Despite having opened only this year, Snapper Rocks is the quintessential Darwin restaurant: beachy décor, a cool indoor-outdoor space next to the waterfront wave pool, a focus on seafood and other local produce, plenty of interesting things to drink and a certain only- in-the-Territory level of quirkiness. Where else, for example, can you choose from two kinds of crocodile – jerky, and salt and pepper? Where else is there a gin-and-tonic happy ‘hour’ from 3pm to 6pm? On the serious side, the menu is well-considered, with small and large share plates, as well as generous boards for the whole table, such as the crowd-pleasing seafood board of raw oysters with finger lime, reef fish tartare, kimchi, local prawns with lemon, avocado, battered reef fish, squid, and crab mayo with toast. The fish dishes, particularly wild-caught snapper and wild-caught local saltwater barramundi, are recommended.