Corbyn Head Hotel & Orchid Restaurant

Renowned fine-dining restaurant in a luxurious resort hotel overlooking Torbay. Smartly refurbished in simple style, the Orchid has an upmarket ambience and treats its guests to well-spaced, elegantly clothed tables and stunning views across the bay. Service is similarly formal and mainly French, while the food is refreshingly simple and modern. There's a confidence to the cooking that impresses, with dishes notable for both imagination and top-notch local produce: you might start with marinated salmon, oyster beignet, pickled cucumber and horseradish cream, and then tuck into a pavé of halibut with vanilla, peas à la française, pomme dauphinoise and a red wine reduction, or South Devon beef fillet with fried organic egg, pomme Pont-Neuf and Dijon foam. Desserts are similarly divine and include the likes of kaffir limeleaf crème brûlée, served with coconut sorbet, or white chocolate Bailey's parfait with praline biscuits and caramelised banana. Ancillaries like canapés, bread and petits fours maintain the form through to the end.

Follow signs to Torquay seafront, turn right, hotel on right on the edge of Cockington Valley, on seafront
Nearest station: Torquay

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