UNIQUE AND CHARMING
What a delightful experience is my weekly visit to this little eatery in Honiton High Street. I can thoroughly recommend it and you are welcome to pop in to have a look around if you like. Open from 9 till late. But it does close on Friday afternoon until Sunday morning which is why this has to be a 4# Review.
Always a warm welcome as you enter and a smiling staff member takes you to a table in an area of your choice. I usually go for their famous 'soup of the day' when I pop in at lunch time. Today I enjoyed 'Cheese and Potato', which comes with a hot spelt roll and butter for £8.50, perfectly reasonable.
The menu is wide ranging with something to satisfy all palates and there is a range of speciality teas and hot drinks with a promise to fix most sorts of aches and pains.
This Yellow Deli is the only one in the UK but in the USA (18) and Canada (5) have a good number. There is one in Australia and one in Japan. All the staff are members of the Old Testament '12 Tribes of Israel', but nobody here is pushing religion in any form but there is a weekly forum for anyone interested in digging deeper into their philosophy and ethics.
Often members visit other Yellow Delis abroad and they also receive visitors here. So the fund of stories is ever growing and patrons can follow the international developments if they wish. I am 'non-religious' but I have always been welcome and I often attend the weekly Forum (Tuesday evening 7.30) and talk to Naomi, Johnathan, Malgosh and Zebulun. You get the idea of the place I am sure.
It would be quite remiss of me here not to mention the uniqueness of the décor. I have never been into an eatery with such exquisitely designed and carefully crafted leather work protecting all the odd corners of wood on which you might otherwise catch an elbow or knee. A 'Country and Western' track gently hums away in the background-well YD was born in the USA in 1973. This HONITON version has been opened for around three years now… a pub reborn-alcohol free-and put to a much better use.
Everywhere is always spotlessly clean with toilets upstairs and down. The crafting has certainly got into the loos as well… you must pop in to see this handywork.
Parking is available in the town car park; a five minute walk along the High Street. Blue Badge parking close by and the ground floor has easy disabled access. Busses from High Street stops are available to all the nearby towns and Taunton and Exeter. X30 goes on the coast route to Weymouth.
Will I return? Absolutely.
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