Urmston, Fish & Seafood Restaurant Guide

“You know you’re in a restaurant with imaginative owners when the Sunday ‘specials’ are lobster thermidor and partridge”, and where you might find “beautiful seafood” as well as your “first taste of squirrel!” – “husband and wife owners” Kevin (chef) & Rachel (FOH) Choudhary “have flair and imagination but perhaps most importantly they love what they do”. High-ceilinged and filled with plants, it’s a “very pleasant and unusual place” where the worst complaint concerns “a slight tendency to overload the dishes with ingredients”.

2021 Review: A “new restaurant serving ultra-fresh fish from Fleetwood” (but also Shetland scallops, Irish sea trout and Cornish monkfish), set up by fishmonger Jamie Barrett, who owns the Marple Fish shop round the corner. A former car spares shop, it's now a hybrid country-pub and beach shack, style-wise.

2024 Review: A “great, popular local fish restaurant” where the “brilliant” and “affordable” catch often comes chargrilled, or with influences from other seafood-loving nations (“favourites include the Thai curry prawn dish”); the “recent addition of outside covered tables” is an added boon. After six years in the game, a much-touted sibling in Sale’s foodie-oriented Stanley Square development was due to launch in summer 2023.

Feedback is limited and mixed on Richard Caring’s ostentatious newcomer, at the gateway to Spinningfields in a unit that was previously Armani Emporium – now filled with fish tanks, ocean-themed murals and with plenty of sea-nymphs and mermaids. It’s a somewhat less expensive version of the Mayfair original, but menu-wise cut from the same cloth of pricey sushi, fish and seafood, often with a pan-Asian twist. Not one for foodies, but if you’ve money to burn and need more content for your Insta it’s not (yet) past the sell-by for an expensive selfie.