Lockyers Quay Cookhouse + Pub

You're walking along Lockyers Quay on a decent evening, and suddenly you've got the water lapping at your table and the old quarter spreading out behind you. This isn't a theme park version of Plymouth—it's a working quay that happens to have excellent food. The Cookhouse + Pub does that increasingly rare thing of being equally comfortable with families knocking back fish and chips as it is with couples treating it proper, all under one confident roof. The kitchen keeps things straightforward but ambitious: proper cuts of meat cooked without faffing about, seafood that tastes like it came from somewhere, seasonal veg that's actually had some thought. It's the kind of place you find yourself recommending to mates without sounding like you've been got at by marketing.