September 2024 by Rosie
Gorgeous food (especially the fritters and hake) brilliant service and reasonable prices. Loved it.
September 2024 by Nick Savin
Always lovely food, great service and atmosphere. Very lucky to have El Olivo in Exmouth.
September 2024 by Sadie Louise
Not child friendly and extremely rude owner!
September 2024 by Lucy Oakes-Ash
Always amazing! We love El Olivo!
September 2024 by James Reynolds
By chance we managed to get a table on a Friday night, place was obviously fully booked the locals seem to know it or Ian seems to make everyone feel like an old friend. lotta in the kitchen is smashing food out with incredible speed and to an incredible standard.
So congratulations lotta and Ian, amazing food and amazing service.
August 2024 by Diane Alford
We are so lucky living fairly near to
El Olivo & being able to visit regularly. I can only say the food gets better & better & on our recent visit we enjoyed a fabulous evening with efficient & friendly service to complement the delicious tapas menu.
I would always recommend El Olivo for lovers of great tapas food served at home in a small restaurant with the personal touch.
August 2024 by Paul Wilson
Absolute gem, great food
August 2024 by Richard Fogg
Delicious food. Wonderful service. Lovely ambience. Top notch!
August 2024 by Alan Marriott
Probably the best dining experience in Exmouth. Having re-discovered El Olivo, the flavours, the service and the atmosphere are all on the mark.
Really enjoyed our time there. The variety of georgeous flavours, the presentation and the appropriate attentiveness of our hosts all made for a memorable experience.
Highly recommend booking ahead otherwise you may be disappointed.
June 2024 by Jenny Vince
Delicious and interesting tapas, friendly service and a great atmosphere - absolutely lovely.
May 2024 by Oscar
Great food great service, always enjoy been in el olivo, just amazing
December 2023 by Escape02656026399
Always excellent food. We absolutely love EO! The courgette fritters are now famous across Exmouth, but everything is always so delicious!
December 2023 by Jess t
Wow, the guy who runs this place is so pretentious and rude. Food was good, normal overpriced small tapas, but delicious. Just would never ever go back there because I have SO little time away from the kids, when I go out for a night with friends, I don't need to be treated like a child and snapped at by the guy who owns the restaurant. He was being defensive because he couldn't bring out a dish that kept falling apart in the kitchen and I think he was embarrassed about that, so when I tried to explain to him that he had taken our order twice by mistake, he snapped at me and told me to stop talking. I have no need to spend my valuable free time in that kind of company. He's quite miserable. I'd rather eat worse food and be served by people that enjoy their job. But that's just me.
December 2023 by Va Go
Tiny pretty restaurant. Food super delicious cooked it professionally.
November 2023 by Mrs P-D
We dined here to celebrate my 40th with family & friends. Definitely NOT child friendly. We should've picked somewhere else when we got told to take our own highchair (red flag) but we still went. My partner spent most of the evening walking around outside with our toddler whilst we ate. Plus no kids menu, didn't even have chips. So we fed them snacks out of the bag.
We then went on holiday for half term and realised today (due to the rain) my partner couldn't find his Barber coat. We rang around a few places trying to retrace our steps from 2 weeks ago. Sent message no reply. Rang the restaurant and the guy laughed saying 'good job you called, in another week it would be on ebay'! I said 'well im surprised you didnt call people that were in that night'. He replied saying he was busy. (This restaurant is small, has 2 sittings a night, 3 nights a week)
My partner went straight down there to collect and the man said 'oh you're the Barber man, nice coat looks brand new' needless to say we were not impressed.
