Millbrook

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Delightful village local by the Salcombe estuary with local ales, very good food and a warm welcome for all

Southpool Creek is only a few moments' stroll away from where this charming, tiny pub has mooring facilities for visiting yachts and small boats. Seats on the outside terrace overlook the water. The small main bar has a log fire in an inglenook fireplace, a couple of settles and a blanket box on turkey rugs, and stools against the counter where they keep Salcombe Lifesaver, South Hams Wild Blonde and Timothy Taylors Landlord on handpump, 20 wines by the glass, eight malt whiskies, eight rums and a couple of local farm ciders; daily papers, darts and board games. A dining area to the right has a woodburning stove, settles and wheelback chairs around scrubbed wooden tables, and stone and cream walls decorated with maps. This leads to another small dining area and there's also a simply furnished Top Bar. They also offer an apartment (which can be on a self-catering basis). A Land Rover Defender can pick up customers from the nearby ferry. It does get a bit crowded at weekends.

Bar food times: 12-2, 6-9; hot snacks all day

Excellent food using the best local, seasonal produce includes tandoori-crusted scallops with parsnip purée and seaweed, pork liver parfait with apple purée, apple dusted crackling and crispy hogs pudding, roasted skate wing with chorizo vinaigrette, charred broccoli and jerusalem artichoke, a trio of lamb with hedgerow-foraged pesto, potato fondant and pea and broad bean fricassée, seared calves liver with bone marrow mash and caramelised onion fritters, and puddings such as singapore gin sling upside-down cake with limoncello curd and frozen Cointreau yoghurt and spiced poached pear with candied nut crumble, smoked pear coulis and sorbet.