Fish 'n chips.

 Sometimes the best laid plans go awry, so when a fillet of line caught  cod ends up hanging at your front door the planned tea goes out the window and the idea of cod and chips suddenly becomes an imperative.......  

 with the addition of a few choice ingredients a..........

 home-made Tartare sauce is quickly produced to accompany........

goujonsof Panko encrusted cod -the simple fish dish wins again - thank you Phil!

Lyonesse landing sardines.

After sailing from Newlyn around 9pm the previous, the ring netter Lyonesse puts ashore her last few tubs of Cornish Sardines from her latest. The fish are held in insulated tubs aboard the boat, once ashore more ice is added for the road journey before processing begins at FalFish.

Cornish Sardine weather.

 Not one by Squirrel Signs........

 the ETV Anglian Princess is back on station in Mount's Bay again.......

 Lane's auction house has a picture sale coming up with a Miller painting of a tosher leaving Hayle.......

 stunning quality ray from the Little Pearl........

 join a selection of quality fish like these monk cheeks on the Western end of the market

 bagged monk livers look like they have Chelsea written through the middle........

 and a box of stunning Gilt Head bream.......

 to go with these red mullet,the Lizard boys have been busy again.......

 back in the Bay the Cornish Sardines are coming ashore......

 and are slush iced ready for the road trip......

 less exotic fish on the market include ling.......

 coley, coal fish, or blackjack or saithe.......

 the good old pout......

and the dapper dab.

St Austell Ales Brewery and Museum tour.

Enjoy a visual tour of the brewery courtesy of guide for the day, Tracy.


Living in Cornwall you may well have driven by the sign a hundred times - but one day you'll make the right decision and pay the St Austell Ales brewery a visit - worth every penny. A revealing look at social history, a business that has changed and continues to change with the times - a living Tribute to the best in Cornish and British engineering, design and development over the last 150 years - and you get to test drive the results in the bar at the end!

Mon am.

 Local haddock put an appearance in over the weekend.....

 along with a shot of bass and grey mullet from the Cove......

 and a few of those St Ives plaice.......

 Mr Turner is keeping up the supplies of line caught bass, nice work Robin.......

 while the market saw a few tubs of Cornish Sardines........

there were plenty more outside, caught not 100m from the promenade.......

 lost and found, an entire trawl almost undamaged.........

 plenty of passing yellow-welly traffic over the weekend.......

 you can't beat scad for crab bait......

 busy Monday market for auctioneer Ian.......

 welcome indeed........

 the tug Flat Holm is still undergoing a paint up.......

busy office scene at Lane's auction rooms.

Broom Parc House, coastal walk and evening meal at The Lugger, Portloe.

Star of the Channel 4 series Camomile Lawn, Broom Parc House makes the perfect base to explore the Roseland peninsula...... 

with a stunning view over Veryan Bay and Gull Rock.......

the cosy comfort of the dining room set for breakfast, glimpsed before heading off round the coastal path (the Terror Run!) to Portloe..........

and an evening meal at The Lugger Hotel.......

 where the view from........

 the terrace leaves you relax with........

time to enjoy a pre-dinner drink (though with St Austell Ales brewery not a million miles away the drinks menu could really benefit from a selection of local ales) as the sun goes down while choosing from a fish laden menu.......

 inside, a local centenarian's art work painted with a credit card, one of a diverse collection on the restaurant walls...... 

 help contribute to a warm dining ambience......

 with somewhere to sit.......

 if it's a chilly evening.......

 on with the meal, steaming soup starter........

 a might meaty Newlyn hake.......

 perfectly cooked St Ive's Bay plaice with prawn and tapenade butter........

 the duo of Cornish seven-hour roasted lamb.......

 nearby Falmouth bay scallops.......

 and mussels going the other way from Fowey........

 all succumbed to the power of the knife and fork......

before a truly delicious chocolate birthday cake was produced - the chef Didier Bienaime did 'good love' all right for eight satisfied diners!

Cornish Tuna on the way to a shop near you!

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While many of the worlds tuna fisheries continue to inflict unacceptable ecological damage to dolphins and catch rates decline through over exploitation British consumers now have a guilt free locally sourced alternative on their own doorsteps.

Albacore tuna with their delicious pale meaty flesh are also known as the “chicken of the sea” but increasingly they are acquiring a third title, “sustainable”.

The Cornish Tuna boat Ben Loyal's operators have been influenced and inspired by the Basque’s who have fished albacore in a low impact manner in the Bay of Biscay for centuries catching albacore by trolling surface lures.

This method is highly skilled, produces relatively low volumes of superb premium quality 3/5 year old albacore rich in omega 3 oils ideal for the top end restaurant and supermarket trade.

Once aboard the boat Cornish tuna are immediately chilled in iced seawater before being individually bagged, tagged to ensure traceability and boxed in ice in well chilled fish holds to maintain peak condition.

The season kicks off in June west of Cape Finisterre a long steam from Newlyn, as the season progresses the albacore migrate into Biscay and follow the edge of the European continental shelf northwards finishing around October time to the west of Ireland.

It follows that the landings of Cornish tuna are highly seasonal in the same manner as our potatoes asparagus strawberries and other culinary delights that see dedicated foodies flocking west to sample them in our local eateries.

WE GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL BE WELL WORTH SEARCHING OUT THE RESTAURANTS WHERE THEY ARE SOMETIMES AVAILABLE.