About Us - The Lazy Toad Inn, Devon

                                                STOP PRESS:

            Read our review in September's Devon Life magazine

                         We are in 'The Good Pub Guide' 2010

        2009 - Taste of The West - Silver Award - Gastro pubs, Devon

                                           AA Pub Guide 2010

                              Members of 'Taste of the West'. 

                       E Mail: thelazytoadinn@btinternet.com

                                         OPENING HOURS:

                               Mondays:        Closed all day

     Tuesdays to Saturdays:        11.30 - 2.30          6.00 - 11.00

           Sundays: 12.00 - 3.00         Sunday evenings:  Closed

Clive and Mo Walker and our team welcome you to The Lazy Toad Inn which has recently undergone substantial renovation works to create a cosy, beamed series of rooms on the ground floor where local ales and CAMRA award winning cider from Sandford Orchards together with good locally sourced and some of our home produced food are served from Tuesday to Sunday lunchtimes and Tuesday to Saturday evenings. Reservations are advised to guarantee your table. Well behaved dogs are welcome on a lead - so long as they get on with 'Sam' our friendly resident Cocker Spaniel!

We usually have at least two real ales on handpump and offer a wide choice of wines by the glass (fifteen at the last count!), including dessert wines.

Our head chef Robin Rea works alongside Mo to bring you quality food. Robin has brought with him a wealth of experience including spells at The Jack in the Green, Primrose Cafe at Clifton and more recently with Michael Caines in Exeter. We have also been joined by chef de partie Luke Holman who will assist both Mo and Rob with cooking and preparation.

All our food is cooked 'from scratch' on the premises, many ingredients are sourced or grown locally and this will increase as time goes on. We have invested in a smoker to produce our own smoked meat and fish for our menu, which changes daily according to the availability of ingredients.

We cater for vegetarians, vegans, coeliacs and those of you with special dietary requirements - please advise us of these when booking. We do not - as a rule - have steaks on our menu, preferring to create dishes that you would not normally have at home, if you would like a steak please let us know, when booking, giving a couple of days notice.

We now have our polytunnel up and running and grow a lot of herbs here and in deep beds, in season, for use in our kitchen and have planted soft fruit - raspberries, gooseberries, blueberries and rhubarb and an orchard with a view to increasing our production in the future. Currently our menu features home grown raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, herbs, salad leaves, some tomatoes, beans and courgettes to name but a few! A small flock of black welsh mountain lambs are keeping our grass down in the summer and will adorn our autumn menus.

Brampford Speke is an unspoilt, picturesque and atmospheric village with thatched cottages, listed buildings, high garden walls in its' conservation area and of course the wonderful walks along the River Exe - Exe Valley Way and Devonshire Heartland Way.

All this within a 15 minute drive of Exeter city centre!

                                        This weeks Real Ales:

            Otter Ale Dobs Bitter, Bays Top Sail and Sharp's Doom Bar

                                            NEXT: Exmoor Fox

Some of our local suppliers are:

Celtic Fish and Game, Charles Steevenson Wines, Christopher Piper Wines, Cobley Farm free range eggs, Creedy Carver, Dunns Dairy, Exe Valley Brewery, Exmoor Ales, Frobishers Juices, Hawkridge Farmhouse Dairy Produce, Hicks the Butchers, Luscombe Cider Ltd., Nick Taverner, Otter Brewery, Quickes Traditional, Red Ruby Devon Beef - Clannaborough, Sandford Orchards, St. Austell Brewery, The Costa Rica Plantation Company.

Useful local links:

fursdon.co.uk