Eating Out
Eating Out in Marazion
Marazion and the villages close by are blessed with some excellent places to eat. We have dined at all the places we have listed and based upon our experience we can confidently recommend them. The restaurants and pubs we have featured provide a variety of choice to cater for a very special dining experience or a good honest home cooked everyday tasty meal at more modest cost.
Remember - it is a good ideal to plan ahead and make reservations before you come to stay with us as restaurants can be very busy.
Cutty Sark, Marazion (tel: 01736 710334) www.marazionhotel.co.uk/food-and-drink/
The Cutty Sark Restaurant and Bar has achieved a 2023 Travellers Choice Award and in our opinion offers the finest food and best table service in Marazion. Menus and regularly changing specials include a wide variety of locally sourced meat and fish dishes catering for all diets and tastes, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options with delicious homemade desserts including scrumptious crème brûlée and tasty chocolate brownies. The Cutty only use the very best selection of local produce and have built up an excellent reputation for the quality of our meals. Our warm friendly atmosphere makes the bar and beer garden very popular with both guests and locals and is a relaxing place to unwind, with a great selection of local beers, wines and spirits. Highly Recommended!
The Kings Arms (tel: 01736 710291) www.kingsarmsmarazion.co.uk
The Kings Arms is a great place to meet for a drink and chat with friends. The menu features only the best ingredients from local Cornish sources with all meals freshly prepared for you to enjoy. Food is served every day from 12.00pm until 3pm and 5pm until 8.15pm. The King’s Arms is Cask Marque accredited, serving real ales from St Austell Brewery, as well as wines from an extensive and diverse list. Fresh coffee and tea are always available. There’s a comfortable, intimate bar with a warming log fire for colder evenings. Our outside seating area is a fantastic sun trap in the summer months and a very pleasant place to sit and chat with friends or enjoy a meal from our extensive menu. Recommended
Godolphin ‘Shutters’ Restaurant (tel: 01736 888510) www.thegodolphin.com
Arguably benefitting from one of the best restaurant views in Cornwall, if not the world! Shutters at The Godolphin is a relaxed, modern restaurant and bar located only a stone's throw from the bay. With a passion for supporting local artisan producers, our dedicated and creative team crafts dishes using the freshest of ingredients, picked, plucked and fished from Cornwall and her shores. The drinks list includes award-winning English wines and local beers, whilst our team of mixologists will muddle, mix and shake your perfect bespoke cocktail.
Jordan’s Café (tel: 01736 360502) www.jordanscafe.co.uk
Family run Jordan's beachside café and gift shop situated on the sea front promenade 1 mile west of Marazion towards Penzance, right next to Marazion beach. Great views of the Mount in front and the RSPB reserve behind. Open daily from 10am serving delicious coffee with selection of sandwiches, fabulous home-made cakes, panini’s and superb home produced burgers. A favourite place to walk to, indulge in a tasty treat and relax on the beach or outside on picnic tables. Highly Recommended.
The Copper Spoon (Tel 711607) www.marazion.info/listings/the-copper-spoon/
This take away coffee shop offers specialty coffee and homemade cakes, plus a locally sourced vegetarian menu to take away. Liz, one of the owners worked as a coffee taster for a global chain and knows her beans, so expect a great coffee and the home made cakes are pretty special too. Recommended.
PLACES TO EAT WITHIN A FEW MILES OF MARAZION
The Victoria Inn - Perranuthnoe (tel: 01736 710309) www.victoriainn-penzance.co.uk
The chefs at the Victoria Inn produce daily changing menus and have enormous passion for local produce and work tirelessly to make sure the menus are not only seasonal but current and ethically sourced. Award-wining food, fine wines, good local ales, ciders and a Cornish lager. You can also be assured of excellent service - The Victoria has been awarded the 2017 ‘Good Food Guide’, the Cornish Dining Pub of the Year and the ‘South West Dining Pub of the Year’ & Trencherman’s ‘Best Front of House Team’. Just 1 ½ miles from Marazion, so a lovely 40 minute stroll on the coast path. One of our favourite places to eat and drink. Highly Recommended.
2 Fore Street - Mousehole (tel: 01736 731164) www.2forestreet.co.uk
With a vibrant, continental feel, 2 Fore Street is a relaxed and stylish bistro-style restaurant on Mousehole harbour front with views across Mount's Bay as well as a beautiful secluded garden to enjoy long summer days. The menu changes regularly to reflect the freshest of local produce with an array of mouth - watering options from a hand-picked crab salad, to a delicious homemade burger to grilled lemon sole fillets with samphire. The perfect atmosphere for Sunday morning cup of coffee, lunch straight off the beach or to meet friends for dinner over a chilled glass of prosecco. One of our all time favourites - Our favourite seafood restaurant - Very Highly Recommended.
The Square – Harbour Head, Porthleven, (Tel 01326 573911) http://www.thesquareatporthleven.co.uk/
One of only six restaurants in Cornwall to have been awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand Award for “exceptional good food at moderate prices". Locally born chef Stewart Eddy trained with Raymond Blanc and Michael Caines, whilst his wife Anna worked front of house at Le Manoir Aux Quat Saison. The Square is located in the heart of Porthleven and overlooking its picturesque harbour, The brasserie-style menu, warm welcome and relaxed atmosphere make for a perfect venue at which to enjoy a chilled lunch, a lively dinner or even just coffee and cake. And during the summer, you can dine al-fresco on our terrace whilst watching the boats come and go. Highly Recommended.
Porthminster Café – St Ives (tel: 01736 795352) www.porthminstercafe.co.uk
Nestled beneath the steep slopes of Porthminster Point, right on the beach beneath the rail station, with unbeatable and uninterrupted views across St Ives Bay to Godrevy Lighthouse. Porthminster Cafe in St Ives is a multi award winning seafood restaurant with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The café specialises in Mediterranean and Asian seafood cuisine and is an oasis of taste and visual beauty. The café is open daily for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and a selection of homemade patisserie and fine coffees. Fabulous food - Highly Recommended - Booking Essential!
Argoe – Newlyn Fish Docks (tel: 01736 362455) www.argoenewlyn.co.uk
A newly opened, innovative restaurant serving the best of Newlyn’s fish right on the harbourside. Argoe is a tribute to the town’s fishing heritage and a celebration of those that continue to fish there today, bringing some of the country’s best produce from the sea to their tables - including Cornish Octopus! What you will find here is a restaurant in a working port, real lives and an enduring connection to the sea. Newlyn is not a postcard, but then there is beauty in the industrial, in function, in a place with genuine purpose. You’ll find Argoe here amongst it all. Highly Recommended for sea food lovers!
The Shore Restaurant - Alverton Street, Penzance (tel: 01736 362444) www.theshorerestaurant.uk
The Shore Restaurant, in Penzance, offers a small seafood menu crafted using the best ingredients available on a daily basis. Chef/Owner Bruce Rennie has captained the kitchens for some of the top chefs in the country, including Michelin starred Restaurant Martin Wishart in Edinburgh, Michelin starred Shanks in Northern Ireland, Gary Rhodes and Rick Stein. This experience has given Bruce the tools, knowledge and passion to create dishes to please you. The daily, fresh produce and creative menus reflect the passion that Bruce has for the sea and shore so that you make a new discovery of your own. Terrific food. Quirky Highly Recommended food.
Kota Restaurant, Harbour Head, Porthleven. (Tel: 01326 562407) www.kotarestaurant.co.uk
Stepping through the door of Kota you are welcomed into a warm and relaxed world where your taste buds are invited to experience the exquisite dishes offered by chef Jude Kereama (Probably best known through TV’s Great British Menu). Since opening Kota has been recognised by many eating out guides and is a consistently present name amongst the food and beverage awards. 2018 was an exceptional year that saw Kota receiving a third AA rosette (one of only four in Cornwall), and being named as ‘Restaurant of the Year’ in the Cornwall Life Food & Drink Awards. Patron chef Jude has just been awarded ‘Chef of the Year’ in the 2019 Trencherman’s Guide Awards. Kota has retained it’s Michelin Bib Gourmand for the fifth year in a row and are highly acclaimed by The Good Food Guide. Chef/owner Jude strives to give their customers an experience to remember with their award-winning food, extensive wine list and relaxed yet attentive service. Pricey but Very Highly Recommended!
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens - Gulval nr Penzance (01736 448089) www.tremenheere.co.uk
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens has a wonderful café serving superb daytime meals and lunches, (especially Sunday lunch), and evening meals on Thursday / Friday / Saturday evenings with live music on occasions. Located in a beautiful sheltered valley, the woods, stream and dramatic vistas provide a perfect setting for large scale exotic and sub-tropical planting. Interwoven with this there is also an evolving programme of high quality contemporary art installations. “Inspirational... contemplative... a joy to visit... One of the most exciting gardens in the Country” Sunday Times. - Highly Recommended.