Nartnapa Thai Kitchen — Restaurant in North Devon

Potential Hospitality Business Nightmare! One - Wheelchair user, One - Vegetarian and One - Glutton intolerant guest.

Last visit 20th August 2019, We had the potential to be a hospitality business nightmare!

A wheelchair user, a vegetarian and a glutton intolerant guest, eating Thai and staying over.

WOW, just absolutely fantastic all-round, Gary and his team second to none and the food is exquisite. Beautiful, simple and jam-packed with flavour.

On arrival, Gary and his staff helped us with the wheelchair, gave us a room right by the side entrance (and separate access key), to cope with the hill and access for the chair. Super view of the river, nice room. Friendly, engaging and Gary is a fountain of local information. Not forgetting their microbrew beers, another touch just adding that particular extra bit of unique.

Nothing, was to much trouble, eating with us was a vegetarian and a glutton intolerant guest. They triple checked everything about the meal, no one went disappointed, and no one went hungry that was for sure. Soup packed with crisp fresh flavour and mains to compliment.

What a great business. What a great team. The Cottage Inn team should all be very proud. We will be back as soon as they re-open their doors.

Hope to see you soon.

Thanks

PS

Dam good, cooked breakfast as well.

PPS

Apologies, we should have left this review a long time ago, for some reason it didn't save to Google. Just realised when I went to tell someone what a great place this is, good luck to Gary and Nartnapa we hope you can...

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