Priceless Paintings from W7

This week, I’ve been mostly eating out:

Baked “local white fish” (probably Pollack), wrapped in pancetta, and served with horseradish potato mash in a pub in Newquay. Always nice, although one would hope that this meal is not the quintessence of modern British cuisine.

A nice Sirloin steak with superb potato wedges and other trimmings, in the Tin Fin restaurant in Perranporth. The Tin Fin is probably the best thing Perranporth has to offer – not that we tried them all, but nothing else was anywhere near as appealing. The wedges are now subject to my own home experiments.

A slightly under average quality fish & chips meal in the Basset Arms in Portreath. We should have gone to the Bridge Inn, but it was further out of town than we wanted to wonder along the windy (but speedily driven) road, so we gave that a miss. Probably a mistake, at least in culinary terms. Emma of Dolphin House recommended the Bridge Inn and deserves a mention here; Emma and Dickon’s Dolphin House is one of the best Bed and Breakfast accommodations we ever had, and certainly the best in our recent Cornwall trip.

A Chinese meal in Hayle. The meal was lovely and reasonably priced. Begs the question though why a Chinese meal? ‘Coz the locals can’t be bothered. That’s why. Some pubs didn’t serve food and others weren’t too appealing. Other eateries were ‘cafe’ places only (meaning, they only serve when it is convenient, i.e. during daytime). The Italian place had lots of space as far as we could tell, but sorry-we’re-fully-booked couldn’t be bothered, so we went Chinese, and enjoyed it.
Serves them right really, ‘em other Hayle businesses.

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