Crustacean

Top choice in Dorset


At Crustacean, you'll find an imaginative head chef with Sri Lankan heritage and a passion for French cuisine. Get cracking on a whole lobster, slurp some oysters, lunch on mussels laced with lemongrass, dine on pan-fried sea bass with a creamy saffron sauce. Or yield to temptation and go for the excellent-value three-course set menu (£25). Book.


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