st century, it is being served the king of cocktails in the wild west of England. But The Seafood Restaurant has always been ahead of its time.
And thanks to Rick Stein, chi-chi Padstow could hardly be described as provincial.It was a different story in 1975 when Stein and his then wife Jill opened the restaurant in the years when serving dayboat-fresh seafood was a novelty even on the English coast.
But it wasn’t until Stein’s first TV show, 1995’s Taste of the Sea, that the phone started ringing off the hook, and it hasn’t stopped since.
Some of the menu reads like a trawl through Stein’s back catalogue of travelogues. GaIician-style scallops with peppers and chorizo.
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