Dorset Magazine profiles chef-patron Ben Champkin, tracing his path from a Weymouth childhood to Michelin kitchens and California before returning home to build Catch around the daily catch landed feet from its door — with a menu that names the boat and fisherman behind every dish.
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What the world has been saying about Catch at the Old Fish Market.
Catch Wins the Sustainable Business Award at the Cateys 2026
The Caterer 2026
Catch at the Old Fish Market has been named winner of the Sustainable Business Award (SME) at the Cateys 2026, with judges praising the restaurant’s sea-to-plate traceability, whole-fish philosophy and unparalleled sourcing programme, working directly with Weymouth’s under-ten-metre day boats.
How Ben Champkin is best in the world at sourcing
The Caterer 2026
Catch at the Old Fish Market beat global competition to be recognised as the world’s most sustainable seafood restaurant with his imaginative menu using locally-caught, seasonal seafood.
Catch earns top three-star global sustainability rating
Food Made Good 2025
We are very proud to announce that Catch has been awarded the highest possible sustainability accolade: a three-star rating in The Sustainable Restaurant Association’s Food Made Good Standard.
A few steps above heaven
The Telegraph 2025
The chef did nothing more than respect his perfect ingredients… So delectable, delightful and delicious that happy tears gathered… my heart will forever be with those scallops… 5/5.
So good it literally brought tears to my eyes
The Telegraph 2025
William Sitwell includes Catch in his dining highs of the year,”…one of those salutary lessons I wish to dangle in front of every fidgety, fumbling stove monkey who effects to stamp their assumed talents on Mother Nature…Trust your supplier, trust your knife, keep your intervention minimal.”
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