Exebridge Cafe — Restaurant in Exeter

Had the exe bridge special and regular breakfast.

First door is not obvious to enter the establishment. Then you’re met by stairs that look untidy and cluttered up the top. Inside it’s like the scenes of a cafe dumped into a council estate house with parents who don’t have time to clean.

The floor is sadly very greasy, as is everything you touch. Don’t think anything has been cleaned thoroughly for a long time. I guess this is due to have an open plan from the kitchen.

The service was pretty good though and the couple seem to be very pleasant but perhaps are just going through the motions until retirements

Chef Mike sounded like it was in full effect during our time.

Tea was weak, flat white tasted like cheap lidl sachets.

Sadly it seems like the cheapest of the cheap ingredients have been used. Black pudding doesn’t even taste like black pudding. Fried potatoes are probably from a previous roast dinner day. Beans are most likely Tesco value. Bacon very fatty. Sausages are like those multi pack sausages you buy from Iceland that go on the freezer. The tomato you coolant eat coz the skin was too tough. But everything tasted of grease and my partner was worried about getting food poisoning. I however after spending almost twenty quit battles on and ate what I could.

The toast was fairly good however but can’t say I enjoyed the rest. Judging by what’s about in the area I’m really surprised this has managed to stay open .

It’s a shame coz I held high hopes but I have to wonder how they’ve past the food hygiene standard to stay open. Again nice couple though and I’m sure they work hard but perhaps further help is needed

Not overly pram friendly either due to the step immediately after the door you’ll walk past a couple of times but again this can’t be helped without...

please, I implore you, dont go in here.....I was hungry, and was close, the fact it was totally empty on a Saturday lunchtime should have set alarm bells ringing, but I was hungry....I settled for cottage pie and veg, and sat down at my sticky!! table to wait. I should have run when I saw the owner disappear out back and return with a frozen log of something wrapped in clingfilm, fifteen minutes later I heard a ding and surprise surprise, my meal arrived. Now I'm not a particularly picky eater, but by christ, this was vile...the cottage pie was nuclear on the outside, ice cold in the middle and as bland as a weekend with aunty gladys, the Swede was watery and seasoned and the green beans were yellow with age and as soft as custard. none of it had ever seen a sight of seasoning, and was all swimming in a watery puddle of cheap instant gravy. the o lay thing that tasted as it should was the HP sauce..I had three trepidatious mouths full, and gave up, I actually felt physically sick . please, do yourselves a favour, walk on by ,go another 100 yards and theres plenty of other places. YOU HAVE...

Used to come here often about 5 years ago when I lived here. Just stopped in to eat out of nostalgia while visiting.

Service is very friendly and lovely, food is still tasty. But the veggie sausages are no where near as good as the old quorn ones. Like to feel like I’m eating a real sausage and not fired veggies.

The place was very dirty, the table sticky, the floors filthy and upstairs was shocking. The loo was broken and the door lock stuck and took several tries to open. The floors and stairs were so dirty and looked like they haven’t been swept t mopped in a year.

The entire top floor looked like a storage room.

Just made me question their sanitation and cleaning standards and made me worry about the...