Pilchards at Port Gaverne
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Park in Port Isaac and walk over to this modern timber and glass building with a large terraced garden, which overlooks the bay where the famous ...
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Restaurant menu
- Day boat fish, capers, brown butter
- Market price
- 1/2 grilled brill, black garlic butter
- £52
- 1/4 skate wing, lime chilli butter
- £26
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What diners said about this restaurant:
julian t. • 2 reviews
27 September 2024
10/10Great food, great staff, wonderful setting
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James B. • 7 reviews
28 September 2024
10/10Just a very pleasant low key place in a fabulous location with a great small plates offering and stupendously well cooked food. The small plates are not so small so be vcareful not to over order. Very friendly waitress.
Mick G. • 1 review
25 September 2024
10/10The food, drinks, location and staff were first class. Delighted.
Michelle N. • 1 review
21 September 2024
3.5/10We booked iweeks n advance and on the night told they had run out of fish of the day. It's also now tapas style ordering and we were told to.order 2 dishes each. Apart from the beef we ordered most of the menu which was average. The bread and chicken were very good. The restaurant is in a challett style building cold as the door was open. Drinks over price and staff pleasant. Very different from our first experience there. There are better places to eat in Port Issac. The Mote and local chip shop. We wouldn't eat hete again.
Thelma R. • 1 review
8 September 2024
10/10Fantastic food
Lucy B. • 1 review
31 August 2024
10/10Absolutely beautiful food from start to finish. We had the sourdough bread with pesto butter, the octopus, them chicken thighs, the prawns, the Cornish potatoes and the tenderstem broccoli- all delicious and perfectly cooked. Thanks!
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Joe G. • 1 review
23 August 2024
6/10The setting is wonderful and so the ambiance takes care of itself. Port Gaverne is a quintessential piece of Cornwall. We were the last lunch cover so the restaurant was quiet. The staff were all friendly and there were plenty of them, but service was slow. Although we had booked the day before I don’t think their heart was really in it. The restaurant is tapas style with an Asian/ world flavours angle. The padron peppers, octopus, scallops were good. The prawns were not cooked enough unfortunately and had a slightly past their best whiff. The sourdough bread was stale and 4-small pieces for £6.50 is steep by Cornwall’s standards. The negroni aperitif was very good. I’ve been coming to port gaverne, on and off, for 40 years and have seen its different evolutions. We’d heard great things about ‘Pilchards’ but I’d say it was ‘ok’. Over £100 for 4 small plates, and no wine with lunch - needed to be better and didn’t match the hype. Setting is fabulous. 6/10
Denise P. • 1 review
22 August 2024
10/10Being with friends.
Richard P. • 1 review
14 August 2024
10/10Excellent food quality - best in PI at the moment, imo
William K. • 1 review
20 August 2024
10/10If you have never been to Port Gaverne. Make the time and go. And while your there visit The Pilchards. It's a great place to sit back and relax, while enjoying good food and a glass of your favourite tipple.
Justin R. • 1 review
18 August 2024
8/10We had a wonderful meal the service was great our waitress was polite and well informed who remembered us from eating next door at the Hotel. There was however one glitch and that was the really over loud music that meant that we could not hear each other! Which was a pity and rather wrecked our experience
Henry W. • 1 review
17 August 2024
10/10Best food in Cornwall
Tanya D. • 3 reviews
10 August 2024
8/10Food was really nice and with a little innovation as well. Small improvement is to have a few dishes with less spices as not everyone is so fond of them or anyway it allows a little rest for the palate. Overall it was a really nice meal.
Sandra S. • 1 review
6 August 2024
4.5/10Very overpriced. All service personnel disappeared at the end for a break when we wanted to settle our bill. Really disappointed.
Jane S. • 1 review
4 August 2024
3.5/10We waited and hour for a meal that came cold and my grandson was not served any meal .
Wendy E. • 1 review
10 August 2024
10/10Fantastic food!
Fernando C. • 1 review
31 July 2024
9.5/10Fantastic food. Only shame was that the food “arrived when ready” so sides arrive before mains and some have all their food before others even get one plate. Otherwise food itself was excellent and location/ambience lovely
JOHN C. • 1 review
1 August 2024
8.5/10Came on successive nights Atmosphere lovely, location by creek glorious in the fine warm weather we experienced. We had 4 ‘tapas plus’ plates with 2 sides of vegetables on the first night : moules a stand out, On the second we had the John Dory which we thought the best fist of our week in Cornwall. Also shared some imaginatively spiced squid. Allow £60 a head with wine though.
Jackie H. • 5 reviews
20 July 2024
9.5/10Great food & a perfect setting. We have been a couple of times before & always really enjoy it. Love the new menu. Thank you.
Felicity W. • 1 review
12 July 2024
8.5/10Expensive but staff were so helpful and willing .
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Port Gaverne, PL29 3SH Port Isaac
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