Restaurant · Plymouth
A warm, low-lit room with exposed brickwork and good lighting, and — usefully for anyone with a pram to park — nobody rushing you out. Families report patient, chatty service, high chairs and a kids' menu, plus vegan options, and the kitchen sends out generous plates: spaghetti bolognese, penne bufala, rigatoni with melted buffalo cheese, seafood risotto loaded with mussels, and a tiramisu people insist you order. The Sunday roast is the real draw — beef or lamb cooked how you ask, which is rare now — with roast potatoes that get singled out. Toilets are modern and clean. Window tables are the bright, easy ones for children. It's a bar-restaurant at heart, so it can feel more date-night than soft-play; drinks are average price and portions leave you, as one parent puts it, "absolutely stuffed".
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