Livebait Restaurant & Grill - Wellington Street

Handy place to pick up some grouting tips before you decorate your new bathroom. A veritable tile-arama. Food wise we’re talking fish, shellfish and anything else you might find inhabiting your nearest ocean at, ‘let’s complain about the price of fish’ prices. So basically, not cheap and full of classy thirty something types. The kind of people who actually like oysters and don’t just eat them because they think it looks cool.

Livebait has got just the right stuff to lure hungry diners into its bright, friendly restaurant. The atmosphere is brasserie-ish in the sense that it's informal and relaxed. This particular has the same high-quality super-fresh fish and shellfish that makes the food so memorable in other locations. The most popular dish is the Livebait Platter, a huge international grouping of Nova Scotia lobster, Dorset crab, Madagascan crevettes, Atlantic prawns and Indian Ocean crevettes that serves at least two people. Starters range from steamed mussels to fish soup with aioli to taramasalata, mains range from straightforward fish and chips to panfried seabass and fantail crevette linguini with chilli and ginger and baby spinach. If you can manage it, the blackberry and apple crumble with clotted cream is fab. Effective cocktails and nice wines - more than a dozen are available by the glass.