Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant

Rick Stein - The Seafood Restaurant On a recent trip to Padstow, Cornwall we decided to go to Rick Steins famous fish restaurant, The Seafood Restaurant. Rick Stein is an English chef, restauranter and television presenter. He now specialises in fish cookery. He opened his first restaurant in Padstow in 1974 and now runs quite a few businesses in the town including a cake shop, cookery school and a fish and chip shop. The Seafood Restaurant is his upper class restaurant in the town and is known for it's fabulous fish. It really is in the best location for fish. Padstow is a historic fishing port and so receives fresh fish every day. The restaurant ...  Read the complete review

"Hi, Rick. We were in the area so we thought we'd drop in. I'm sure you can fit us in can't you, there's a good lad". Actually, since we live in Surrey, over 200 miles away, Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow is hardly somewhere we could visit for a night out. The visit needed to be planned and, in order to justify the visit, would need to be combined with something else. The "something else" was a visit to the World-famous Eden Project and an overnight stay or two was essential as well. The occasion was our Wedding Anniversary. We were staying on the other side of the Cornwall peninsular and so to reach Padstow was a 40 ...  Read the complete review

Life is sometimes full of interlocking events and happenings. I'm a surfer, so I like Cornwall and have a VW Beetle. Jamie Oliver is a celebrity chef who has a loveley VW and likes to surf in Cornwall. I like sea food. Rick Stein is a celebrity chef who makes great sea food recipes and has a restaurant on the sea front in Padstow Cornwall. I dont think he surfs or has a VW though and maybe that's the problem. I am lucky enough to have two lives. I live and work in the city and have an expense account lifestyle so I eat in lots of nice restaurants on the company account and know the difference between good service and snobbery. ...  Read the complete review