Potters Cafe in Chichester

We found Potter's on a trip to the Pagham local nature reserve. We both had crab rolls which were excellent. They fill the roll with a good amount of crab and nice addition of a few crisps. And all served up in compostable boxes and bags, brilliant!Friendly, cheerful staff too.A nice find.Thank you!

Visited on what was supposed to be a cold, cloudy day. Picked up crab sandwiches to eat there and a dressed lobster to take home. Sat eating the sandwiches overlooking the sea when the sun came out and all was well in the world. Sandwiches were amazing and their coffee's good too. Lobster was fresh, tender and sweet. Very reasonable prices and the ladies are all smiles. Thank you

This place is still great. The girls are lovely, the food is yummy and good value and it is served with a smile. What more could you want?

What a joy of a micro pub, excellent range of brilliantly served beers, cider too. A beer lovers treasure trove.

The best place around for crab, prawns and other seafood, much of which is brought in on their own boats.The girls are really nice and very helpful.Best to order up front as catches are weather dependent.Take-away only at the moment because of the Corona virus

I was visiting some special friends in the Midlands and had the bright idea of taking them a treat from Selsey. Having bought a dressed crab a few days earlier and found it the best crab ever, I plumped for the Crab Lobster Prawn Box and two more Dressed Crabs. We were all blown away - absolute perfection.

The most wonderful seafood from this lovely family run business......from the fishermen sons catching the fish right through to the friendly ladies who make & serve the delicious food. 👍🦞🦀🦐

Unbelievable crab sandwiches. Yumpy. Best I have had. Enjoy then defo pop into lifeboat station for history and day by day how they are prepared for sea rescues. So interesting not same old same as normally.

The food here is gorgeous and the prices are reasonable. Furthermore, the staff are friendly and the sea air is wonderful. This is a must visit if you are ever in Selsey!

My wife and I love seafood, in particular Lobster and crab. So for our anniversary, I looked for a local seafood restaurant. Found Potters with great reviews. As we wanted lobster and rang and left a message and just as I was about to send a text, they rang me back.The best dressed crab we have ever had, along with the lobster and prawns, we both had a lobster and crab box each, amazing value at £15 a box. The crab was so good, we had to have a crab sandwich as dessert! We took our own wine, which wasn't any problem.We will be back, no doubt.Great service before and during our visit and lovely food. Cannot recommend Potters highly enough. Thank you for making our day so memorable.Jon and Jules.

We came here with 3 young kids and 2 moms. Enjoyed seafood lunch/picnic at the beach near by the hut/cafe! Loved lobster salad.Seafood platter was awesome. Amount of food and quality were superb. Good soft big bread bun for sandwich. I cannot recommend enough! I love to come by again.子供連れの友達同士で伺いました。エビ、ロブスター、カニの茹でたサラダやサンドウイッチが食べられます。ゆでたものでも十分美味しく、甘エビには卵もついていました。近くの海辺でピクニックで頂きました。イギリスでも十分美味しいシーフードが頂ける証明のようなお店です。次回もぜひ伺いたいです。

Amazing discovery. The best Lobster and Prawn roll I have ever eaten. Period. I would have had another but didn't want to appear greedy. Impossible to get any more seafood into a roll. Simply wonderful fresh seafood.

Superb fresh crab and lobster and at a reasonable price.Probably best to order in advance if you want the crab and lobster box. Lovely , helpful people .Definitely a place to return to whenever you are near Chichester

The freshest crab. The best Lobster I’ve ever tasted. The seafood sampler box is fabulous value at around £15. Great sandwiches, ice cream, coffee. If you’re within an hour of Selsey and you like your seafood you need toCome here. And after your lunch pop into the RNLI opposite and support their great work.

This is a must-do visit for seafood lovers. Fantastic food to take out and eat 'in' at decent prices with friendly staff; the crab is particularly good. I will definitely return here every time I am in the area.

Potters is in a fantastic spot next to the Selsey Lifeboat Station. Stopping for a cuppa and a prawn sandwich should be compulsory for everyone walking round the East Beach part of Selsey!

As the weather was nice and warm decided to have a walk round Selsey and found ourselves by the East beach at the new lifeboat station. After having a long walk was really thirsty and luckily found this little place by the lifeboat station. Was greeted by 2 lovely ladies who served us various drinks. They have seating area so you can enjoy your drink and was accommodating in giving me a bowl to put water in for my dog (forgot his travel bowl). Thank you

Fantastic fabulous food. Best prawn salad sandwich freshly prepared with a good friendly service thoroughly recommended

Excellent crab salads and cockles, beautifully simple and well presented for a seafood shack. Delicious and good value. Sat outside in the sun. Finished with a local Caroline’s ice cream (scrumptious vanilla and coffee). Very accommodating and friendly ladies, who didn’t rush us even though it was close to their closing time. Seems popular with the locals, too! And then a visit to the Lifeboat station. “Denise and Eric” on an ON 1327 (13-20) class lifeboat. Such simple pleasures for a sunny day in Selsey in September!

After visiting the lifeboat station (it's opposite) I wanted a drink and cake. Plenty of space with outdoor seating, nearby toilets, parking and 2 minutes from the sea. Friendly and lovely bread and butter pudding/cake. Good value too.

Wonderful place run by wonderful people. The crab is particularly good mind you the rest is also good.

Great little spot next to the life boat station. First class food. Local fish the speciality of course. Highly recommend.

This place serves beautifully fresh seafood. I went for the crab which was incredible and the staff were great. Will be back next time I'm in town! Thanks guys!!!!

Absolutely wonderful, right near RNLI Station Selsey al fresco eating at its best and lots of fun. always the freshest

Excellent and the freshest good job from back in the day when you took home alive too cook great too see the tradition off fresh selsey crab is still going and beautifully prepared as I saw all your food was Heavan! Can't wait too visit again

Just come back from visiting Potters for the first time and it won’t be the last. It’s in a little kiosk right next to the Lifeboat station so just follow the signs. There are about three tables with chairs outside and a bench, but the beach with plenty of benches is a stone’s throw away. We chose the seafood platter which comes in a nice cardboard box so you can take it away easily if you wish. It consisted of a dressed crab, half lobster and plenty of shell on prawns all caught locally earlier in the day by the other halves of the lovely ladies who serve you. How much fresher can you get and so delicious and so different from the stuff you get in supermarkets. You can also get various sandwiches, seafood and cheese etc and local cockles plus winkles, mussel meat, jellied eels etc. We also had a mug of coffee and a couple of delicious ice creams made by a local farmer’s wife. Little tip, there are paper napkins but if you are shelling prawns etc take a wet wipe with you or just walk down to the public toilets a few yards away. (They are old but clean and well kept.) Of course you can then have a look around the lifeboat station and their little gift shop looked after by two lovely ladies.

This little cafe is in fact in the car park of the RNLI station at Selsey. It is run by the wives of the fisherman who go out overnight and return with the catch from which the lobster, crabs and prawns are selected so it does not come much fresher than this. Obviously if the catch is poor then less will be available for the cafe to sell. They also buy in some other items from either Portsmouth or Billingsgate to ensure a wider range of seafood. You can have a sandwich, etc. or various selections of seafood at very reasonable prices. They can do them in a box so you can take them home or walk 50 metres to the seafront and sit on one of the many benches there by the RNLI boat. They only have 3-4 tables outside their serving hut so seating is quite limited although people don’t stay that long. Also try the local ice cream from a dairy just a few miles up the road, it is also delicious. Teas, coffees and other drinks are available. We drove some 50 miles just to try it and we weren’t disappointed. Just be aware that they are only open Wed - Sun, 10.30- 14.30 and likely to be closed Dec & Jan. Might be worth phoning them if you are uncertain whether they are open as Selsey is a little remote (Chichester 8 miles). The good news is that Bus 51 from Chichester stops just outside the RNLI building.

I go down to Selsey every so often and always pre-order my seafood a day before. The staff always reply quickly and when I collect my order the staff are always so friendly.

We have bought quite a few pots of crab and prawns over the last few months. They are absolutely delicious, we try to treat ourselves to a prawn and crab salad at least once a week. It is all so fresh and the prawns are the freshest and tastiest I’ve ever eaten. Prices are reasonable too.

This little cafe is a gem the lobster is to die for as is the crab and prawns the ladies serving are so friendly and I think is a reasonable price please take a visit it’s right next to the life boat at selsey so you can’t miss it pop in and have some tasty morsels

We often buy a filled roll here as the seafood is so fresh. Caught by the husbands and prepared by the wives you can’t get fresher. We always use it as a takeaway ready for a day out and have never been disappointed. Will be there again next week

Wow. The freshest, tastiest sea food I have ever had. Amazing service too. Highly recommend their platters

This was a great recommendation from other regular visitors like ourselves to Selsey.The seafood is excellent crab,lobsters & prawns etc best to pre-order to save disappointment very interesting to hear the fisherman are linked with the business & it seems very much a family affair. We would certainly recommend the seafood platter for 2 & it will become a regular visit.

While visiting Selsey in the Summer, I came across this wonderful little cafe. What a find. The freshest seafood I’ve ever had.

While making a visit to the lifeboat gift shop my wife and I decided to have lunch at potters. I highly recommend the fresh prawn sandwich and crab sandwich which were both excellent.

what a lovely little sandwich kiosk, hidden away, great choice in fresh seafood, crab sarnie lobster & prawn roll Great Coffee etc

What a wonderful find, we were told about Potters by a local woman whilst walking on the beach. It is just a small shed like building, with seating outside, very clean with a hygiene rating of 5. Very pleasant ladies running Potters. The crab sandwiches and home cooked ham sandwiches we had were the best, sandwiches stuffed with filling, with or without salad. Just the job after a long walk along East Beach. Great find, will go again next visit.

Great little kiosk serving lovingly prepared fresh seafood. The lobster and prawn roll is an absolute winner.

Great choice of drinks, lovely food, cakes and ice-cream, very clean, nice seating area. Very near the beach. Polite, chatty, helpful staff. What more could you ask for?

We came across this little hut whist walking along Selsey East beach front. They were selling dressed crab and lobster at very reasonable prices, but we had a crab sandwich and a prawn sandwich. Both freshly made and full of fresh fish. They are in the car park of the new lifeboat station, which is also worth a visit!

Lovely friendly little kiosk next to lifeboat station. Amazing fresh seafood straight from their own fishing boats. A few outdoor tables to enjoy coffee and light refreshments.

Next door to the life boat station open most days good coffee and tea and seafood is value for money. Tables and chairs outside no seating under cover but a good place to eat and drink on good days.