Blackpool Sands Café Lounge and Restaurant

A Blue Flag beach a few miles along the coast from Dartmouth, and a place where eating is only part of the plan. The Café Lounge and Restaurant sits above the sand at Blackpool Sands, where the same visit might take in a paddleboard, a session in the beachfront sauna, and a wander up into Blackpool Gardens. Relaxed but not scruffy, and built around the view rather than fighting it.

Two ways in: the takeaway for quick bites eaten on the beach, or the Café Lounge and Restaurant for something slower, with South Devon coastal cooking and the sea in front of you. The beach shop stocks swimwear, changing robes and Red Equipment kit, with kayak and paddleboard rentals alongside. Note the phone line is a message service, so email beach@blackpoolsands.co.uk if you need an answer. Postcode TQ6 0RG.