Falmouth Places to Eat and Drink

There are a wide variety of restaurants and cafés to suit every taste in and around Falmouth. Some of our favourites include:

Shelton's Café
This is a cosy stylish café just around the corner on Quay Hill. It's an absolutely lovely little café with great service and an amazing attention to detail. Amongst other things they serve jacket potatoes, pizzas, teas, coffees and beers.

Bodene's
This is a great Tapas place on the corner of Quay Hill.

Other places to eat on Quay Hill include The Hut, recommended by previous guests, and a newly opened Thai restaurant.

The Chain Locker
Your local pub. The back entrance to this is just through the ope way, the front is on Custom's House Quay. This is probably the best known pub in Falmouth. I'm reliably informed that a pint of Cornish Knocker is well worth a try as are many other local ales. They also serve pub food and have a special two main meals for £7.99 deal. You can also sit outside on the quay.

The Quayside Inn
This is also on Custom's House Quay and shares outside seating with the Chain Locker. It also serves similar food. There is regular live music in here.

The Blue Bar
A trendy bar that serves food - just up the road opposite Bodenes.

Five Degrees West
This is a very nice pub with great food and outside seating. If you turn left on the corner of Quay Hill and Arwenack Street it's a short walk away on your right.

Falmouth Waterfront
This is just past the famous Trago's on your left - on the waterfront as the name suggests. It serves food and drinks.

Harbour View Café
This is behind Harbour's Reach on Arwenack Street. It's the place to go if you want to sit on the terrace and continue to enjoy the views. They open at 8 am. and are a good place for Sunday morning breakfast.

De Wynn's Café
A very nice, old fashioned café in Arwenack Street. A large choice of all types of coffee beans - you can smell the coffee!

The Maritime Museum Café
This has great views. When you've visited the maritime museum once you can get in free for a whole year.

Harbour Lights - Fish and Chips We can highly recommend this! It is just across Custom's House Quay and does great take aways or you can eat in and admire the views.

Gylly Beach Café This café / bar is situated right on Gyllyngvase Beach. It's definitely worth a visit.

The Three Mackerel This restaurant sits on the cliffs at Swanpool, overlooking the beach and with a view of Pendennis castle in the distance. It's a great spot for an evening meal or just a lazy afternoon with a bottle of wine and tapas. It may be worth booking ahead for an evening meal.

The Cove, Maenporth This restaurant comes highly recommended although we haven't tried it ourselves yet. It overlooks Maenporth Beach. It might be expensive but perhaps good for a special treat!

Castaways, Mylor Harbour There's a very nice restaurant / bar right by the marina here. A good place to go if you fancy a boat trip and a walk. Catch the ferry from Prince of Wales Pier over to Flushing. Then go for a bracing walk around Trefusis Point (this is the headland that you can see from Harbour's Reach - its out to the left). Eventually you'll come to Mylor Harbour where a sit down and some refreshment will be very welcome!

Ferryboat Inn, Helford This pub / restaurant is in a great location on the Helford River. It's right by a beach on the river's edge and is a great place to pass an afternoon watching the world go by from the terrace. If you're a bit more adventurous you can catch a water taxi (approx. £2.50 each way) across to the other bank on the Lizard. Here there's another little pub / restaurant - The ShipWrights. For the more energetic there's a three mile walk through the woods along the river bank to St. Anthony in Meneagre - a quaint little spot on Gillan Creek with a lovely church, boat hire and a place to get an ice cream. Don't forget its another 3 mile walk back to the water taxi - but if you've walked far enough you can hire another boat to take you back to the taxi!

Red Lion, Mawnan Smith An old thatched pub in a local village called Mawnan Smith. Great pub food!

Pandora Inn, Restronguet Passage Another idyllic thatched pub / restaurant right on the water. You can drive here or get a water taxi - lots of people arrive by water. A very popular place!

Smugglers Cottage, Tolverne Another ferry trip along the river Fal to Smugglers Cottage at Tolverne is well worth it. This is a small thatched 500 year old cottage where you can get a cream tea. It was used as a base for American troops before they set off for the D Day landings in the Second World War. Eisenhower even visited the troops there !

Trengilly Wartha, near Gweek A country pub that serves great food - very popular with locals. Could be a good place to eat if you're visiting the Seal Sanctuary at Gweek.