FishWorks - Christchurch

If you like a really excellent, highly original fish and seafood restaurant/cafe combined with a fishmongers, then this is the place for you. FishWorks delivers what it promises, using really fresh ingredients.

It remains loyal to the simple style, high quality produce, service and accessible approach to fish and seafood that has achieved it a host of accolades. These include, The Good Food Guide's 'Best Fish Restaurant 2000' and Country Living's 'Fishmonger of 1999'.

For any lover of dishes piscatorial, FishWorks is a delight, offering choices like: crisp fried goujons of sole with aioli; a plate of their own smoked salmon (wild); fresh Dartmouth crab salad with tarragon mayonnaise and cucumber; spaghetti with clams, chilli, garlic and parsley; chargrilled squid with lemon, thyme and garlic or roasted monkfish with lime and sage leaf - many of their dishes can be ordered as a lighter starter or full main course. Nor is the menu sacrosanct and should you make eye contact with a fishy friend on the slab at the shop and decide you have plans for him, just give the kitchen the broad picture and they'll do the rest.

Wine starts with five choices at £15, and their list naturally concentrates more on whites than red. As all of this is combined with friendly and efficient service, every major town could do with a FishWorks.