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Reviews - Toby Carvery - Exeter

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8.4
of 10

Very good
77 reviews
Ambience
8.1
Food
8.4
Service
8.4
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  • JOHN P.2 reviews

    10 August 2024

    9.5/10

    Just enjoy the service and the food

  • Demir M.55 reviews

    15 August 2024

    10/10

    Amazing

  • JOHN P.2 reviews

    20 April 2024

    9.5/10

    Good food nice Thatchers cider. Enjoyed. Will book again .

  • steven H.3 reviews

    28 February 2024

    9.5/10

    Staff very good and food , until 3 men came in , playing "garagre" type music on mobile phone . Slightly disturbed the atmosphere until the y left .

  • Julia T.1 review

    18 December 2023

    9.5/10

    I'd prebooked and requested a quiet. table with a high chair which we were allocated after a short wait. Just wondered why it hadn't been prepared in advance. Apart from that everything was super. Delicious hot food, friendly effiecient service so HIGHLY recommend

  • Beryl P.1 review

    27 October 2023

    9/10

    As usual, the main meal was of excellent quality. Unfortunately, the sticky toffee pudding did not live up to remembrances of past visits to Toby’s restaurant. However, the staff did their best to remedy the situation and finally accepted that the pudding was unfit to eat and deleted the cost from the bill. We will certainly visit again, if only for the main meal.

  • Gary b.31 reviews

    13 June 2023

    10/10

    Food was quality as always

  • Jackie R.4 reviews

    27 March 2023

    9.5/10

    Toby Inn is what you expect. A roast dinner. Best not to arrive when the restaurant is quiet as quality declines if not busy.

  • Alan B.3 reviews

    28 May 2023

    8.5/10

    We usually stop here when going to Cornwall the food yesterday was great had plenty of meat on plate and good choice of vegetables. Not sure if there was a staff shortage but table service wasn't happening, I asked our young lady for some water but never got it, when we finished our meal we decided we'd like a dessert, waited for about 10-15 minutes and in the end went up to the cleaning station and ordered it from there. Maybe we had been spoilt in past, maybe because of where we were sitting or possibly staff shortages, having said that wont stop us coming again, thank you.

  • Sean C.1 review

    9 April 2023

    6.5/10

    The staff were friendly and helpful but few issues with the food The beef was very fatty and chewy We cut open two roast potatoes and found black tuff inside, not sure what it was but show the waitress who did not seem bothered

  • Joan W.1 review

    8 October 2022

    8/10

    Lovely restaurant good service ????excellent ???? will go back again

  • Anthony H.1 review

    8 May 2022

    2/10

    Generally very good at every stage. Been going exeter toby Ryan lane for years. Over the past months, the vegetable cooking has been substandard. Veg dry a d hard, no rotation to keep vegetables moist. Roast potatoes dry and hard, almost cremated. This is now common. After years of eating there, now looking for somewhere else to eat. How hard is it to cook roast potatoes.

  • Les R.11 reviews

    11 April 2022

    10/10

    Nothing to worry about

  • Les R.11 reviews

    24 March 2022

    10/10

    Lovely thanks

  • Les R.11 reviews

    25 January 2022

    10/10

    Exerlant throughout the pub nd and carvery

  • Les R.11 reviews

    29 December 2021

    10/10

    Exerlant carvery but had a bad experience with the Toby carvery on the wirral

  • Trevor M.1 review

    30 November 2021

    8/10

    The food was tasty and plentiful and the beer was kept well. The ambience was relaxing. I am going to book a meal for me and a couple of buddies soon.

  • Jenny D.2 reviews

    24 November 2021

    8/10

    The restaurant was excellent being a local person. Unfortunately short of Staff who were working flat out. This time the meal was cold ie vegs in a carvery the previous week excellent and hot but went at a different time later.

  • Les R.11 reviews

    7 November 2021

    10/10

    Lovely

  • James N.1 review

    12 November 2021

    6.5/10

    Had dumplings in gravy in another Toby. None here. Only green veg was peas ????. Toby in Caerphilly was superb. This one just wasn’t as nice. Service was great though

  • Les R.11 reviews

    6 November 2021

    10/10

    Super

  • Les R.11 reviews

    30 October 2021

    10/10

    Superb

  • Les R.11 reviews

    11 September 2021

    10/10

    Faultless

  • Julie C.1 review

    2 September 2021

    10/10

    The carvery was delicious, as always. Fantastic quality but affordable. Thank you for enabling us to rely on you for a really great evening out!

  • Liz G.2 reviews

    1 August 2021

    10/10

    Food was excellent, Sunday Carvery. Waitress very polite and helpful

  • Stuart L.1 review

    30 June 2021

    6.5/10

    Not impressed with being called my lovely,you guys ,although waitress very good ,found behind the carvery a bit disorganized, there was only six in the queue but the chef went off for Yorkshires and the queue built up to a dozen or more ,the food was tasty but I think we were lucky if we had 5 ounce of meat .

  • Tammy W.

    Tammy W.1 review

    27 June 2021

    8/10

    The carvery is always amazing at this Toby. Was disappointed that not all the desserts weren’t home made but the crumble was awesome. Sticky tables and a long queue for the dinner itself but tasted awesome.

  • Susan R.1 review

    10 February 2019

    9.5/10

    Met up with 3 girlfriends for casual T. Chose the Toby for location and price. Promp and good service. Had the carvery it was great, lovely choice and g nice and hot.

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