Seafood

• Seaside towns near London and where to eat when you get there

  

  You know the drill, you've checked the weather app on your phone and the forecast is good which means one thing... day trip! We've gathered together details on some of the best seaside spots near London, how to get there and - crucially - where to eat.

• Test Driving The Prince Regent - a boat trip along London's Regent's Canal with seafood and fizz

  

  A trip along the Regent's Canal paired with a seafood meal sounded like the perfect day out to us. We went on board on the Prince Regent. 

• Test Driving Fish & Bubbles - XXL seafood panini and platters in Notting Hill

  

  Gigantic portions, tasty seafood and a well priced menu make this new Notting Hill seafood spot a must-try.

• The best London restaurants for seafood

  

  Whether you're after a groaning platter of fruits de mer, or a simple Dover sole our guide to the best seafood restaurants in London has somewhere for you.

• Chapel Market Kitchen sees former Basta chef opening in Islington

  

  Islington readers who've been wandering up and down Chapel Market recently may have spotted the under-the-radar arrival of a new seafood spot on the market. Head up to the Penton Street end of the street and you'll find Chapel Market Kitchen.

  The man behind this new oyster bar and grill is chef Maoz Alonim who for many years had a huge reputation for his restaurant Basta in Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. In recent years

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• Fish & Bubbles features seafood paninis from the La Mia Mamma team in Notting Hill

  

  The people behind La Mia Mamma, Italian restaurants in Chelsea and Notting Hill which got a big push by featuring on Stanley Tucci's "Searching for Italy", are getting ready to try something different with their next opening. 

  Opening next door to their Notting Hill restaurant, taking over what used to be the La Mia Mamma deli, is Fish & Bubbles. This

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• Test Driving Faber - a coastal seafood delight in the heart of Hammersmith

  

  Just off the busy Hammersmith roundabout is a shiny new seafood restaurant focusing on sustainably sourced produce from around Britain. We went to check it out. 

• Shrimp Shack makes its London debut in Streatham

  

  If you feel that London's restaurant scene has quite enough burger chains or fried chicken shops, then a new opening in Streatham may have your name on it. The owners, who include the co-founder of Creams Balal Aquil, reckon that shrimp is where it's at in 2024.

  Shrimp Shack opened in the weeks before Christmas on Streatham High Road. The idea is for the diner to build their own shrimp platter. First, you pick

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• Test Driving Pearly Queen - Tom Brown's Spitalfields oyster bar makes a big impression

  

  Cornerstone's Tom Brown has opened his second restaurant, a seafood restaurant and oyster bar in the East End. We went to Commercial Street to take a look. 

• Faber seafood restaurant lands in Hammersmith with a daily catch

  

  Having made a name for themselves and their seafood-focused pub The Victoria in Mile End, Matt Ward and Anthony Pender are branching out with the first of what could be a series of seafood restaurants.

  Faber, which opened in Hammersmith this month, is a continuation of the duo's obsession with fresh fish. At Faber they'll be working with day boat fishermen, "this means that everything on our menu is

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• Test Driving Manzi's - the huge seafood restaurant in Soho, complete with mermaids

  

  From the group behind The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel, Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho with occasionally bonkers touches. We went in to try it out. 

• Cornerstone's Tom Brown is opening Pearly Queen oyster bar and seafood restaurant in Spitalfields

  

  He's had a lot of success with Cornerstone and now Tom Brown is getting his second restaurant ready, the seafood-led Pearly Queen in Spitalfields (taking over from The Space on Commercial Street). 

  Billed as both an oyster bar and a restaurant, UK-sourced oysters will be a big thing on the menu, both fresh and grilled, and there will be

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• Manzi's is a huge seafood restaurant in Soho from The Wolseley Group

  

  Updated 8/6/23 with opening date

  As the first new restaurant to be opened by The Wolseley Hospitality Group since it was formed following the departure of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin, all eyes are on Soho for the reveal of Manzi's.

  The restaurant is named after the much-loved (but now closed) legendary London fish restaurant. It's not on the same site - the original Manzi's was

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• Test Driving London Shell Co in Highgate - a cosy neighbourhood fishmonger and seafood bar

  

  Just off Hampstead Heath you'll find this new fishmonger and seafood bar. We went to check it out.

• London Shell Co lands in Highgate with a fishmonger and seafood bar

  

  Hot Dinners exclusive - updated 15/3/23 with opening date

  They already have two barges, one roaming and one moored, but now London Shell Co are moving onto terra firma. They're getting ready to open their first land-based site, a fishmonger and seafood bar near Parliament Hill.

  The move is rooted in something they did to survive the lockdowns, a period

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