Good to note that one of London most highly regarded fish restaurants Back to Basics is keeping up standards. Fish is delivered daily and there are usually 15 + choices for main courses, which run from £13.50 to £16.95 and include large portions of such treats as sea bass, tuna, mahi mahi, red snapper, john
dory, gilt head bream and halibut as well as organic salmon, baby haddock, swordfish, monkfish, skate, dover sole and king scallops. For a recent meal we enjoyed a colourful and tasty fish stew of I lobster, crab, mussels, clams and king prawns cooked with white wine and garlic butter (£16.95).

Given the large portion size our own lunch choice is just a main course with the huge hunk of fresh hot. crusty brown bread with three flavoured butters (£3.95) but there is a range of more than a dozen hot and cold appetisers from a pint of PYO (Peel Your Own) prawns at £5.50 to Crab Thermidor at £7.95. There are also hot and spicy crab claws (£7.25) mushrooms stuffed with crabmeat, spinach and parmesan (£6.75) home made gravadlax (£7.45) dressed crab (£7.95) steamed mussels (£6.25) and a large bowl of fish soup (£7.45) that with the aforementioned hunk of bread could make a main course.

Desserts include such as bread and butter pudding with whisky sauce (£4.50) oranges and Grand Mamier pancake with ice cream (£4.95) bananas baked in foil with rum (£3.95) and chocolate terrine with toffee and brandy sauce (£3.95). Best tip? Go at 12.00 midday when they open -the fish will be at its freshest and you'll get maximum choice.