The Union Inn — Restaurant in Teignbridge

A rare find in this day and age of expensive gastro pubs - a traditional village pub with pub grub. We visited on a very busy Saturday night - we hadn't booked as we couldn't get through on the phone. We got a table but were immediately urged to order food quickly as they were busy, which I found off-putting as a welcome. The girl serving the food was very friendly, though.

Pub was busy and noisy - a real locals pub. Enormous menu which included some home-made items like pies, but much of it was frozen then deep-fried things - I had scampi, my partner had fish cakes. Chips were typical oven chips, not home-made. But the prices were very reasonable - just over £30 for our food and a pint of local beer each.

Would we return? Not sure, or maybe on a quieter evening, mainly due to the abrupt 'welcome' and the noise (loud guffawing men). I think the bar staff may just have been a bit stressed and worried about overloading the kitch staff as they were also doing takeaways which, of course, is good news for a pub in a day and age where pubs are shutting down at an alarming rate. We noted that the posher more expensive pub down the road looked very quiet and mainly empty!

No parking, by the way, but the local pay and display car park is...

Chose this gem after looking reviews and wow so glad we did,booked over the phone for 5pm sit down and arrived at 4.45 to see table ready with our name on it. Warm and friendly welcome and a great range of drinks from real ale,lagers and ciders and many spirits so ordered and sat down and the drinks were brought over to the table. So onto the menu and what a great menu it was with a superb varied variety to chose from especially during the current covid times, a lamb shank with veg and two steak kidding puddings with veg and the 10oz gammon was the choice from the four of and after a decent wait the food arrived and looked amazing and very plentiful. The food for all of us was amazing home cooked food that was delicious and worth every penny which was not expensive compared to some places we've been to for a lot less portion sizes. So with dinner finished it was onto desserts which was honeycomb sundae and two ice creams with clotted cream which again were lovely and again plentiful. All in all the union Inn was extremely good value for money with friendly and attentive staff and well worth a visit and if we are back this way again then this would be the place we most certainly would visit first...

What a pub!

Initially I was a bit skeptical because of the extensive menu, I was worried it was all going to be microwaved food but boy was I wrong. All the food appeared to be cooked fresh and the portions were amazing, very good value for money. There were several dishes that I was very impressed by; firstly the home made pies. They're pretty big and stuffed with meat, I've never had a pie so full. Being handmade on site and with a large variety of pies to choose from you couldn't go wrong. I had the venison, red current and port pie. My 89 year old Nan had the fish pie and she said it was the best she'd ever had. Again absolutely stuffed with chunks of fish and large prawns. Finally the ploughman's, now we didn't have this ourselves but we saw others that did and it looked like a dish fit for a king with the size of it! All the other food we had was excellent but those dishes really impressed me. Well worth going to for a good meal with excellent service and...