Brightside Roadside Dining

Brightside is bringing proper hospitality back to roadside dining. Inspired by childhood road trips of days gone by, where the highlight of the journey was a stop at a roadside restaurant, Brightside offers a freshly cooked menu full of classic, comforting dishes, including a tasty brunch menu, brilliant burgers and proper pizzas, with lots for little ones, and plenty of vegan and gluten-free options.

Our first restaurant opened back in February 2023 on the A38, just outside of Exeter in Haldon Hill – opposite Exeter Racecourse. We opened Brightside Saltash on the A38 Trerulefoot roundabout in June, quickly followed by Brightside Honiton on the A303 in August. To find out more about the inspiration behind Brightside, we sat down with Loungers Co-founder and Chairman, Alex Reilley…

I have incredibly affectionate memories of visiting the likes of Little Chef and Happy Eater when I was a child with my family. Those visits were my first real exposure to hospitality, and they whet my appetite for hospitality, albeit probably fairly unknowingly at the time, because I was nine or ten years old.