Daily Mail
Tom Parker Bowles was also in the mood to disparage a coastal town – this time a holiday hotspot in Devon rendered terminally “smug” by its vast majority of non-resident second-home-owners.
He found solace in a “small, simply decorated room that gazes out over the harbour”, where he dined on ”elegant and restrained” crab bisque followed by garlic prawns that were “plump, taut and muscular, still wearing the fleeting sweetness of the sea”. Then “crab and more crab”: first with linguine then a whole crab, hot and drenched in garlic butter, “the brown carapace meat wobbling and bosky, each joint and claw and limb cracked, picked, sucked and crunched”.
“It goes without saying that the crabs are impeccably fresh, hauled from the pots that morning,” Tom concluded. “Crab Shack is the only thing that would drag me back to Salcombe.”
Tom Parker Bowles - 2025-06-15
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