Skylark Inn

First visit to this beautiful pub, will definitely go again. Food excellent and the staff could not do enough for you. A little gem of a pub tucked away in beautiful Dartmoor. What an amazing find.

Great place for a Pub Lunch. Extensive menu offered and the servers always have a smile and are very friendly. Good Value for good food.

Good food but desert not worth paying for bigger bowl but not full up only small cover about 1/2 inch over bottom

An excellent meal served by experienced, polite and efficient staff. Very hospitable staff with quality home cooked food, decent portions and a fair price. 9 of us ate starter, main and dessert with drinks for £30 a head. Well worth it.

I can honestly say that this is one of the best pub meal experiences I have had in decades - everything was there from the word go. The down-to-earth service, the personal touches, the atmosphere which made you feel so welcome. I loved the way the specials were announced - all local fish, shellfish and meat. I went for the mussels in white wine and garlic as a starter and a ribeye steak from a very local source just down the road. the food was exceptional too. When I arrived at about 7pm, it was pretty quiet. When I Ieft an hour later, served at a pace that suited me, the pub was pretty much full, and it was a great atmosphere. With the three alcohol free bottles of lager I had, the total came to about £45 and I got a 10% discount card for the rest of the month for every time I revisit - I felt this represented excellent value. I used to go to a very similarly run pub about 35 years ago (OMG!) in my late teens/early twenties. Since then, running a traditional English pub has been something of a dying art. Here, they did it with ease, without breaking into a sweat, it was so natural, it was like theatre. I cannot remember enjoying a meal so much in decades, and I have dined out a lot over this time. It's not at all posh or pretentious and it's by no means a spit and sawdust pub either. It's brilliantly run in the middle section, just where I like it. No music, no TVs, no machines, just lovely customers from all walks of life coming together in a happy place for a fantastic Friday night out. The whole décor reeks authentic pub because it is clearly all absolutely genuine. I applaud the whole team, it is obviously run by consummate professionals with effortless ease. And no, I haven't been paid to write this review! I have never been here before and I only chose to go here with some reluctance because I didn't want to return to either of the two other pubs that had better Google reviews in the area, because both had failed to impress me at all. The Skylark Inn, by contrast, impressed me on every conceivable front and I cannot recommend a visit highly enough. Five stars? Six stars would be more appropriate, in my humble opinion.