I drive to Penzance from Falmouth to a) visit my daughter and b) shop at Thorne's, always a delight…read moreand pleasure, especially to my bank balance. There's a good chance Thorne's is the best greengrocer in Cornwall. If there's one with a better range of produce and at better prices, I don't know it. While I'm at it, Penzance is one of the best towns for independent retailers, full stop. I rarely leave Thorne's without giving in to other temptations - bakery, deli, shoe shop (Lou's Shoes is amazing), bookshop, café... shopping in Penzance is enjoyable in a way that used to be the norm, but now, sadly, rarely is.

Fruit, veg, produce and a deli. Cheap and good quality. Best value food shop in the area by miles.read more

Best butcher for miles! Cannot recommend this traditional shop more highly. As the daughter of a…read morebutcher l am in awe. Please keep this going forever. We need more like this. Thank you Dales x

Excellent traditional butcher's shop. High quality produce, friendly and helpful staff - also very…read moreknowledgeable. Will prepare meat as you request - nothing is too much trouble. Good homemade sausages and burgers too. Provenance of meat is displayed - all locally sourced. And it's not more expensive than buying at the supermarket for a similar (or what the supermarket alleges is a similar) quality of product.

Fantastic little fruit and veg shop all organic and local produce, you must try the deli, their…read morefresh salad boxes are simply amazing! a must when visiting penzance...

I suppose I could describe this shop as a hippy shop without meaning to be derogatory. They sell…read moreorganic vegetables (the ones that come in all shapes and sizes, and colours!), fresh breads (mainly all sorts of brown and wholemeal kinds) plus a huge range of herbs and spices. The staff are probably vegetarians, and are very helpful and pleasant. They also have a variety of nuts for sale, and all sorts of other goodies, like soya milks, fruit bars and so on. You would not be able to guarantee the availability of the same fresh items each week, sometimes there will be loads of tomatoes, the next week none, but loads of aubergines and onions! The bread usually sells out very quickly too, so go early!

I'm a bit amazed that a shop that's supposed to be all organic and local would stock Rhoddas cream…read morerather than a genuine local brand like Williams. You can buy Rhoddas (so-called) clotted cream in most supermarkets in London and it tastes of nothing. Williams' clotted cream tastes something like the cream I remember from my childhood in Devon in the 1960s/70s. Likewise why do they stock so much Healey's Rattler cider which, by all accounts, is an industrial cider which, just like Bulmers, Magners etc, is made from reconstituted apple concentrate, not real apples? There are some genuine Cornish ciders and not all the cider in the Farm Shop was from Healeys when I was there. More information about which cider is the genuine article and which isn't would be useful for customers I feel. When I visited there was a fair selection of fruit and veg along the lines of a typical organic shop. I have an allotment, so maybe I shouldn't comment any more than that. The meat (apparently from their own farm) looked nice although I didn't buy any. They also make their own wholemeal pasta. I bought some of their spaghetti and it was okay.

This Farm Shop, also is the site of an out of this world restaurant. They cook with local veg and…read morelocal meat, some of which is grown on site and very close by. The food is absolutely excellent. I have been several times and the service is really good too. The portions are generous and the menus change frequently. You walk past the desert counter as you go in and I have never seen one anywhere like it. They are truly to die for. The rest of the food is beautifully cooked and an absolute delight. The price is moderate and you definitely get what you pay for. The farm shop next door sells all sorts of home grown fruit and veg. Assortments of pickles and spices and jams. The meat counter is manned by a proper butcher and their fish is as fresh as it comes. Cant rate this place highly enough.

This great little farm shop has everything you need. They sell a lot of their own and locally grown…read moreproduce, mostly organic and at very reasonable prices, sometimes matching or beating supermarkets but much nicer. Apart from fruit and veg, they also sell dairy produce and locally sourced meat. They have a good selection of wholefoods such as pulses, rice, cous-cous etc. and have Fairtrade Organic Palestinian olive oil. You can also buy things like Ecover washing powder and loo roll. In addition there is a selection of delicious homemade bread. Since discovering this shop which is bigger inside than it looks from the road, I have almost stopped relying on supermarkets. Tim, the owner and Rachel who works there most days are friendly and helpful and always make a visit there a pleasant experience. There is absolutely nothing pretentious or superficial about this place, it is good ,wholesome food at affordable prices for those that care about what they eat and what its effect is on our environment is.