Rubicon Kitchen in West Dorset

What a joyful experience! Between 3 of us we had a large plate of seared, hand-dived scallops, fish tacos, and calamari. All utterly delicious, cooked to perfection and served with beautifully dressed fresh salads and really good fries. Fast and friendly service too. If you can, you should go there!

Probably definitely the best food we had while in Dorset. Everything was delicious, and so fresh. For those wanting ethical as much as tasty, this is the place to go. And so well priced. We stumbled across it but now would travel to seek it out next time we're in town!

Simple brilliant menu and food served with care. Tastes brilliant too. Highly recommend a visit if you get the chance. Best place in the harbour

Lunch of the year for us. Delicious seafood platter with an added portion of scallops as we couldn’t resist them. All cooked and presented beautifully. My friend said it was well worth the five and a half hour round trip from Guildford.

What a fantastic little pop up kitchen. I had the cod loin cassoulet which was sooo tasty. Would definitely recommend. Fine dining without the price tag

We have come on the back of numerous visits to Rachel’s. I would have to say the fish and chips were not great plenty of batter and skin and little fish the chips were few about 10 and not chunky my wife was underwhelmed and disappointed compared to Rachel’s offering I chose the bouillabaisse which in fairness was tasty decent portion the fish , stock and vegetables were finely chopped and the flavour of fennel came through whole prawn chunks of fish and mussels so I was happy The salt and pepper pots were mucky and could do with a good clean. We will stick with Rachel’s in future

We are so glad to see Ollie and his fantastic team back for another year. This is a fabulous little ’pop-up’ serving great seafood in the evening. No stay in West Bay is complete for us without a visit to Rubicon and the sensational fish tacos. After that choose from the list of seafood in lots of different styles. The mussels and Goan fish curry are personal favourites of ours but can honestly say that everything we’ve had over quite a few visits has been great. Looking forward to another visit when we return in a couple of weeks.

This is the second time we've visited Rubicon in 2 weeks, and it is really great! It's really down to earth, great service with genuine care and interest shown, and we were blown away yesterday when the chef rustled up some vegetarian tacos for my wife. The fish is first-rate - line caught and super fresh, and the salsa verde, sriracha mayo and slaw are delicious accompaniments for the fish, calamari and tacos. We will be back - it's a gem of a pop-up restaurant in unpretentious surroundings where the food comes first. The ice-cold lager with slice of lime was perfect too - thank you! And my daughter loved the loaded fries too!

Amazing food! We had fish and chips, loaded fries and they even made veggie tacos for me. Super fire fly staff and they even gave us water and biscuits for our dogs. Can’t recommend it more highly.

Had the fish tacos and calamari today and was delicious! Lovely staff too. Would highly recommend to anyone. Prices very reasonable for what we had also.

Had the fish taco and fries. Stunning presentation and fries hot. Excellent choice of beers and wine, friendly speedy service… highly recommended if you are in the area. Definitely will return.

Lovely Spot for fish and chips. Plenty of variety on offer . Batter on the fish was delicious, really puffed up crunchy and light . Fish flaked really nicely and the chips were skin on which a great suprise and gave them that bit extra over bog standard chip shop chips. Was tired and hungry after a long day at work, this was just what I needed to finish off the day.

Great little place, we shared a seafood platter, the best we've even had. Perfect amount and perfectly cooked. Will definitely be back when we're in the area.

Had the crispy calamari and it was amazing. It was cooked just right and the batter was perfectly crispy and not thick at all. You got loads of calamari. The salad had a beautiful dressing and the Mayo complimented the calamari. I will be heading back before our holiday is over to try another dish off the menu.

We stopped here for lunch following a canoe trip up the river Brit (subject of a separate review for West Bay Canoes). Whilst it doesn't look much and there are more picturesque areas to ear round by the beach in West Bay as opposed to near a road, other eating joints and the harbour (which isn't particularly great) and there are public toilets nearby (closed at the moment), this is a fantastic place to eat. A 'pop up' kitchen using another business premises when the owner is away, Rubicon offer utterly fantastic food. We just wanted a light lunch as we were out in the evening. We spotted 'fish taco's' on the menu and having had them elsewhere and enjoyed them, we thought we'd have them here too and WOW!!! They were utterly fantastic! To have good come out like this was completely unexpected. They really were superb. We saw other people having different choices from the menu and again, what came out, looked amazing! Price wise, it was very reasonable. I would happily have paid more for what we ate. Downside, there wasn't much for small children. But the eating joints next door offer sandwiches, so all good! There is dedicated seating right in front of 'Rachel's', the premises which Rubicon Kitchen were using. Highly recommended!!

Food was exceptionally fresh we could see it being prepared. We had had food envy prior to the arrival of our fish tacos, the salsa verde was sublime. We will be coming again to sample the fish platter.