Restaurants & Chefs

Trawlers on the Quay Looe - Principal Sponsor
We are delighted that Trawlers on the Quay is now a member of the Barclay House family. Since opening in March 2010, we have been fully booked each night ----so to experience superb local seafood, the views on the quayside and amazing staff then calling early to reserve your table is highly recommended! We are open daily from 12 noon until late serving long, leisurely lunches, afternoon treats and smart, informal dinners by the Quay. Our aim to you, our Guest is to be -  Quite Simply - One of the Best Seafood Restaurants in Cornwall. Call us now to reserve your table - you'll be glad you did!

Trawlers on the Quay East Looe, Cornwall, PL13 1AH Tel: 01503 263593 http://www.trawlers-restaurant.co.uk/

Blue Plate Restaurant, Downderry - Principal Sponsor Award winning chef, restaurateur and former hotelier Nick Barclay is a proud co-founder of Taste South East Cornwall, the year round initiative aimed at raising South East Cornwall's culinary, food and drink profile. Nick who lives in nearby Seaton with wife Kelli and their 3 kids, Hannah, Nick and Lucy just opened their brand new restaurant Blue Plate on October 9th 2009 to a packed house. Nick is committed to all that is good about South East Cornwall, its heritage, its landscape, its produce, its great people and natural beauty. Nick is also involved in numerous food projects which you can find out about on his website www.chefnickbarclay.com 

Blue Plate, Main Road, Downderry, South East Cornwall, PL11 3LD 01503 250308 http://www.blueplatecornwall.com/.
Follow their progress on twitter at www.twitter.com/blueplate4food

 

Barclay House Looe - Restaurant, Rooms and 5 Star Cottages - Principal Sponsor

We are delighted to be a principal sponsor of Taste South East Cornwall!  As a proud holder of 2 AA Rosettes, Cornwall Tourism Silver Award and Taste of the West Bronze Award we have long been driven and inspired to showcase all that is great about Cornwall, especially our neck of the woods! We specialise in fresh, local, seasonal produce inc luding Looe Day Boat Fish, Henry's garden vegetables, Trenant Farm Beef and Camel Valley Wines ---all served in the magnificent Victorian Villa that is Barclay House! Gracious yet friendly service awaits! . Come, enjoy and savour what we have to offer…… Dinner available Monday thru to Saturday 7pm until 9ish offering both a la carte dining as well as our daily changing table d'hote at just £25 for four amazing courses!

Visit or website for more details or call us to make a reservation - you'll be glad you did!

Barclay House Hotel, Restaurant & Luxury Cottages St Martin's Rd, East Looe, PL13 1LP Tel: 01503 262929 www.barclayhouse.co.uk

Couch's Great House Restaurant Polperro - Principal Sponsor
Couch’s Great House Restaurant is dedicated to the use and promotion of local produce, accordingly the menu changes with availability. The great local ingredients combined with the knowledge Head Chef Richard McGeown acquired from such culinary giants as Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and Raymond Blanc result in a superb dining experience. The restaurant is an amalgam of modern styled furniture which enhance the 17th Century surroundings. Couch’s Great House is open all year and additionally offers catering to wedding parties either in house or at a location of your choice. Richard McGeown's Sunday 'Dunch Club'. It's not lunch, but it's far too early for dinner! Guests can eat a Sunday themed Dinner from 4pm to 6:15 pm for either £19.95 for two courses or £24.95 for three courses. This can (if requested) be a great way to meet people, as social tables are organised in which guests are sat next to potential new friends to 'put the world right' and chat about common themes. Available 4pm to 6:15pm every Sunday

Open Wednesday to Monday 6:15pm onwards plus Sunday Dunch!.
Couch's Great House Restaurant Saxon Bridge, Polperro, Cornwall, PL13 2QT Tel: 01503 272554 
 couchspolperro.com/

The Old Sail Loft Restaurant - Principal Sponsor
One of the oldest buildings in Looe, known to date back over 450 years and reputed to be a haunt for smugglers, now gently refurbished and modernised by chef proprietor Dominic and wife Michelle. We welcome you to dine overlooking the harbour. Upstairs you will find character beams, stone walls adorned by paintings made by a young artist Rob Watson, and the odd friendly ghost. Our menu is devised using fresh, locally sourced ingredients, speciality steaks and Lobster Thermidor a firm favourite. An extensive selection of wines from around the world and a comprehensive selection of champagnes. We have a 3 course set menu available 6pm - 8pm and also an a la carte menu available all evening. Lunch is a set two or three course menu using locally source seafood and meats. Bookings essential especially for our harbour table. We can cater for small or large functions such as weddings or christenings. Menus can be designed to cater for your specific budget and taste.

The Old Sail Loft Restaurant Quay Street, East Looe, Cornwall. Tel: 01503 262131 www.theoldsailloftrestaurant.com/

Trelaske Hotel & Restaurant
Trelaske Hotel & Restaurant is a haven of peace and tranquillity, nestling within four acres of beautiful grounds and gardens, enjoying the privacy of a superb rural location just off A387 between Looe and Polperro. Our Restaurant offers fine food reflecting the flavour of Cornwall. We offer the freshest seasonal produce from Cornwall. Fish and shellfish are prominent with the daily catch from Looe providing the freshest fish available.

Trelaske Hotel & Restaurant, Polperro Road, Looe, Cornwall, PL13 2JS Tel: 01503 262159 www.trelaske.co.uk/

Mawgan's of Looe
As a member of the International Movement of Slow Food Restaurants, we guarantee that the table is yours for the evening, so sit back, relax and enjoy. Your hosts and chefs, Chris & Jane Carlick prepare all your meals themselves from the finest West Country ingredients. These are free from artificial flavourings, protein enhancers, colourings and are GM free.

Mawgan's of Looe Higher Market Street, East Looe, Cornwall, PL13 1BW Tel: 01503 265331 www.mawgans.co.uk/

Squid Ink Restaurant
This intimate 32 cover restaurant is chef owned and opened in July 2008. Housed within a character filled period building the decor is a fusion of contemporary and antique offering an eclectic blend of old and new. Specialising in local fish and seafood the menu combines contemporary British cooking with Mediterranean and Asian influences and reflects the best local produce that Cornwall has to offer.

Lower Chapel Street, East looe, PL13 1AT Tel: 01503 262674 www.squid-ink.biz/

Ginger Lily
The Ginger Lily Restaurant renowned for world wide cuisine of excellence can be found on Higher Market Street in the centre of East Looe. Recently refurbished with the finest of furnishings a warm atmosphere is achieved to relax and enjoy an evening of superb food.
With your host head chef Maggie Hill you will be able to experience fresh locally sourced ingredients that are transformed into creations from around the world to Cornwall’s own special dishes.


Market House, Higher Market Street, East Looe PL13 1AS Tel: 01503 265437 www.gingerlilyrestaurant.co.uk/

Larsson's Coffee House and Crêperie
The most original meeting place in the heart of Looe. Larsson's offers the smoothest variety of Coffees; the most interesting range of sweet and savoury Crêpes; the personal favourite range of French wines and continental beers; the most delicious baked German Cheesecake; private parties;
the ever popular Dining Club with Swiss cheese fondue, Breton seafood Crêpe, German Bratwurst, Hungarian Goulash. To put it simply, Larsson's is unique in gathering tasty dishes from around Europe for our guests and presents them in the quirkiest cafe in town.

For more information call Martin on 01503 265368 or visit www.larssonscoffeehouse.com

 

Ocean and Earth Thai Restaurant
Fine and authentic Thai cuisine. We use quality ingredients whih we source locally wherever possible and this, together with auhentic Thai herbs and spices combine to produce your delicious meal.

Higher Market Street, East Looe PL13 1BS Tel: 01503 263080

 
 
Food Producers & Suppliers

Purely Cornish Farm Shop and Deli - Principal Sponsor
The Farmshop and Deli on Fore Street East Looe that cares about Food Miles. Specialising in good quality local Cornish produce that is not available in supermarkets. Come taste some of our large selection of cheeses or try some Cornish beer, cider and wine. 09.00am - 5.00pm 7 days a week.

Purely Cornish Tel: 01503 262680 www.purelycornish.co.uk 
18 Fore Stree East Looe, Cornwall PL13 1DT

The Chocolate Dream Company - Principal Sponsor

Maz and Danny Gill of the Chocolate Dream Company are proud to sponsor and participate in Taste SE Cornwall. Our Chocolate Fountains will ensure that your event is a memorable one. Wedding receptions, food fayres, corporate events, summer balls or in fact any occasion.
From CORNWALLS CHOCOLATE OASIS in the Coombes, Polperro and on-line at www.chocolatesbypost4U.com we offer a fabulous range of high quality chocolates. Choose from Cornwalls` largest gallery of exquisite chocolates and the choice is yours from our range of luxurious gift boxes all beautifully hand wrapped.
We also have an extensive range of chocolate gifts and goodies, all suitable for for any celebration or special occasion. Remember we are open 7 days a week for you to make someones day totally unforgettable by sending them superbly boxed chocolates with our popular Chocolates by Post service.
Maz and Danny are delighted to announce that they are also now the proprietors of THE CORNISH MAIDS SHOP, also situated in the Coombes, Polperro. For many decades the premier outlet for top quality local fudge in its many flavours.

Also see them again at THE MOUNT EDGECUMBE XMAS FAIR on 12th and 13th December in the Castle Kitchens sponsored food marquee, where they will have their popular `Ultimate Centrepiece` chocolate fountain dispensing pure warm cascading Belgian chocolate, their Cornish Fudge in its many flavours, and exquisitely boxed chocolates, that would make an ideal Christmas gift for that special person in your life.

The Chocolate Dream Company The Coombes, Polperro, PL13 2RG
Tel: 01503 269209
www.thechocolatedreamcompany.co.uk/  www.chocolatesbypost4u.com/


Pengelly's Fishmongers
For 50 years a family tradition (now stocking local veg too!) Angie and Jackie Pengelly are descendents of a long line of fishermen and boat owners. Their grandfather, Jack, set up the business and his predecessors sold fish from a horse and cart around the Looe area. This family clearly know what they're talking about when it comes to seafood. All the wet fish on the counter in Pengelly's is local, except salmon when out of season, and is referred to as 'day caught fish'. Angie explains, "Looe has a harbour that dries out at low tide so no beam trawlers or large boats can use it. The small local fleet have to get in and out as quickly as the tide will allow and therefore the fish is exceptionally fresh."

You'll find Pengellys at...  The Quay, East Looe. Tel: 01503 262246 and 2 The Arcade, Fore Street, Liskeard. Tel: 01579 340777

Cornish Orchards
Cornish Orchards produces quality hand crafted apple juices and ciders using the harvests of small and old orchards throughout the West Country. We started this activity in 1999, as a diversification of Westnorth Manor Farm (part of the Duloe Manor Estate owned and stewarded by the Duchy of Cornwall). Our products contain no preservatives or colouring. Some varieties of juice represent our 'core' products, whilst others change season on season depending on harvest quality and quantity. 

Cornish Orchards. Tel: 01503 269007 Westnorth Manor Farm Duloe PL14 4PW. Tel: 01579 269007 http://www.cornishorchards.co.uk/

Hedgerow Cottage - Biltong
We are Hedgerow Cottage based just outside of Liskeard and have successfully been producing our "Cornish" version of the Southern African beef delicacy snack, Biltong (strips of marinated beef, cured and naturally dried). With massive success over the summer months we have developed from a "hobby" business into a full and proper business supplying our hugely popular and healthy beef snack alternative across the region. 
With only 70 calories per packet our Biltong is a very healthy and incredibly tasty snack product and is best enjoyed with an ice cold drink on a hot summers day and as an integral dietary aid to those on a high protein / low fat diet. Our Biltong is produced using the finest local beef and locally sourced ingredients and is dried naturally in the clean air of Cornwall giving it's unique flavours which are hugely enjoyed by all.

Hedgerow Cottage Tel: 01579 342630 rob@a-taste-of.co.uk 
 

Tamblyns Meats - Finest sausages hand made in Cornwall.

Tamblyn’s pork is reared on the farm and fed with home grown wheat, barley and beans. The sausages contain a high percentage of premium pork meat and great care is taken in the production and welfare of the pigs to produce fresh well flavoured pork resulting in an excellent sausage. Tamblyn’s values extend throughout the farm and on to countryside stewardship in general. Within the farms acres wildlife strips are being encouraged, wild flower meadows are left to blossom, 2 lakes have been developed and there is a constant programme of tree planting and hedge maintenance.

Unit 7 Holwood Business Centre Holwood Farm, Blunts Saltash, Cornwall PL12 5AY Tel: 01752 851717 www.tamblyns.co.uk

Castang Wines

Castang Wine Shippers and merchants is an Independent Family business established in 1979. Currently we operate throughout the South West England, and with distribution throughout the UK, together with key accounts in other areas of the country. During the past 30 years, we have steadily increased our portfolio of wines and agencies by expanding our activities firstly throughout Europe and more recently in the New World wineries. Our range now exceeds 450 wines. The business has a wide variety of skills and experience, which allows us to offer a comprehensive service together with advice to our clients.

                                                                              Tel. 01503 220259 www.castang-wines.co.uk

Soupa Doupa  from Lower Killigorrick Farm

We offer an excellent range of seasonal vegetables, home grown using traditional principles without the use of fertilisers or insecticides. We turn some of our vegetables into healthy homemade soups which have been nominated for a British Food Award. What could be better to help keep your body healthy, fit and happy?

We also produce our own meat and have a good selection of beef, lamb and pork cuts. All our animals are free range and raised using organic principles. They are processed, butchered/cured and packed locally thus cutting down the travelling stress for the animals and of course unnecessary food miles.

The Barn, Lower Killigorrick Farm, St Keyne, Liskeard PL14 4QP Tel: 01579 320268 

www.lowerkilligorrickfarm.co.uk