What is your favorite restaurant?

Truth be told… it isn’t one.

Give me a table and a menu and I’ll probably spend more time people-watching than eating anyway. What I’m really after is a feeling — that quiet hum of life happening around you, the sense that you’ve stumbled into somewhere honest.

That’s why I’d pick a little café called Stacked, or the weekly market in Totnes.

Stacked is a quaint family owned cafe at the bottom of town. Where like in “Cheers” everybody knows your name, and your always guaranteed a warm welcome, before heading up the high street to the market square.

The Totnes Market has been running for centuries, (since 1206) and you can feel every bit of that history in the air — traders who’ve been there for decades, music drifting between stalls, and that wonderful unpredictability of never quite knowing what you’ll find. 

It’s not polished. It’s not curated. It just is.

A coffee in hand, something delicious in a paper tray, and the low murmur of conversations you’re not quite part of — that’s my kind of dining.

So no, not a restaurant.

Just a place with a bit of soul, where the food is almost beside the point.

Stay safe

Bc