Whitstable · Kent · Since 2019
Harker’s Table
Thirty-two covers in an old net loft, four minutes from the harbour. The card is written each morning after the boats land, so what you are reading is what is in the kitchen tonight.
Dinner
Wed–Sat, 6–9.30pm Sun, noon–3pm
The card
The room
32 in the room, 6 at the counter
Where
Harbour Street Whitstable, Kent
The kitchen
Thirty-two covers and one card
I cook here. There is no head chef to hide behind and no second site, so what goes on the card is what I can get hold of in the morning and cook properly by seven.
The boats land four minutes from the door and I am there when they do. Some mornings that is plaice and skate and a box of brown shrimp. Some mornings it is one gurnard and a great many mussels, and the card gets shorter. That is not a concept. It is what there was.
Half past eight is when it gets written, at the counter, before anybody else is in. The rest of what you eat comes from six people I have dealt with for years, and they are named further down, because a supplier worth having is a supplier worth naming.
Nell Harker Chef and owner, since 2019
Who brings it
Six of them, and the furthest is eleven miles
Pollard & Kemp
The day boats. Plaice, skate, gurnard, and whatever the weather allowed.
Whitstable harbour
Cheyne Orchard
Cherries, apples, quince, and the last of the gooseberries.
Faversham, 8 miles
Blean Hill Farm
Hogget, chicken, and every egg in the kitchen.
Blean, 6 miles
Nether Hardres Dairy
Butter, cream, and two of the three cheeses.
Nether Hardres, 9 miles
Sarre Wall Growers
Everything green, cut the same morning it is cooked.
Sarre, 11 miles
Reculver Mill
Stoneground flour for the sourdough and the pastry.
Reculver, 7 miles
Find us
Four minutes from where it lands
We are on Cutter Yard, off Harbour Street, in what was the net loft. Black weatherboard, blue door, one step up at the front and a ramp beside it.
The harbour is four minutes on foot and the huts at Tankerton are twenty, which is where most people go once they have finished lunch.
- Open
- Wednesday to Saturday, 12 to 2 and 6 to 9.30 Sunday, 12 to 4
- Closed
- Monday and Tuesday, both services
- Covers
- 32 in the room, 6 at the counter
- Address
- 9 Cutter Yard, off Harbour Street Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AQ
- Getting in
- Level entry by the ramp, accessible WC, and no step to any table
- Children
- Welcome until 7, and there are two high chairs
- Dogs
- At the counter and the two front tables
- Corkage
- 15.00 a bottle, and we will decant it for you
- Parking
- Gorrell Tank, four minutes. Nothing on Cutter Yard itself
- Address
- 9 Cutter Yard, off Harbour Street Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AQ
- Parking
- Gorrell Tank, four minutes. Nothing on Cutter Yard itself
- Access
- Level entry by the ramp, accessible WC, and no step to any table
Book a table
Eight weeks ahead, or ring me
For six or more, or anything on a Saturday night, the phone is quicker and I can tell you what is likely to be on the card by then.
Or ring the restaurant 01227 000 000