Winners of Best Seafood Restaurant in Bristol Good Food Awards 2012!:

 We are delighted that we won the Best Seafood Restaurant in Bristol at the 2012 Bristol Good Food Awards

The public voting began in May and expert judging on the category shortlists took place over the last six weeks. The team of judges included Angela Mount, Xanthe Clay (Telegraph), Fiona Becket (Guardian), Nick Gregory (Flavour), Thane Prince (Good Food Channel), Barbora Stiess (Devilled Egg Kitchen Academy), Emily Knight (Bristol Bites), Silvana Tann (Cupboard Love Preserves), Lorna Knapp (Love Food Festival), Dan Vaux Nobes (Essex Eating) and Gemma Screen and Becci Sargent (Bristol Foodie).

Big big thanks to all who voted for us.

Mitch Tonks appointed as Norwegian Seafood Ambassador:

Norwegian Seafood has just announced that they have appointed Mitch as their UK ambassador. A timely appointment as Mitch’s Dartmouth restaurant RockFish recently achieved MSC certification and can now proudly say that its cod and haddock is from certified sustainable Norwegian waters.  The Bristol restaurant is currently undergoing the certification process too. 

Mitch is a long-time advocate of sustainable seafood. It is this passion that bought him to the attention of Seafood from Norway’s fisk.førever campaign - already committed to using Norwegian cod and haddock Tonks has long been singing the praises of seafood from Norway.

“I’ve been using Norwegian cod and haddock for a number years; it provides me with the finest tasting fish and I’m always assured of its sustainability. Norway is leading the way when it comes to sustainable fishing and I’ve become incredibly passionate about what they do and how they do it. I’ve been out to Norway a number of times to educate myself, it was there that I learnt Norwegian seafood enjoys the support of World Wildlife Fund and that many species of Norwegian seafood are Marine Stewardship Council and Friends of the Sea certified.  When I heard about the fisk.førever campaign to promote seafood from Norway here in the UK I was obviously keen to be involved,” says Mitch.

Norwegian Seafood Council Director Johan Kvalheim said: “We met Mitch on one of his Norwegian research trips and it was his constant relish for great seafood that caught our attention, when we were looking for an ambassador to help us tell the story of Norway’s delicious and sustainable seafood from our cold, clear waters he was the natural choice.”

“Our message is simple,” continues Johan: “You can eat seafood with a clear conscience, even cod and haddock, if you choose Norwegian. Mitch will help us communicate this message to UK consumers through a number of channels. Highlights include the creation of some delicious Norwegian seafood based recipes, a Norwegian fishing trip with a group of like-minded and acclaimed chefs to sample some of our delicious *SKREI® The Norwegian Seafood Council will also be supporting the publication of Mitch Tonk’s new cookbook‘Fish Easy’  publishing this April, by Pavilion.

Refurbishment :

From this Sunday for a couple of days we will be making a few changes and improvements to our site, we'll have a new bigger dining room space, additonal comfortable banquet seating and a new entrance... watch this space.  Come along and enjoy top quality fish in our lovely new surroundings from mid next week!

Opening Times:

Christmas and New Year 2011/12

We will be open serving some fantastic fish until 3pm on Christmas Eve and then we close for the holiday period re-opening on January 5th. We will all of our customers a happy and peaceful Christmas and look forward to seeing you soon.