Reviews in Exeter

Fantastic night (again) at THG. Allegra made the evening just brilliant with happy, prompt and courteous service. Keep going!

Absolute superb little find! Superb food and great vegetarian options! Staff are amazing and great service! Best vegetarian roast I’ve had!

Very tasty meat. However, this is still a pub. Order at the bar... we both had steak and chips at a rather high price of £36... I can't complain about how it was cooked. The steak was a rib eye cut, perfectly juicy, and cooked MR. I didn't particularly like the very greasy load of potato wedges or frisee lettuce. You are charged service at the bar when ordering wich to me, slightly defeats the point. The atmosphere was good. Warm and cosy..pub. I think the prices need to better reflect the ingredients used and that it is a pub. 3.5/5. For 2 people 1 drink 1 main £100.

We love The Hour Glass! It's the sort of pub you just don't come across often these days. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal. The food is excellent (the black pudding scotch egg is outstanding!) and the wine llst is good (and the beer isn't bad either!). All round a great evening. Thanks to all concerned.

5 star

Sunday lunch for 3 people celebrating my husbands birthday. It’s a mixed review sadly. Lovely venue - cosy and welcoming. The starters were really very good ( black pudding scotch egg with soft yolk, monkfish scampi and the smoked haddock chowder). We then had a really really long wait for our main course… the waitress did apologise and gave us one free pint. We all ordered the roast beef - the beef was rare and delicious, generous portion lovely mixed of veg (swede puree, cabbage and cauliflower cheese, one carrot etc) and a large yorky. But, the potatoes were pretty much inedible and impossible to cut. I suspect they had once been lovely crisp roasties but they were now like leather. My son left all of his and my husband and I ate one each. Really very disappointing, and let the whole meal down. The waitress came to ask if everything was OK with our main course, and we told her all was delicious apart from the potatoes that were really poor quality… unfortunately, she just laughed ( I expect out of nerves/ not knowing what to say) and I assumed she would have told someone senior. But, appears not as the next thing was someone else asking about puddings, we declined as by now it was 4.30pm. When payment for the bill was taken the waitress asked how was the food… once again came some polite but honest feedback - she was more apologetic. So a mixed picture - slow with food, awful roast potatoes and lacking some customer service imho. Hoping this was just a one off, as it is a magical spot for a winters lunch by the fire.

Had a meal with a big group for a birthday. Everyone agreed best meal they have had in ages! Great atmosphere and nice people working there. Thanks!

Outstanding food, service and atmosphere. First class in EVERY way.

Had a lovely roast at The Hour Glass Inn yesterday. I had the chicken and my friend had the beef — both were absolutely delicious, perfectly cooked, and very generous portions. The gravy was delicious and really brought everything together. The staff were amazing: friendly, attentive, and made us feel very welcome. A great atmosphere and a real gem in Exeter. Would highly recommend and will definitely be back.

Superb food of the highest quality very attendlive service without being pushy always try to visit when back from Spain new owners have really turned the place around over the last few years

An excellent meal. Very attentive friendly service. Gorgeous food, beautifully cooked.

We had a splendid birthday meal with lovely service. Thank you, Hourglass!

A really delightful New Years Eve four course dinner. Relaxed atmosphere, great service and really delicious food - thank you.

This was not our first visit and will not be our last …. Food was superb, the service do friendly and attentive … one of our favourite places … think we will be back in February for my birthday

The food and menu was absolutely spot on. Something for everyone & our meals were cooked & served perfectly. I really can’t recommend high enough as so far from traditional pub food. So tasty. Thankyou to the lovely landlord and his staff. Look forward to your returning

As always, the food and service was fantastic! The beef cheeks I had were sooooo good.

Excellent meal. Beef cheeks were melt in the mouth delish. Very busy night in the dining room that was very well handled by the two waitresses.

Really interesting and good quality food with friendly caring staff. Great atmosphere. Quirky and fun.