So six weeks after the official launch, we checked out the new menu and the new look at Porthmeor Cafe Bar. Once again it was an absolute scorcher of a weekend so the perfect day to sit on the terrace under the new awning. The triangular sail shades give you the choice to opt in or out of the suns glare.
The Cafe-Bar has a cleaner, fresher look with a glass balcony on the sea side of the terrace and a new breakfast style bar with high metallic stalls at the entrance. The conservatory-style indoor section has had a few changes with the addition of some old St Ives archive photographs and newspaper clippings, also printed on the back of the ‘Spring’ menu. These clippings show the history of the beach (wreckages, men lost at sea, blue flag status, surf club HQ and where the gasholders stood before the Tate gallery).
The evenings ‘not quite tapas’ in their own words are exactly what it says on the label; smallish sharer portion. We went for the crispy skin porkbelly, waldorf and watercress salad (£6.00), mini Moroccan chicken burger, minted yoghurt & cucumber (5.95), duck roasted potatoes, warm pancetta, baby courgette (£5.25) and the ‘3 x local shell fish, accessories ‘(£7.50), which turned out to be three excellent scallops in their shells, each with a different tasty paste - one purple, one orange and one green. Not quite sure what they were but they were delicious!! Each dish had been carefully put together with some unique tastes and flavours that worked really well. The food here looks good and tastes even better!
We actually loved the tapas so much we decided to try the new breakfast menu the following morning. After a late night, the banana and berry smoothie (£3.50) and the freshly made carrot, ginger and apple juice (£3.00) from Lucy’s juice bar was the boost that we needed to face the day ahead (of eating and lying on the beach). Porthmeor Cafe Bar has an option for most people’s breakfast tastes however fussy, with granola & fruit, healthy vege options (avocado etc) and a good old egg and bacon option.
For more information or to book contact 01736 793366 (Porthmeor Cafe Bar, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall)
The evenings ‘not quite tapas’ in their own words are exactly what it says on the label; smallish sharer portion. We went for the crispy skin porkbelly, waldorf and watercress salad (£6.00), mini Moroccan chicken burger, minted yoghurt & cucumber (5.95), duck roasted potatoes, warm pancetta, baby courgette (£5.25) and the ‘3 x local shell fish, accessories ‘(£7.50), which turned out to be three excellent scallops in their shells, each with a different tasty paste - one purple, one orange and one green. Not quite sure what they were but they were delicious!! Each dish had been carefully put together with some unique tastes and flavours that worked really well. The food here looks good and tastes even better!
We actually loved the tapas so much we decided to try the new breakfast menu the following morning. After a late night, the banana and berry smoothie (£3.50) and the freshly made carrot, ginger and apple juice (£3.00) from Lucy’s juice bar was the boost that we needed to face the day ahead (of eating and lying on the beach). Porthmeor Cafe Bar has an option for most people’s breakfast tastes however fussy, with granola & fruit, healthy vege options (avocado etc) and a good old egg and bacon option.
For more information or to book contact 01736 793366 (Porthmeor Cafe Bar, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall)
