Molesworth Arms, Pyworthy, Devon

Is a small intimate bar & restaurant in rural Devon 

Bookings always recommended for dining with us.

Bed & breakfast options or self catering rooms available. 

During January we will remain open as long as

we have advanced bookings & have enough covers to remain viable & sustainable during these quiet winter months.

w/c 13th January 2025

We will be closed and re open on Thursday 23rd January

w/c 20th January 2025:

Thursday 23rd January 6:30 - 9:30

winter special pie night & main menu.

Friday 24th 6:30 - 9:30

winter special pie night & main menu.

Saturday 25th - 6:30 - till 9:30pm

winter special pie night & main menu.

Sunday 26th - from 1pm till 4pm

Serving from our roast menu till 2pm

Dining Reservations

We highly recommend booking ahead, we only have limited covers.  We are a small rural restaurant, with no passing trade, which relies on bookings being honoured & guests giving reasonable notice of any changes to reservations.

We kindly request that diners give a minimum of 24 hours notification of cancellation or of a reduction in guest numbers.

Please note we don't allow dogs on the premises.

Children must be very well behaved & attended by an adult at all times.

 A new outlook for the Molesworth Arms Pyworthy

after the pandemic

For two years during the pandemic we survived as a business during those extraordinary times but we had to to deal with increased costs, supply shortages, staff issues & transportation disruptions.

We discovered during these times in order to run our business effectively and to remain open we had to create a revised, more efficient & economic style of the day to day running of our establishment. 

We made changes by :-

-Downsized our covers to make our business more sustainable.

-Made our space more safer & comfortable

-Revised a new menu which changes with the seasons

-Growing lots more herbs, fruit & vegetables in our organic polytunnel

-And re opened our bed & breakfast letting rooms & created a new self contained one bed unit

We believe these changes have helped us to remain open, had we not changed

another rural business would have closed down. 

Our goal is to remain open over the winter months but we need to be sustainable & sensible on the running costs at the Molesworth Arms. We have all been affected with rising energy costs & to heat our pub we use a lot of oil, electricity & firewood. Some parts of the pub are over 170 years old & our flooring is covered in very old (cold) flag stones so to heat up our pub it takes at least 4 hours. We will try & remain open throughout the winter months from Thursdays till Sundays as long as we know we have bookings. Please call or email or check updates on this page.

Thank you for your understanding.