Thomas Carr @The Coast Restaurant in Scarborough

What an amazing restaurant. The food was outstanding, from the breads with beetroot butter, the amuse bouche of mussels in a creamy sauce, to the starters and mains. A small but excellent choice of mainly fish based courses, and delicious puddings. I had the rice pudding with pears and ginger crumb and it was divine. We visit Scarborough a couple of times a year, and were delighted to see this new restaurant had opened. Whilst it’s a treat, in our opinion it was totally worth it.

We visited this restaurant when based at the Ox Pasture hotel, to find out later on that they had closed. We are so happy that Thomas Carr has set up in Scarborough, a great addition to the town. In our opinion, the food is outstanding, of Michelin Star quality. We live here, and would say Scarborough lacks a good quality seafood restaurant, with a taster menu covering a range of fish courses, topped off with two excellent desserts. The breads to start, and treat from the kitchen, a totally tasty mushroom soup, made the experience even more luxurious. Thank you, we will be back, and will certainly highly recommend.

My partner and I had an amazing meal here. The taster menu, 7 courses taking a couple of hours, was delicious. We will be returning. Many thanks

Fuimos un par de veces cuando estaba en Ox Pasture Hall, así que nos encantó verlo re-abrir de forma independiente dados los problemas con el hotel. Como el crítico anterior ha dicho que el lugar necesita un par de ajustes menores, estoy de acuerdo en que es un poco brillante y alguna forma de película / ciega sería bueno para que no sientas que estás en un tazón de pez dorado (como actualización caminé por el otro día y ya han abordado el problema con la ventana y se ve muy bien). La comida y el servicio es de primera clase, obviamente Thomas ya se ha instalado en su nueva cocina! Excelente calidad y con ganas de volver lo antes posible.

We read about Thomas opening this restaurant and were very much looking forward to visiting. We opted to try the lunch menu and we were not disappointed. I am a real fish and seafood lover and can honestly say that this was the best food I have tasted in a long time. My husband agreed that the stone bass in particular was absolutely delicious. Cooked perfectly, beautifully presented . Unpretentious surroundings with relaxed atmosphere and friendly service. We have already booked again.

Thomas Carr@the coast 7 menú de platos superó sensacionalmente mis expectativas. Cada uno de los cursos de pescado cuidadosamente curados fueron una sensación de sabor orgásmico, John Dory con setas y un abre ojos! Lubina con cangrejo, nunca había tenido un cangrejo tan dulce, y pensé que había tenido lo mejor en Norfolk, merluza con uva y coliflor cuidadosamente especiada luego los postres oh wow tan divinos, podrían continuar, todo eso por 95 libras!

Fuimos por segunda vez y de nuevo era absolutamente de excelente calidad y el servicio era excelente. Scarborough tiene mucha suerte de tener esto en su puerta

El menú degustación era delicioso, y buena relación calidad-precio en £ 65. El servicio fue atento, informativo y no intrusivo. ¡Nos encantó! El único problema era que la habitación debería haber estado llena, y no lo estaba. Todo está en el lugar. .. muebles, cubiertos, vajilla, vasos, decoración, vistas. ¡Y luego la comida! ¡Si lees esto, por favor vete!

Comer varias veces en los restaurantes de Thomas Carr en Ilfracombe, y en mi opinión es el mejor chef de mariscos del país. Bien concebido, perfectamente cocinado, perfectamente condimentado, platos de pescado bellamente presentados y un exquisito postre de cuajada de limón congelado. Perfecto.

La comida estaba muy bien cocinada y presentada. A diferencia de algunos menús degustación, el tamaño de la porción era suficiente para disfrutar de la gama de sabores. El servicio era bueno y recomendaría el maridaje de vinos, mejoró completamente la experiencia.

This was our second visit as it was so fantastic back in February. It was just as amazing. We loved every dish. Absolutely fabulous and lovely service again. Nothing else to say just splendid and everyone who loves fish should treat themselves!

One of the best dining experiences you will ever have, especially if you like seafood. Cannot recommend it enough. Do it now before you have to book months in advance to get a table.

Very disappointed overall booked a 7pm meal, was served 2 courses and a kitchen treat, then left for 1hr 17 minutes between course without the offer of any further drinks No water was even offered at anytime or a wine menu, then the 8pm diners were served their courses first ! Spent 4.5 hours in the restaurant was pretty fed up by the end, The food was mediocre at best certainly nothing with a wow factor, No explanation as to why the wine was paired with a course other than what was wrote on the label of the bottle, One waitress serving over 20 people she was doing her best but hadn’t any time to explain anything about the food, Once the 2 start times aligned it was serve 20 hake in a few minutes 20 bass 20 monk fish and 20 desserts all within a few minutes for everyone, This is not fine dining this is high priced mass catering

One of the best meals I've ever had. Do go for the 7 course tasting menu. Wish we'd had the accompanying wine flight as well. This is a place to go if you're visiting Scarborough and you like food experiences that are all about seafood. Will be going again.

Outstanding sea food meal in a lovely setting. A vegetarian option is available and I’m sure it will be of the same standard. Highly recommend this restaurant.

This is truly an exceptional restaurant! Having eaten the previous night at the Star Inn Harome, which was fabulous, we were not expecting Coast to match up, but it did more than that, it knocked it's socks off! Overall the menu was well balanced with each of the seven courses offering something different building on the previous courses. Just when we thought we had eaten one of the best constructed dishes we had tasted, the next one was even better. Each dish was a work of art , not overly showy but precise and beautiful. The cooking of all of the fish was on point as you would expect, the service was quietly efficient and friendly without being obtrusive. We stayed at the ox pasture hotel which at the moment doesn't quite match up to the quality of Coast but you can see the vision and potential. The spa opened last October is impressive and the whole complex of restaurant, hotel and spa has the potential to be something quite special. We hope to visit again soon when we are sure there will be a Michelin star sign by the door.

A beautiful exposition of fish cookery over four courses from a lighter Beetroot Cured Salmon, then Sea Bass through to Cod and the more robust Monkfish, all divinely cooked and accompanied with a playful selection of contrasting flavours and textures of delicately prepared salad and vegetables topped with delicious sauces and pearls and jus. And just when you think you’ve eaten lightly and are comfortably slightly less full, on comes a fruit creation with a sorbet and cheese cake puree followed by a devilish chocolate finale. Wonderful food and experience and lovely service.

The Fish Tasting menu … absolutely divine! A beautiful exposition of fish cookery over several courses from the first with breads and spreads, then a lighter cured Salmon, additional surprise fresh smoked mackerel (surprisingly tasty) then Sea Bass dish through to Cod and the more robust Monkfish, all expertly cooked and accompanied with a playful selection of contrasting flavours and textures of delicately sliced salad and vegetables topped with delicious sauces, pearls and jus. And just when you think you’ve eaten lightly and are comfortably slight less full, on comes a fruit creation with a sorbet and cheese cake puree followed by a devilish chocolate finale. Wonderful food and experience and lovely service. Paired with the exceptional wines for each course, this is as good as any Michelin star restaurant we have been to! Thanks

Coast Restaurant sea food, taster menu with wine was superb. Service excellent. Let down sadly by very poor quality wine glasses.

We visited Thomas Carr @ the Coast to celebrate my 70th birthday and ate from the tasting menu. The food was outstanding and the wine flight was well matched. All of the courses were excellent, including the mushroom arancini, which was "a treat from the kitchen" It is difficult to choose a favourite from the dishes, as they were all great, however I really enjoyed the turbot whilst my husband's favourite was the stone bass. The desserts were delightful too! The service was excellent, friendly and attentive. This was a brilliant way to celebrate; go if you can!

This was our second visit and if anything it was even better than the first. The food in the seven course taster menu was amazing again- if you like fish it is seafood heaven. The desserts were also exquisite and the matching wine pairings worked really well. The service was also excellent and we had a fabulous evening chatting to another couple.

We had a beyond excellent exquisite 7 course tasting menu, with lovely service. Unable to decide on our favourite dish as they were all amazing. My partner was an executive chef and said it was one of the best meals he had ever had. The hotel was very lovely as were all the staff we met. We will most definitely return and have already told our friends and family to book in.

We had a wonderful evening at The Coast. We went for the 7 course taster menu (£95) plus we had the matching wines. The quality of food was excellent especially when you consider the cost. The freshly baked speciality breads came with two types of butter. The mussel butter was a revelation and very moreish. We had a variety of fish courses including rhubarb cured salmon, turbot with oyster and brown shrimp, plus roasted Monk fish with spicy chicken sausage. I had a hard time picking out my favourites as every course was a delight. The pre-dessert and dessert were a great finish to a lovely evening. If you want a leisurely evening of good food, nice wine, excellent service in a lovely setting this is definitely one to seriously consider. The location is wheelchair accessible, but it is an older building with some reasonanly steep paths. You will also need the reception team to pull the ramp for entering and exiting the building. But, they were very helpful and happy to assist.

Wow, what can I say. There were 4 of us dining using a voucher received as a Christmas present for the 7 course taster menu. Each of the 7 courses were sublime. We even got an extra course for free 😀. Started with 2 different home made breads, black pudding and tomato with 2 beautiful butters to accompany. Each fish course was so different and the detailed presentation made your eyes burst with anticipation. The 2 desserts were amazing one was passionfruit the other jaffa cake. There were no crumbs left on any of the plates! The taster menu is great for trying new food that you probably wouldn't order as a main course and to try new dishes....I even had oysters for the first time. Would definitely recommend and will definitely be returning.

The 7 course taster fish menu was absolutely fabulous and was a opportunity to try dishes we would never have chosen. Highly recommended!

Dined here on Friday night, there were three other couples. So it was an intimate experience. We started with a bread course, which was hard not to finish as the homemade butters were delicious. But we tried too as the didn’t want to fill up. Every course was a different type of fish, we didn’t miss meat, as this made a pleasant change. The dishes were interesting and delicious .

Congratulations on your Michelin Plate award. Very well deserved, we thoroughly enjoyed our meal in December. Please continue with your excellent cooking, fingers crossed for a star next year.

This should have been a brillint meal with a chef of this experience. Having in a number of MIchelin star restaurants around the world, I was looking forward to this. It certainly was not Michelin quality! The meal started with a really lovely amuse buche and the promise of great food was made. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there. 5 out of our 6 pieces of fish were overcooked. In a fish restaurant, that is unforgivalble, especially as the restaurant was not busy. Some of the sauces were lovely, but some had a thin layer of water on top of the sauce. The waiting staff are attentive and knowledgable. Not impressed and will not be back. There are much better restaurants in the Scarborough area.

Without doubt this was one of the finest meals out I have ever eaten. A culinary tour de force, accomplished and precise fish cookery in which no course failed to hit the mark. The menu was delicious and beautifully balanced and there nothing on each plate that didn’t work perfectly with the other elements. This place deserves to be visited by those who enjoy a culinary adventure. If it succeeds, and it deserves to, we probably will never be able to afford to go again. Hotel and service were warm and comfortable too.

It was quiet - early January after what the hotel told us was a busy Christmas. The restaurant is attached to, but not entirely part of, the hotel - though the hotel accommodation was traditional and very comfortable. The food was amazing - stunning fish dish after stunning fish dish. When the chicken sausage appeared it was paired with the finest piece of monkfish. It seems that this place needs to define itself in terms of marketing - why does it not have a months-long waiting list like other Yorkshire ‘fine-dining experiences’? This is a virtuoso cook at the top of his game.

The I thought this place was fabulous. The atmosphere and the food were the best we’ve experienced for a while. We will definitely visit again

ThomasCarr@Coast is a wonderful dining experience. The food is delicious, the mussel butter was a revelation, so different from anything we had ever tasted before. He even managed to make me enjoy monkfish for the first time ever! The room is very minimalist and would benefit from a splash of colour and fresh flowers. It is a great pity that the management of OxPasture Hotel cannot see the potential of this chef and his innovative cooking. If major improvements were made to the rest of the hotel and done sympathetically in keeping with the building but encompassing the details of modern hotels and restaurants holding Michelin stars, then they would have a winning combination. But please don’t let my comments put you off going to experience the exceptional food on offer by a talented chef.

Wonderful tasting menu. Amazing mussel butter with herb butter and bread. Every course was an adventure and a delight to the eye. Highly recommend this chef, his tasting menu was wonderful. Hard to pick a favourite dish. Don’t miss this talent recently come to Yorkshire.

This was a meal that we had eagerly anticipated – particularly in the light of previous reviews of the restaurant. We were left feeling somewhat disappointed, although most of our concerns related to wider issues with Ox Pasture Hall rather than specifically with ‘The Coast’ restaurant (which is actually a dedicated room within Ox Pasture Hall). I will start by saying that the meal itself was fine – the menu was interesting, the food well presented and of good quality – so for the meal itself I would have awarded a 4-5 star rating. However, there were a number of other concerns that made all of us feel that the hotel itself was not being well managed. Specific disappointing factors were: • We were only given a 5 course tasting menu – with no other options offered (despite the Ox Pasture web site stating that the dinner, bed and breakfast option, which is what we purchased, includes a 7 course tasting menu). • We weren’t offered the wine flight – we had to specifically ask (and bizarrely, were asked if we had pre-booked it). • The wine flight was somewhat disappointing, and I felt overpriced for what was provided – indeed they didn’t have sufficient of the desert wine for us all to have the same wine. • The waiting staff didn’t appear to have been trained to the level that one would expect from a Michelin star tasting menu restaurant (I recognise this isn’t Michelin star, but the web site makes a point of stating Thomas Carr’s previous Michelin star status). This is not intended as a criticism of individuals, who were pleasant and personable, but just really to reflect a lack of training and experience at high quality restaurants, and a lack of supervision at Ox Pasture. Descriptions of the wines were clearly not from someone experienced in those wines – and were often limited to a few descriptive words from flavour notes (for example, “citrus, plum, vanilla”), rather than a detailed explanation of what the wines were, and how they complemented the course being served. • The wine glasses were poor quality and more akin to what I’d expect in pub chains rather than a top restaurant. • Despite being the only four customers in the restaurant on a Friday night, we saw no sign of the chef – this was a disappointing omission in the context of the lack of enthusiasm and promotion of what ‘The Coast’ had to offer described above.

To celebrate my partners 80th birthday. Thomas Carr presented the diner with a thrilling taste-bud progression from delicious starter bread with oyster butter and potted shrimps via courses of salmon, red bream moving on to signature sea bass with crab, followed by roast monk fish,...

Ate at The Coast on Thursday, and my goodness what an incredible experience! Each course was presented beautifully and described by our waiter, who explained how the wine pairing complemented the food. Each dish was as individual as it was tasty, but tasty hardly does...

Wonderful tasting menu from one of Britains best chefs.Devon’s loss is Yorkshire's gain.Each course was beautifully presented and full of flavour

We have been looking forward to trying out this restaurant since we found out Thomas Carr had moved to the area. It was great to find out that a chef with Michelin star pedigree was so close. It certainly did not disappoint. Every mouthful of...

Absolutely superb, we had the four course taster menu, which every dish was amazing! Fantastic menu and great service, lovely setting, we can definitely recommend this restaurant and will definitely return.

Scarborough lacks, in my opinion fine dining restaurants. This is on our doorstep, and all I can say is, excellent food, presentation and service. A small 10 cover restaurant, a pure gem. Highly recommend the evening tasting menu. Great for a special occasion or indulgent...

Wow!!! We first we were given a lovely welcome by the bar staff. On entering the restaurant Simon looked after our every need with attentive detail. Explaining the contents of every dish. We had the taster menu with seven courses. The menu is genius. It...

Been looking forward to visiting Thomas Carr’s new venture, since it was announced a few weeks ago. The food did not disappoint - we had the seven course tasting menu, which was four seafood dishes, a beef dish and two desserts. Each dish looked and...

Great location. Superb food. Brilliant junior suite. Lovely breakfast . The staff were very professional, friendly and helpful.

The tasting menu was amazing, every new dish was a delicious suprise. Helen, the hostess, was very knowledgeable and friendly, helping to make it a relaxed atmosphere. The decor is plain and simple, as it should be when the focus is the food... No need...

What a great addition to dining in Scarborough. The menu was varied and full of flavour showcasing local fish as well as some amazing venison. Thomas really knows his stuff especially when it comes to cooking sea bream and brill: the crispy oyster was wonderful...

Wow, wow, wow. We visited this lovely hotel for one reason. That was to experience Thomas Carr's tasting menu. What a fabulous meal we had. Every course was an experience to relish. Presentation superb. Quality and taste exquisite. We have eaten at many Michelin starred...