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.

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 pasties. Prepared 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.

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.