Dartmouth Seafood Restaurant

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Contact Details

Rockfish Dartmouth
8 South Embankment
TQ6 9BH

01803 832800

dartmouth@therockfish.co.uk

Opening times

Mon Closed
Tues 12 - 9pm
Wed 12 - 9pm
Thurs 12 - 9pm
Fri 12 - 9pm
Sat 12 - 9pm
Sun 12 - 5pm
  • Fresh Local Fish

    Select from Rockfish classics, or from our daily changing list of fresh local seafood from Brixham harbour.

  • Sustainable Seafood

    We only buy from fisheries and boats we trust have caught your fish sustainably, and we also work closely with the MSC.

  • Seasonal Produce

    Our menu changes with the seasons to reflect the fish that are in abundance, and the produce that is at its best.

  • Children's Menu

    The whole family can enjoy fresh seafood, and stay entertained with our special children’s menu and ocean protector pack.

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Starters

Crystal bread roll 
A delicious, light soft roll served with your choice of the following

Hot garlic butter 4.25

Anchovy mayonnaise 4.25

Salted butter 3.75

Sardine pâté 3.95

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Leigh-on-sea cockles with bread & butter   8.95
The best cockles in England. Enjoy with white pepper & malt vinegar

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Pot-caught “Disco” scallops with parmesan & garlic  17.95
This low impact method attracts scallops into pots using light, not might (hence the name!). Sweet, succulent & sustainable.

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Spider crab croquettes with lemon mayonnaise 8.95
Devon spider crab meat in a traditional Spanish croquette.

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Chargrilled Mount’s Bay sardines 10.95
Caught off the Cornish coast, these delicious sardines are simply grilled with oil & oregano.

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Half pint of Norwegian prawns    9.95
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 & pepper wild prawns & Brixham calamari     13.50
Two of the sea’s best tossed with kampot & timut spice, served with Singapore chilli sauce.

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Smoked mackerel fillet, pickled cucumber & horseradish   11.95
Prime Shetland Isle mackerel fillet smoked over oak chippings with the perfect accompaniments.

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Smoked haddock & bacon chowder   13.95
Made fresh in our kitchen every day with prime fish including Alfred Enderby’s smoked haddock.

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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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Fine de Claire oysters
From the Marennes-Oleron region of France, served simplywith 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

All our main courses are served with your choice of, a house salad, new potatoes or unlimited chips

Prime Brixham hake fillet   22.95
Prepared by us on the quayside every day. Fried in Rockfish batter with tartare sauce.

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Large Line-caught haddock   25.95 
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.

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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 & feta.

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Fritto misto   24.95
A “mixed fry” of seafood, including calamari, rockfish, prawns & Plymouth anchovies. Served with aioli.

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The Rockfish wild prawn burger   23.95
A pure prawn burger handmade from wild red prawns served with lettuce, spring onions & jalapeño tartare.

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Chargrilled Cumbrian chicken leg   19.95
Prime Cumbrian chicken cooked on the chargrill. Served with garlic & rosemary butter.

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Rockfish Baja style tacos
Three corn tortillas filled with fresh slaw, lime, coriander, chilli, lime yoghurt & pickled red onions.

Your choice of...

Rockfish   19.95

Halloumi   17.95

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Mixed grill of fish & shellfish for two   35.00
A feast of hake, monkfish, cuttlefish & Atlantic jumbo prawns, grilled & served with garlic butter. A show-stopper made for sharing.

Seasonal Set Menu

Two courses £23.95

Starters

Smoked haddock & bacon chowder

Firecracker prawn cocktail

Crisp-fried tempura vegetables with ponzu sauce

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Mains

Fried Torbay whiting

Lyme Bay mussels with wine, bay & garlic

Chargrilled Cumbrian chicken leg

Add your first glass of Rockfish house wine for £2.50

Add the dessert of the day for £5

Sides

Sides

Green olives from Seville    3.25

Sweet chilli peppers    3.00

Unlimited chips    5.25

Buttered Cornish new potatoes    4.50

House salad with vinaigrette    4.25

Fresh coleslaw   4.00

Fine green beans with rosemary    4.25

Sautéed spinach with garlic   4.25

Yorkshire garden peas in butter    3.95

Mushy peas    3.50

Curried mushy peas    3.50

Mr Sandhu’s curry sauce    3.25

Roasted garlic aioli    1.95

Jalapeño tartare    1.95

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 & artisan vanilla or chocolate gelato.

Crisp-fried Brixham fish bites 9.95
Changes daily, from the market

Grilled local fish fillet 9.95
Changes daily, from the market

Crisp-fried wild prawn tempura 9.95

British free range chicken breast in a light breadcrumb 9.95

Fried halloumi sticks 9.95

+ an ocean protector pack
10.95

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 6.50
Vanilla gelato with a hot espresso poured over

Warm cinnamon chocolate brownie 8.50
Served with Madagascan vanilla gelato 

Crème brûlée 8.50
Made each day in our kitchen, a rich custard with a caramelised sugar layer on top

Apple tarte tatin 8.50
Caramelised apples baked atop a buttery pastry, served with Madagascan vanilla gelato.

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. After eight, seasonal spice & passion fruit

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

Parking in Dartmouth near to Rockfish