Spoilt for choice

Welcome to Eating Out West: the definitive food and drink guide to a region rich in prandial pleasures that serve all budgets, tastes and occasions.

You know the feeling… You’re sitting at a table in a new-to-you diner with a glass of something welcoming in your hand. The waitress hands you the menu and your eye’s caught by that first starter on the list – sounds delicious! And then you scan down the page and realise, with a sinking heart, that you want to eat it all - but you can’t.

Be warned, then, because the excellent little publication you have in your hands may well induce that very feeling. Just feel the weight of it! In the info-packed pages of this latest edition of Eating Out West, you’ll find a fully updated guide to the food and drink world of our region, from posh restaurants and state-of-the-art cuisine to handy caffs and sandwich shops. Thoroughly researched and put together by our experienced team of diligent food-hounds and laid out in the most user-friendly way we could think of, we reckon we’ve got it all covered.

Take a leisurely stroll through its crammed pages and you’ll find yourself heading off on voyages of gastronomic discovery as you realise what’s going on behind kitchen doors from Gloucester to Exeter or even just around the corner. Happily our corner of the country offers an ever-changing menu of fresh, locally sourced eateries of every description, all waiting to treat your taste-buds.

All you need to do is make that choice.

Tony Benjamin
Food & drink editor, Venue/Folio magazine