Cornwall,Isles of Scilly
The Coffee Pot

The Coffee Pot

6 Morwenna Terrace,, EX23 8BU, Cornwall,Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom

Cafe • Vegan • British • Vegetarian


"Oh dear. Having passed this place many times we decided we might give it a go. It was sunny and so we sat outside. There is very little space between the café’s curtilage and the pavement, enough room to get in four or five picnic type tables, a couple of which had umbrellas. Otherwise, the area is untroubled by any kind of decoration. The form is that you go inside and order and that they bring your order out to you. Inside I was greeted – or more accurately not greeted by an unsmiling lady whose mood may have been occasioned by the inconvenience of having to break off from her conversation to take an order. Or maybe it was caused by the prospect of doing something about the very visible large pile of used plates and crockery waiting for someone to wash them up. Our coffee arrived fairly promptly accompanied by a rather dismal apricot Danish, which may have been seeing daylight for the third or fourth time that week. The coffee was passable, but in a resort town like Bude the bar is set fairly high and passable doesn’t really do it. I don’t know if the place is run by its owners, but in the unlikely event that they are reading this, here are some tips. Put a bit of thought into making the outside more appealing. If you can afford it, put a palm tree in one of the corners or at very least get some greenery. And while you’re about it, junk those picnic tables. Many of the elderly and the disabled can’t use them and anyway you’re not a country pub. And whether the place is run by you or your staff – smile at the customers. They’ve got what you’re after – money. The catch is they’ve got choice too."

Jordan's Cafe

Jordan's Cafe

Station Car Park, TR17 0AA, Cornwall,Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom

Cafe • Pizza • Italian • Fast Food


"After a very early start to shoot the dawn down at Porthcurno, a photographer buddy and I were in need of coffee and hearty sustenance. So we drove back up the A30 and through Penzance but nothing was open yet. Then, just as it looked like we 'd have to give in and go for Macky D 's, I remembered seeing a small cafe in a car park overlooking Marazion Bay, so we headed that way. When we pulled up at Jordan 's we were greeted with a welcoming smile and some very good coffee. Then, when we asked about their breakfast fayre, we were offered a variety of tempting choices that was rounded off with the chef 's suggestion of what he called his 'Breakfast Burrito '. The proposition of wrapping locally sourced sausages, bacon, and white pudding in with a fried egg, hash brown and fried mushrooms was just too enticing. So we ordered two and oh my word, what a good call this was!.. I won 't bang on about the incredible flavours, textures and aromas because it would take too long, all I will say is that Jordan 's 'Breakfast Burrito ' is quite simply a thing of beauty! If every now and then, you like a deliciously naughty breakfast, please, please, go and experience this culinary revelation for yourself. I promise you will not be disappointed and the great thing is there 's a fabulous beach walk right on the doorstep. And my word, after you 've indulged in a Breakfast Burrito, you 're going to need it!"

Farmers Arms

Farmers Arms

Church Street, Cornwall,Isles Of Scilly, United Kingdom, Cornwall,Isles of Scilly

Steak • Vegan • Chicken • Vegetarian


"Firstly I want to say the food we had at the Farmers Arms last night was very good and I have no issue with the quality. However the experience we received from a staff member was unacceptable. I booked a table for 4 two weeks...ago as I knew it was bank holiday weekend and it would be busy. I also completely understand the pressures our hospitality industry goes through at this time of year, living locally. I arrived with my friends and waited to be allocated our reserved table. It’s was extremely busy (as expected) and the man behind to bar and a lady that worked there were clearly having issues around tables already. Eventually I was spoken to and I advised I had a reservation. Unfortunately he could find my reservation either on the sheets of paper he had or in the diary. He apologised as said he would sort a table. He showed us to a table and asked if it would be ok. We said it was fine. There were only 3 chairs at the table and so I turned round to take one of the chairs from the empty table behind us. The lady wearing a yellow dress, came storming over and shouted “don’t take that, that table is reserved”. I explained we had also reserved a table and she shouted back “this table isn’t reserved” pointing at the table we were about to sit at. My friend then tried to explain we’d been asked to sit here and she screamed back at the top of her voice “don’t speak to me like that, I don’t have to take this”. To say we were completely dumbfounded would be an understatement. She stormed off, came back with a chair and plonked it down. So we sat down at which point she returned with a condiment set and almost threw it on the table and walked off. We had been to the Farmers Arms a couple of times before but pre Covid. I couldn’t remember if we previously ordered at the bar or not but no one explained that was how we ordered. We just had to find out ourselves. To be honest, if it hadn’t of been bank holiday weekend in the height of the season, I would have walked out there and then but finding availability elsewhere would have been almost impossible. I can honestly say I have never come across such an obnoxious person working on a restaurant/pub in Cornwall before. I worked with the general public all my life and you never speak to customers in that manner no matter what pressures you may be under. I know over the last couple of years we have had some undesirable holidaymakers in Newquay but it doesn’t excuse the rudeness she showed to us for just trying to get the table we’d reserved. We could have been unpleasant as it was their mistake not reserving the table correctly but we accepted things do happen. Sadly there are not so many good pubs that serve proper “pub grub” anymore, but The Farmers Arms will not be one I will return to anymore. To add insult to injury, the “reserved” table behind was never used and we didn’t leave until 10pm. Maybe all along that was our reservation "