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    5.0 (1 review)

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    Life's A Beach

    Life's A Beach

    4.4(5 reviews)
    14.5 mi

    We didn't expect a beach restaurant with that view and location to be very special when it comes…read moreabout food. But it definitely was. Besides some fast food options they serve really well made seafood. We had the shrimp (with cheese fries) and a pot of mussels. Both cooked to perfection, fresh and nicely spiced (and not over-spiced). Staff was friendly, food arrived fast - despite the place being packed. Our English Bulldog was welcome in the outside area. Great food, fair prices. Fantastic location. What else you need. A really good place to grab a bit, a beer - before or after visiting the beach.

    We had been to Life's a Beach two summers previous. I had Halibut for the first time and I like it,…read morebut that was about as much as I could remember. This time round we were placed a table at the centre of the dining room and I had a fine view of the kitchen and the staff, as they dedicatedly went about their business. My partner had a view of the bay out front. For starters I went for the Beef Carpaccio with Watercress, White Truffle Oil & Reggiano Parmesan and my partner the Seared Fowey Scallops with Crispy Belly Pork, Celeriac Puree & Caper Sauce. The Carpaccio was very tasty and I got plenty of it. I cleared my plate of it all and its accompaniments. My partners enjoyed his Scallops with Pork Belly. For the mains I opted for the Risotto of Summer with Parmesan Crisps and my partner the L.A.B. Tiger Prawn & Spiced Monkfish Curry. I loved the risotto, it was full of crunchy green vegetables and the risotto was a lovely creamy consistency. I would recommend it. My partner really enjoyed his curry and thought it was top notch for a restaurant that wasn't a curry house. We ordered the San Antonio Pinot Grigio, which was a grand wine to go with our meal. It was £12.50 For dessert we both ordered the Chocolate Fondant. It came with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and chocolate ganache truffle. The fondant was fine, nothing to write home about and we both have had much better. The ice cream went with it perfectly though. However the ganache was too much with the fondant. It was just too much chocolate and cocoa for one dessert. The staff amused me. They appeared to be all young hip surfer types working for the summer in the ideal location for their outdoor pursuits. Our waitress was very charming and helpful, as all the staff appeared to be. It was a pleasant night and we will be back, if we are in the area again.

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    Hot Wok Trading - Fried rice and noodles with beansprouts

    Hot Wok Trading

    5.0(1 review)
    21.4 mi

    This was an expensive albeit very good Chinese fast food takeaway under a mile from our hotel, in…read morePorth, Newquay. We paid over £34 for two starters - seaweed (which is deep fried cabbage fried with salt and pepper) with cashew nuts added and a chicken satay with delicious peanut sauce and two mains, one with a large fried rice, one with noodles and beansprouts. The mains were sweet & sour chicken and a salted chilli king prawn. We had rolled in here with a sort of plan in mind expecting to order, pay and promptly return to our hotel with food, but we were told it would be at least an hour given the amount of orders already backed up. The place has almost zero parking around it; parking in many parts of England is very difficult and finding parking you don't have to pay a few pounds an hour for - even in the many and growing number of run down 3rd world parts - is also really challenging. Don't expect anything for your money to park having already paid colossal tax for your fuel, and having paid for an annual road tax permit to drive on a public road as well as many hundreds of pounds to insure your vehicles annually. Anyway we put our order in, paid by credit card and the bloke behind the counter took my mobile number to ring me to come and get my order when ready. We drove back to the hotel and the utterly charming staff set up a table for us in their breakfast dining room with cutlery and water. We got drinks from their bar. Acter about 50 minutes passed I drove back to get our food as I'd ordered prawns that would be battered, so I didn't want to wait for a call to leave and to stop them becoming too soggy. It turned out that they hadn't even started our order. So the front counter American/English bloke began peeping through the door to the kitchen, gently haranguing the oriental cook to get on with our food, and let's say it was an entertaining exchange that I enjoyed. 10 minutes of craic later our food was served up with muttering from the kitchen. As I said, all the food was very tasty but prices are becoming unreasonable for what is junk fast food but they've no shortage of customers. The American/English bloke (it's a long story) chucked in free prawn crackers and these were up market quality crackers rather than the rubbish ones mostly served where we live. My prawns tasted just fine. I can't imagine us ever returning to Cornwall and think we'll stick with Portugal, Italy or Spain as our go to places.

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