{"id":15192,"date":"2011-03-05T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=15192"},"modified":"2021-10-30T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:55:29","slug":"rokka-ramsgate-fish-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=15192","title":{"rendered":"Rokka Ramsgate &#8211; a fish out of water!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While doing a spot of\u00a0<a title=\"Sperm Whale beached at Pegwell Bay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-12634910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whale watching <\/a>recently (a 45 foot Sperm Whale was\u00a0beached\u00a0at Pegwell Bay close to Ramsgate)\u00a0I had the chance to try out <a title=\"Rokka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rokka.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rokka<\/a>.\u00a0 A restaurant bar situated on Ramsgates\u00a0Victorian Harbour front. Its modern styling does clash somewhat with its surroundings and on first\u00a0appearance seems to be all style over substance.\u00a0 However on having lunch there\u00a0I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by its friendly and welcoming staff and also the very tasty seafood pasta dish I had\u00a0(<em>No whales were harmed in the making of this dish). <\/em>I also enjoyed a lovely dessert of Baklava with cream.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15192 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pegwell1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pegwell1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pegwell2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pegwell2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rokka2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Rokka is out of place in Ramsgate Harbour, a bit of a fish out of water itself, but it is definately worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing a spot of\u00a0Whale watching recently (a 45 foot Sperm Whale was\u00a0beached\u00a0at Pegwell Bay close to Ramsgate)\u00a0I had the chance to try out Rokka.\u00a0 A restaurant bar situated on Ramsgates\u00a0Victorian Harbour front. Its modern styling does clash somewhat with its surroundings and on first\u00a0appearance seems to be all style over substance.\u00a0 However on having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=15192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rokka Ramsgate &#8211; a fish out of water!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,356,80,8],"tags":[520,518],"class_list":["post-15192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kent","category-out-door-seating","category-ramsgate","category-uk","tag-pegwell-bay","tag-rokka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15192"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29520,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions\/29520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}