Côte Restaurant Exeter

Was all great, wonderful french onion soup, Duck and Steak. great service. My only criticism was that the tip was added to the bill @ 12.5% Personally I’d like to decide on the quality of the service and tip the individual directly.

Service was excellent and the food was delicious. We could not fault it. A very lovely experience. We always recommend it to friends and return frequently.

My husband and I had an excellent lunch. On arrival the table was set with the gluten-free menu as requested and the choice of red or white wine as offered. The whole see bream was delicious (we have previously had this dish so knew we were in for a treat!) and the chicken liver pate and coupe noire are always a favourite. The only reason for a “5” rating rather than a “6” is the noise level at the Exeter Cote.

The food, drinks and service were excellent, as always. It's a great place to eat when having a shopping day in Exeter but not if you want an intimate lunch as the acoustics are such that it is difficult to carry on a conversation and the tables are close together.

Good quick efficient service. Space around the table was quiet limited. The quality of the food was very good. The quality of the food was vey good.

I went because of the free bottle of red wine offer. The staff were very helpful and prompt and pleasant. The food was excellent - the steak, as always, was perfect.

As always, the service is excellent, the food is exceptional and particularly good value for money in the early evening special deal. Have visited many, many times and it continues to be one of the best, if not the best places to eat in Exeter.

From walking into the restaurant to be welcomed by smiley staff we followed our head waitress upstairs to be seated next to the window opposite the great view of the Exeter Cathedral. Our starter was came promptly accompanied with the complimentary wine. The food was delicious and the service was impeccable as always. Had a lovely evening and it help make our first anniversary together. :)

The welcome and service were excellent. However, the food was over peppered for my liking. We had the soup of the day which was cauliflower and leek but there was so much pepper it was impossible to taste the vegetables. Certainly a good ploy to get customers to drink more, even if it was only several glasses of water! The steak was tender but again too much pepper. I shan't be ordering either of these choices again. Why do chefs insist on so much seasoning and not leave the choice to customer? Disappointing.

Excellent food as always. Very good attentive staff. Altogether a very pleasant experience. I always take visiting friends and family to Cote in Exeter because we can be assured of a very happy day.

Lovely fish - sea bass and sea bream, and a delicious lemon tart. Friendly service. And a free bottle of wine. What's not to like?

Lovely meal, with a light starter and then choosing the duck confit from the ‘specials’ menu and my husband had cod goujons. We both thoroughly enjoyed our two courses and a very pleasant bottle of wine. Service was friendly and professional.

Cote remains a favourite. Good food, pleasant surroundings and top notch staff.! The menu changes often enough to not be boring but keeps the firm favourites available.

Great food and great set meal choices. The early evrning deal is fab. service good and waitresses friendly amd helpful but slow at some points.

In a perfect position overlooking the Cathedral and green this lovely restaurant is perfect place to get together with family and friends. Staff were very friendly and helpful and the food was excellent. Good selection from coffee and cake through 'plats rapide' to A La Carte. A definite return visit is on the cards!

Excellent as ever. Great food service and wine. Loved the whole experience. One can rely on this restaurant every time. Thanks to all the staff.

Food was great, excellently cooked, service was very good, so good you wouldn’t think this was a chain restaurant. The rest room was very clean, which is refreshing and reassuring.

Excellent friendly service and lovely starter of smoked salmon, but the main course of fillet steak was dry and tasteless and cold and colourless and the creamed spinach was awful. We did not pay for the main course but it was a big disappointment and a bit of a downer on what should have been a sort of celebration lunch. The last time my husband had steak in Dorchester Cote it was fantastic - which is partly why we ordered it today.

As usual - lovely location and great view of the cathedral and cathedral yard - food excellent - staff good and very pleasant but sometimes not quite as attentive as we have experienced before.

Visit was to celebrate special birthday. Phoned in advance to request window table didn't happen 3 big parties made for very noisy evening unusually disappointing

Tasty grub at a fair price and a view of Exeter cathedral. What more could you want? A free bottle of wine in January (good deal).

Cote always delivers consistently good quality food & drink. Staff are always efficient and competent which is becoming increasingly rare. We had another good experience today.

Great buzz, excellent food reasonably priced, love this restaurant and have dinner here every time I visit Exeter. Friendly staff, I highly recommend Cote Exeter!

Good location, pleasant ambiance, well-trained staff and most of all excellent food. Background music low which is appreciated as is adequate space between most of the tables.

Very enjoyable lunch , glad we had booked as it was Saturday & busy. It was difficult to find though. Good service & varied menu to suit all ‘pockets’. Our first visit & we will certainly look out for the Côte in other cities.

The food was brilliant, first class as always, unfortunately the service was not up to it's normal standards, we were very rushed & had to ask them to slow down, we were not given any side plates or cutlery to eat our charcuterie with, they brought our main course before we had quite finished our starter, we asked them to take it away & give us at least quarter of an hour, witch they did. And our dessert was then brought at a sensible time. Unfortunately we were then presented with the wrong bill, once given the correct bill the wine that should have been free of charge was included in the total. Unfortunately this took well over 10 minutes to sort out. The manager stepped in & graciously sorted out the problems. We left satisfied with the outcome. Clearly they are trying to fit in too many sittings per evening.

Food good and table service good BUT it seems impossible to get a good table in Exeter - we ALWAYS get placed next to the entrance and to large party groups - often next to a couple of them - we like a vibe but also like to be able to have a conversation without having to shout - they need a separate space or different room for party groups - they just take over the space - it’s quite unlike the other Cotes we go to.

Apart from one mistake on the main order a really good meal , welcome and overall evening out.Would definetly re visit and recommend.Food quality first rate.

Don't like your tipping system - 12.5% is high and applied automatically albeit you can say no if you want to make a show! Saying that we had no problem with the service, which was straightforwardly good.

Roast chicken was Luke warm and skin was slimy very disappointed and the set menu on a weekday is much better value and taste. Thank you

The food and service is always excellent and very good value for money.

Warm welcome by staff. Very efficient with menu's, drinks and taking order. Food was very good and a I had a very enjoyable Birthday meal with family

Again a lovely visit, very quiet so staff a little over keen to take our orders at the expense of two potential customers outside who were ignored completely, they then came into the restaurant and kicked off!

Very good experience at cote brasserie. Excellent service, nice and approachable staff and most of all amazing food and good choice of wine. I highly recommend this restaurant

Although the meal was delicious the whole experience was ruined by the surly attitude of the female manager who did not make us feel welcome.

Every course was excellent and the service was great. Views over the cathedral. All in all we had a brilliant time here tonight. Thoroughly recommend

An excellent experience - great atmosphere, great food and for great value for set lunch menu. The only reason I didn't give a 6 is I don't like when restaurants add a service charge to the bill on my behalf. I like to control this for myself. Thanks.

Very good service from helpful staff. Good value as 2 course lunch was £11.50 Very noisy restaurant upstairs at Exeter, but that's down to the acoustics!

As always, great menu at reasonable prices. Our favourite place for a good value meal with friendly service. We try to visit at least once a month when we are in Exeter.

As all ways, delicious ingredients expertly prepared combined with first class service. Our favourite place to eat in Exeter, an excellent dining experience. Thank you.

Just had the most wonderful meal again at Côte Exeter, the staff and quality of food is simply 1st class it’s is always a joy to go there. Looking forward to our next visit! Roy

The Restaurant was almost full and buzzing with a good atmosphere. Glad we booked ahead as before, and the food was delicious and continues to be good value.

Everything was VG - table waiting for me and the reward wine which followed was excellent. Food as good as ever and I hope to return very soon Ann Baldwin

The service was very slow on our visit, usually it's really good. Cote is excellent value for money, good food and friendly atmosphere, well worth a visit.

4 of us enjoyed Sunday lunch on the upstairs dining room with a lovely view of the cathedral.As always the staff were so helpful and friendly and the food excellent

Some of the food was not as hot as it should been. Service was not very welcoming when we arrived and waiter only improved at end of meal. Did not pay the service charge.

Normally I love going to Cote in Exeter, but they must have have been having a bad evening, the service was not as good as usual, items not available on the standard menus (charcuterie, apple crumble and no sea bass) . The steak was excessively salty. We had three or four different waiters, normally one. I still love going to Cote and hope this was just an anomaly or have things changed for the worse.

Delicious, consistent, excellent Waiting staff with superb knowledge! Spinach and Roquefort salad was lovely and the steak frites never disappoints - took my family for a meal, they’d never been and are already planning next visit!

Excellent, tasty meal, as always, served with friendly efficient staff. Restaurant always busy, with a buzz of happy diners. To me, best restaurant in Exeter.

Kept waiting for several minutes on arrival and then welcome not with a smile. However otherwise we had a great time with attentive service and superb food and ambiance. I booked on line and our sought after seating position was provided thank you. Still our favourite Exeter restaurant!