feckit said:
Flopps when in Whitstable try Royal Native Oyster Stores Restaurant, it's a bit pricey but very good. Also the original Wheelers (Oyster Bar) in the High Street is good and they make some great fish cakes you can buy and take home to cook.
Pubs, so many to choose from but The Neptune on the beach has gone down hill a bit, but can be good if your after a fight!!
If you get time look at:
Good Food
Whitstable
The first restaurant you mentioned is where me mate booked us into.
The first pub we went to was the Neptune. Hey, we like to live dangerously
Besides, most folk run away from us, lol
Here's summary of my day out:
So, as I mentioned before, yesterday three friends and myself ventured to Whitstable so I could sample a lobster lunch before I lose my taste buds.
WE arrived there about 12.15pm and had a pint in The Neptune pub on the beach. A little strange having a pint of Guinness for breakfast but quite fun.
Had lunch at a restaurant named 'Whitstable Oyster Fishery Co'. It would appear their website is down at the moment but here's the Wikipedia take on it:
Restaurant
Three of us had chargrilled sardines for starters (inc me) and one had devilled shrimps. I'd never seen sardines like these before, they wuz big, about 7 or 8 inches long.
Just plain sardines, whole, heads, on with crisp skin and chargrill marks with lemon wedges, french bread and some superb french butter. I got three of 'em.
Well, I know this is kinda obvious, but they were fishy, lol, I enjoyed them.
Then my lobster meal came up. This was the first time I'd ever tasted one in my whole life. Half a lobster with a potato slaad and more bread and butter. And we were drinking chilled French White Sauvignon wine with it.
I tried the tail first, quite pungent, and as I thought it was a cross between crab and prawn. Then ate the claw and the bits inbetween, little metal fork probe thingie for getting all the bits out.
So, yeah, tasted lovely, gorgeous even, I got my hands quite messy eating it. My one overriding thought was 'That's a helluva lotta money for not much food'
Ain't I just a Philistine?
I think, for taste and for value for money, I prefer crab, but there ya go, each to his own. It's not often the starter fills me up more than the main course.
Four of us, no dessert, two bottles of wine, starters, main course, came to £120.00 inc service charge, which wasn't bad, really, especially compared to London prices.
Here's a few snaps I took, the beach hut belongs to one of me mates, he just got it, next summer, we gonna have a good time down there. Also, John, one of me mates pictured here, is moving there in December, he's renting out his Greenwich house and has bought a place in Whitstable.
We visited about four pubs, was good. Other people we know have also moved there recently, but they weren't in. The boat 'Greta' is an original London barge, they're very rare and very expensive now, it's probably over 100 years old, and now does pleasure cruises off the coast of Whitstable.
All three of me mates gave something up to take me out for the day, one of them didn't drink (much) cos he had to drive, so I was kinda thankful for this thing. Friends are good, aren't they?
Next post will have pix of a filmshoot going on last night outside the Cutty Sark pub in Greenwich but here's a few snaps of my day out in Whitstable (I think maybe I had the camera on wrong setting for these, not sure, but next camera will be Nikon SLR D50 at least I think):
The restaurant:
