Cornish Pasty Hunting in Padstow: The Chough Bakery

The Chough Bakery in Padstow is an award winning purveyor of Cornish Pasties and were the World Cornish Pasty Champions in 2018. They are located on the Strand in Padstow right on the side of the harbour and are a very popular spot to pick up a pasty. While we were visiting there was a…

Fresh From The Sea in Port Isaac

Fresh from the Sea in Port Isaac on New Road is an excellent place to hunt down some fresh Crab and Lobster. The place is run by Calum and Tracey Greenhalgh and the daily catch landed by Calum on his boat Mary D is used and sold in the shop It was one of the…

Embers Pizza in Padstow

Embers Wood Fired Pizza in Padstow is located at Market Place and it is right in the centre of the action. They advised booking but we slipped in early evening and we were OK for a table. It might not be as easy I imagine in the middle of the summer or at a weekend…

A Pint of Padstow: Tasting Room for Padstow Brewing Company

Padstow Brewing Company is now one of my favourite breweries and all because we found this fantastic spot in Padstow called A Pint of Padstow where you can sample and taste their beers. Love a chance encounter and love a tasty sip of beer 🙂 The Tasting Room is located on Broad Street and as…

Elviras Cafe in Plymouth: Great spot for Breakfast

Elviras Cafe in Plymouth is located in Stonehouse on Admiral’s Hard down by the slipway where you can ride the foot ferry over to Cremyll. It was also really close to the AirBNB we were staying at, so the day we planned to take the ferry over to Mount Edgcombe park was the day we…

Mama Ritas Kitchen: Caribbean Soul Food

Mama Rita’s Kitchen on Cornwall Street is the place to go if you are looking for some Caribbean Food in Plymouth. We were in the area checking out the Plymouth Market and chanced upon the place. There was a newspaper cutting in the window saying that they had won an award for their Food so…

Carnewas Tea Room at Bedruthen Steps

The Carnewas Tea Rooms must be one of the cafes with the best views in the Whole of Cornwall. The view from the cliff down onto the beach below Bedruthen Steps is just an incredible sight to behold Accessible at low tide via a steep sets of steps if you are brave enough and have…

The Harbourside: Fish and Chips at the Barbican

The Harbourside Fish and Chip shop is located down on Southside Street at the Barbican in Plymouth. When we visited there was a sign saying that they had won 3rd place the National Fish and Chips awards. That was enough to make us pick this chippy out as the place to eat at over all…

Cafe Jenny’s in Plymouth: All Day Breakfast

Cafe Jenny’s on West Hoe Road in Plymouth is a great spot for Breakfast if you are down near Bishopsgate at the far end of the Hoe. We had been staying at an air bnb down near the Cremyll Ferry and this place was on the walk from there towards the Hoe. It is in…

Tikk’s Thai Kitchen in York

Tikk’s Thai Kitchen sits up on the top level at York’s container street food market Spark. They had a sign in the window saying that they were the Northern winners in the British Street Food awards and that was enough to get me interested and inside the container to check them out Apparently Tikk is…