We had flown into Newquay airport and wanted to get something to eat on the drive to Plymouth…read more
So we stopped at this place, as our cousin remembered there had been a cute cafe here. Well. There HAD BEEN, but unfortunately it has since been closed.
Don't worry, there is still a cafe here, a local assured us. Just go into the hardware store, turn right, and keep walking.
And yes! Eventually we did find the cafe. They didn't have a huge selection of soft drinks, which is an understatement, and they definitely were not COLD soft drinks.
And they didn't have our first choices of entrees (the hunter's chicken and the madras chicken), or our second choices (the madras vegetables). But they did have fish and chips: two choices here, in fact. So we ordered a couple fish & chips and a plaice (a kind of fish) and chips.
Prices seemed reasonable; the kind of prices you might expect in a cafe inside a hardware store.
There are some large oil paintings inside the dining area - huge oil paintings featuring the founder of the mill, who seems like...a rather bizarre person.
Oh, and I feel like I should mention that there are no toilets where the cafe is now in the hardware store, you have to walk back to the other building, where the cafe was when it was a cafe, to find them.
Anyway, eventually we were served our fishes and chipses by a somewhat dazed and confused server.
And the food was fine. Definitely reminiscent of Long John Silver's style in the US, to me.
But the real joy here was laughing with our relatives about our experiences here and I'm sure we will be enjoying this for years and years to come. And that's really more important than what we had to eat or little things like that.
And oh, I did like that they had bottles of malt vinegar on the table. Much more convenient than in other places, where you have to poke around in the packets of "tomato" and "brown sauce" (whatever that is) to find the thing you are looking for.