen.

Pubs

• The Golden Lion Hotel is now private houses (check Ashburton's official website http://www.ashburton.org/churches.htm
• London Inn closed (fire)
• The Exeter Inn - haunted...
• Victoria Inn - Good Grub Bay Horse Exeter Inn - good real ales/beer garden Golden Lion - home of Monster raving Loonies Red Lion - food Roayal Oak - B&B, good ale, food Silent Whistle - next to old railway station
• The London Inn, Ashburton is no more as it burnt down in 1998
• There are a number of good pubs ranging from the 'earthy' golden lion to the Fleece and Ferkin.
• There are eight, or so, pubs! My preferred drinking house is the Exeter Inn, run by Jim McNicholl (an Exeter city Ex-player!) it serves the best kept beers in town, particularly the Ruddles! There are other established drinking houses, namely the London Inn, which serves its home-brewed ales (Thompsons Ales) and is good for eating at. Other well-frequented pubs in the town include The Red Lion, The Golden Lion, The Royal Oak, The Bay Horse, The Victoria Inn and The Lanterns, which has a good reputation for popular gigs.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

• Green Ginger
• Old Coffee Shop Cafe Green Ginger (wicked cream cakes & outdoor garden) Bishop's Tea Room (also pizzas Thurs. Fri. & Sat evenings)
• Green Ginger cafe is folky, hippy, kind of square but the food is wicked. The rest are for old folks

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Last updated: 2008-07-03