Since the Burgess family took over owner-ship of The Dartmoor Inn at Lydford a decade ago, the awards have just flooded in, with the most recent being a ‘Cesar’ award from ‘The Good Hotel Guide’ and Winner of the UK’s Best Dishes Awards; Best Cooked Breakfast.

The Dartmoor Inn is a special place. The cooking is great, the bar is warm, the style, which owes a bit to Sweden and a bit to New England, will make you feel at home. But we don’t just want to offer you a meal and a place to lay your head. We want to give you something special.

The restaurant is made up of a series of cosy, stylish dining rooms, each with its own identity. Although there are linen cloths and sparkling glassware on every table the feeling is relaxed. The award-winning cooking is based on seasonal ingredients and much work has gone into forging links with local farmers and food artisans to ensure the best raw materials.

The small bar has local ales and a log fire - of course - and its own menu (except Friday and Saturday evenings). It serves pub classics, Dartmoor Inn style. You’ll find fish and chips with green mayonnaise, steak sandwich with onions, rocket and grain mustard, and caramelised rice pudding.

Rooms
The Inn’s three bedrooms are light, spacious and contemporary country in style. They’re all decorated with beautiful fabrics and furnished with antique and hand-painted furniture from England and France. Each room is completely individual, with its own sitting area, ‘Roberts Revival’ radio and en suite bathroom – televisions are available upon request.

Bed and Breakfast Tariff

£115.00 per room per night – stay of 1 night

£100.00 per room per night – stay of 2 nights or more 

The Dartmoor Inn is a special place. The cooking is great, the bar is warm, the style, which owes a bit to Sweden and a bit to New England, will make you feel at home. But we don’t just want to offer you a meal and a place to lay your head. We want to give you something special.  

Among the network of dining rooms is the Inn’s Boutique where you can browse while having a drink. Beautiful accessories and homewares - linen and glassware from Sweden, handmade quilts from France, handbags and jewellery by local designers - are sourced by the Inn’s co-owner, Karen Burgess.

Swedish Style
A range of beautiful tableware, coloured glassware and accessories to add style and elegance to the home.

Lovely Linens
Our colour-washed dressers overflow with a range of the finest linens and quilts including beautiful handmade French quilts, throws and accessories from Une Histoire Simple in country prints and toiles and table linen, aprons and elegant nightwear in pure fine linen from Kardelen and Libeco.

Christmas
From the end of November, The Boutique at the Inn is ready for Christmas. Co-owner Karen Burgess has sourced some of the loveliest gifts from all over the world to help solve your Christmas shopping problems – hand-painted candle holders from Venice; exquisite linen slippers in jewel-like colours; silk taffeta drawstring bags from the french company, Cote Bastide; limited edition millefiori charms and crosses by jeweller Tanya Harris, and this season’s must-have hand-made woollen and faux fur tote bags; plus exclusive to The Boutique - just arrived from America - Jessie Steele hostess aprons. You can buy beautiful crystal and silver Christmas decorations as well. And The Dartmoor Inn is offering special lunches and suppers to help weary shoppers unwind.

Handmade Jewellery
Where you will find something really special. A unique collection of sparkling and glamorous jewels with beads, pearls, millefiori charms, silver and vintage rhinestones.