Short answer: The Focsle Inn overlooks the beach, takes dogs and does an enormous ploughman's. The Harbour Cafe is the highest rated locally with a cheap cooked breakfast. The Castle Inn lets you bring your own takeaway in, which is unusual and useful.
The one with the view. It overlooks the beach, is very dog friendly, and the ploughman's is enormous — big enough that ordering one between two is a reasonable plan rather than a mean one. It sits at the beach end of the village, which is where you want to be.
Highest rated café in the village and it earns it on a cheap cooked breakfast. Dogs are allowed on leads. After a morning on the rock pools at low tide, this is the obvious next stop and it will not cost much.
The unusual one: you can bring your own takeaway in and eat it with a drink. There is a beer garden by the church and a choir sings there some Fridays. For a family where everyone wants something different, this solves the problem entirely.
Worth eating at for the building alone — four floors and fifty-two windows, built to resemble a deck of cards. The garden has a play area and a stream. No baby changing.
Combe Martin's street runs two miles up the valley, and that affects where you eat more than you would expect. The Focsle and the Harbour Cafe are at the beach end; the Pack o' Cards and the Castle are further up. Decide before you park, because the walk back is uphill.
This is a small village on an exposed coast and winter hours shorten. Ring ahead in January rather than driving out on the assumption that a village with four places will have one open.
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