Dory's is the sister eatery to Angela's, a well-loved seafood restaurant and rooms in Margate, known for its ethical attitude, simplistic dishes and neighbourhood feel. Dory's embodies the same ethos, offering diners a relaxed environment to enjoy the freshest seafood available, sourced sustainably.
Unlike Angela's, Dory's isn't a full restaurant. Instead, it's a Friday-to-Monday seafood bar, serving up raw, pickled, cured and baked seafood and vegetable dishes alongside a well-curated wine list. The menu offers a select number of small plates which change daily due to the nature of how the restaurant acquires its ingredients, using daily catch straight from the fishing boats that morning.
An example of the kind of thing you can expect, though, includes prawn cocktail, crab on toast, torched mackerel bun, soused mussels and clams and raw bream with rhubarb. There is also a handful of sides to complement your meal including celeriac remoulade, pink fir potato salad and green salad. After dinner, treat yourself to an indulgence from the dessert menu, with the likes of apple pie and ice cream, blood orange cake with creme fraiche and lemon meringue profiterole.
Part wine bar, the wine offering is also at the beating heart of Dory's and was painstakingly curated by the team who visited vineyards up and down the UK. While there are plenty of European bottles on the list too, Dory's says its dishes pair most beautifully with English wines and therefore you'll find a whole section dedicated to them, citing local winemakers such as Tillingham in Sussex, Charlie Herring in Hampshire and Black Book in London.
Dory's isn't just easy on the tastebuds, it's a feast for the eyes, too. Effortlessly cool, the paired-back vibe and neutral colour palette feature plaster-look walls, rustic wooden floorboards and industrial black lighting. Fair to say, it's brimming with style.