Absolutely amazing seafood platter. The lobster was very tasty and cooked to perfection, so were the prawns and crab.
The ambiance was very friendly and chilled. We were served by Marco and Paul, who looked after us and made sure we were happy with the food. Amazing guys!
Highly recommend and will definitely be stopping at Dan's shack once we're in Porthleven again.
Visited this venue on multiple occasions over our two-week stay in the area. It helped to save our holiday. The Storm Damage cider is the best I've ever tasted (like the best stewed apple in drink form). My wife and I bought 5 litres to bring home. The rum is also gorgeous (bought a bottle of that too), and the food! All of it is top notch, and we even splashed out on the sharing platter. Best seafood I've ever had!
Last day of the hol - we went for a run and headed to the harbour for a morning dip. Sensational Sam, of Dan Dan the Lobster Man, beckoned us in and showed us some freshly caught lobsters. This set us up for the day. Tea time rolled around and Sam welcomed us back. We had our hearts set on half a lobster, but when we came to order he told us about a fresh batch of crayfish that was worth considering, especially as it’s served with hot butter. We’d never had it before and worried if it was worth the hype but Sam reassured us that it was delicious - we even met fisherman Dan Dan!! We all locked in and ordered 3, alongside a sensational bottle of Prosecco and deadly delicious cider. Not to mention 3 crunchy crab tacos! Golden hour sun topped the whole experience off. The evening was made by Sam’s infectious positivity, a worldly man, living off grid. We shared tales of the hol, finished off by drinks on the slip way.
Amazing crab in the salad, even better in the tacos, super fresh prawns and beautiful cider. So good infact we had to buy a 3L bag of it. The service was great, laughing and joking, do not miss this place if you are in porthleven, even if you aren't it's woth the detour! Gunna come back for the lobster!
What an interesting place, I can recommend the crab tacos probably the best way I eaten crab as the taco shell does not hide the crab. Even if you do not normally drink cider, give a half a go you may change your mind. My wife doesn’t eat shell fish, she doesn’t like most fish so she sat and had bread and butter, which is probably the weirdest thing they’ve had to serve, the bloke took it with very good humour! Speaking of which the guys there are very friendly and patient. Good luck and I hope everything turns out OK for next season.
Marco and Griff absolutely make this! Fantastic food, the cider is far too good and the banter.... thank you both 🤣🤣 our quiet afternoon out was definitely made with the entertainment from you both! Being in hospitality too, I really appreciate the end of season. You two are absolute gold, look forward to seeing you dreckly!!!
We ate there three times in a week, absolutely perfect fresh and delicious seafood! I loved the Lobster roll and hubby loved the crab sandwich. The girls there are super nice and very helpful. Loved it more than most restaurants. Definitely a spot I will remember for life! Thanks!
Located on the harbour side in a shipping container just outside The Ship pub.
Absolutely superb, quite surprised this wasn't done years ago, although Porthleven is rapidly becoming the place to go for outstanding food.
Super fresh shellfish including, lobster (whole, half & tail), crab, prawns, octopus salad and a whole selection of other items.
Similar in ethos to The Mussel Shoal with quality over quantity, although the portions are actually really good, and a focus on honest, simple food rather than overcomplicated stuff where the hype is better than the actual product.
I had a medium lobster tail served with lemon, melted herb butter and bread and butter, it was absolutely superb.
A must visit.
Loved this place. Amazing location, friendly staff, lovely food. Thank you
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Made up our own selection of seafood and it was EXCELLENT. What you see in the photo includes:
King Prawns - definitely the star of the show. They came cooked (as shown in the photo) and you need to remove the heads & shells then clean them properly, but they are well worth it! 10/10
White crab meat - we're not keen on brown meat so got the white meat, and it was fabulous! 10/10
Marie Rose Sauce - excellent and went well with everything. 10/10
Lobster - really good and well prepared so can be eaten really easily, although we did have a bit of fun digging out some of the meat from the legs. It was all great - just the prawns were a bit better! 9/10
Anchovies - if you like herring rollmops (which we do), these were similar in flavour to those - nothing like what you might get on a pizza! 9/10
Cockles - the only thing we were slightly disappointed with and that was only because they were still a bit gritty - they came as shown in the photo and as we were on holiday we weren't really set up for straining things so as to get rid of the grit but keep the vinegar. They were still OK, but a bit gritty.
Overall - very happy with what we got - more than enough for a seafood platter feast followed by finishing them off in sandwiches!
If you're in Porthleven and like seafood - go and have a chat with Dan and the team and give them a try - highly recommended!
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