Guidebook for Torquay

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Guidebook for Torquay

Food Scene

Great little brasserie style restaurant very popular with visitors and locals alike. It has periodic live music nights and daily specials complimenting a menu that changes seasonally.
18 locals recommend
Wellies
21 Ilsham Rd
18 locals recommend
Great little brasserie style restaurant very popular with visitors and locals alike. It has periodic live music nights and daily specials complimenting a menu that changes seasonally.
Quite simply the best specialist fish restaurant in the area. Not cheap but well worth the money...
62 locals recommend
No 7 Fish Bistro & Wine Bar
7 Beacon Hill
62 locals recommend
Quite simply the best specialist fish restaurant in the area. Not cheap but well worth the money...
This Greek Turkish Restaurant is wonderful and has a strong local following. The Mediterranean food is good and the owners extremely welcoming.
16 locals recommend
Ephesus Restaurant Torquay
16 Torwood St
16 locals recommend
This Greek Turkish Restaurant is wonderful and has a strong local following. The Mediterranean food is good and the owners extremely welcoming.
This eccentric little cafe is just five minutes from the apartment and is a great place to grab a breakfast or a really inexpensive lunch. The food is wonderful, the patrons of the cafe are even better - it's like being in your very own Ealing Comedy Film
7 locals recommend
Ilshams Vintage Cafe Bar
15a Ilsham Rd
7 locals recommend
This eccentric little cafe is just five minutes from the apartment and is a great place to grab a breakfast or a really inexpensive lunch. The food is wonderful, the patrons of the cafe are even better - it's like being in your very own Ealing Comedy Film
This has built up a powerful local following for a good reason. It is superb. Sweet restaurant run by a young couple with a real interest in food. Menu changes throughout the year exploiting the very best of local and seasonal produce.
14 locals recommend
The Waddling Duck Bistro
35 Ilsham Rd
14 locals recommend
This has built up a powerful local following for a good reason. It is superb. Sweet restaurant run by a young couple with a real interest in food. Menu changes throughout the year exploiting the very best of local and seasonal produce.

Drinks & Nightlife

The Kent's is a great community pub which is popular with locals and with the visitors who find it. They have a good menu plus daily specials and he ambience is friendly and relaxing and there is a nice garden on the side.
27 locals recommend
The Kents
1 Ilsham Rd
27 locals recommend
The Kent's is a great community pub which is popular with locals and with the visitors who find it. They have a good menu plus daily specials and he ambience is friendly and relaxing and there is a nice garden on the side.
This harbourside venue is friendly and hosts a wonderful selection of live acts throughout the year.
29 locals recommend
The Offshore Bar and Restaurant
13-14 Vaughan Rd
29 locals recommend
This harbourside venue is friendly and hosts a wonderful selection of live acts throughout the year.

Arts & Culture

Superb little museum with artefacts from Kent's Cavern as well as items of local history including the Torquay resident who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones, the resident who was a first class passenger on The Titanic an of course Torquay's most famous daughter; Agatha Christie.
44 locals recommend
Torquay Museum
529 Babbacombe Rd
44 locals recommend
Superb little museum with artefacts from Kent's Cavern as well as items of local history including the Torquay resident who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones, the resident who was a first class passenger on The Titanic an of course Torquay's most famous daughter; Agatha Christie.
A busy theatre with a full programme of shows all year round. Guests of the Muntham Apartments can get tickets with no booking fees - please enquire for details.
94 locals recommend
Princess Theatre
Torbay Road
94 locals recommend
A busy theatre with a full programme of shows all year round. Guests of the Muntham Apartments can get tickets with no booking fees - please enquire for details.
Greenway was Agatha Christie's holiday home. Today it is a National Trust Property which has been preserved pretty much exactly as it was when she lived there. cars need to be booked in advance (either online or by telephone) and there are alternative forms of transport to get there. (including steam train) The quietest days to visit are Saturdays and Mondays and Tuesdays. Wednesdays tend to be the busiest.
75 locals recommend
National Trust Greenway Boathouse
Greenway Road
75 locals recommend
Greenway was Agatha Christie's holiday home. Today it is a National Trust Property which has been preserved pretty much exactly as it was when she lived there. cars need to be booked in advance (either online or by telephone) and there are alternative forms of transport to get there. (including steam train) The quietest days to visit are Saturdays and Mondays and Tuesdays. Wednesdays tend to be the busiest.
Home of the D'Oyly Carte family, this house occupies a stunning cliff top position and has one of the most beautiful gardens in the South West of England.
114 locals recommend
National Trust - Coleton Fishacre House & Gardens
Brownstone Road
114 locals recommend
Home of the D'Oyly Carte family, this house occupies a stunning cliff top position and has one of the most beautiful gardens in the South West of England.
A fifteen minute walk from the apartment, this cliff top venue was the starting point of the careers of several of the UK's top entertainers. Today, it offers traditional variety shows plus a series of one night performances.
56 locals recommend
Babbacombe Theatre
Babbacombe Downs Road
56 locals recommend
A fifteen minute walk from the apartment, this cliff top venue was the starting point of the careers of several of the UK's top entertainers. Today, it offers traditional variety shows plus a series of one night performances.

Shopping

This Torquay institution is one of the country's few remaining independent department stores and has recently had a substantial makeover. On the ground floor there are designer handbags and shoes as well as cosmetics and perfumes. On the floors above are clothes for both women and men. The top floor has a gift section and has a restaurant with superb views over Torquay harbour.
42 locals recommend
Hoopers Department Store - Torquay
5-6 Strand
42 locals recommend
This Torquay institution is one of the country's few remaining independent department stores and has recently had a substantial makeover. On the ground floor there are designer handbags and shoes as well as cosmetics and perfumes. On the floors above are clothes for both women and men. The top floor has a gift section and has a restaurant with superb views over Torquay harbour.

Essentials

A great little convenience store only a short distance from The Muntham Apartments. It has all the essentials plus some nice luxury food items.
18 locals recommend
Co-op Food - Torquay - Ilsham Road
5-7 Wellswood Ave
18 locals recommend
A great little convenience store only a short distance from The Muntham Apartments. It has all the essentials plus some nice luxury food items.

Getting Around

Conveniently located inexpensive car hire. Book online for best deals.
Thrifty Car and Van Rental Torquay
Rathmore Road
Conveniently located inexpensive car hire. Book online for best deals.
Torquay harbour is a public transport hub particularly for buses. From here it is possible to get to anywhere in The English Riviera as well as to places beyond such as Totnes, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Exeter and Plymouth.
50 locals recommend
Torquay Harbour
50 locals recommend
Torquay harbour is a public transport hub particularly for buses. From here it is possible to get to anywhere in The English Riviera as well as to places beyond such as Totnes, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Exeter and Plymouth.

Entertainment & Activities

It has quite a run down feel but it is amazingly cheap - in fact I think you would be hard pressed to find a cheaper cinema in the country.
16 locals recommend
Central Cinema Torquay
29 Abbey Rd
16 locals recommend
It has quite a run down feel but it is amazingly cheap - in fact I think you would be hard pressed to find a cheaper cinema in the country.
Located just up from Torquay harbour this is great entertainment shared with family or friends. There is plenty of on street parking nearby as well as two car parks within a five or six minute walk.
67 locals recommend
AMF Bowling Torquay
Torwood Street
67 locals recommend
Located just up from Torquay harbour this is great entertainment shared with family or friends. There is plenty of on street parking nearby as well as two car parks within a five or six minute walk.