Instow Arms Reviews Summary

Category: Bar

Address: Hatton Croft, Marine Parade, Instow, Bideford EX39 4JJ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441271860608

Rating: 4.5
based on 184 reviews.

Location & Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Situated right on the beach, but with shelter from the glass around the patio area."
  • "Love the atmosphere, the view of Instow beach (right outside the window) the food and the service."
  • "Fabulous location overlooking the beach."
  • "Great views of sunset from top floor."
  • "Lovely spot overlooking estuary and beach."
  • "Fantastic spot with estuary views."
  • "The view out onto the bay area in the evening watching the sun set is amazing!"

Cons:

  • "Rather crowded and noisy (half term) so worth booking ahead."
  • "Downstairs bar very busy and quite cramped in."
  • "However, the following night when we went there was hardly any sign of social distancing."

Service

Pros:

  • "Excellent service."
  • "Staff were very attentive. I just wish this was my local."
  • "The staff were welcoming, polite and gave the extra mile."
  • "The staff were attentive without being overbearing."
  • "Service was quick and the staff were very polite."
  • "Staff are attentive, friendly and welcoming."
  • "Really friendly and efficient service. A really good lunchtime menu."

Cons:

  • "Hard to know how to rate really. Went for a Sunday evening. Got a table outside as we had the dog with us. Ordered starters and mains with drinks. Drinks were great. Starters came fairly quickly. Mussels were nice. All three starters went down well. We then waited for an age for the mains."
  • "When we got there, the staff was friendly, later they were inattentive and distracted by their mobile phones."
  • "The service was diabolical."
  • "They were very busy so service wasn’t fast and and you had to go order so not real table service."
  • "1.5 hour wait for main course, 1 hour wait for bread and olives."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The seafood sharer was very huge and had a great variety."
  • "This place was amazing to spend the last day of our holidays! I had the BBQ pork ribs and it was the best thing I’ve ever eaten."
  • "One of the best burgers I've had!"
  • "The food was hot and the portions very generous too."
  • "Food's brilliant, great views from the dining area upstairs."
  • "Honestly the best food I've ever experienced, and I've eaten at a lot of expensive restaurants in Central London."
  • "The food is always beautiful (I love their mussels)."

Cons:

  • "The menu was quite limited and the food was pretty standard for pub food."
  • "Was worst fish chips I have had ever."
  • "Not very impressed with the food though."
  • "The food was by far the worst place we have ever eaten out very low quality and cheap food charging a ridiculous amount!"
  • "My wife and I shared the seafood platter and it was not very good at all."
  • "Food quite expensive as it wasn't that good! Meat was a bit chewy and I couldn't even cut my cauliflower."
  • "I ordered the vegetarian burger which was priced at £18 which is also the same as all the other burgers. I.e beef burger etc. But when my order came, it was clearly a frozen burger that you would get from tesco."

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