Rugglestone

Charming local with a couple of bars, cheerful customers, friendly staff, four real ales and traditional pub food

Features

Outdoor play area
Speciality beers
Cask ales
Separate restaurant
Sandwiches
  • Separate restaurant
  • Sandwiches sold

Bar food times: 12-2, 6.30-9

Typical main dish: wholetail scampi with chips and peas  

Typical main dish price: £12.50

Average two course evening meal price: £18.00

  • Speciality beers
  • Cask ales

Name of cheapest bitter: Dartmoor Best

  • Children allowed in the restaurant

Child restrictions: Children allowed away from bar area

  • Dogs allowed in the bar

The good pub guide review

This appealing, wisteria-clad stone building has a picturesque setting, tucked away in a Dartmoor village beside a stream. An inn since the 1830s, it's just the place to refuel after enjoying a hearty walk in the surrounding countryside. The unspoilt bar has just four tables, a few window and wall seats, a one-person pew built into the corner beside a nice old stone fireplace (with a woodburner) and a good mix of customers. The rudimentary bar counter dispenses Moor beer (brewed just for them from Teignworthy), Dartmoor Legend and regional guests tapped from the cask; also, local farm cider and a decent small wine list. The room on the right is slightly bigger and lighter in feel, with beams, another stone fireplace, stripped-pine tables and a built-in wall bench; there's also a small dining room. To reach the picnic-sets in the garden you have to cross a bridge over a little moorland stream. Disabled access but no disabled loos. They have a holiday cottage to rent.

The good pub guide food review

Traditional food includes ploughman's, jacket potatoes, chicken liver pâté, deep-fried brie with redcurrant jelly, crispy whitebait, vegetable madras curry, beef and ale or steak and stilton pie, beer-battered haddock fillet with chips and peas, smoked trout salad with home-made coleslaw, and puddings.

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Contact Details

Rugglestone, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TF

(01364) 621327

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 11.30-3, 6.30-11; 11.30-3, 5-11.30 Fri

Saturday: 11.30am-midnight

Sunday: 12-11