Dartmouth Seafood Restaurant
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Fresh Local Fish
We celebrate the variety of fish and shellfish from our island’s waters, served simply, skillfully, and with respect.
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Sustainable Seafood
We only source from boats and fisheries we trust, the MSC, and support innovative projects like Disco Scallops™ for their non-invasive fishing methods.
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Sea-sonal Produce
Our menu evolves with the seasons and the tides, showcasing British fish and shellfish when they’re at their best.
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Family Feasts
Our children’s menu keeps little ones happy, and our tablecloths? Colour them in and have fun. Enjoy a proper seafood supper by the water.
Eat Seafood in Dartmouth
The original Rockfish seafood restaurant in Dartmouth opened in 2010 and is situated on the South Embankment overlooking the spectacular river Dart. Bring the family for freshly caught, sustainable local fish landed that day and cooked to order, while you enjoy views out over the water. Our seafood is delivered to us daily from boats in the Brixham fishing fleet just across the bay next door to our Rockfish restaurant there. Join us for sustainably caught, fresh, local fish landed that day which we prepare by the harbour side at dawn to be delivered to our seafood restaurant in Dartmouth in time for lunch. Your server will talk through the daily selection available, marking each fish species down on your tablecloth and the different ways our chefs cook it to order for you - on the chargrill or crisp fried.
Our Menu
Starters
Crystal bread roll
A delicious, light soft roll served with your choice of the following
Hot garlic butter 4.50
Anchovy mayonnaise 4.50
Salted butter 3.95
Sardine butter 4.50
Green olives from Seville 3.95
Sweet chilli peppers 3.00
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Leigh-on-sea cockles with bread and butter 9.95
The best cockles in England. Enjoy with white pepper and malt vinegar
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Roasted South Coast scallops with parmesan and garlic 15.95
Disco Scallops use light, not might, to lure scallops into pots. When the pots aren’t in the water, we use hand-dived so they’re always sustainably sourced.
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Spider crab croquettes with lemon mayonnaise 10.95
Devon spider crab meat in a traditional Spanish croquette.
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Chargrilled Mount’s Bay sardines 9.95
Caught off the Cornish coast, these delicious sardines are simply grilled with oil and oregano.
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Half pint of Norwegian prawns 11.95
Caught by the “Arctic Swan” in the Fjords of Norway. These sweet prawns are served shell on with cocktail sauce
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Crisp-fried salt and pepper wild prawns and Brixham calamari 13.95
Two of the sea’s best tossed with kampot and timut spice, served with Singapore chilli sauce.
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Smoked mackerel fillet, pickled cucumber and horseradish 12.95
Prime Shetland Isle mackerel fillet smoked over oak chippings with the perfect accompaniments.
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Firecracker prawn cocktail 12.95
Succulent Norwegian prawns dressed in a spiced seafood sauce with little gem lettuce and spring onions.
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Crisp-fried Plymouth anchovies 10.95
Served with aioli dipping sauce.
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Crisp-fried tempura vegetables with ponzu sauce 8.95
Seasonal vegetables lightly fried & served with a citrusy Japanese-style dip.
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Brownsea Island oysters
From the clear waters of Poole harbour, these oysters are the best of British, served simply with mignonette & our house chilli sauce.
3 oysters 10.95 6 oysters 19.95
Daily Landed Seasonal Seafood
Our team will also mark on the menu today's availability and prices of market fish from our list of seasonal, sustainably caught seafood and shellfish. This will be led by what has been landed by the fleet in Brixham that morning. Your choice of fresh fish will then be cooked to order and served with your choice of Cornish new potatoes, a green salad or unlimited chips.
Find out which species are in season here
Main Courses
Crisp-fried prime Brixham hake fillet 25.95
Prepared by us on the quayside every day. Fried in Rockfish batter with tartare sauce and unlimited chips.
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Large Line-caught haddock 26.95
A full 12oz fillet caught by the “Hrefna Is” in the ice cold waters of Iceland - this is by far the best haddock we’ve ever tasted. Fried in Rockfish batter with tartare sauce and unlimited chips.
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Chargrilled sea bream with Greek Island salad 24.95
Sea bream cooked over coals with a fresh salad of peppers, olives, tomatoes, cucumber and feta.
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"The Quayside Grill" for two 38.50 per person
Scallops, cuttlefish, hake and the kitchen’s selection from today’s landings. Chargrilled and served with garlic butter. A show-stopper made for sharing.
Add one whole British lobster, split and chargrilled, to share between two for £50 (£25pp) subject to catch
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Fritto misto 24.95
A “mixed fry” of seafood, including calamari, rockfish, prawns and Plymouth anchovies. Served with aioli.
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The Rockfish wild prawn burger 24.95
A pure prawn burger handmade from wild red prawns served with lettuce, spring onions, jalapeño tartare and unlimited chips.
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Chargrilled Cumbrian chicken leg with sweetcorn, lime and coriander 19.95
Prime Cumbrian chicken cooked on the chargrill, served with a fresh, spicy salsa and unlimited chips.
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Rockfish Baja style tacos
Three corn tortillas filled with green pea guacamole, tomato, coriander, chilli and lime salsa.
Your choice of...
Wild prawns 19.95
Halloumi 17.95
Summer Set Menu
Two courses £26.95 - served everyday until 5pm
Starters
Chargrilled Mount's Bay sardines
Firecracker prawn cocktail
Crisp-fried tempura vegetables with ponzu sauce
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Mains
Crisp-fried lemon sole fillets, chips and tartare sauce
Hake cooked “à la plancha” with spinach and romesco
Chargrilled Brixham calamari, green salad and garlic olive oil
Sides
Sides
Unlimited chips 5.50
Buttered Cornish new potatoes 4.95
House salad with vinaigrette 4.95
Fresh coleslaw 4.50
Sautéed spinach with garlic 4.50
Yorkshire garden peas in butter 3.95
Mushy peas 3.95
Curried mushy peas 4.25
Mr Sandhu’s curry sauce 3.25
Roasted garlic aioli 1.95
Jalapeño tartare 2.50
Romesco sauce 2.95
Anchovy mayonnaise 2.95
Children's Menu
Suitable for children up to the age of 11. Includes chips, a choice of a side and artisan vanilla or chocolate gelato.
Brixham fish bites 8.71
Changes daily, from the market
Grilled local fish fillet 8.71
Changes daily, from the market
Crisp-fried wild prawn tempura 8.71
British free range chicken breast in a light breadcrumb 8.71
Fried halloumi sticks 8.71
+ an ocean protector pack
9.71
Dessert
Artisan Italian gelato 6.00
A choice of 3 scoops - Madagascan vanilla ~ Double chocolate ~ Salted caramel ~ Lemon sorbet ~ Mint choc chip
Sticky toffee pudding 8.50
The classic recipe made in our kitchen each day, served with toffee sauce & clotted cream
Affogato 7.00
2 scoops of vanilla gelato with a hot espresso to pour over.
Willie's Rio Caribe chocolate pot 9.50
Rio Caribe dark chocolate mousse with fresh raspberries.
Crème brûlée 9.00
Made each day in our kitchen, a rich custard with a caramelised sugar layer on top
Summer berry sundae with clotted cream 9.95
Seasonal berries, vanilla gelato and raspberry coulis.
Fisherman’s coffee 9.95
Coffee with Armagnac, Disaronno Amaretto & double cream float
Handmade Chocolate Bon Bons 4.00
3 Bon bons. Three flavours of Baboo gelato covered with dark chocolate. Coconut, raspberry and salted caramel.
Good Things to Know in Dartmouth
Eating Outside in Dartmouth
From mid April in Dartmouth we have casual seating outside in a prime spot on the South Embankment which can be enjoyed until autumn when the weather is fine, Overlooking the River Dart and covered by big umbrellas you can enjoy drinks and great Rockfish seafood from our Embankment Menu. Our outdoor tables are subject to availability and weather.
Please note: This area is usually only available during the spring & summer season when the weather is fine.
Parking in Dartmouth
If you are lucky you can grab a space on the road outside the restaurant on the Embankment. During the summer these spaces are 2 hour parking.
Dartmouth Park & Ride
The Park and Ride service is managed by South Hams District Council, and runs between Easter and the end of October, every 10 minutes, or 20 minutes on a Sunday. The service runs from the car park just outside Dartmouth on the A3122, where it joins with the A379 by Lidls supermarket, to Dartmouth town centre. Postcode reference TQ6 9LW.
Free Parking
The Old Market Car Park is run by Dartmouth Town Council and parking is free of charge, however there is no parking on market days, which are on a Tuesday and a Friday.
On street parking on the North Embankment is free from the 1st October to 30th April.
Between 1st May to 30th September most on-street parking is limited to one or two hours.
Car Parks Managed By South Hams District Council
Mayors Avenue, TQ6 9NF
Dartmouth Castle, TQ6 0JN