glorious sunset

after visiting the charming st michaels’ mount & gardens in the morning followed by lunch at mackerel sky at new street penzance, we arrived at our wonderful trevose harbour house B&B at st ives on 12.5.2015 about 3pm.

we had a nice walk around the st ives harbour & beaches & went to dinner at porthmeor cafe at 8pm.

porthmeor cafe

porthmeor cafe

porthmeor cafe overlooks porthmeor beach. it has a casual, a cool ambience, great place to chill.

it was still bright at 8pm. we had a wondrous view of sunset as we dined.^^

seared scallops – £6.80

seared scallops – £6.80

we ordered 5 tapas & 1 dessert plus a prosceco. we felt the price was bit high for the portions.

scallops were good, nicely seared, good herbs & condiments. still the scallops at tolcarne inn were far better by comparison.

marinated aubergines – £5

marinated aubergines – £5

the aubergines were very good, great flavours.

grilled tuna, thai peanut butter – £7.50

the chef obviously had quite a bit of thai & asian influence.

grilled tuna, thai peanut butter – £7.50

grilled tuna though was quite flat, not much taste, improved a bit with addition of quite a bit of table salt & taking with the peanut butter sauce.

grilled baby courgettes & fig – £5.50

grilled baby courgettes & fig – £5.50

the grilled courgette was not as good as the eggplant

seared duck breast – £6.80

seared duck breast – £6.80

seared duck breast was among the best dishes.^^ nice, tasty, firm duck breast. very good. i may try doing a sous vide seared duck breast again!^^

salted chocolate with clotted cream

salted chocolate with clotted cream

the servers made a mistake & we were served a dessert, a salted chocolate tart we did not order. we informed the server & she said we might as well eat it (w/o charge) since she could not serve it to anyone else. 🙂

it was very good though, in fact it turned out to be better than the grilled banana we ordered.

grilled banana, salted caramel, clotted cream

grilled banana, salted caramel, clotted cream

the grilled banana, salted caramel was not great.

flat white

coffee was good!

glorious sunset

glorious sunset

& the glorious sunset, better! ^^

c.h.e.f andy