Dartmouth Castle Tea Rooms — Restaurant in South Hams

One of our favourite spots in Dartmouth with amazing views - staff are always a complete joy and very accommodating too — we've been going for years when we're down in Devon on holiday. The tea room is dog-friendly and a brilliant spot to chill out after a walk along the coast, over the hills or along the River Dart from the town. Always a good range of cakes, nibbles, lunches and drinks on offer and a lovely chilled atmosphere too.

By the way: shame on some of the sad, nasty people below who marked down this brilliant tea room — I have seen some such people there with my own eyes and basically they're never happy and sadly go out of their way to write nasty reviews that simply aren't deserved. Didn't have enough cream? Simply ask for more. Had too much cream? Just leave it and stop whingeing about everything — the world does not revolve around you! Staff will never win with you people. Thanks for keeping non-mask-wearers out too (Emily Cocksmith below, please note); as fellow customers, we don't want their germs whether they're so-called exempt or not, so staff did the right thing in my humble opinion.

Keep up the excellent work Castle Tea Rooms and we look forward to seeing you again...

Disappointed. This place should be a real goldmine. Great location with great views. We arrived about 1 looking forward to a cream T, however, they had run out and had no sandwiches either. Just a few pastries and cakes on offer. So we thought we'd have a pot of t for 2 instead and enjoy the view. To our amazement, t was only being served in takeaway cardboard cups, not the way to enjoy a cup of T. Also some staff rude and abrupt. So all in all, not a great experience, and if they don't change there business model ensuring they have enough traditional food, such as Cream Teas served with a pot of T in proper cups then I doubt whether they will be in business next time we visit Dartmouth. Only 2 stars cos...

Been here twice - advertised as shutting at 4, both times got there at about 10/5 to, once there was no-one there at all, assumed it was because we hit it on a random day when someone was ill or something, and second time got there and was told 'we can't serve as we shut at 4' even though it was clearly not 4, which I checked with other people sitting outside. Obviously places are entitled to shut when they want, but probably best not to give people a time and then not stick to it... pretty annoying when you've walked miles to get there promising your kids a hot drink at the...