Outlaw's Fish Kitchen - PORT ISAAC

We had dinner here as a belated celebration. Improvement on New Road as not so many courses, be both love fish but there comes a point when enough is enough. A couple of the courses were unusual, the cuttlefish curry is not something I would order, and never will again. My husband was greatly looking forward to the tuna, unfortunately here it was so overcooked it tasted like a burger. The side order of cabbage was delicious, possibly as I was craving vegetables after two nights of nothing but fish. Like New Road we wouldn’t eat here again

Booked for our anniversary meal on a Monday out of season and restaurant was full. Warm welcome and choice of table. Great service throughout. We definitely had favourite courses the Pickled Mackerel was absolutely outstanding, as was the brill on the bone with grilled cabbage (who knew that despite a perfectly cooked fish, the cabbage could be the star of the show?! . Dessert was full size and the flavours were incredible. Only course we were a little unsure on was the breaded lemon sole just felt a little out of place when accompanying all of the other delicate fish courses but this may have just been us. The cocktail at £17 may have been a little expensive, also, but ultimately up to personal discretion on whether you order or not! We especially appreciated the nod to locality and sustainability within the menu, and the donation to the RNLI (you can see the slipway of the beach from where we were sat! on the bill was a nice touch. Would go again for a special occasion

The set menu is £88 and left us hungry. We had high hopes for the flavours but they didn't meet expectations apart from dessert which was delicious. Most courses consisted of tiny amounts of raw fish (cured or pickled but still transparent with an unpleasant jelly like texture with small amounts of wonderful sounding accompaniments which were actually quite bland; e.g. there was a mushroom sauce which didn't even taste of mushrooms. The meal wasn't balanced; the only carb was a few bits of brioche with blackened stripes from the griddle as the starter with cod roe (this was shared between 2 : and the only real portions of veg in the whole meal were a thin wedge of undercooked drumhead cabbage with Cornish cheese crumbs (which only tasted of charcoal and there were some thin slices of raw cauliflower with one dish (a very small portion for 2 . Another dish was fish tails bits of bone with the most miniscule amounts of fish on I found them unpleasant and left them. The drinks were extortionately priced £55 for a bottle of the recommended wine; £5.50 for one third of a pint of beer, and £17 for a small cocktail. The waiting on staff were professional and pleasant; and the service was excellent (you are limited to 2 hours at your table, but faultless prompt service enabled the meal to be completed in this time . The produce seemed high quality and fresh, and was beautifully presented, but even so it was mostly inedible to us. The restaurant was atmospheric but very cramped, and as everyone is seated at a set time (ours was 6 o'clock this caused congestion in the door way at the start. The tiny toilet had no hand washing facilities and opened straight into the restaurant close to a table; very unhygienic. Obviously from other reviews a lot of people like this kind of food but we didn't. Sorry... but we wouldn't recommend it. A £450 bill for 4 and to go home hungry is not great!

It would be hard to think of much to add to all the excellent reviews, but we too had a wonderful evening here. When we arrived I found we had got the time wrong, but the delightful young waitress did all she could to stop me beating myself up over this. Both waitresses were personable, kind and hardworking. And obviously the staff working in the kitchen were also top class. Out of the seven courses I think my favourite was the turbot; though the coconut pannacotta for dessert was fresh and lovely too. Great, accomplished cooking.

As good as the reviews and hype say , impeccable service, wonderful small cosy restaurant and historic fresh fish. How can just a small fillet of mackerel being so wonderful and unforgettable, raw bass in ginger amazing as was every dish and actually great value at £88 for seven courses. Just a warning , no parking nearby, allow plenty of time to walk from car park....but worth a mile walk to eat hear