The Galley Restaurant (Belgrave Hotel)

You're walking along the Esplanade with the bay spread out in front of you, and you duck into the Belgrave Hotel where The Galley waits with wide windows framing that exact view. It's the kind of room that could get away with mediocre food because of the setting, but they haven't bothered—the kitchen clearly respects the location enough to match it. Service here has an easy confidence to it, the sort you get when staff have been doing this for years and actually care about the evening working out. It's exactly what a proper seaside restaurant should be: unfussy, ingredient-led, and done properly.