The Dog and Donkey

The Dog and Donkey Dog friendly family run traditional pub. Great vibes, drinks and games with a great atmosphere.

🧠🍺 QUIZ NIGHT IS BACK THIS WEDNESDAY! 🍺🧠Wednesday night means one thing at The Dog & Donkey…QUIZ NIGHT!Get your clever m...
04/10/2026

🧠🍺 QUIZ NIGHT IS BACK THIS WEDNESDAY! 🍺🧠

Wednesday night means one thing at The Dog & Donkey…

QUIZ NIGHT!

Get your clever mate, your useless mate, the one who knows every song ever written and the one who insists they definitely know the answer before getting it completely wrong. 😂

🕢 Wednesday 7th October — 19:30 start
💷 £3 per player
👥 Maximum 6 to a team
❓ 6 rounds of questions
📸 Picture round
🃏 Plus your chance to CHASE THE ACE

And most importantly, it’s a quiz night in a pub — so expect plenty of laughs, questionable team names, a few drinks and the occasional argument over an answer that somebody is absolutely certain was right.

🍔 Food served beforehand, so come down early, grab something to eat and get yourselves settled in.

No need to be a mastermind.
No need to take it too seriously.

Just gather your team, bring your A-game and come have a bloody good Wednesday night.

QUIZ NIGHT — THIS WEDNESDAY FROM 19:30.

🐶🫏 The Dog & Donkey
A pub doing pub things.

02/10/2026

🎤 SATURDAY NIGHT IS LOOKING RATHER GOOD AT THE DOG & DONKEY. 🎤

Because from 20:00 tomorrow night, the absolutely brilliant Ian Boyd is taking over.

If you’ve seen Ian before, you already know exactly why we’re making a fuss.

If you haven’t… this is your chance.

A cracking voice, brilliant songs and the sort of performer who knows exactly how to get a pub going. No nonsense, no sitting quietly in the corner — just a bloody good Saturday night of live music in a proper pub. 🍻🎶

And you can make a day of it.

🍺 PUB OPEN FROM 12:00
🍔 FOOD SERVED ALL DAY
📺 SPORT ON THE SCREENS if that’s what you fancy
🎤 IAN BOYD LIVE FROM 20:00

Come in for lunch.
Stay for a few drinks.
Watch a bit of sport.
Grab some food.
Then get yourself settled in for Ian.

Saturday 3rd October. 20:00.

No tickets. No complicated plans.

Just turn up, grab a pint and enjoy a pub doing pub things.

IAN BOYD — LIVE AT THE DOG & DONKEY.

See you Saturday. ❤️🍺🎤

🍻 IT’S FRIDAY. THE WEEK IS DONE. THE PUB IS OPEN.No complicated sales pitch required.Just come down, grab a pint, get so...
02/10/2026

🍻 IT’S FRIDAY. THE WEEK IS DONE. THE PUB IS OPEN.

No complicated sales pitch required.

Just come down, grab a pint, get something decent to eat and enjoy a proper Friday night at the pub.

🍔 Food being served
🍺 Pints being poured
🎶 Tunes on
🎯 Darts, pool, arcade, jukebox and all the usual nonsense
📺 Screens on if there’s something you fancy watching
🌳 And plenty of space if you just want to sit, eat, drink and catch up.

No need for a special occasion.

No need to spend a fortune.

Just a pub doing pub things on a Friday night. ❤️

Come and see us.

THE DOG & DONKEY — KNOWLE
🍻 Good food. Good b**r. Good people. Usual fun.

29/09/2026

🎺 LIVE JAZZ AT THE DOG AND DONKEY — THE JONNY BRUCE QUARTET. 🎺

After the fantastic response to our last jazz night, we’re doing it again — only this time, Jonny’s bringing the quartet.

THE JONNY BRUCE QUARTET — LIVE AT THE DOG AND DONKEY. Jonny Bruce - Trumpet

Jonny Bruce is an absolutely phenomenal trumpet player whose career has taken him from Ronnie Scott’s to the Royal Albert Hall, playing alongside some seriously impressive names including Fred Wesley, P*e Wee Ellis, Art Themen, The Wailers, McFly, Roni Size, Hamish Stuart, Kelis, Emma Smith, Clare Martin and Clare Teal.

His trumpet has been heard on film and television, including the BBC series The Outlaws, and he’s performed at venues and festivals across Europe.

And now he’s coming back to our little pub in Knowle — this time with the full quartet. ❤️

This isn’t background jazz while you quietly finish your chips.

This is four brilliant musicians, playing properly live, just a few feet away from you.

And that’s exactly the sort of thing we want to keep doing here.

Brilliant musicians. Proper live performances. Good food. A room full of people. And the chance to see artists you’d normally expect to travel considerably further to watch.

Live music in pubs matters.

There’s something bloody brilliant about being able to sit with a pint, a few feet away from musicians of this calibre, and watch them do what they do.

No enormous arena.
No binoculars.
No £9 pint.

Just four superb musicians playing live in a 99-year-old Freehouse in Knowle.

🎺 THE JONNY BRUCE QUARTET
📅 30th September
📍 The Dog And Donkey, Knowle

Come and spend some time with us.

Get yourself a table, grab some food, order a drink and settle in for a cracking evening of proper live jazz.

The Jonny Bruce Quartet. At The Dog And Donkey.

That sounds slightly ridiculous when you say it out loud.

Which is exactly why you should come. 🎺🍺

The Dog And Donkey
A pub doing pub stuff. 🍺🐾

🎤🍻 KARAOKE — FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 🍻🎤Three karaoke nights in one month, you say?Well… yes, actually. 😂We know we normall...
24/09/2026

🎤🍻 KARAOKE — FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 🍻🎤

Three karaoke nights in one month, you say?

Well… yes, actually. 😂

We know we normally spread the madness out a little more than that, but our karaoke nights have become such a bloody good night that every now and again we reckon it’s worth letting everyone play out a bit more than usual.

So we’re doing it again.

🎤 Friday 25th September
⏰ From 20:00
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

If you’ve been to one of our karaoke nights before, you’ll know.

People come in saying they’re definitely not singing.
They sing.

People promise they’re only staying for one.
They don’t.

And somewhere along the way the whole pub seems to get involved.

Good singers, terrible singers and the gloriously overconfident — everyone gets a go.

It’s loud, it’s daft, it’s friendly and it’s become one of our favourite nights at the pub.

So yes. Three in one month.

We can behave ourselves in October.*

🐶🫏 The Dog And Donkey, Knowle

Come and spend Friday night with us. 🎶🍻

*Probably.

🎺 THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT AT THE DOG AND DONKEY. 🎺On Wednesday 30th September, we’re welcoming the Jonn...
21/09/2026

🎺 THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT AT THE DOG AND DONKEY. 🎺

On Wednesday 30th September, we’re welcoming the Jonny Bruce Quartet to The Dog And Donkey for an evening of live jazz.

And if you don’t know the name Jonny Bruce yet, have a look at who he’s played with.

Fred Wesley. P*e Wee Ellis. Art Themen. The Glenn Miller Orchestra UK. Chris Barber. The Wailers. McFly. And many, many more.

His trumpet has taken him from Ronnie Scott’s to the Royal Albert Hall, festivals across Europe, countless sessions for film and television, and onto the BBC drama The Outlaws.

And now he’s bringing his quartet to a little pub in Knowle. ❤️

That’s exactly the sort of thing we want The Dog And Donkey to be doing.

Not just putting something on in the corner of the pub, but bringing genuinely brilliant musicians into our community and creating nights that you might normally expect to travel to Exeter, Bristol or considerably further afield to see.

🎺 JONNY BRUCE QUARTET
📅 Wednesday 30th September
⏰ 19:00–21:00

🎟️ £10 pre-booked entry

🍝 £23 pre-booked entry + beef or vegetable lasagna

🚪 £12 entry on the door

If you love jazz, you really don’t want to miss this.

And if you don’t think you love jazz? Come anyway. Live music played by musicians of this calibre, a few feet away from you in a proper pub, is a completely different experience.

These are the nights we want to keep bringing to Knowle — and the way we get to do more of them is by filling the pub.

So book a table, bring some friends, have some food and come and spend the evening with us.

📧 [email protected]

Tickets are also available through Eventbrite.

🐶🫏 THE DOG AND DONKEY
A pub doing pub stuff.

Except every now and again, the pub stuff gets rather bloody good. 🎺❤️

🧠🍺 QUIZ NIGHT AT THE DOG AND DONKEY! 🍺🧠Right then… who’s feeling clever?Our next Quiz Night is Wednesday 23rd September ...
20/09/2026

🧠🍺 QUIZ NIGHT AT THE DOG AND DONKEY! 🍺🧠

Right then… who’s feeling clever?

Our next Quiz Night is Wednesday 23rd September from 19:30 — an evening of questionable knowledge, confident wrong answers, arguments over things nobody actually knows, and at least one person saying “I literally said that!” after every answer. 😂

💷 £3 per person
👥 Maximum 6 per team
🏆 Bragging rights very much included.

We’ll be serving food beforehand, so get yourselves in early, grab a table, get fed and work out which member of the team is actually useful before the questions start.

Whether you’re frighteningly good at general knowledge or your main contribution is knowing obscure 90s TV theme tunes, you’re welcome.

📅 Wednesday 23rd September
⏰ Quiz starts 19:30
📍 The Dog And Donkey, Knowle

Tables can fill up quickly for these, so get your team together and give us a call to book:

☎️ 01395 904595

A proper pub. A proper quiz. And absolutely no guarantee the questions will be sensible. 🐶🫏🍻

🚁❤️ SATURDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER — THIS ONE MEANS A LOT TO US. ❤️🚁Next Saturday we’re getting together at The Dog And Donkey ...
20/09/2026

🚁❤️ SATURDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER — THIS ONE MEANS A LOT TO US. ❤️🚁

Next Saturday we’re getting together at The Dog And Donkey to raise as much money as we possibly can for Devon Air Ambulance.

And there’s a very simple reason why.

A local guy, Freddie, is still here today because they were there when he needed them.

That’s what this night is about.

Freddie will be joining us — and singing himself — alongside guest singers for a night of live music, laughs, good people and hopefully a LOT of money raised for the people who helped save his life.

🎤 Live music throughout the evening
❤️ Freddie singing
🎶 Guest singers
🎟️ A HUGE raffle
🚁 All in support of Devon Air Ambulance

And people have been absolutely brilliant with the raffle prizes.

We’ve got garage vouchers, cream teas, meals for two, bottles of w**e and other drinks, takeaway vouchers, beauty treatments and loads more.

🎟️ £1 per ticket
🎟️ £5 for 7 tickets

There are actually too many people and local businesses who’ve donated prizes for us to properly thank them all here, so we’ll be doing a separate post giving every one of them the recognition they deserve. ❤️

Can’t make the night?

You can still help.

There’s a QR code on the poster which takes you directly to the fundraiser. A few pounds here and there soon becomes something pretty bloody significant when a whole community gets behind it.

📅 Saturday 26th September
⏰ From 19:00
📍 The Dog And Donkey, Knowle

We’re going to have a great night. That’s important too. This isn’t supposed to be sombre.

We’re going to sing, laugh, make some noise, flog a ridiculous number of raffle tickets and hopefully send Devon Air Ambulance a cheque we can all be very proud of.

Because this time it was Freddie.

One day it could be any one of us.

So please SHARE THIS POST, bring some friends and come and spend Saturday night with us.

🚁 Let’s see what this little community can do. ❤️

🐶🫏 THE DOG AND DONKEY
A pub doing pub stuff.

🍽️🐶🫏 IT’S SUNDAY — AND THE ROASTS ARE ON! 🫏🐶🍽️Sunday has arrived, which means there’s really only one important question...
20/09/2026

🍽️🐶🫏 IT’S SUNDAY — AND THE ROASTS ARE ON! 🫏🐶🍽️

Sunday has arrived, which means there’s really only one important question…

Who’s cooking lunch?

Because it doesn’t have to be you. 😂

We’re open from 12:00 today, with Sunday lunch served from 12:00–15:00, or until we run out.

Proper Sunday roasts, good portions and none of the shopping, peeling, cooking or mountain of washing-up afterwards.

And if a roast isn’t your thing, no problem. We’ve also got some of our usual favourites available:

🍕 Pizzas
🍔 Burgers
🍗 Hunters Chicken
🍝 Beef or vegetable lasagne

So gather up the family, bring the dog, forget about cooking and come and spend some of your Sunday with us.

Booking is recommended if you definitely want a roast — when they’re gone, they’re gone.

☎️ 01395 904595
📧 [email protected]

🐶🫏 The Dog And Donkey, Knowle

It’s Sunday. Let us do the cooking. ❤️

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Knowle
Budleigh Salterton
EX96AL

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Monday 4pm - 11pm
Tuesday 4pm - 11pm
Wednesday 4pm - 11pm
Thursday 4pm - 11pm
Friday 4pm - 11pm
Saturday 12pm - 11pm
Sunday 12pm - 10:30pm

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