We’re going to hit you with a little 2 Nathan Outlaws restaurants in 1 post. They are both Nathan Outlaw and they are both Fish restaurants so why not. If you’re doing both do Fish Kitchen first. If you’re picking one you won’t be disappointed with either.
Outlaws Fish Kitchen
Let’s start here because that’s where we started. A tasting menu of fish, with different influences from global cuisine. The menu is ever changing and all fish is locally sourced. They work along side the local fishermen.
The vibe is relaxed. Everyone arrives together but staggered. The restaurant is small and everyone has the same tasting menu. The courses are brought out to everyone at the same. The drinks are flowing the food keeps bringing tasty course after tasty course. It really is a delight.
There isn’t a bar for pre dinner drinks, it really is 5 or 6 tables. You can enjoy a cocktail at your table while everyone arrives and you take in the menu. This doesn’t detract from your evening in anyway.
The food was incredible, I can’t get over some of the courses and the fact that things I didn’t think I like were done in such a way that I loved them. Some of the courses we were fighting over, southern fried monkfish and grey mullet tostadas I’m looking at you. Oh god and not forgetting the sesame toast.
Pudding was delicious also, it can often be a let down. We did however question why the granita came with desert. It didn’t go together and would have been better served before hand.
It’s £88 per person with drinks on top.
Outlaws New Road
Michelin Star dining at its best, a fish menu again but just go with it because it was all levels of insane. The most gorgeous sea views. Impeccable service. Very much a faultless evening of incredible food.
Food highlights, the pastry for the lobster vol-au-vent was so incredible I’ve never had pastry like it. Lobster risotto, just throw me in a bowl of it and I’ll die happy. Bass with velvet crab sauce was a delight and they bring you a little bit of bread to mop up the sauce, thank god because I was worried how I was going to lick the plate clean lol.
The whole menu was fault less my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Drinks were delicious too, lots of cocktails, wines and so on. I had an incredible desert wine, if you don’t like sweet step away but it was like Christmas cake in a glass and went beautifully along side the cheese course.
It’s a little steep ok a lot but I would 100% go again it was worth every penny. £175 per person plus drinks.
Final thoughts…
I’m not sure I could pick a favourite because they were both so good. I guess it would come down to the vibe you prefer. Fish Kitchen is more laid back, New Road is more Michelin star perfection. They are both fish but so different. I worried we would be sick of fish, in reality I could have gone back for another round. I think we did it in the best order because you didn’t think you could get any better than Fish Kitchen but some how New Road was even more.
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Rach xx
