Had the fish and chips. The food was good. The service was also good. The servers acted as a team…read moreto take care of everyone. We didn't have reservations and were seated, no problem, but I would recommend booking during busy months.

The Cutty Sark has a very comfortable/attractive bar and restaurant; the staff were super friendly…read moreand attentive, the food was excellent (pan fried mackerel was huge, fresh and tasty), the cashew nut, chickpea and mushroom curry was really delicious... We would definitely return - good value and large portions enough to share along with top notch service.

Fantastic in every way. A real homely atmosphere, varied menu, friendly and welcoming staff, child…read morefriendly, somewhere to park and even good quality camping facilities provided. This pub is situatted beside Stithians Lake and has a reasonable sized car park. It's in a rural location so you need your own transport to get there but it's definitely worth a visit. The food is reasonably priced and is always delicious, there are also plenty of vegetarian options. The battered mushrooms stuffed with stilton are a must.

This, I believe, is the only Michelin starred restaurant in Penzance, and it is situated behind the…read morefamous Admiral Benbow in the Chapel Street area. It is certainly not the place to go for quick, cheap nosh-up. This is the other end of the scale, with all dishes being painstakingly put together and presented. The serving staff have expert knowledge of all things being served, showing chef-like passion themselves for the dishes and food on offer. You do get the fancy, rather large plates with what appears to be a small portion of the food delicately arranged in the middle, with dribs and drabs of the relevant sauces around the outside. However, the quality is superb, and the portions are actually rather good. This is certainly not to everyone's taste, but if you are looking for fine dining with excellent quality food (and you have a lot of money) this is the place to go without doubt.

This is a properly awesome little takeaway, the chips are made from top quality local tatties and…read morefried to perfection to make proper crisp outside moist in the middle chips, combine this with the finest fish; freshly caught locally, then lovingly fried in a thin and delicate batter and you are nearing fish and chip perfection. This is a proper takeaway meaning that there are no plates or cutlery, but the lovely staff will point you in the direction of a couple of tables and you can dig into your grub as nature intended (using your fingers and straight out of the wrappers)! What really makes the place though is the staff, when having to abandon our evening plans of eating our fish supper, watching the sun set over nearby Land's End whilst knocking back a few cheeky beers due to one of Cornwall's not infrequent sudden gale force storms the lady suggested that we eat in the shop and had no problem with us drinking our shop bought beers inside; even when we'd finished our food and noticed the time had crept on to 10.30 (half an hour after the place was meant to shut)! The portions are pretty large, so if your not that hungry I'd suggest a child's portion.

Outstanding fish and chips. Casual area to eat in and take away seemed popular. Easy parking. Best…read morefish and chips I've had in the UK. Curry sauce and mushy peas are a must.

I don't get the appeal of this place. It looks like a pirate themed place, not a medieval themed…read moreplace. It is really dark, so dark that we couldn't see the menus or what we were eating. The food came hot and fast. I got the chicken in the rough with salad and fries. The "salad" was cabbage. Yuck. The rest of it was really good. The mead is also on point, but VERY sweet. Everyone at the table got a different type, so I was able to sample a lot. We arrived right as they opened. It was packed right from the start, so make reservations. Our server appeared to be run off her feet because we rarely saw her. She wrote on the check "service fee is not included." I've never seen that in England before. I am not sure if they were expecting a tip because we're American or what.

This is a lovely meadery down on the waterside in Penzance…read more It is themed in a medieval style with wooden tables and benches, candles on the tables and low lighting. There is often pipe music or something similar playing quietly in the background, which is also nice for setting the mood. The food is served on wooden plates and bowls, and no cutlery is given unless your meal type requires it or you actually request it. The waitresses are dressed as serving wenches and you wash your hands between courses using little wooden bowls of water with a piece of lemon floating in them! The signature dish is called chicken in the rough, which is half a chicken cooked in a special oven with gorgeous crispy skin. It is served with chips although you can pick salad or half and half if you want as well. There is a great choice on the menu of starters, mains and desserts and the food is lovely. Although this is 30 mins or so drive from us my dad still prefers to go there than any of the closer ones!

Yes. Yes. Yes!! It is absolutely unbelievable - I've never tasted such finely prepared seafood!…read more So: lobster & crab rolls - delicate, tender with the discrete palette of flavours that sent me to the moon. I went for two starters, so 2nd one was: whelks on sourdough bread. Yes. With the right amount of chewiness, watercress on the side...I cannot express how much I loved it. Didn't eat bread as am not a bread person but shell fish....yum. The menu didn't have dairy-free desserts so they made me dairy-free pavlova which was so absolutely perfect - I'm taking off my imaginary hat. Service was good - attentive and making me feel very welcome. If you're ever in Newquay - go for it.

Great food and quick service. Rating given as someone who…read moredoes not eat at Michelin starred restaurants. My partner has a condition which limits what she can eat. The only thing she could eat here was chips. I had the mixed fish linguini, my partner had some chips and my daughter had the children's tomato linguini. The Fish was very special; freshly cooked prawns and lovely mussels. The linguini in both dishes was cooked to perfection. Service was quick and polite. The chips were amazing which was brilliant for my partner as all holiday she has seen everyone around her eat lovely food while all she could eat was the most basic things. The restaurant still has an old charm to it, it hasn't been polished into a chic modern restaurant, and I love it more for this.

Visited the Lemon Tree Cafe with my family today, and can definitely recommend the breakfast! The…read morecafe was completely full when we arrived, which I was happy to see! The service was lovely and so was the food. They don't have their own website and there was no menu available online, but they mostly do traditional English fare. Food came out quickly and was hot - eggs cooked perfectly! All in all a nice atmosphere for a family meal and relatively inexpensive. They had several specials on their blackboards advertising lunch, so will have to come back to try that out!

If you love bland food, bone-dry meat and being surrounded by trashy people while your ears are…read moreassaulted by the worst of recent pop music sung by someone of questionable talent, then you will love this carvery! We went in here because nothing else was open by the time we began looking for a place to eat. After twenty minutes of waiting ("we'll seat you in two minutes") we were finally seated at a table that had been empty the whole time we stood there. After my first round of the carvery I realized most food was not really edible, with the exception of a few side dishes, so I went back for more creamed vegetables and some Yorkshire pudding. Shortly after that the live music picked up again, so we got out of here as fast as we could, still feeling kind of hungry. Avoid!

In general, folks want to think that there truly is some kind of absolute scale for rating…read moreanything. A scale that is somehow completely independent of my mood, my expectations, what just happened 5 minutes ago, what's going to happen 1 hour from now, etc. All of that and more ultimately influences my perception of the experience as it relates to any particular scale. Let's take Claire's review for example. Note that right out of the box she says that "nothing else was open". What this means immediately is that whatever scale she had been originally thinking about using (the one you would use when all 1000 restaurants were open in a highly popular seaside vacation destination village for an entire country) should immediately be replaced with the scale appropriate for the situation. I mean, seriously, what kind of restaurants do you expect to be open at 3 in the morning, anywhere? So, my Mom and I had similarly arrived at the Lugger fairly late. As we walked by the restaurant on our way to the room, I quickly noted it was a super 'homey' kind of place, quaint, cute, but not drippingly so. It just totally exuded 'good ol fashioned down home cookin'. Like the kind you grew up with as kid (we all have those stories of that favorite meal or dish that to this day we can taste as if we're eating it right now: our go to comfort food). Yeah, sure, Mom or Dad was no Chef Pierre, but at that moment, it totally defined awesome. My initial impression was completely spot on. Of the 5 meats to choose from, I had lamb, pork roast, and turkey breast. Completely basic, just bake in the oven and serve. Given the properly selected scale now of 'good ol fashioned down home cookin', they were all very good, with the lamb edging out the pork and turkey. While I would agree that the meat all by itself was a just a skoch dry (was probably not so at 4pm, but by 8:30 pm after sitting under heat lamps for 4.5 hours, yeah, a bit more dried out), what Claire failed to mention was the neat little trick that Mom always used: GRAVY! Omg, flashback inducing. Just a quick swish before the bite, and, voilla, succulence to the max. But, using the same scale, if the meats were very good, the veggies were excellent. The creamed cabbage, cheesy cauliflower and sautéed leeks were outstanding (who's ever seen sautéed leeks at a carvery?). The best for sure though was combining the leeks with the gooey mashed potatoes. Now that rivaled other potato-leek things I've had from many a high end cookbook. And of course, accompany the whole business with two pints of Guinness (this IS England, for gods sake). We didn't have live music blaring, we had radio pop, just like what Mom was probably playing relative to her 1965. Claire, you made a choice, so stfu about the music. So, yeah, if you're looking for total English down homey, show up at 1st opening for 5 stars. If you're looking for London upscale with spices you've never heard of, don't go.

This is a great little cafe type place to find. It is on top of the shopping centre at the…read moreWharfside in Penzance. Just opposite the main town car park, close to the bus and railway station. It is manned by experienced people, but also used as a training place for people with learning disabilities. These people help take orders, prepare and serve food. The food menu is fairly basic, offering toasted sandwiches, bacon and eggs, chips and so on. However, some of the food is home made and the quality is very good. Standard range of drinks, coffee, tea cappuccino and so on. Worth a visit for a break from shopping! Usually closes early though, about 2.30pm.