Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Margate from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Margate
Seafood and southern Italian cooking anchor these restaurants, with natural wine, coastal low-intervention bottles and organic and biodynamic Italian producers shaping their lists.
Sargasso serves coastal sharing plates in a former boat shed on Harbour Arm. Seasonal seafood and Mediterranean-leaning flavours sit alongside a natural wine list. The restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026, with sea views from the room.
Angela's is a small seafood bistro in Margate Old Town, with ethically sourced local fish cooked over charcoal and a blackboard menu that changes daily. Seafood and vegetarian dishes accompany coastal low-intervention bottles. Its recognition includes a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Bottega Caruso brings Campanian family recipes and ingredients to a southern Italian osteria in Old Town. Handmade pasta and cucina povera dishes accompany a wine list built around organic and biodynamic Italian producers. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Cliftonville's small-plate restaurants span French-accented British cooking, Japanese izakaya dishes and creative Spanish tapas. Their drinks include extensive wine lists, natural wine and sake.
Sète combines a restaurant, wine bar and bottle shop in a former sweet shop in Cliftonville. French technique shapes produce-led British cooking, with a seasonal blackboard menu, small plates and a set-menu format. An extensive wine list accompanies the food; the restaurant holds a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Mori Mori is a Japanese izakaya in Cliftonville with a menu that changes frequently. The kitchen uses local produce in dishes such as cold soba with local crab and ponzu, and okonomiyaki with kimchi and smoked cheese. It serves small plates and à la carte dishes, alongside sake and natural wine.
Lilie's serves creative Spanish tapas in Cliftonville, with a small-plate format and an extensive wine list. The restaurant takes its name from the chef's grandmother and occupies a terrace setting with sea views.
Cliftonville, Harbour Arm, Margate Old Town and Old Town have wine-focused restaurants in our guide. Sète and Lilie's have extensive wine lists in Cliftonville, where Mori Mori serves sake and natural wine. Sargasso serves natural wine on Harbour Arm. Angela's has coastal low-intervention bottles in Margate Old Town, while Bottega Caruso's list in Old Town centres on organic and biodynamic Italian producers.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Margate guide. Sargasso holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026, while Angela's, Bottega Caruso and Sète each hold a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Sargasso on Harbour Arm serves natural wine, Angela's in Margate Old Town has coastal low-intervention bottles, and Mori Mori in Cliftonville serves natural wine alongside sake. Bottega Caruso's list in Old Town focuses on organic and biodynamic Italian producers.
Sète offers both a set menu and small plates. Sargasso serves coastal sharing plates, Lilie's focuses on creative Spanish tapas, and Mori Mori offers Japanese small plates alongside à la carte dishes. Bottega Caruso also serves small plates and à la carte southern Italian cooking.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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On Margate's Harbour Arm, Sargasso occupies a former boat shed with direct sightlines to the sands and the Old Town. The kitchen runs a sharing-plate format built on seasonal seafood, clean Mediterranean-leaning flavours, and a natural wine list. Two consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards (2024 and 2025) confirm what the queue outside most weekends already suggests.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised seafood bistro on Margate's Parade, Angela's built its reputation on ethically sourced fish, a daily-changing blackboard, and cooking that trusts good ingredients over technique. The menu is entirely seafood and vegetarian, the wine list runs to coastal low-intervention bottles, and the place books up fast through summer. Their sibling venue Dory's, a short walk away, holds walk-in seats when Angela's is full.
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A former pub on Broad Street, Bottega Caruso brings the cooking traditions of Campania to the Kent coast with handmade pasta, cibo povero plates, and a wine list built around organic and biodynamic Italian producers. Michelin Plate-recognised in both 2024 and 2025, it sits in the ££ bracket alongside Margate's stronger independent dining scene and earns its place through discipline and restraint rather than spectacle.
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A bow-windowed former sweet shop on Northdown Road, Sète combines a restaurant, wine bar and bottle shop in 24 seats. The kitchen applies classical French technique to produce-led Modern British cooking, with a blackboard menu that shifts with the seasons. Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 places it firmly in Margate's most serious dining tier.
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A Cliftonville café drawing serious critical attention to Margate's emerging food scene, The Good Egg has climbed from #116 to #58 on the Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats in Europe list between 2023 and 2025, earning. Open seven days a week from 9am to 9pm, it offers an accessible all-day format with the kind of food that draws visitors from London for the day.
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On Northdown Road in Cliftonville, Mori Mori is the izakaya-style Japanese restaurant that Margate locals have taken firmly to heart. Chef Kate de Syllas, trained at the Tokyo Sushi Academy, runs a frequently changing menu of locally sourced produce treated with north-east Asian technique: cold soba with local crab and ponzu, okonomiyaki with kimchi and smoked cheese, matcha whipped cheesecake. Good value, relaxed, and consistently recommended by those who eat there regularly.
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On Margate's High Street, Buoy and Oyster has become a reliable marker for the town's seafood-led dining scene, drawing on the Kent coast's proximity to some of Britain's most productive shellfish waters. The room sits comfortably between neighbourhood bistro and destination dining, making it a practical anchor for visitors exploring Margate's broader food identity. Expect a menu shaped by tidal rhythms and seasonal catch rather than fixed repertoire.
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Forts Café sits on Cliff Terrace in Cliftonville, on the quieter residential edge of Margate where the day-tripper circuit thins out. Part of the town's broader café revival, it occupies the kind of neighbourhood position that rewards those who look beyond the Old Town's well-mapped dining corridor. Details on cuisine and format are best confirmed directly before visiting.
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On Marine Drive, steps from the seafront, GB Pizza Co occupies the casual end of Margate's dining scene without apologising for it. The offer is direct: wood-fired pizzas in a town that has spent the past decade redefining what a British seaside restaurant can be. For a city with Angela's and Bottega Caruso pulling serious culinary weight, GB Pizza Co holds its own lane.
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Lilie's occupies a terrace address in Cliftonville, the quieter residential edge of Margate that sits just east of the Old Town's more frequented dining strip. The restaurant has established itself within a local scene that has tilted decisively toward ingredient-led cooking over the past decade, sitting alongside neighbours like Angela's and Bottega Caruso in a town that now draws serious food attention from London and beyond.
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Mannings Seafood occupies a prominent position on The Parade in Margate, placing it at the centre of a seafront dining scene that has grown considerably in ambition over the past decade. Where comparable ££-tier seafood addresses in the town draw on Kent's coastal supply chains, Mannings sits within walking distance of the old town's creative quarter and the Turner Contemporary, making it a natural stop in Margate's broader dining circuit.
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Thao Thao occupies a modest address on King Street in Margate's Old Town, bringing a distinct Southeast Asian character to a dining scene better known for seafood and modern British cooking. It sits within easy reach of the Turner Contemporary and the tightly packed independent restaurants that define this part of town, making it a natural stop on any considered tour of Margate's food streets.
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On a residential stretch of Cliftonville, The Perfect Place To Grow occupies a quieter register than Margate's seafront dining circuit. The venue sits in a neighbourhood that has drawn artists and independent operators in roughly equal measure over the past decade, positioning it as part of Margate's inland creative corridor rather than its tourist-facing waterfront.
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Selected by the Michelin Guide for 2025, Fort Road Hotel occupies a distinctive address on Margate's coastline at 18 Fort Road. The property sits within a town that has redrawn the map for British seaside hospitality, positioning itself alongside a small cohort of design-conscious independents that have replaced the pier-and-chips template with something more considered. For travellers who read the Michelin hotel selection as a reliable filter, this is where to start in Margate.
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Margate House occupies a Georgian townhouse on Dalby Square, one of Margate's most architecturally coherent streets, and carries a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction among UK hotels. The property sits within the smaller, character-led tier of Margate accommodation, where period architecture and proximity to the town's creative quarter matter as much as room count. For visitors treating Margate as a serious destination rather than a day trip, it is a considered address.
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No 42 by Guesthouse Margate holds Michelin Selected status in the 2025 Michelin Hotels guide, placing it among a small tier of independently recognised properties on the Kent coast. Situated on Margate's High Street, it occupies a town-centre position that puts the Old Town, the Turner Contemporary, and the seafront within walking distance. For travellers approaching Margate as a serious cultural and hospitality destination, it represents one of the more credentialled addresses in the area.
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Fez sits on Margate's High Street, bringing a spirits-led bar format to a town better known for its seafront and gallery crowd. The back bar leans on curation over volume, positioning it in a different tier from the coastal pub circuit. Worth knowing for those who arrive in Margate looking for something beyond the obvious.
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A Margate pub at a transition point, The Lifeboat sits on Market Street in the Old Town, under new management and carrying the weight of the town's ongoing reinvention. Whether it settles into the neighbourhood's creative bar scene or charts its own course remains the story to watch. Visit with the curiosity of someone arriving early to a place still finding its register.
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