It was an amazingly hot day and the sea and sky were so blue that we felt like we were in Greece or Italy - definitely not in England anyway!
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| Porthminster beach |
On our way there we saw a huge queue outside a bookshop and realised it was because Rick Stein was there doing a signing! The deli is located on Chapel Street, a little side street near the main area of shops. Its website can be found here.
The first thing I really liked about this place is that they had put the glasses in the freezer! So even for my tap water I had a lovely cold glass - such a nice touch in the hot weather.
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| Christopher's Cornish apple juice |
It was a really delicious menu, but I knew I wanted to sample the local speciality, so I went for the hand-picked Cornish crab baguette:
Christopher also stuck with the Cornish theme and ordered the full Cornish breakfast:
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| Ketchup in a tiny jam jar! |
Everything was absolutely delicious - the crab and the salad with it tasted so fresh, and the baguette was lovely and crunchy. It was really pretty inside the deli too:
All in all it was a brilliant choice of place to eat and we were very pleased we had found it! Afterwards we went to the beach to sunbathe (in my case) and swim (in Christopher's case):
Followed by a drink on the beach
Then to Harbour fish & chips for the obligatory chips (the post card I bought in St Ives says, "Fish and Chips, it's a seaside tradition" and we obviously agreed). I had garlic mayonnaise with mine and it was the best I've ever had - the chips were also salty, hot and crispy yet fluffy on the inside!
I managed not to get attacked by scavenging seagulls - we did see a child on the beach get his whole plate stolen by a particularly greedy one though!
St Ives is one of the best places I have ever been and I feel like I only began to tap the potential of food (particularly seafood!) there, so I really want to go back soon!
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