Ten of the best seafood places in Devon and Dorset | Travel 1. Seafood House A new discovery for me, and boy is this tiny place good. Run by fisherman Rob Simmonds and his wife Amanda, they serve the best crab sandwich I've ever tasted. They cook the crabs in the morning, pick them by hand and sell them through the day. A real gem in the back streets of town, just by the slipway. • New Quay Street, Teignmouth, Devon. + (0)1626 778671, seafoodhouse.co.uk 2. A personal favourite – sit outside on the lovely terrace overlooking the River Dart or sit inside the beach-like shed and feast on the top local seafood, from crab, lobster and spider crab to mussels, squid and mackerel. • Manor Street, Dittisham, near Dartmouth, Devon. + (0)1803 722365 3. Run by Nick and Anita Hutchings, this longstanding family fishing business recently set up a cafe just yards from Beesands' wonderful shingle beach on Start Bay. • Beesands, near Kingsbridge, Devon. + (0)845 055 0711, britanniashellfish.co.uk 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
DOS HERMANOS: GO EVERYWHERE, EAT EVERYTHING: TRULLO: TO THE POINT We’ve talked before about the School of St John on Dos Hermanos. About how people who have worked at that restaurant at one time or another have branched out and set up their own places serving food which is based on Fergus Henderson’s blueprint. There’s now a parallel network developing which we could call the River Café School. Two restaurants which have opened recently are members of this school. So what qualifies it as a member of the RCS? Located on a busy road by Highbury corner Trullo is a canteen-like space with New Yorky light fittings and paper tablecloths. A couple of things struck me immediately. The food menu is necessarily short because I suspect the kitchen brigade is pretty small – I suspect it might only be the one person – even so it still manages to be an attractive menu which you’d want to eat most of. In keeping with the tenets of classical Italian cuisine the dishes here combine a few good ingredients to produce something greater than the sum of its parts.
Mason & Taylor DOS HERMANOS: GO EVERYWHERE, EAT EVERYTHING: NORTH ROAD: GREAT A lot people seem to be under the impression that DH's direct-from-the-gut approach to our food and restaurant posts are some sort of pose. Possibly something to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the food-blogging herd. They couldn't be further from the truth - we've always been loud, irascible and big-headed. And that's just our good qualities. Take for instance this post by HS from almost a decade ago where our trademark opinionated style is present and correct. Even in those salad days I still shamed restaurants into giving me more if I thought the portionage inadequate and my love of rough, clear spirits continues to this day. It was only when I visited North Road restaurant the other night that I realised it was situated where the subject of that Chowhound post, The Clerkenwell Dining Rooms, had been. The menu descriptions looked blissfully straightforward although I wasn't always convinced they corresponded exactly with what I was eating.