I enjoy writing about all sorts really. I love travel and am pregnant at the moment so expect a lot ...
I enjoy writing about all sorts really. I love travel and am pregnant at the moment so expect a lot of baby reviews to come. I also post on Dooyoo under the name Whizz11
On a recent trip to Padstow, Cornwall we decided to go to Rick Steins famous fish restaurant, The Seafood Restaurant. Rick Stein is an English chef, restauranter and television presenter. He now specialises in fish cookery. He opened his first restaurant in Padstow in 1974 and now runs quite a few businesses in the town including a cake shop, cookery school and a fish and chip shop.
The Seafood Restaurant is his upper class restaurant in the town and is known for it's fabulous fish. It really is in the best location for fish. Padstow is a historic fishing port and so receives fresh fish every day. The restaurant is right at one end of town by the harbour and so is perfectly place to recieve all the best catches of the day.
It's quite hard to get a reservation in the restaurant. I think I booked about three months before we wanted to go and even then it was a bit hit and miss to if I would get a table or not. The first couple of dates I suggested I was given a table time of 10pm which was way to late but eventually I got a table on a Monday night out of season. The restaurant has its own dedicated telephone reservation line and details of this and all his businesses can be found at http://www.rickstein.com/Restaurants-and-Shops.html.
Even though the restaurant is right by the harbour it doesn't have spectacular views over the water which is quite disappointing. It actually overlooks the car park. It's a shame because there are a few tables around the side of the restaurant with nice glass floor to ceiling windows that you can have a drinka t before your dinner and it would be lovely if you ahd a nice view of the boats etc, but oh well. Once inside the restaurant there is a bar in the middle and then tables along the walls of the restaurant as well as some tables in the middle. The restaurant is very light and airy with off white colouring and quite modern with some really interesting paintings, vases with great flowers etc. The toilets were nice too, clean and also quite funky in design so I would recommend that you check those out too.
The menu is printed each day as ours had the date on it. I assume this is becasue the fresh fish can vary from day to day. They offer a taster menu for £64 per person which I think had about 6 or 7 courses on it or you can just order off the regular menu. Mains are approximately £20-25 each but are more if you order Lobster which I think was about £45. We just ordered off the regular menu.
The food was absolutely amazing without being pretentious and also the portions were very big too. We started with bread and olives which they gave to every table. Then we were given a little bit of cooked sushi to taste that was lovely. The great thing is that the fish offered if different that what you usually get, for example he offered talbot, monkfish as well as salmon, haddock, etc. I am not a fan of Fruit de la Mer but the couple next to us ordered it and it did look amazing. THe bowl was overflowing with shell fish and I think if you do like it its probably the best you can buy. I asked the waitress and it included everything you can think off, cockles, mussels, etc.
Desserts were great too and not to be missed. With wine and starters, main and desserts I think the whole meal cost us about £150-£200 which for a special meal out was not that expensive and well worth it if you are a fish lover
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