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The Bay View Inn

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Lifeboat Inn: Waterfront pub in St. Ives

by tvor

The waterfront of St. Ives is lined with pubs and restaurants and takeout joints. Check out the menus and see which one is less crowded to make your choice. The Lifeboat Inn is large enough not to feel too closed in if it's crowded. The exterior is an older building but the interior is gleaming with wood and a log fire. There are tables and booths. There are lots of windows so it's bright inside, not dark.The food is standard pub fare, standard pub prices. Service was good, and the views over the harbour are nice, too! We had Cornish Pasties but were underwhelmed. They tasted like they probably were commercially made rather than fresh from a bakery. Other menu items were probably fine but if you're looking for a traditional pasty, this isn't the place to try it.

Merrymoor Inn: Beachside Inn - Mawgan Porth

by tvor

One of our stops along a winding Cornish road was a beach at Mawgan Porth. It's a small cove with just a few businesses along the road and some fancy looking modern homes up on the hills overlooking the sea. One of the places to eat is the large Merrymoor Inn, a big yellow place with a large outdoor patio with outdoor seating as well. Lots of parking onsite.Location was nice, prices ok, view of the beach on a sunny day from the patio would be nice. The food is a bit hit and miss. My partner had the "Arnie" burger, an enormous burger and he said it was quite good. I had a bowl of cream of mushroom soup that was more like paste in consistency, way too thick, and the crab sandwich was nothing special, just bread and crab, no dressing or much mayo added so i was less than impressed.

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Globe Posting House: Nice restaurant in Fowey

by tvor

We had a late lunch/early dinner at The Globe, mainly because it was after 2:30 and it seemed that most of the pubs in Fowey at this time of year (May) stopped serving food at 2:30 (serving again after 7 p.m.) in the off season. Some proper restaurants were open all day and this was one we found was open so we took advantage.The Globe is in an old building but is modern inside. As Fowey is a fishing town, expect good seafood on the menu but they also have a decent selection of other meats and a few vegetarian options. They always have a cream tea with large scones available, too. It was one of the more expensive meals we had on our trip but we did indulge in a starter and a cream tea for dessert and we came away full up. One of us had steak, which is usually not cheap and the other had fish and chips. The food was quite good, though the service was a bit slow in a more or less empty...

St. Kew Inn: Great inn in North Cornwall

by rexvaughan

This wonderful inn is a surprise first because it is so remotely located (and hard to find). Also, the ambience is a warm traditional setting in the pub in the front and also the dining room in the back section which is nicely arranged so that you are not sitting beside the person at the next table. The inn is next to the Church of St. James the Great (15th Century) and is thought to be older than the church as it may have been the brewery and inn for the masons building the church. We were meeting some VT friends there and were a little early so went into the pub room. It is one of the most inviting I have been in. Small, with a fireplace blazing, it makes you feel immediately at home. I believe I may be Cornish!We met VT friends Geoff and his wife Mary, her sister Ann and Lucy with her wonderful little Archie, age 10 months. He was happy and contented through the whole meal which...

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Newquay Meadery: Good English food

by rexvaughan

We sort of stumbled onto this restaurant as it was just around the corner from our b & b. It is cheerful in a medieval style with suits of armor, swords, etc. decorating the place. The theme may be a little kitschy but it the restaurant is warm and appealing with lots of wood paneling inside the crisp white exterior. The lighting includes lots of candles and 'torch on the wall' type fixtures (electric). A very pleasant place with a professional and cordial staff. I had the gammon steak with a fried egg, tomato and mushrooms on top and it was quite good. My wife had BBQ ribs with potatoes and salad which were also very tasty. One nice thing here is that you can get a carafe of wine rather than a whole bottle so we had a puente red. We shared a wonderful sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream. It was fantastic.

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Heligan Gardens Tea Room: Skip the Cornish Pasties

by rexvaughan

The tea room at Heligan is a nicely decorated room with a fair variety of foods on offer. We stopped there before venturing into the garden for some scones as a mid-morning pick-me-up. They and the coffee were delicious. I can't say quite the same thing for our lunch. I guess there are many different kinds and quality of Cornish pasties but I cannot recommend the ones here. It was mostly dough and not especially tasty dough at that. The filling was also rather bland. I guess the lesson is don't try local foods unless you have some assurance as to the quality. I would guess the other menu items are fine, judging from the scones. At any rate, so far as I know there is not another place to eat nearby so you might give it a try - just avoid the pasties.

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The Griffin in Newquay: Decent pub and restaurant

by rexvaughan

This is a pleasant inn with both a pub and a restaurant situated very near the beach and surfing action. Although the pub had a warmer feel, we ate in the restaurant which was brighter and pleasant with nice decor. It is a very family-friendly place as we saw a couple of families with small children dining. We had the pate starter which was quite good and served with a small simple, but crispy salad and toasts. My wife had the beef and ale pie which she found quite nice. I had roast chicken with vegetables. The vegetables were good except the peas which were undercooked in my opinion but this seems common in the UK as every time I had peas I thought they needed more cooking. The chicken was a nice piece of breast meat but was almost without seasoning so I had to add salt and pepper. For dessert we shared a Bailey's tart - sponge cake with a Bailey's Irish Cream filing and topped with...

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Bakeries throughout Cornwall: Traditional Cornish Pasties

by sunshinejo

This tip isn't about a restaurant in particular, but about a traditional Cornish meal - the Cornish Pasty. If you ask me, to come to Cornwall and not try a pasty would be a crime, they're so good! For those of you not in the know, a pasty is a meal wrapped up in a semi-circle of pastry with a thick crust. The traditional pasties contain beef, potatoes, onion and sweed, however there are now a wide variety of fillings including vegetarian, cheese and onion, lamb and mint, full english breakfast, the list goes on and on... there are even sweet pasties available for desert! Pasties date back to Cornwall's mining days, when Cornish wives would make pasties and take them to their husbands working in the mines. The idea behind it was that the miners didn't have to wash their dirty hands, as they could hold the pasty by the crust, eat the cooked meal within the pastry and then throw the dirty...

Chiverton Arms: Just Outside Truro

by Bwana_Brown

(December, 2005 trip) - After our long drive to the Truro area from Barnstaple, on the north coast of Devon, in mostly drizzle, with a bit of rain, we were starting to get quite hungry. Our mood was not improved by about a half-hour wasted along the way in St. Columb Major where we first stopped for a lunch-time meal. Even after waiting well past the obligatory noon opening time for two different pubs, nothing was happening there, so we kept on moving. As a result, by the time it was 1 PM, we were very happy to find the Chiverton Arms open and waiting for us beside the main A30 highway, a few miles outside our final destination of Truro. Sue decided to keep things simple with a Salmon & Cucumber Sandwich, along with a lettuce and tomatoe salad with a lemon wedge (4.75 GBP). The dreary weather made me want something hot, so I decided to have their Homemade Cottage Pie with Veggies, along...

The Old Quay Inn: An Intimate Cornish Pub

by Bwana_Brown

(Feb. 2004 trip) - The Old Quay Inn is a very quaint and comfortable pub located in Devoran, a small village about mid-way between Truro and Falmouth. On the Friday evening that we went there for a meal, its bar area was hopping with customers and there was a nice buzz of conversation in the air. In this very relaxed atmosphere, one of the patrons even had a large Labrador that wandered around checking things out in the different rooms of the Inn! We settled in the bar area, where I had a pint of their Sharp's Doombar Bitter to start the evening off before we retired to the adjacent dining room for our 7 PM reservation. This time I was ready for some seafood! Their poached Atlantic Salmon on scalloped potatoes in lemon sauce, along with boiled vegetables of carrots, califlower, shallots and brocolli really did the trick for me! Here my wife and her sister enjoy their meals as well in...