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.

The photograph below shows Sally as she takes delivery of another consignment of delicious honey-roast sausages and hogs pudding from Westaway in Kingsteignton. To appreciate the quality of their produce, please visit their website at www.westawaysausages.com. Please note also that Barry in the large white hat and equally large white van is not a bit phased by our narrow lanes!

Woodside Cottage – Breakfast Menu

To Start

Freshly squeezed orange juice or grapefruit juice
Whole oranges from A.J. Burt in Plymouth, grapefruit juice from Dartmouth Dairies

Choice of Cereals, including home made Muesli and Toasted Honey Crunch
Organic ingredients for home made cereals from Green Life in Totnes

and/or Fresh Fruit Salad and Yoghourt
Fruit and vegetables from ARB Fruiterers in Plymouth. Home made Greek style yoghourt with honey.

Main Course

Aga Grilled Back Bacon, Honey Roast Sausage, Hogs Pudding, Mushroom, Tomato
Fully traceable sausages and bacon from Westaways in Kingsteignton. Home grown tomatoes in season.

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

Tea and Coffee
Tasted and blended in Minehead by D. J. Miles

To Finish

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

Home made Marmalade, Blackcurrant or Raspberry Jams
Marmalade made partly from oranges grown in our own conservatory. Home made jams from the Kitchen Garden in Strete.

Other Choices

Special preferences, e.g. gluten free diets, can be catered for with advance notice.

Committed to Alastair Sawday's Fine Breakfasts Scheme:

1) Our aim is always to serve breakfasts of the best available ingredients - whether organically or locally sourced
2) Organic ingredients will be properly certified as such
3) All other ingredients will be sourced locally wherever possible or home grown
4) We will do our best to avoid supermarkets if good alternatives exist

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, including Blackawton lamb, reared just outside our village, and Sharpham Brie, hand produced a few miles away on the banks of the river Dart.

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:

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. In many respects they are very comparable to the New Angel, yet considerably less expensive. Light menu Sunday and Monday evenings. Advance booking recommended.

The Fortescue Arms, East Allington Tel 01548 521215 Web www.fortescue-arms.co.uk
This restaurant is owned and run by the well known Austrian chef Werner Rott and his partner Tom Kendrick. The pub is deceptively large, yet it has a particularly pleasant feel which is quite different from any atmosphere in a town restaurant. 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 also 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