Rick Stein

Padstow harbour where Cornish fishing boats haul in their catch daily. “There are families that have been fishing out of Padstow for more generations than they can remember, and it's a joy to watch the boats come in – it's such an important part of our heritage,” the chef explains.

“I originally got the idea for a fish restaurant in Padstow from a long departed hole in the wall restaurant near the quay in Falmouth called Mark's Seafood Bar, it was somewhere where you could go in for mussels and fish pie but also grilled lobster and Dover sole and they didn't worry if you wore your yachting wellies and Cornish smock.”

Rick's cookery school, which also overlooks the Camel Estuary and is mere footsteps from The Seafood Restaurant, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. “The architect who designed the whole building on South Quay, which contains the cookery school, pointed out that there was a rather spectacular space on the first floor with lovely views over the estuary to Rock. Jill suggested a cookery school and my original thought was turn it into a space to teach our chefs fish cookery away from