Spoken

Spoken sits on the Strand in Exmouth, overlooking the town square, and runs as both a cafe and a serious cocktail bar - the kind of range that means the same room serves breakfast at 8am and craft cocktails after dark. The spirits list is the headline: more than 400 gins and around 800 other spirits, which puts it well beyond most bars in East Devon in terms of range.

The food runs Mediterranean rather than standard pub fare, served through lunch and into the evening after the breakfast menu finishes at noon, and the coffee gets singled out in reviews as being properly good rather than an afterthought to the drinks list. Outdoor seating on the square is dog-friendly and gets busy on warmer evenings, helped along by regular live music. It's a relaxed spot rather than a formal cocktail bar - somewhere that works for a coffee and breakfast as easily as a long evening working through the gin list - and its position on the square makes it one of the more visible venues in central Exmouth.