Saveur — Restaurant in East Devon

Wow Wow Wow 🤩 Our first visit to Exmouth and managed to booked a table at Saveur for dinner. All I can say is thank goodness we did. What a gem. Small intimate restaurant with the most amazing atmosphere and even more amazing food. We read the reviews and were desperate to get a table, so we popped in on the off chance that they could fit us in as it was mid week and lucky for us they could. I suspect that had it been the weekend, No Chance!! We are foodies and eat out a lot, but we can honestly say we have not being to such an amazing restaurant for a while. It’s intimate, beautiful decor (I suspect that’s Kerry’s doing!) and the food is amazing. Locally sourced product cooked to absolute perfection, thank you Nigel. We had the slow cooked Moroccan Lamb and the Severn and Wye smoked salmon to start and they were amazing, the flavours were out of this world. Followed by the Powderham Rib Eye with Camembert Mash - the rib eye melted in your mouth and was cooked to perfection, the mash was wow 🤩 and the Crispy Panko Scampi, which is a starter but I couldn’t resist it and I’m so glad I didn’t as it was beyond yummy 😋. Kerry helped us pair our meal with a great wine. We decided to have a cheese board with port and Kerry talked us through the cheeses and helped us choose a perfect combination, all locally sourced and finished a fantastic meal off perfectly. A perfect night thank you Nigel and Kerry and your team 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 we...

We waited over a month before posting this review to ensure our view wasn't just a spontaneous reaction but as time has passed our view has stayed constant. The venue has not changed with the new management so all as before, nice cosy etc. Food is where the disappointment comes. Menu restricted in choice and expensive for what you get. Every course went unfinished. The beetroot tartan, pastry soggy and tasteless. Venison carpaccio overpowered by other flavours. And our main of fillet steak (over done) ended up being little more than a £27 carvery. No way to serve a fillet. The front of house owner spotted our disappointment and asked about our view and we were honest about out experience. We were offered a discount but that was not what we were after and when the bill arrived a voucher was also presented but as we are unlikely to go back we felt taking it was the wrong thing to do. We were told by the owner that they had come from a public house and if this had been served up at pub prices we would have been reasonably happy but overal food was just ok. We can produce equal quality at home and it was expensive for what you get, so we are not likely to go back. Just not good enough for what you are being...

We decided to give this restaurant a try after seeing reviews online. It's recently been taken over by new owners so we were sceptical about how good it would be..!

What can I say, it's by a long shot the best meal we've eaten out, And we've eaten out at many of the top restaurant's including The Ivy and The Balmoral in Edinburgh. From start to finish, every course was filled with amazing flavour and the presentation was second to none.

So much effort has been put into making sure that the food and service is amazing. The staff and Chefs are so passionate about making sure that you have a meal to remember. The service was fantastic, the atmosphere and setting was idyllic.

I honestly can't say how lovely this meal was, I guess you will have to just take my word for it and give it a try.... you won't be disappointed!!

The only down side is that we live 4 hours away and won't be able to come back as much as we would love to... having said that, this more than warrants a trip back.

P.s Try the Steak for main and the Choclate Brownie...