2 Fish Seafood Restaurant Review - FNQ is renowned for seafood. We are fortunate that the Coral Sea provides such wonderful bounty. However, we are even luckier to have 2 Fish Restaurant in Port Douglas.

While some seafood restaurants do good fish; others take seafood to a whole new level. 2 Fish Restaurant is defiantly in this category. With his Asian influenced ocean fare, head chef Andy Gray takes your taste buds on a voyage of flavour and texture. This may sound a little hi falutin’ but, as ever, the proof is on the plate.

My companion and I turned up for lunch to be greeted by two sumptuous starters. The sugar cane cured ocean trout & citrus mascarpone terrine is a wonderful juxtaposition of mellow creaminess and crisp, tangy top notes. Its companion, the fresh scallops with truffled cauliflower puree, pancetta and burnt butter sauce is, well, erotic. This is everything you want from fine fare: complex, brilliantly combined tastes, lovely aesthetics and a ‘feel’ that has you melting.

A 2 Fish Restaurant signature dish is the coral trout trio. Andy alters the composition daily to keep it fresh but if our lunchtime triumvirate is the measure then you know you’re in for a powerful experience. The tom yum soup on our platter was outrageously tasty, suffused with Thai spice and yet still palpably delicate, and the chilli & lime marinated fillets and coconut cerviche complemented the dish superbly.

As if that wasn’t enough, next came a crispy fried soft shell mud crab. Served with sticky black rice, coriander and sweet soy and topped off with a luscious candlenut dressing, it’s a flat out treat. Make sure this dish makes it onto your ‘to do’ list while you’re in town.

All the while this was happening we were getting into 2 Fish Restaurants craftily crafted wine list. Whites are the go, of course, and we went trans-Tasman with the easy drinking mellowness of a Wither Hills Sav Blanc. (In fact, Marlborough NZ features prominently on the list, as do some superb South Australian reds on the cleverly paired wine list.)

Dessert, like the fish, was an exercise in texture. The almost not there lushness of the coconut cream pudding is remarkable. Neither too sweet nor dominating, it strikes an exceptional balance between palate filling flavour and diaphanous subtlety. Another erotic masterpiece. And that’s before you get anywhere near the chocolate parfait.  

2 Fish Seafood Restaurant - Port Douglas Australia