Mullins Brasserie

You head down to Market Place and suddenly you're not in Margate anymore—you're somewhere warmer, somewhere that smells like proper spices and char. Mullins does Caribbean food with genuine technique, not shortcuts, and it shows in everything from the rice and peas to the fried plantain. The dining room's got a relaxed energy without trying too hard, the kind of place where regulars know the staff by name and tourists keep coming back because they can't stop thinking about what they ate.