About Us - The Lazy Toad Inn, Devon

                       We are in 'The Good Pub Guide' 2010

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

                                            AA Recommended

                              Members of 'Taste of the West'. 

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 good food and real ales 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 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 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. All our food is cooked on the premises. Many ingredients are sourced 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 grow a lot of herbs in deep beds, in season, for use in our kitchen and have planted soft fruit and an orchard with a view to increasing our production in the future.

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 Bitter and Exmoor Fox

                     Next: Sharp's Doom Bar, Exe Valley Spring Beer

Some of our local suppliers are:

Celtic Fish and Game, Charles Steevenson Wines, Christopher Piper Wines, Dunns Dairy, Exe Valley Brewery, Exmoor Ales, 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, Teignworthy Brewery, The Costa Rica Plantation Company.

Useful local links:

fursdon.co.uk