How good was PZ Food Festival?!

There's food festivals and there's food festivals but, according to one well-known chef who attended and has been to more than he can remember there's nothing quite like Penzance's very own - and why? - because every stall, every display, every bit of cookery, every bit of music - everything and everyone are a true reflection of the local scene - not one generic burger van in sight! So hat's off to all concerned!

As this is a fishing blog the focus of attention is unapologetically biased towards all things fishy...

from the demonstrations from local chefs like Jude Kereama and Ben Tunnicliffe who champion locally landed fish...

to all the food stalls that filled the park...

which, by the time Saturday evening came around...

was most definitely channeling Glastonbury...

Cape Cornwall Golf Club's chef was doing his shellfish thing plus lemon sole...

the Heron Inn offered whole mackerel, chowder and Newlyn crab nachos...

or you could spoil yourself with half a dozen of the finest Cornish oysters from Kelp Kitchen...

Argoe by now had sold out of their hand-dive scallops and were busy setting up what was to be something special in the main marquee...

Mackerel Sky were doing their on-the-bridge-in-Newlyn thing, without the big queue!...

next door Time & Tide mixed things up a bit with some 'foreign fayre' amongst the locally sourced fish...

while Silco were doing their take on local crab and lemon sole...

of course there were dozens of other goodies to taste, desserts included...

before it was time to head on up to the Taste Theatre...

where the Argoe team were busy prepping a positively mouthwatering mix of fish dishes...

all thankfully undercover...

two long rows of tables...

where sixty-odd lucky diners diners made new friends and dined in style...

all credit to front of house Frankie, the chefs and the rest of the team from Argoe for a most excellent fishy feast! 

PZ Food estival - one not to be missed!