Mitch Tonks

Mitch Tonks has award winning restaurants in Dartmouth and Bristol and now in Plymouth too. The Seahorse won the Observer Food Monthly restaurant of the year, Good Food Guide Seafood restaurant of the year 2013 their readers restaurant of the year for the South West region; RockFish has won the BEST UK Independent Fish & Chip restaurants in the UK for 2013 & RockFish in Bristol was voted Best Seafood restaurant in the Bristol Good Food Awards this year.

Mitch was founder of the highly regarded FishWorks chain which was named ‘seafood restaurant of the year’ & he was also named London Restaurateur of the year in 2006 before moving to Dartmouth in 2008.

He is a self-taught chef who has written 5 books with the latest, Fish Easy, published April 2012. Mitch's first book was shortlisted for the prestigious André Simon award for food writing and his second book "Fresh" won a world gourmand award for Best Fish book. He is a consultant for various projects involving seafood including ambassador for Norwegian Seafood; consultant for London restaurants the Hawksmoor and consultant chef for the boutique hotel South Sands in Devon.

Mitch works with long term business partner, friend and chef Mat Prowse who together run the Seahorse restaurant.

Mitch will be cooking with the best South West fish and seafood at 12noon on Sunday 8th on the main stage. Mark Hix may join him too!