| Created by a local couple who privately own The Wild Mushroom Restaurant, Westfield, Paul and Rebecca Webbe, Directors, have personally designed and styled The Fish Café to suit every need and to enhance the history and style of its beautiful building.
A four storey brick built, listed building, the first completely fire proof building of its kind in the UK, built in 1907. The Fish Café offers fresh fish, sourced locally and from London markets, and also meat and vegetarian dishes will be available.
All local produce is used, if possible, including meat from a local organic farm.
Webbe's Second Floor Function Suite
* The Function Suite seats 75 people and is available for parties large or small, 7 days a week
* The suite includes a private bar suitable for any occasion from a corporate meeting to family celebrations
* Cocktail reception, finger buffet or a gastronomic dinner, we will tailor make menus to suit your requirements and budget.
The Fish Café has been designed using guidance from Environmental advisors, and therefore will operate to the most economical and environmentally friendly methods. Using recycling collections, and water and fuel saving equipment throughout the building, we endeavour to follow good practices where ever possible.
The Fish Café is fitted with an air conditioning, heating and air filtration system which will efficiently cool/heat. Webbes at the Fish Café is a totally non-smoking environment.
Due to licensing restrictions alcoholic beverages are only served with food orders.
OUR FISH POLICY
We endeavour to purchase as much local produce as we can from the ports of Hastings and Rye. We buy from sustainable sources and can trace our fish back to the exact boat that landed it.
We never buy endangered species or fish in its breeding season.
We've been using lesser-known species of non-endangered fish for many years, such as gurnard, pollack and razor clams. They benefit from plentiful stock levels, and by using these fish this takes pressure off the depleted stocks of endangered fish.
All our farmed fish comes from certified organic farms with exemplary standards of welfare, where the use of synthetic pesticides and drugs is banned. We will only serve organically farmed salmon and trout, since wild stocks are severely depleted.
We are working with the MSC (Marine Stewardship Council) for up to date information and are hoping soon to be awarded MSC accreditation.
Hastings Stade has Europe's biggest fleet of beach-launched fishing boats. The boats have to be hauled out of the sea after each trip, which stops them being more than about ten metres long. This means that they can only carry small amounts of gear and travel just a few miles. As a result the fleet has always fished in an ecologically sound way and for shorter periods of time. The Stade has a vibrant working community that enjoys great traditions for many generations. It also represents the perfect combination of an historically protected area being ecologically utilised by a contemporary working force. In fact, there are not many places in the world today such as the Stade, where you can find a driving community working in a protected area of great historical relevance, one that still keeps its original look, its old traditions, standards and original atmosphere.
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