Penelope

You walk in off Harbour Street and immediately get why everyone's raving about this place. It's got that rare quality of feeling effortlessly cool without trying too hard — the kind of bar where the staff actually know what they're doing behind the stick and aren't just pouring doubles into anything with ice. The drinks are properly thought through, the sort that make you want to linger over a second one, and the crowd is refreshingly mixed: regulars nursing their favourites next to people who've wandered in off the seafront. It's become the sort of spot that's quietly become essential to Ramsgate's drinking scene without the usual hype that kills good places.