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I have been to their Nottingham and Portsmouth restaurants before and it was a welcome surprise that Angela took me to the one in Poole for my birthday yesterday.
Started off with a nice bottle of Viognier (Domaine de la Provenquiere) whilst waiting for my seafood platter to come. Angela has the yellow tuna that was nicely chargrilled to medium. Even the tomato and mozzarella salad tasted nicer than normal. My seafood platter came on two plates. The top one was of mussels steamed in garlic and wine. Not the biggest or plumpest I have had but nice to tuck into whilst hot.
The larger dish had a huge mound of ice that was littered (if that is a nice term when it comes to food) with a brown crab, crevettes, shell-on-prawns, scallops, oysters and langoustines. There was also a small round dish of squid and a dish of mayonnaise.
 Oysters
The langoustine bodies were nice and meaty also but the legs weren't great. I have probably been spoilt as a child on these things as my dad used to get huge bags full of the stuff from the fish quay in Sunderland as well as lobsters.
There were only a couple of small scallops. Would have loved some large ones with the orange roe though.Not sure if anyone else feels the same way but I can all manner of seafood and shellfish without batting an eyelid. Munching on bones and sucking prawn heads for the flavour, not a problem. However, picking up one of them little crayfish just makes me shudder a little bit. Too much like a Scorpion or insect for me! Sorry to put you off  . I just tucked into the body and quickly put the rest into the bowl.
I was taken a bit by surprise when the waiter came across and asked if I had finished when there was quite a few bits left on the ice. I gave him a stare as if to say "Don't you dare!"
The crab legs are the fiddly bits. The body and claws were easy. Not sure if biting into them to crack them with a loud noise is the done thing in a posh'ish restaurant but heck it was £30 and my birthday.
There are 8 rooms in the place as it is also a hotel and you can buy fish direct from their counter. The Molton Brown stuff in the loos were good.
Overall, a very nice evening and good food. Loch Fyne Website 47 Haven Road, Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset BH13 7LH
Tel: 01202 609 000
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