Boat Restaurant Recommendations

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As readers of Motor Boat & Yachting may know, we publish a monthly column called Boat Cuisine that reviews a popular boating restaurant (ie one with direct access or within easy reach of a popular boating destination).

The latest lockdown is making life a little tricky for the column's regular author to scout out new places so we're keen to open it up to the forum for suggestions/contributions.

We're particularly keen to hear about recommendations from outside the author's usual Solent stomping ground but preferably within the UK.

So what is your favourite boating restaurant and why? Any supporting evidence in the form of photographs, menus, mouthwatering descriptions or growing waistlines gratefully received!

We'll follow up the most promising sounding ones.

Thanks in advance

Hugo
 
As most establishments have been closed for some time, many key staff like chefs will have been let go I suggest.
Any feedback will be out of date and pointless. IMHO
 
Hugo,

No 7 Fish Bistro and Wine Bar. Just a 5 min walk from Torquay marina. Excellent food (local produce) and harbour views. On all our West Country trips we build in a stop at Torquay just to visit this restaurant.

Br/Terry
 
An uphill struggle unless you do the best chippy or takeaway delivered to your boat, maybe expand and focus on cooking onboard ideas, barbecues, microwaves, induction hobs and associated recipes.
 
these 2 are solent but deserve a mention - visited both in 2020

anchor and they collect you in their tender
The Easy-Going Beach Restaurant | The Hut

and a floating restaurant where the fish is landed on the same pontoon. A short paddle (or a long walk) from Duver marina
The Best Dressed Crab In Town, Crab, Lobster and Seafood Isle of Wight

and in the west country, I have to go here every time I head west. Only pub grub but it's location, location, location.
Homepage with slideshow - Ferry Boat Inn pub in Dittisham near Dartmouth, South Hams
 
Mariners, Ipswich Wet Dock; on a 120 year-old Belgian gunboat. Mariners Restaurant Ipswich (marinersipswich.co.uk)
The Grapes, Limehouse The Grapes, Limehouse
Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club, Lowestoft
Harbour Inn, Southwold
Harbour View, Tollesbury
Harbour Lights, Titchmarsh (to pre-empt a revival of an earlier thread, in some eyes more of a marina café)
Ferry Boat Inn, Fambridge, when it reopens
 
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SailingDog said:
Imagination is one thing.
You can't recommend an eating establishment if you haven't eaten there fairly recently.
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But perhaps being upbeat and optimistic is helpful for people in these difficult times and hopefully some places will be able to pick up where they left off
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Grand Café It Skippershûs part of de Kuilart at Koundam, busy marina and holiday park with restaurant, food is very good and at a good price with easy access from the nearby canal and close by the Ijsselmeer.
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Lange Piet at Lemmer, fantastic food and good value, so good we went back twice, step off the boat and straight into the restaurant where you can sit and watch the traffic queues on the canal waiting for the swing bridge to open

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Omke Jan at Woudsend again by the canal and next to a boat hire, food is good, typical Dutch fare and the beers are very tasty, try the Dokwerker a dark Baltic Porter of surprising strength
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