Where to eat in Port Isaac.

Nathan Outlaw's Port Isaac operation is not his two-Michelin-star restaurant (that's at Rock) but something arguably more interesting: a twelve-seat fish kitchen on the harbour that serves a changing menu of small plates built entirely around that morning's catch. The cooking is precise and technically brilliant without being showy — a tartare of local pollock dressed with sea herbs, grilled gurnard with cultured butter, cured mackerel with cucumber. Book months ahead; it fills the moment the diary opens.

A tiny shop and deli on the quayside run by the Trewin family, who have fished out of Port Isaac for generations. Fresh crab, lobster, and whatever the boats brought in that morning — sometimes dressed crab ready to eat on the harbour wall, sometimes fillets to take home. This is the most direct way to interact with Port Isaac's fishing heritage. The crab pasties, baked to order, are among the finest things to eat in the whole of north Cornwall.

A straightforward café on the harbour front that serves the kind of food a fishing village has always needed: proper breakfasts for early risers, hot drinks on cold mornings, toasted sandwiches and soup at lunch. Nothing flashy, everything competent — and the position, looking directly out over the boats, means even a mug of tea here feels earned. Popular with walkers doing the North Cornwall coastal path.