Guidebook for Margate

Violet & Gareth
Violet & Gareth
Guidebook for Margate

Food Scene

Excellent coffee, perfect flat whites, homemade cakes and quick lunches! Don't leave without trying the raspberry friands!
Proper Coffee House
37 High St
Excellent coffee, perfect flat whites, homemade cakes and quick lunches! Don't leave without trying the raspberry friands!
Homemade pizzas cooked in a clay oven. Stunning views over the harbour. My favourite pizza is the parma ham and rocket! It's wise to book at weekends and school holidays.
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GB Pizza Co
14a Marine Dr
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Homemade pizzas cooked in a clay oven. Stunning views over the harbour. My favourite pizza is the parma ham and rocket! It's wise to book at weekends and school holidays.
The best breakfasts in Kent! Try the eggs benedict or the avocado on toast. If your lucky they've made doughnuts too!
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Fort's Cafe
8 Cliff Terrace
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The best breakfasts in Kent! Try the eggs benedict or the avocado on toast. If your lucky they've made doughnuts too!
Fantastic Thai restaurant in an odd location; sits above an old fashioned pub in the old town. I LOVE the beef penang!
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Bow's Kitchen
10 Market Pl
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Fantastic Thai restaurant in an odd location; sits above an old fashioned pub in the old town. I LOVE the beef penang!
Not really a restaurant, they sell LOTS of cheese! They do the occasional meal too. Fantastic cheese though.
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Cheesy Tiger
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Not really a restaurant, they sell LOTS of cheese! They do the occasional meal too. Fantastic cheese though.
Gastro-pub type food, try and book a table outside for views over the harbour.
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The Dug Out
4 Fort Hill
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Gastro-pub type food, try and book a table outside for views over the harbour.
This teeny-tiny restaurant has already won several awards, and it's easy to see why! Small menu with local fish, cooked to perfection. You must book!!!!
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Hantverk & Found
16-18 King St
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This teeny-tiny restaurant has already won several awards, and it's easy to see why! Small menu with local fish, cooked to perfection. You must book!!!!
This place is so cool. Great beer, great fish, great people! Calamari highly recommended.
Fish & Beer
37 Albion St
This place is so cool. Great beer, great fish, great people! Calamari highly recommended.
Chicken! Yummy, yummy chicken! Think posher, nicer, organic nando's.
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Roost Restaurant & Cafe
19 Cliff Terrace
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Chicken! Yummy, yummy chicken! Think posher, nicer, organic nando's.
Delicious, modern English food. Seriously good food served by seriously good people. The homemade bread comes with roast-chicken-butter. Need I say more?
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Wyatt and Jones
23-27 Harbour St
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Delicious, modern English food. Seriously good food served by seriously good people. The homemade bread comes with roast-chicken-butter. Need I say more?
ICE CREAM! This stuff is so good and the interiors are just fab. Not even the retro shops in Margate are this retro. Expect queues in summer.
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Morelli's Gelato
14 Victoria Parade
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ICE CREAM! This stuff is so good and the interiors are just fab. Not even the retro shops in Margate are this retro. Expect queues in summer.
Love coffee and vinyl? Then this is for you. Don't expect barista snobbery, do expect a warm welcome and an interesting chat.
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Vinyl Head Cafe and Record Shop
16 W Cliff Rd
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Love coffee and vinyl? Then this is for you. Don't expect barista snobbery, do expect a warm welcome and an interesting chat.
Great whole food and healthy cafe, they serve organic monmouth coffee, great healthy homemade cakes and house blended teas! Fresh juices and smoothies too.
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The Grain Grocer
216 Northdown Rd
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Great whole food and healthy cafe, they serve organic monmouth coffee, great healthy homemade cakes and house blended teas! Fresh juices and smoothies too.

Drinks & Nightlife

Great craft beers, local and not so local! Knowledgeable staff and also great views of the harbour. They also do lovely wines and spirits if your not up for beer,
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BottleShop: Margate
7-8 Marine Dr
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Great craft beers, local and not so local! Knowledgeable staff and also great views of the harbour. They also do lovely wines and spirits if your not up for beer,
Great cocktails and great view.... what more could you need?
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The Glass Jar
15 Marine Dr
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Great cocktails and great view.... what more could you need?
Good old fashioned English pub, but done very tastefully! Large selection of craft beer, real ales and everything else. Food is pretty good too!
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The London Tavern
Addington Street
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Good old fashioned English pub, but done very tastefully! Large selection of craft beer, real ales and everything else. Food is pretty good too!
Amazingly decorated micro pub (Thanet has soooooo many) with real ales, ciders and wines. Go for the decor and the great staff!
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Fez
40 High St
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Amazingly decorated micro pub (Thanet has soooooo many) with real ales, ciders and wines. Go for the decor and the great staff!
Great spot in the square to grab a drink and watch the sunset
Woody's
16 The Parade
Great spot in the square to grab a drink and watch the sunset
Spit-&-Sawdust micro pub! Go for the quirky decor and local beers
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Lifeboat
1 Market St
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Spit-&-Sawdust micro pub! Go for the quirky decor and local beers
One of Margate's most popular micro-pub, great views back across the town. On a summers evening, grab a drink, head up over the steps onto the top of the harbour wall and watch the sunset. Perfect.
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Harbour Arms
Stone Pier
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One of Margate's most popular micro-pub, great views back across the town. On a summers evening, grab a drink, head up over the steps onto the top of the harbour wall and watch the sunset. Perfect.

Entertainment & Activities

This stunning, magical, wondrous place is an absolute MUST SEE! Underground passageways with walls decorated with shells, intricate patterns that boggle the mind. No one really knows when this is dated to which adds to the intrigue! GO. GO NOW.
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Mušlová jeskyně
33 Grotto Hill
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This stunning, magical, wondrous place is an absolute MUST SEE! Underground passageways with walls decorated with shells, intricate patterns that boggle the mind. No one really knows when this is dated to which adds to the intrigue! GO. GO NOW.
Vintage meets modern at Margate's oldest and newest attraction. Boasting the oldest wooden rollercoaster in Europe, this is a great day out for all the family. There's even a rollerdisco! It's free to enter, so even if you don't go on any rides you can go see what all the fuss is about, try your luck in the penny arcade and grab some doughnuts on the way.
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Dreamland
Marine Terrace
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Vintage meets modern at Margate's oldest and newest attraction. Boasting the oldest wooden rollercoaster in Europe, this is a great day out for all the family. There's even a rollerdisco! It's free to enter, so even if you don't go on any rides you can go see what all the fuss is about, try your luck in the penny arcade and grab some doughnuts on the way.
So there's a few reasons we go to this cinema religiously. But mainly because it's £2.50. Yes, £2.50. A ticket. We're not even kidding! They show recent films, in an old cinema. And it doesn't even smell funny! Did we mention it's only £2.50?
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Carlton Cinema
29 St. Mildreds Rd
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So there's a few reasons we go to this cinema religiously. But mainly because it's £2.50. Yes, £2.50. A ticket. We're not even kidding! They show recent films, in an old cinema. And it doesn't even smell funny! Did we mention it's only £2.50?

Arts & Culture

Some call it the 'Big Ugly Shed', but I'm pretty fond of this grey structure! Beautiful stark architecture with world class exhibitions.... lucky, lucky Margate. It's also FREE!!! Great little shop too, with more than just the usual tat.
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Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous
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Some call it the 'Big Ugly Shed', but I'm pretty fond of this grey structure! Beautiful stark architecture with world class exhibitions.... lucky, lucky Margate. It's also FREE!!! Great little shop too, with more than just the usual tat.
The most curious museum of collections of an explorer from !896, through to collections of archaeology and anthropology. Odd, but stunning. Also stroll through the magnificent gardens, check out the House dating from the 1400's, then grab a cream tea at Mama Feelgood's on the way out. What a jolly English day out!
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Powell-Cotton Museum
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The most curious museum of collections of an explorer from !896, through to collections of archaeology and anthropology. Odd, but stunning. Also stroll through the magnificent gardens, check out the House dating from the 1400's, then grab a cream tea at Mama Feelgood's on the way out. What a jolly English day out!

Shopping

You can't miss it, it's the big red building on the seafront! Amazingly renovated, this old cinema now holds the old kent market. Filled with food stalls, groceries, organic this, that and the other. There's even a bakery where you can see the bread being made! Check it out.
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The Old Kent Market
8 Fort Hill
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You can't miss it, it's the big red building on the seafront! Amazingly renovated, this old cinema now holds the old kent market. Filled with food stalls, groceries, organic this, that and the other. There's even a bakery where you can see the bread being made! Check it out.
As retro as you can get, this shop even comes with one of Margates biggest characters, Retro Joe! You wont believe what stuff he can lay his hands on! Whilst your down there, check out Joe's Fort Yard which sells even more stuff and food too
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Fort Road Yard
Fort Road
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As retro as you can get, this shop even comes with one of Margates biggest characters, Retro Joe! You wont believe what stuff he can lay his hands on! Whilst your down there, check out Joe's Fort Yard which sells even more stuff and food too
Margate's original vintage clothes shop, a must see on the vintage tick list!
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Madam Popoff Vintage
4 King St
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Margate's original vintage clothes shop, a must see on the vintage tick list!
Fab vintage store, particularly great menswear
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Breuer & Dawson
7 King St
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Fab vintage store, particularly great menswear
The MOST beautiful flowers you will ever see, complimented with suitably hipstery homewear; expect triangles, lots of grey, industrial lighting and insanely awesome smelling candles.
NØRR
35 Hawley St
The MOST beautiful flowers you will ever see, complimented with suitably hipstery homewear; expect triangles, lots of grey, industrial lighting and insanely awesome smelling candles.
You want proper vintage and retro? You got it. Aladdins cave that will keep you occupied for hours, I challenge you to only want one thing. My favourite bit is Junk Duluxe downstairs, LOVE.
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Scott's Furniture Mart Margate
Bath Place
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You want proper vintage and retro? You got it. Aladdins cave that will keep you occupied for hours, I challenge you to only want one thing. My favourite bit is Junk Duluxe downstairs, LOVE.
Beautiful simplicity from the architecture of the arches to the skandi goodies for sale. Also grab a coffee while your there.
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Archive Homestore
17 Military Rd
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Beautiful simplicity from the architecture of the arches to the skandi goodies for sale. Also grab a coffee while your there.
Ultra cool, ultra quirky record shop for the serious vinyl geeks out there!
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Transmission
Fore Street
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Ultra cool, ultra quirky record shop for the serious vinyl geeks out there!