West Whelks - Canterbury

Oysters are okay but don't buy anything else. Fake coloured Lobster tails. Good location and Lovely staff.

Great Oysters also Fresh whelks if you arrive early in the morning you will see them shucking the whelks.

This is the best place to eat oysters in Whitstable (apart from Wheeler’s restaurant of course Plus you can take your own bottle of wine or beer here too! It is open Saturday and Sunday weather permitting. Just grab a table overlooking the harbour and send your partner or friend up to the counter to buy while you open the wine. Good value and very fresh. They are filter cleaned in the harbour sheds and they supply them wholesale to restaurants etc Great basic outdoor dining but very relaxing lunch :

Terrible service... if you can call it service. Went for an early morning stroll along the harbour intending to buy some fresh seafood, after deciding what we wanted we waited patiently for one of the numerous staff to greet us and were completely ignored until we asked a girl walking past us for about the 5th time to which her response was 'What do you want now? ' Given we hadn 't yet spoken to anyone or placed an order we thought it a pretty odd way of addressing customers. Once we 'd asked for what we would like to order she abruptly said 'we don 't have it ' and started to walk off before giving us a chance to ask for an alternative. Meanwhile a table of staff were sat watching and also made no effort to serve us seemingly more interested in gossiping amongst eachother. It 's as if they don 't want any custom as it 's clearly too much effort. No wonder we were the only customers stood there, which only makes the lack of effort worse. In the end we gave up and went to the Fish Market and had the most delicious oysters, cockles and crayfish, all served with a smile and at a great price... imagine that?! Do yourself a favour and avoid West Whelks if you want a pleasant trip to Whitstable Harbour.

These whelks where the best!! I've tried all sorts of stalls selling seafood and I rate this stall very highly.