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Thursday 29 August 2013

PADSTOW ROCK Fish & Chips




Padstow Look Out Towards Rock



Ready To Land The Catch Of The Day



Line Caught Apparatus


Moses Footpath To Rock



  Fish Shoals Made by Tyre Imprints On Boat Trailers



Boarding Tiny Ferry To Rock



This Is Rock 



John Dory In Beef Dripping Batter



Rick Stein's Fish & Chips



Sunny Lookout For Ice Creams



Roskilly's Ice Cream,
Apple Crumble & Mint Chocoholic



#50 Bung Hole


Fish & Chips Rock n' Ice Cream Roll


It's a fishing hub par excellence, so there seemed only one thing to do in Padstow. We grabbed a skirt of Fish & Chips from Mr Steins and a tub of his finest mushy peas and boarded the tiny ferry crossing to Rock. 

On the way home we took to our pedals and wheeled along the Camel Trail and treated ourselves to a scoop of Roskilly's  Apple Crumble Ice Cream and Mint Choc chip.

We then gave ourselves a pat on the back.

For a job well done.




Monday 12 August 2013

THE ST IVES PASTY





The St Ives Cornish Pasty



Bernard Leach Studio Pots



Bernard Leach Potters Wheel



Bernard Leach Found Stool



John Bedding Pottery on Shelf



Shigeyoshi Ichino Pottery




Barbara Hepworth Two Bronze Forms



Barbara Hepworth Inner Sphere



Barbara Hepworth Weathered Stone



Barbara Hepworth Courtyard Sunroom



Barbara Hepworth Studio Overalls



Barbara Hepworth Little Stones & Succulents


#49  Rise And Shine


Pasty, Bernard & Babs. 


Everyone loves a pocket lunch when out foraging for Pottery and Sculptures, or as was once the local Cornish tradition, off to your day job as a Tin Miner. 


The genuine "Cornish Pasty" we savoured was purchased from Pengenna pastiesPrepared by hand, to be shaped like a 'D' and crimped on one side, before being baked on the premises - the quality hallmarks of a fine pasty makers reputation. We could see why the Cornish Pasty now has Protected Geographical Indication status from the European commission and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. 


You can learn how a genuine Cornish Pasty is made here. The reigning world championship pasty winner is Billy Deakin who missed last years prize giving ceremony as he had to go home to walk his dog 'zero'.


Our prized pasty was off to see the wonderful Bernard Leach Pottery Studio and fab Barbara Hepworth Museum & Garden . It then strolled along via the Wills Lane Gallery the St Ives Ceramics Gallery and immersed itself into the local art & ceramics scene at the Belgrave Gallery, New Craftsmen Gallery, Porthminster Gallery and Fernlea Gallery. Oh and an unexpected off-piste visit to Paul Vibert's unique hidden gallery of stacked bundles of art.

With our Cornish Pasty in tow, it seemed fitting that Bernard might have enjoyed a Pasty or two while throwing pots, or for Barbara to have munched on a pasty for her afternoon tea, when carving sculptures.


This blog gives thanks to the founders of The Genuine Cornish Pasty, for creating the St Ives day tripper's Favourite Thing To Eat and also as an endless supply of convenience food for the mob-handed pasty snatching seagulls.







Tuesday 6 August 2013

PORTHMINSTER BEACH RESTAURANT


The Look Out Over Porthminster Beach



It's That Little White One Right There On the Sand !



Look Out Over St Ives Bay 



The Table Look Out




Iced Chilled Bucket, English Organic Wine



'The Beach Is Mine'



Salt & Spice Squid



Mackerel Pate Nestled On A Bed Of Wood



Wooden Beach Tanks 



Seafood Linguine



All Eyes On The Prize !



Wild Harbour Line Caught Haddock Fillet



Homeward Peaking, Over The Wall



Knitted Lifeguards "Man The Fort"



#48  Four Dozen


Beach Dining


It's not every day you find opportunity to dine right on the Beach. And not just any old sort of beach, a proper sandy beach you would want to dig your toes into and build a sand castle complete with moat. A beach with beautiful, unspoilt views across to St Ives Bay and Godrevy Lighthouse. A beach with golden, caramac shades and hardly a soul on it. Bar one dog walker, one happy dog loping on the run and one lone swimmer with a mesmerising stroke-o'meter.

So to find a dining spot on such a picturesque blue flag beach, seated at the large paned observatory window seemed especially fortuitous. This was my first visit to the Porthminster Cafe restaurant and its eloquent reputation for fine seafood is there for good reason. Relaxed and welcoming, this is a handily located oasis for anyone who prefers to be Far From The Madding Crowd and is searching for 'sustainable fish' served direct from the local cornish sea.

The campaigning folk at fish2fork care deeply about preserving our planet's resources in the sea and they have nothing but high praise for the Porthminster Beach Restaurant.

This idyllic and dreamy spot has no distractions, apart from welcome rhythm of the tide, slowing down the pace of St Ives leisurely life by one more notch on the dial. The seasonal food is infused by nature and the tiny floral presentations accompanying the line caught haddock are perfected by St Ives unique natural daylight. 

The locally sourced English Organic wine from Camel Valley is chilled at your table in a red plastic beachside bucket, to sum up the agreeably nonchalant mood.

Even the knitted lifeguards manning our homeward route seemed to know they were onto a good thing.





Saturday 20 July 2013

TATE ST. IVES CAFE







The Reason Artists Flock Here...



Alfred Wallis Made His Home Here...


The View From Tate St Ives



William SCOTT Is In The House



Tate St Ives Tiles



Waiting Patiently... 



Patrick Heron Stained Glass Window



The Gallery Run



Higgledy Piggledy Slate Roof Skyline



The Cafe Look Out...



Artist's Beach Cottage Living...



Creating Cafe Culture...



Mint Tea Is Mint



Here They Come ! ...



Walking Home & Bobbing Boats...


#47  Four and Seven


A Painterly Brew


Favourite places are the ones you look forward to going back to. This is the start of a mini series on coastal St Ives. Bringing you the art, culture and fishing nets that provide such a lovely back drop to the eating holes. 

My favourite cafe views can be found at Tate St Ives. There is a natural light unlike any other and a spatial quality framed by roof top views across the soft sandy Porthmeor beach that calms the soul and sparks your creative imagination.

We had come to see the exhibition of one of our favourite British painters William Scott having spent the morning at Leach Pottery.

It is the perfect place for a Mint Tea, submergence of art and a stroll around the headland.  The Tate gallery at St Ives was opened in 1993, to provide a home for the abundant  paintings, textiles, etchings and ceramics created by the St Ives group of British artists who settled here.

Artists, Fishermen and Potters.

A truly magical combination, in a truly magical place. 



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