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A very popular restaurant with splendid views across the Channel, bright window boxes and a dedication towards the provision of simply cooked and very fresh fish. Try the red mullet fillet on a sun-dried tomato and basil rosti with shellfish butter. House wine from £9.50.

Housed in three delightful Kent pegged cottages, parts of which are more than 350 years old, Bistro Oregano is tucked away in a historic conservation area, just a stone's throw away from the sea and the pier. Open all day, this cafe is the perfect place for a relaxing breakfast or a quick stop for delicious freshly ground coffee.  Whether you are looking to catch up with friends after work, uncork a romantic tête-à-tête with that special someone with a bottle from the cellar, or perhaps linger over Sunday papers for brunch, this is the ideal spot.

The kitchen's outstanding passion is to create an unforgettable dining experience, a warm comfortable atmosphere and a friendly personal touch making eating out at Oregano an evening to remember and treasure. Expect to find dishes such as chicken liver parfait, beef lasagna, raised pork and egg pie, lemon cheese cake and treacle tart on the menu.

81 Beach Street's beach front location may be a dead giveaway to the type of cuisine on offer here but there's more to look forward to, which is in keeping with their motto of serving fine food minus the frills. Housed within a period building, the atmosphere is relaxed and combines the elements of a bistro and restaurant with an antipodean twist.

Starters include smoked salmon with poached egg and lime butter sauce, and chicken satay skewers. This could be followed by slow cooked duck leg with sweet chilli noodles, crispy spring onion and baby corn, and boneless loin of lamb with merguez sausage, lemon cous cous, chickpeas and tomatoes.

At lunchtime choose between a smoked haddock, leeks and poached egg risotto, and fishcakes with Thai curry sauce and rocket, and then move on to a main course of braised local rabbit pie with course grain mustard sauce, puff pastry and autumn vegetables.