Henry's Bar

To be sure, to be sure, this pub is very lovely indeed. It has a brilliant 20s or 30s Irish bar feel to it, which I loved. Quite busy when we went there, and fairly smoky, but in a fairly good way, nice and atmospheric with the low lighting and all. Drinks were reasonably varied, good selection of ales as well, of course, as Guinness, and though of course they weren't at student prices, they were fairly reasonable.

All in all, not a bad local, really.

EDIT: I've bumped this back up to the top because we go there quite a lot!!

Stoke Arms

Well since there's an apparent lack of following up on saying "yes, I'll write that review" it's down to me to do so and thus here it is.

Stoke Arms is alright, not particularly brilliant but it just about does the job. There's a lounge area and a bar area which contains juke box, pool tables and dart boards. The land lady was a bit butch.

Beer wasn't particularly impressive so we went to another pub quite quickly. Hopefully me writing up this review will encourage someone else to do one......

Extended Opening Hours

With only six hours to go until 24 hour licensing comes in, here's a brief summary of which pubs will be open until when in Exeter. I haven't mentioned every pub, only the ones we've been to!!

• Amber Rooms - Sun to Weds 2am, Thurs to Sat 4am


• Artful Dodger - 12.00 midnight


• Black Horse - Sun to Weds 11pm, Thurs to Sat 12 midnight


• George's Meeting House - Sun to Thurs 12.30am, Fri and Sat 2am (!)


• Henrys - 12.00 midnight


• Firehouse - 1am Mon to Sat, 12.00 midnight Sun


• Port Royal - Mon to Thurs 12.00 midnight, Fri to Sun 1am


• Duke of York - 12.00 midnight


• The Ship - Sun to Thurs 12 midnight, Fri and Sat 1am


• Imperial - Sun to Thurs 1am, Fri and Sat 1.30am

A full list can be found at the Express and Echo website. Enjoy!!

Brook Green

this is the first new pub for a while!

erm.....fairly nice, there is a pool table and a juke box and a tv which keeps getting turned up very loud! (i think this was just becasue of the football...oh dear, nevermind)

i think they have quite a lot of good beer like doom bar and otter, and they also have a lot of southern comfort (but not anymore) :P Unusually, Tim's beer tasted of manure. We wisely chose not to enquire as to its orginis, but we are in Devon after all, so anything is possible. David had a beer which had something to do with squirrels.

However, it was a fairly pricey pub, especially if you chose to have a Southern Comfort which came in an impressively large glass (and which the barmaid tried to take away before James had even started)

Jolly Porter - An Update!

The JP closed at the end of last year and has now reopened under new management. They appear to have made a few changes:

• You can't get darts from behind the bar anymore


• The stools have all disappeared


• The prices have gone up by the best part of £1

Other than that it's the same pub.

The Famous Ship Inn, Exmouth

(hopefully someone can!!) - well done James!

nice pub, modern with pool tables etc...

Not sure about the beer on offer as i wasn't allowed to drink any! The coke was very cheap tho.... £1,15 for a pint.

When i find out the name ill find a picture!

Although I have searched extensively I have so far been unable to locate a picture. So here is another famous ship. Can you guess what it is (without looking at the file name!)? - Tim

The Well House

This is on Cathedral Close in the middle of Exeter and was quite a nice pub. There were a few other people that looked like locals (but young locals if that makes sense) and I have no idea what the beer was like as I had to go and pick Hendrik up from the airport. Perhaps someone else would like to add to this later.

Erm, Teignmouth/Dawlish somewhere!

Since nobody else has done this I'm assuming that they can't remember the names of the pubs either! We went to one pub in Teignmouth (might have been called Moffeys or something) and then another one in Dawlish (which may or may not have been the Buckfast Arms (or similar).

Teignmouth pub was nice and the food there was good. And on the good side Derby didn't win the football either!!

I can't remember what beer they had on but it was quite nice IIRC.

Dawlish was a bit more local but at the same time not local at all. There were some locals there and a taxi that created a traffic jam but other than that I didn't think it was too special. I seem to remember very few people (ie just me) had a proper drink there. Everyone else pansied out (James excluded).

Lucy has a picture on her camera somewhere so when she's back from Welwyn I'm sure she'll sort it out!

here is the pic! (i hope this works)

George's Meeting House (again)

well, I thought i should say that we just had a very nice meal in george's meeting house for a very reasomable price with some very nice wine, so i recommend it! do go!

unfortunatly i cant find a picture so you'll have to cope without one!

The Amber Rooms

Quote David Shervington, 2nd May 2005, around 8.30ish>>>'unsurprisingly these rooms are somewhat amber'

i think that sums it up...

Its a bit of a trendy place, with sofas, an extensive cocktail and wime menu and a couple of good beers for example Broadside at fairly reasonable prices.

Unfortunatly, we broke some glasses by accident....ooops!

I imagine clever old Tim will find a nice picture to put here now as im not good enough at computers...

The Rising Sun Inn, Lynmouth

I think that's the name of the pub! We didn't really look at the name when we wandered in. 'Twas a nice pub, but soft drinks were quite expensive; £2.20 for a pint of coke! Inside it was nicely furnished and the tables had candles on them. David had difficulty distinguishing between the Ladies and the Gents, although there was adequate signage (how silly does that sound!!!).

A good place for refreshments before walking back up the hill to the car park!!

I have now found a picture, so the cheese is gone.



(sorry Tim, wrong name methinks! I edited it....) - Luce

(dutifully noted and correct picture added) - Tim

The Port Royal

Nice pub, by the river on the quayside, they have a good garden outside which would be nice to sit in when the weather's warmer and two seperate bars as well as a resaurant-type-bit.

we sat in the games bar where there were a couple of guys playing darts, we played pool and i lost very badly twice! oooops! there is also a juke box with a good music selection.

Prices are not that cheap but pretty standard non-student prices so thats ok, not entirely sure about the beer selection but i know on the lager front they have carlsberg, XXXX and stella.

Hopefully someone clever will add a picture on this soon!

The Ship Inn

Very nice old pub, apparently the favourite place of Francis Drake, i think i sat in his favourite spot too!

drinks are a little expensive but there is a nice atomosphere and a promotion on at the moment that if you buy 2 glasses of wine you get the rest of the bottle free which is nice!

only prob was we got I.D'd!!! but they accept uni I.D so all is ok

i also think that this picture is rather nice......(provided by tim i believe, or some other website!)

The White Hart

Very nice old pub, apparently 'the best kept secret in exeter' its warm and farily friendly, but the beer is rather expensive!

Note: some silly people managed to set fire to their serviettes while eating dinner.....Andy to the rescue! he put the fire out before the pub burnt down, which is good, cos its a good pub and we dont want it to burn down.

Not entirely sure about the beer on offer or the prices.....but two pints will cost you more than £5 which is not such a good sign......

The Duke of York

We went here before we went to 'Georges' Meeting House', its quite a local pub, the beer is quite expensive, the people were quite old.

Pretty standard, nothing special.

Heres the evidence...

The Imperial

Busy, too many bouncers, not enough drinking up time, too commercialised.

Don't bother. It's rubbish.

Torcross Tavern

S'alright.