Take Thyme Fish Restaurant

This restaurant was good last year and great this year. Everything was right, from a lovely atmosphere to great fresh seafood really well cooked, and served by really helpful and friendly staff. You get the impression they are having as much fun serving you as you are eating the delicious food. The only problem I had was that I could have happily had every dish on the menu. Shame really, just means I have to come back next year!!!

This is only a small restaurant, café sized really, but what fabulous food. The owners are a couple who are apparently the (highly talented) chefs whilst front of house are two lovely, funny and very efficient ladies. We shared a dish of olives and a plate of scallops, then had mussels in a creamy sauce and fish stew. We wanted pudding but the generous helpings made that impossible! Everything was precisely spiced and delicious. All the produce (well, apart from the olives!) is locally sourced, the fish landed yards away earlier that day. It may be on the menu, but if it wasn't caught, it isn't cooked. Oh and a Bellini and a Combe Cooler added a little something to the lunch.

Thanks Tara and team for a wonderful (late) lunch on 1 Aug. 4 of us had scallops, seafood chowder and Mediterranean fish stew for starters followed by mussels and dressed crab for mains. The bread rolls that came along went well to soak up the gravy! Service was attentive and friendly. Highly recommended.

Me and my husband visited this lovely Lobster and fish restaurant yesterday. We arrived to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary and found this little gem. Both ladies serving us were lovely and couldn't do enough for us. Moved a table into the sunshine for us and we're so friendly and funny. The lobster was out of this world and my husband really enjoyed the fish and chips. The drinks were gorgeous too! We will definitely return when we come back to Devon and I would 1000000% recommend to anyone visiting Ilfracombe.