The Drum & Monkey Seafood Restaurant

It’s been plying its trade since 1971, & loyal customers consider this seafood stalwart charmingly old fashioned, without being stuffy or pretentious. Spread over two floors, it offers a range of options from the handsome Victorian bar & eating area to the spacious, more formal upstairs restaurant. The menu is also packed with variety, from lobster bisque to seafood pie, or smoked haddock florentine to fillets of Dover sole bonne femme, all produced from a kitchen that excels at classic technique. Desserts include sherry trifle & treacle tart. The quality of cooking is sound rather than sensational &, like the food, service is by the book.