Where to Eat in Okehampton: Brothers, Burgers and Cider

Short answer: Brothers is the best food in town, Thursday to Saturday only and you must book. The London Inn does good value burgers and takes dogs. The Plume of Feathers has a huge cider range plus books and board games, and is closed Mondays.

Brothers

The best food in Okehampton, and the constraint is the opening: Thursday to Saturday only, and booking is necessary rather than advisable. For a town this size having somewhere of this standard is a real asset, but you have to plan the trip around it rather than drop in.

The London Inn

Good value burgers, dog friendly, with live bands at weekends. It is the dependable option — open when Brothers is not, and priced for people who live here rather than people visiting the moor.

The Plume of Feathers

A huge cider range, which in this part of Devon means something, along with books and board games. Closed Mondays. It is the place to sit out bad weather rather than the place for a special meal, and it is very good at that job.

Planning around the closures

• Brothers — Thursday to Saturday only, book ahead.
• The Plume of Feathers — closed Mondays.
• A Monday in Okehampton has fewer options than you would expect; the London Inn is the fallback.
• Out on the moor there is nothing at all — most Dartmoor car parks have no facilities.

Taking food onto the moor

Worth doing. Bellever Forest has £5 all-day parking and a river running through it, and there is nowhere to buy anything once you are there. A packed lunch from town turns a two-hour walk into a proper day.

If you are passing through

Okehampton sits on the A30, which means a lot of people stop here on the way to Cornwall. The London Inn is the easiest for a quick stop; Brothers is worth planning a longer break around if the day is right.