Penzance with its Art Deco Jubille Pool looks towards St Michael's Mount. |
Lifestyle writer Andy Lynes writes in the Independent:
For the past 20 years, I’ve been organising holidays in Cornwall based on where the best restaurants are located. Back in the Nineties, Rick Stein’s emerging dining empire took me to Padstow; I then migrated to Fowey and nearby Polruan on the south coast when chef Nathan Outlaw had his signature restaurant there (now relocated to Port Isaac), and headed for Watergate Bay when Jamie Oliver opened Fifteen, arguably his best venue. Now Penzance has been put firmly on my gastronomic holiday map by the recent opening of The Shore.
The Shore, in the heart of Penzance |
The Shore's Bread daily baked uses a seven year old sourdough starter for extra flavour. |
Food for fans of finest fish from nearby Newlyn. |
“We’ve got a few good places now, such as The Mexico Inn in Longrock, which has been taken over by Tom Symons, one of my old sous-chefs, and The Coldstreamer in Gulval that’s now run by a former Porthminster Beach Cafe chef. It could be the start of something really interesting.”
Ben Tunnicliffe at the Tolcarne. |
Another chef with his eye on the town’s restaurant scene is Ben Tunnicliffe of the highly rated Tolcarne Inn in Newlyn, on the southern outskirts of Penzance. “I love Penzance, it’s a fabulous town with so much potential and at the moment it’s on an upward curve,” he says. “I’m considering opening something in the town centre.”
"The only menu in the 300-year-old, white-washed pub is the one chalked up on the board above the bar" |
Read the full article in the Independent's lifestyle section here: