RestaurantsDevonDartmouthTQ6

survey result

Summary

£83
 ££££
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

The harbourside flagship of Mitch Tonks’s West Country group is a “great all-rounder”, majoring in “superb fish and seafood”. The Italian-influenced cooking is “delicious and unfussy”, the wine list “interesting at all price points”“and to cap it all, diners are made to feel really welcome. It’s hard to find this level of hospitality nowadays”. Top Menu Tip – “the focaccia and anchoiade is legendary”.

Summary

£83
 ££££
3
Good
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Mitch Tonks’s Mediterranean-inspired harbourside HQ “always hits the spot” and is run “with charm and polish”“the anchoiade and focaccia alone is worth a trip from the northern Highlands!”.

Summary

£82
 ££££
4
Very Good
3
Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Mitch Tonks’s “fun” lockdown spinoff, Seahorse Al Mare, may have bitten the dust, to reporters’ ire (“a shame the po-faced council has not allowed it to continue. No continental al fresco dining allowed absent a crisis!”), but his flagship restaurant is back and still “as good as ever” – in fact it’s “everything a good fish restaurant should be”, marrying “brilliant” catch and a “smiley staff”.

Summary

£64
  £££
5
Exceptional
4
Very Good
4
Very Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“British seafood at its best” is “worth a detour” at Mitch Tonks’s “buzzy” (if “rather cramped”) flagship. The “unfussy cooking” and “respect shown to the super-fresh produce always leaves you happy”; and it’s “a perfect little spot to hunker down over a long lunch, before walking it all off along the waterfront”.

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5 South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH

Restaurant details

Entertainments,Highchair,Portions
Yes
No dress code
40

The Seahorse Restaurant Diner Reviews

Reviews of The Seahorse Restaurant in TQ6, Dartmouth by users of Hardens.com. Also see the editors review of The Seahorse restaurant.
Ronald J
We were a walk in at lunchtime. We were gre...
Reviewed 5 months, 14 days ago

"We were a walk in at lunchtime. We were greeted very well by the barman and he got us a table 30mins and made us feel like regulars. The food, service and ambience were very good. The whole place was just the sort of restaurant you want to find while on holiday but rarely do. For the quality of cooking it was great value. We loved it. "

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What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Times

Charlotte Ivers dined at the Devon flagship of Mitch Tonks’s West Country group, which she is assured by friends is “the best seafood restaurant in Britain” – “the sort of seaside restaurant amenable to snobbish city dwellers… with all the luxury comforts of a metropolitan dinner spot”.

As promised, it is “no greasy fish and chips on the beach job”: “Every fish that can plausibly be dragged out of the sea within a two-mile radius has been extracted and thrown onto the coal fire.”

For Charlotte, the big revelation is the tuna: “taken from the fish’s collar, [it] is meaty, tender, rich and marbled with fat, as you’d expect from a good wagyu. It tastes like beef. Fatty, buttery beef. Then it doesn’t. The further I get in, the more the tuna taste starts to seep in. Wonderful.”

Charlotte Ivers - 2024-09-01

Prices

Availability 2 courses 3 courses coffee included service included
Lunch   £30.00

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Pudding
£20.50 £40.50 £0.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £30.00
Filter Coffee £0.00
Extras  
Bread £0.00
Service 15.00%
5 South Embankment, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BH
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
Thursday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
Friday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
Saturday12 pm‑2:45 pm, 6 pm‑9 pm
SundayCLOSED

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