Mocha Restaurant

Mocha sits on Prospect Place in Sidmouth and runs two menus that barely resemble each other. By day it's a cafe: speciality paninis, sandwiches, omelettes and jacket potatoes sit alongside its best-known dish, a fresh crab and seafood platter, plus smoked haddock and crab sandwiches for those who want the seafood without the full plate. Scones, chocolate cake and other home baking cover the afternoon-tea crowd.

In the evening the cafe turns into something closer to a restaurant, built around tender, locally sourced steaks and fish landed at Brixham that morning. It's a small, family-feel operation rather than a formal dining room, and the switch between the two menus - cafe by day, steak-and-fish restaurant by night - is unusual enough that it's worth knowing which one you're walking into. Fish and chips stay on both menus, which says something about how central seafood is to the place regardless of the hour. It sits a short walk from Sidmouth seafront, and its long-standing reputation locally rests as much on the crab platter as on the evening steaks.