Barbican, Fish & Seafood Restaurant Guide

You need to plan your route according to the tide if you visit this thirty-year-old venture on a site that used to host an oyster farm. Nowadays you dine either indoors or at plastic tables below an awning. Oysters are of course at the heart of the menu, but there’s also locally sourced crab and lobster as well as a BBQ catch of the day. (In fact there are also burgers, hot dogs, BBQ tofu, you name it).

“Stunning” harbour views elevate a visit to this “very large and busy restaurant right on the waterfront” – a refreshingly “unpretentious” spot that was set up by local lad Benjamin Palmer in 2018. The small or big plates feature some “excellent fish cookery”, but really everything (including the Sunday roast) is just “so tasty”.