Côte Restaurant Exeter

Very nice food and good quality service from staff. However it was busy even on a Thursday, so there was a lot of background noise.

Great food, good choices with lots of my favourite items. The staff, as always, were very helpful and friendly and provided excellent service, which I felt deserved more than the service charge.

Busy and a bit hectic - but very pro and fish stew to die for. Also a first class lemon tart and seriously good coffee. Well done!

Very attentitive service from all the staff present, lovely food chosen from the early evening menu, good company. Second visit can't wait for the third.

Excellent luck. friendly and efficient service. Very good value for money. Delighted that we could book on line. We always enjoy perusing the various choices and find the special lunch very good value for money.

Great food and service - lovely evening staff could not have been more helpful all round indeed it proved remarkable for without the time we had it made it feel even better than before

we had a great evening with excellent service and good food. a good menu with a good range of choices and all well presented and promptly served. Many thanks

We had a really enjoyable evening with good food and atmosphere. Even better the free bottle of wine offer. The only down side was that we weren't able to have window table as requested at the time of booking, but a cosy corner table was the next best thing. Looking forward to our next visit!

Delicious food and great service. The waiting staff are attentive without being intrusive. The wine is good value and the food is tasty, well cooked and fresh.

Great food. Great service. We also used our free bottle of wine offer which was fab! I am yet to have a bad meal here and would highly recommend it!

Excellent food and service in a busy, friendly atmosphere. The early evening deal on the menu provided very good value for money. We will eat there again.

The Exeter Cote has an efficient welcoming staff. Food is excellent and staff listen to individual preferences e.g. 'sauces on the side'. The upper floor can be noisy when full but it is difficult to see what can be done about that.

Cote always meets expectations and today was no different. Also today, we got a great window table overlooking the cathedral so couldn't have been bettered.

We had booked for lunch and glad that we did as the restaurant was full and they were turning customers away. We had good food from an extensive menu. There was nice atmosphere, the waitress was attentive even though busy and all at a reasonable price.

Lovely service, lovely food ,perfect table. Shame about not having a choice as to whether to leave a gratuity or not, that was automatically lobbed onto the bill.

I reserved a table. the day before, arrived on time only to be shown to a small table at the top of the stairs with guests and staff needing to pass either to serve, arrive or depart. I did not sit down but I asked for another table and was shown another small table located on the lower floor right by the mouth of the corridor to the upstairs and services! With again all guests passing a very close quarters and staff too. I refused the table and asked for another table, there were empty tables in normal positions, but they refused for us to have another table. My wife and I were out to celebrate our 50th. Wedding Aniversary and the evening was ruined. We have eaten at the restaurant before and enjoyed the food and service. The two tables offered us were unacceptable, especially as we made reservations ahead of time. We left to try and find another restaurant. Ron Perschky

Lovely food, great service and a splendid table right next to the windows overlooking the Cathedral. A glorious evening - thank you so much for everything. We'll be back!

The meals were good the last time we went and we go most weeks this is our vaverite place in Exeter. We regurly reccommend to our friends

Great food and service as always. We had the lunch special and the Sea Bream was absolutely delicious! We go there quite a lot and will definitely be back soon.

Solid without being outstanding, Service a little slow, think we were in a no-mans land waiter wise. Food pleasant and a good range of choices

Great food and really attentive service - sat upstairs so had fantastic views of cathedral. Nice ambience - will return with girlfriends again soon .

Have eaten quite a few times at both dinner and lunchtime and have had a good experience each time. Staff always seem to be happy even when busy. Only drawback is the noise level upstairs when busy as there are no soft surfaces to absorb any sound at all - it gets quite loud and it can be difficult to hear other members of the party.

Excellent service, as always, and fantastic food. We were there for a family birthday and she was delighted when her dessert was served with a Happy Birthday message on the plate. Always a great experience at Cote!

Wonderful restaurant, all food heavenly and staff went above and beyond ! For my bday they have complimentary drinks and things, Would recommend to anyone.

Service was good and the waiter was attentive but when we asked for things like condiments or a second glass of wine they did not materialise and we had to ask to or three times. It was a busy Friday night but we were not making difficult requests. Food was of a high value for money so happy to rate as 5 overall.

Well presented, tasty food served by very pleasant staff who were clearly knowledgeable about the product. Good value. Well worth requesting an upstairs table overlooking the cathedral

Very friendly staff and pretty efficient too given that it was lunchtime and extremely busy. Nice atmosphere and good value. I will definitely be returning.

Excellent. Unlike most restaurants (e.g. Carluccios), we are not blasted with loud junk music. This is one reason why Cote is our regular place to eat.

Excellent. Great welcome, good meal, great view. Asset to Exeter and a joy to be looked after in such surroundings. Looking forward very much to booking another visit soon.

Was such an amazing experience, and truly wonderful food. My wife and I will definitely come here again! I would love to come and experience their lunch menu sometime as well!

We dine here regularly. We always enjoy the delicious food, seasonal menus, great atmosphere and fantastic service. A perfect choice for couples or friendly gatherings. A table upstairs will provide views of the Cathedral.

Lovely meal and attentive service. Good view of cathedral from window seat. Good menu choice and we were offered the month and day special menus.

Great as always fab food and great service. A lot of restaurants could learn from them . Caterd for my daughter too . As no Childs menu

Food was fine , but very noisy ambience, and not relaxing dining. Service charge added, but not pointed out that it was discretionary - sharp practice, not impressed.

Always a warm welcome and good food at the Exeter Cote restaurant. We have been visiting here since it first opened and it is constantly improving.

Have been here before and weren't disappointed. Had told them it was our 40th wedding anniversary, and were given a great table and free aperitif, which was a nice touch. Lovely food and good service. Very authentic French food - could easily have been in a genuine French bistro!

great lunch with good service didn't feel we were hurried every thing hot and tasty hope to lunch there many more times with the same good service

Good service, nice atmosphere, very good value for money. Would recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting Exeter. Standard of food is always consistent and appetising

Lovely table, friendly and efficient staff, super food. What more can I say? We needed to change the time at the last moment and that was dealt with at once.

The restaurant is in a beautiful area and a lovely view of the Cathedral. I booked our table on the internet and it was simple to do. It was very busy when we got there but the lady that greeted us was very friendly and made conversation with us while taking us to our table, which is where the problems began. I am a disabled lady that finds walking and climbing stairs very painful, and my mother is elderly who also finds stairs a struggle. So when the lady headed towards steep metal stairs I was very disheartened, the lady was already half way up the stairs before we had a chance to ask for a lift, but as it was my mothers birthday and I could see from looking around that there wasn't anywhere else for us to sit we had no choice but to put on a brave face and climb up them . Once we were seated another lady came straight over with the drinks menu, but then it took over 15 minuets before anyone came over to take our drinks order and that was only because I managed to catch her eye, but as I mentioned it was very busy both upstairs and down stairs, so that can be forgiven. The rest of the time everything was very nice, we had a nice lunch, the food was good, but maybe not worth the price tag it comes with, again that could have been because the kitchen was flat out. My son who has been there before a few times, said that the food was much better on those occasions , so maybe it was a 1 off. My only really big problem is that they automatically put a rather large service charge on the bill, So after spending way over £100 on a lunch meal, we then felt that we had to pay the extra £24 tip. Which if everything had of been perfect we would of happily given that amount as I believe good service should be rewarded . But being made to feel like we had to, no matter what the service and overall experience was is a little off putting .I have to give the servers their due, they were all very sweet and we never felt rushed or that anything was too much trouble for them. All things said my mother had a lovely time and enjoyed her birthday meal. We would definitely go there again but would called them directly and ask to be seated down stairs and maybe at a least busy time of the day.